Too Freikin' Cold To Fish Night - Entertainment?

[caumsett]

I live on Long Island but travel around New England as part of my job. Today at 5AM when I got up so I could catch the 7AM US Airways flight to Logan Apt my thermometer read 26 degrees. When I landed around 8AM, it was 24 in Boston!! And that WIND!!

I was in Woburn, Billerica, Beverly and Danvers today - froze my ass off everywhere I went.

I guess winter is finally here....

[Clammer]

WOOORSE ><><><

[Fish_Eye]

Hi John,

I would be happy to put something together for your annual get together. However, simply playing a copy of “Stripers Gone Wild” is a copyright infringement of the highest degree. Let me know what night you’re planning on having the event and if I’m not doing a show elsewhere or traveling to one, I’ll be there.

Even if I can’t make it, I’ll burn you a special DVD with excerpts from SGW and a lot of other interesting footage from my 2007 seminar show.

Ask anyone that was at the East Bay Angler Show this week and I think you’ll get some positive feedback regarding the content.

I really appreciate the support shown by folks that have purchased my DVD and have taken the time to post their thoughts on it.

John, you have a great site here…it’s a direct reflection of all your hard work maintaining the site and constantly improving it…it’s also a great site because of the involvement of hundreds of obsessive, compulsive, striper nuts that take the time to share their thoughts and feelings.

I’ve met a lot of really great people through this site and I would like to say thank you with a contribution to your evening’s entertainment. Perhaps we can even get to meet some of the really cool lurkers that are out there.

Let me know the date as soon as possible.


Mike

[ThrowingTimber]

Originally Posted by Fish_Eye

However, simply playing a copy of “Stripers Gone Wild” is a copyright infringement of the highest degree. Let me know what night you’re planning on having the event and if I’m not doing a show elsewhere or traveling to one, I’ll be there.

This is a riot, even animals know not to bite the hand that feeds them....

[riverrat2]

Ya I was thinking the same thing throwing timber. Is it copyright if I had 10 of my friends over to my house to watch the movie? Seeing that this site probably did a lot in terms of advertising for you I dont see why you wouldnt like 20 or so people watch the movie, if anything it would be great free advertising for the movie.

[spinncognito]

Originally Posted by riverrat2

Ya I was thinking the same thing throwing timber. Is it copyright if I had 10 of my friends over to my house to watch the movie? Seeing that this site probably did a lot in terms of advertising for you I dont see why you wouldnt like 20 or so people watch the movie, if anything it would be great free advertising for the movie.

I disagree. It took Mike over 4 years to make that DVD. If it is shown to a group of likely over 50 people, it is LESS likely that those folks who do not already own a copy will go out and buy it. As good as it is (and it is great!), I will likely only be watching the copy I purchased (OK, it was a gift) a few times. Copyright laws are there for a reason.

[stripersnipr]

Originally Posted by spinncognito

I disagree. It took Mike over 4 years to make that DVD. If it is shown to a group of likely over 50 people, it is LESS likely that those folks who do not already own a copy will go out and buy it. As good as it is (and it is great!), I will likely only be watching the copy I purchased (OK, it was a gift) a few times. Copyright laws are there for a reason.

Common sense and I believe the law dictates that a not for profit, non-commercial group viewing of a purchased copy of anything at a private gathering does not equate to copyright infringement. If it was, anytime you invited a group of friends over to watch a movie/game they will in turn be less likely to buy a copy of that movie/game and you are guilty. If thats the case I'm a Pirate and will continue to be.