Two awesome things

[qatarperegrine]

1) I ran our end-of-year stats yesterday, and discovered that during the 2007-2008 academic year, the ARC held 1337 tutoring sessions. We are officially leet.

2) Yesterday, a student asked me the most amazing question about citing sources. When citing the online version of a print source, you cite it as you'd cite the print source, but then add the URL at the end. Thus,

If I read it on paper:

Krug, M. (2008, April 30). CMU-Q students studying migrant workers' woes. Qatar Tribune, p. 15.

If I read it online:

Krug, M. (2008, April 30). CMU-Q students studying migrant workers' woes. Qatar Tribune, p. 15. Retrieved May 2, 2008 from http://qatar.livejournal.com/287452.html.

The student's question is this: if you are citing a movie that you (illegally) downloaded, do you cite the torrent file?

I cannot find this issue addressed in any citation guidelines.

Comments

Torrents

[null--zero.livejournal.com]

As far as I know, it's not illegal to review movies you downloaded from the internet, IN AMERICA. Which is probably where the copyrighted information is.

As long as the said person reviews the movie somehow, American copyright law doesn't care if they downloaded it or snuck into a movie theatre... Critics get to see movies for free.

[materjibrail.livejournal.com]

How do you cite a movie you saw legally? Would it make a difference if it were a) legally viewable, b) not available locally or at the time, or c) censored. Or doesn't stuff like that count in citing sources?
Also you didn't need to cite kd land singing Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah! Even I found it, and listened to it at least 4 times today. The phrase "broken hallelujah" and that melody get to me.

[qatar.livejournal.com]

Well, if you saw it in a theater or DVD you'd do it like this:

Lord, P., and Park, N. (Producers). (2000). Chicken Run [Motion picture]. Glendale, CA: DreamWorks SKG.

But presumably if you saw it online you'd add the URL where it was accessed:
Lord, P., and Park, N. (Producers). (2000). Chicken Run [Motion picture]. Glendale, CA: DreamWorks SKG. Retrieved May 6, 2008 from sketchy-download-site-URL.

So, do you cop to downloading it from a sketchy and illegal download site?