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Following Protests, Apple to Allow Peanuts Specials to Air on PBS
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This sounds like something a rich person says who hasn’t actually worked with poor people in America. Most people in America without internet or without phones with internet dont have it for geographical or social problems not poverty. Drive to the part of town you think is the first, find someone there in an house or apartment and ask them if they have internet. They will laugh at you as they talk on their cellphone. Sure, homeless people dont have internet.... but lets not be absurd.
That's one way to spin this.
What people should be asking is why the most valuable company in the world should be allowed to control (limit) it's distribution/showing.
"A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" is 47 years old and "A Charlie Brown Christmas" will be 55 years old. These should be out in the public domain by now.
I said it in an older article, but I don't think companies like Apple should have exclusive rights to IPs they didn't create, so a move away from that is definitely a good thing.
This is a great example of someone, a stranger, tryin to sum up who a person is off one sentence. lol I guess you never visited a food bank lately.
Plenty of working people who can’t even afford food. They done lost their Internet and can’t even keep the lights on
Depending on when published, there may be a ways to go before they're public domain. My media law professor from years ago is probably a little disappointed how much I forgot about it, but I think written was something like the author's life + 70 years, and maybe film/TV falls under a window from the publication date onward. The copyright laws have been rewritten, extended, and since those fall well before the most recent revisions, it's not as easy as today.
Edit: I had to go look it up - it's a little messy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_States#Works_created_before_1978
Neither is electricity, but both electricity and a TV have *always* been required to watch...anything. I wouldn't expect someone without a TV to be able to watch A Charlie Brown Christmas let alone anything else. But you used to not need an ISP on top of that.
The Christmas and Halloween specials are remembered almost as much for the Vince Guaraldi Trio soundtracks as they are for the shows themselves. Later specials did not have the incredible music.
I actually watched this recently on Apple TV after seeing this issue posted on Macrumors a few weeks ago. It was nice seeing it in very high quality and high resolution.
I don't quite get why Apple has to cater to people who lack high-speed Internet or cannot/rather not pay few bucks for DVD/BD. Apple paid for rights to Peanuts holiday specials and isn't obligated to keep them "free" on broadcast TV.
Having said that, 2020 has been tough for all of us, and more so for the underprivileged. So perhaps the timing of this deal was premature.
Good move to make it free to air - this isn't new content but hopefully more people can enjoy it, and therefore promote the new content on Apple TV.
Though with Apple working closely with Wildbrain, I hope someone can convince them to reboot Degrassi...
Though with Apple working closely with Wildbrain, I hope someone can convince them to reboot Degrassi...
Tell that to the millions of kids who don't have home internet and are happy they have a TV. You obviously would know nothing about poverty or you wouldn't be so ignorant and say such a stupid, vile thing.
That you would justify such as )%#%#)% comment makes you just as bad, and you don't know what you're talking about..
1. LifeLine is limited to either a cell phone with limits, land line, or in some areas (not all) a subsidized internet offering and only 1 of those per household. So if your disabled grandmother lives in the home too, you're using the land line or cellular offer because of medical emergencies or for life-call devices that require them to function. (And yes, there are usually mutliple family members in these house holds.)
2. If you can't afford a computer, cheap internet is useless to you.
3. TMO is offering the hotspot during the pandemic for kids that need internet for remote learning. It's awesome they are doing this. It's temporary.
4. Even if they do number 3 or get discounted internet, this population might not have a smart TV.
5. Not everyone has access to Apple TV+.... it's not on all smart tv's even if someone did have one.
I spent years working with this population, and it's revolting to me how ignorant and entitled so many people are. You obviously never been poor or you wouldn't embarrass yourself by writing this crap.
It's also an age-old tradition that doesn't need screwed with. Forgetting the insensitivities some of you people have to poor people, it's what makes the holidays the holidays. Parents and grandparents sharing with kids a tradition they've also had their entire lives. Lots of us think it's special that it's a planned thing, not on demand.
Its hard to believe, but there are still a large population of people - especially seniors - who are firmly happy with their technological life stopping at around the 80's or 90's. It's also tradition for many folks.
I'm old enough to remember the Peanuts specials, the holiday airings of certain animated shows, the annual airing of The Wizard of Oz, etc.
Many people don't use DVR, online streaming services, etc. Many don't care about HDTV and only upgrade their devices when they stop or working, or are forced to through technology. Some do so because they are poor, others by choice.
I'm old enough to remember the Peanuts specials, the holiday airings of certain animated shows, the annual airing of The Wizard of Oz, etc.
Many people don't use DVR, online streaming services, etc. Many don't care about HDTV and only upgrade their devices when they stop or working, or are forced to through technology. Some do so because they are poor, others by choice.
I think this was precisely the issue, though. The specials have been publicly available for 50 years (via broadcast TV). It feels wrong to many people to take something that used to be publicly available and make it now available only to people who are willing to pay extra (for a DVD, Apple TV, or what have you). Yes, these people may already be paying for basic cable. Or maybe they are watching over the air. But to add an extra pay wall for something that didn't used to have it, is, I think the issue.
A secondary issue is that this isn't even intellectual property developed by Apple. It is as though Apple has taken something that was (for practical purposes) in the public domain and has locked it up. And it wasn't even theirs in the first place. It doesn't really matter if you can afford the extra pay wall or not. It is as though Apple is imposing an extra "watching tax" for something that wasn't theirs to begin with. I think that is what bothered a lot of people - however many signed the petition.
Yeah, it's more "feel" than anything else. Typically, most media things are produced by someone, distributed by someone else, and then actually presented/broadcasted by someone entirely different (like the cause of the big hullabaloo with Friends and the Office leaving Netflix).
If Apple didn't end up with these, it could've very likely been any other media company that wanted to "air" them (WarnerMedia could've picked them up and aired them on TNT or TBS or HBOMax, NBCUniversal could've dumped them on USA, Netflix could've gotten them, etc.) From a viewer perspective, they wouldn't necessarily understand that and Apple comes across as looking like the bad guy.
Basically, the wider population is learning with this what the sports world has been experiencing for awhile—what used to be "free" and over the air is moving to narrower and more expensive distribution. In Chicago, all Cubs games used to be on WGN (9 over the air) and slowly migrated to a cable regional sports network before going to their own channel that has even narrower distribution. The Indiana Pacers used to be on WTTV (4 over the air) and then moved to a regional sports network, too. In both cases, the owner of the networks they currently air on have been in a dispute with most providers, and they've disappeared off of all "skinny" bundles and some cable/satellite operators.