Stossel 2015 01 30 Its My Idea WS SDTV x264-XAiO

Show info:
John F. Stossel is an American consumer reporter, investigative journalist, author, libertarian columnist, and former co-anchor for the ABC News show 20/20. In this show he looks at consumer-focused topics, such as civil liberties, the business of health care, and free trade.

Episode info:
THE POWER OF INNOVATION: We want people to keep coming up with new ideas, but there's a problem: if others can just take your idea and make money from it, why would you spend any time inventing something?

BIRTHDAY SUITS: Intellectual property laws are supposed to protect our ideas but they can also be restricting. I can't even sing "Happy Birthday" on air without costing Fox a lot of money since Warner Music owns the rights to the tune.

PIRACY: Why call copying "piracy?" Pirates take property from others. Internet "thieves" make copies, but don't "take." Some libertarians say it would be better if America had no copyright or trademark protection laws. I push back.

EXPOSING MAGIC TRICKS: Magicians want to protect their own tricks, but patents are public. That means their secrets would get exposed! Magician Rick Lax explains how a magician protects his work.

KNOCKOFF ECONOMY: The counterfeit fashion industry is huge. Our producers go undercover in Chinatown .

MY TAKE: Libertarian journalist Matt Ridley once said human progress happens when "ideas have sex with each other, and then give birth to new, often better ideas." Trademark and copyright laws make it harder for ideas to "have sex."

But I wonder if I would have written books and done TV if publishers, cable subscribers, and advertisers didn't pay for "exclusive right." Some intellectual property laws are a good thing!

Notes
THESE ARE NOT SCENE RIPS. More episodes coming.

Ripped with the Diamond VC500. Using the software that came packaged with the dongle. (It's called EZ Ripper.) In that software there's a "DVD Standard" which rips the video to .mpg at 720x480 with some terrible black bars. I load that file into AVIDemux. Cut the file into multiple parts to remove the commercials. Rejoin, crop, and resize those files using the same tool. For conversion I used MPEG4 AVC (x264), 2 pss on video and AAC (faac) on audio. File size limited to 350MB. (310 video 40 audio.

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