[TheForge] Has anyone used this site? Sheet Iron?

[James Binnion]

I have no problem with the basic concept and they have a good  
selection of videos, but they are stealing from the content owners,  
they need to pay some amount of royalty for every rental . So I will  
not support them but if it does not bother you go right ahead. I just  
think folks should know  what is going on with them.

On Aug 15, 2007, at 7:15 PM, Michael Horgan wrote:

> I've used them quite a bit, Jim.  Most of the ones I've viewed,  
> I've gone on to purchase. And recommended to others. Bill Epps has  
> a nice series of videos, for example, with nice stuff for doing @  
> demos.
>
> At 04:20 PM 8/5/2007, you wrote:
>
>> On Aug 3, 2007, at 10:49 PM, Robert J Hill wrote:
>>
>>> There are some interesting videos here.  Just curious if anyone
>>> nows anything about this.
>>>
>>> http://smartflix.com/store/category/115/Metalworking
>>
>> I have a bit of a problem with them. They buy the videos as if they
>> are an individual  but rent them out as a commercial business and do
>> not pay the copyright holder any royalties for the commercial use of
>> the videos. An acquaintance of mine who's video they purchased and
>> rent out has contacted them and her lawyers about this issue. They
>> claim they are acting legally but her lawyers say they aren't. The
>> problem is a lawsuit of this type is terribly expensive and there are
>> no deep pockets here so she can't afford to go after them on the
>> chance she might lose. These videos are not Hollywood big money
>> productions, most of the content owners are never going to get their
>> money out of the sales of the videos in the first place and Smartflix
>> is depriving them of a portion of what little money they get.
>>
>>  So remember they are not compensating the video content owner and
>> if you are ok with that use them.
>>
>>
>> James Binnion
>> jbin at well.com
>>
>>
>>
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