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This is the same reason I don't purchase used games if I Can help it.

However, Lumines Plus (for PS2), Lumines 2 (for PSP), and Lumines Mobile (for mobile phones) are distributed by a unit of The Walt Disney Company, which (unlike most other software publishers) has lobbied Congress for copyright term extensions. If I want Lumines Plus (and not some homebrew clone), I have to either buy from Disney or buy used. I'd rather buy used, so as not to support Disney.

I log on, select a game, buy it legally, and play it. Simple.

Either that, or you find that your favorite titles are not available on the service.

The common myth in the US stems from USC 117 Section 17. It allows for owners of software to make a single backup copy. The purpose of this dates back to the 70s or 80s when software was distributed mostly on volatile magnetic storage mediums. People like to pretend that it extends to ROMs too, but in fact, not only is it not true, but case law (See Atari vs JS&A or google it) contradicts it.

Atari v. JS&A covers backups from carts onto carts. It does not cover backups or "adaptations" from carts onto another medium using a copier, which are both explicitly permitted (17 USC 117(a)(1)) and implicitly permitted (Sony v. Universal, interpreting 17 USC 107).

Or, you could try watching a G rated flick once in a while. Most of the Pixar movies are quite entertaining for children and adults.

Trouble is that when you watch a Disney movie, you're funding lobbying for copyright term extensions, which the other major movie studios (and Lions Gate) don't seem to care much about compared to illicit copying of films less than five years old.

the test is not "same amount of money they're making now" - there is no social utility in a particular level of reward per se.

The test is whether a politician proposing a scaleback of copyright as part of his platform would be able to get elected. All major American TV news outlets share a parent company with an MPAA member studio (NBC and MSNBC to Universal, ABC to Disney, CBS to Paramount, CNN and CNN Headline News to Warner Bros., and Fox News to 20th Century Fox), and each movie studio could pressure its TV news channel's editorial staff to bury the name recognition of a candidate who advocates a net reduction of the earnings of copyright owners.

Lost Season 1

Lost where? In space? Or Land of the Lost? What about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World? Oh, it appears you're looking for Walt Disney's Lost. One word: Bleh.

I'm normally getting about 35Kb/s.

Except remember that BitTorrent reports rates in bytes, not bits. A rate of 35 KB per second is better than you'd get on HTTP.

I'd say thats scaling pretty well. :D [assuming sarcasm]

Just go to bed and it'll speed up. Often the Peers will remain online overnight, and they'll turn into Seeds, freeing up other Seeds to send to you. If a lot of Seeds jump off before they build up a share ratio, then you're on the wrong tracker.

is it really so awful if you can pickup all the old SNES games you loved, about 15 years after the console was released?

(If you're to believe Disney) Yes, because you're off by 80 years.

Yes [goatse.cx] No [disney.com]

Two things. First, "Guy Opens Ass To Show Everyone" has moved here. Second, in this era of counterproductive copyright, lowering Disney's reputation is a Good Thing.

HHGTTG is a Disney movie. The Walt Disney Company is notorious for screwing with the plot lines and leaving out theme-essential elements of stories that it adapts into films.

Heck, there actually *are* cheap animated knockoffs of the same stories redone by Disney.

Which I buy whenever I can find them because I love to support Disney's competitors. In fact, a couple of the Pinocchio knockoffs stick much closer to Collodi's novel than does the Disney version. However, doesn't Disney bring (allegedly frivolous) lawsuits against the producers of such knockoffs, alleging misappropriation of the visual designs of characters?

Not only that, but The Walt Disney Company owns ESPN. If you'll remember, Disney was behind the copyright term extension acts. This makes an Unholy Trinity of Disney, EA, and Microsoft (whose MSN network hosts ESPN's web site).

If you're new to Slashdot:
To learn more about why 'smooth wombat' included The Walt Disney Company in an "Evil Trinity", you can read some background information at Losing Nemo.

did the presence of Disney characters hurt the PS1 game DDR: Disney Mix?

Depends. Was DDR Disney Mix first published before or after October 1998?

@nonymouse is apparently an anonymizing HTTP proxy.

But when you say "copyright" and "mouse" in the same sentence, I think of The Walt Disney Company and its atrocities against the intellectual commons.

I probably won't watch it anyway, given that our arch-enemy in copyright lobbying has the exclusive U.S. distribution rights for Miyazaki's movies. I've decided that Disney gets little to none of my money until 2024, when Mickey and Pooh finally enter the public domain in the United States.

Remember Little Nemo?

Thank God somebody associates "Nemo" with the character from Winsor McCay's comic strip (and Capcom's mediocre NES game based thereon) rather than with that idiotic clownfish owned by Disney.

ESPN football is superior in just about every way.

The "S" in ESPN football stands for Sonny Bono.

ESPN football is superior in just about every way.

The "S" in ESPN football stands for Sonny Bono.

Of every dollar that goes to a movie-license game or another game licensed by a major movie studio, some cents go to lobbying for anti-consumer copyright legislation. For instance, the $20 MSRP of ESPN NFL 2Kx includes a royalty paid to ESPN and thus to its majority owner, The Walt Disney Company. Disney was behind the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.

Pulp Fiction is published by a division of The Walt Disney Company, one of the major advocates against the public domain. Do you want to associate yourself with people who immediately associate "gimp" with a Disney movie?

I wouldn't recommend the Baby Einstein series to anybody because the Baby Einstein DVD series is made by a company notorious for being an ardent opponent of the public domain. Look in the lower left corner of the box.

I've tried to write what I can-- but I've never written anything particularly oriented at "joe sixpack".

Can anybody else link to something aimed at Joe Sixpack that I can link to? Are there any tracts, along the lines of those published by Chick Publications (but less fundamentalist), that I can plant in public restrooms? I'm at a loss for Google keywords.

Maybe run for an office

I'm deep in student loan debt from my BSCS. How can I afford to go back to college and learn enough management and political science to know what the heck I'm doing should I get elected? In addition, by the time I'm constitutionally old enough to run, how can I know that the situation won't be 10 times worse than it is now? But yes, I do give to the EFF, and when I do get a job, I plan to give to the LP.

Get the word out. Find like-minded people and band together.

Any ideas, other than mentioning my anti-Disney site, which touches on the copyright law issues?

"Insanely great" though the film itself may be, I still have a beef with the distributor. I'll probably wait for the video, as I did for Finding Nemo. I'll more likely see Pixar movies in theaters once the Disney deal expires and Pixar starts owning its own franchises, starting with Rata-however-you-spell-it.

channel 7 in LA (ABC) now sets the broadcast flag for almost all content

That's to be expected of The Walt Disney Company. Boycott Disney by watching other channels instead, and your problems go away.

I can't believe Miramax would have anything to do with this shit.

I can, given Miramax's parent company.

I, for one, will be boycotting this movie. Who's with me?

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I like the subtle stabs at Disney

Same here. I wholeheartedly recommend DreamWorks' Shrek to Losing Nemo visitors whose kids are old enough to see PG movies.

The best accelerator I've ever stumbled across was called LILO.

Some claim that LILO works even better if you combine it with STITCH.

Or maybe not.

it's better than liking Mickey Mouse.

The problem is, if I scratch my CD or DVD, shouldn't I be able to replace it for the price of the media (like $1)?

Buena Vista Home Video has actually implemented this. But that still doesn't end the boycott.

Please, if you're going to hate big business, at least do some research first. I used to be you, 10 years ago. Then I realized I was parroting lines by anti-business types, did a little research on my own, and realized that the "evil" corporations are really not.

Does this apply to the copyright industry as well? Should I start funding the Disney lobbying machine again?

People just aren't taking any risk on new intellectual property (IP).

Could it be at least in part because they're afraid of subconsciously infringing somebody else's copyright? George Harrison got bit in the butt.

And so what Disney did was it didn't make R-rated moves.

Bullshit. Look at the Kill Bill movies, produced and published by Miramax Films, a division of The Walt Disney Company.

Or do you mean only the Walt Disney Pictures division? After The Lion King, the mean quality of WDP's in-house productions has gone downhill fast; at least Treasure Planet, Brother Bear and Home on the Range have bombed at the box office, and so did The Alamo. You may counter with Finding Nemo, but Pixar has announced it will dump Disney after the two more movies in its contract.

So what does WDP do? Sequels. Apart from Pixar, WDP is making money off Winnie-the-Pooh sequels (The Tigger Movie, Piglet's Big Movie, Springtime with Roo, etc) because it managed to buy enough senators to get Pooh's copyright (and thus Disney's life-of-the-copyright exclusive license) extended twice. See also this partial list; one reading that list could almost imagine the sequels popping up like the cliche badgers.

the most innovative game I saw was Destroy All Humans, which is destined for failure. But it is a very clever to twist everything so that you're actually an alien shooting people. It'll never sell, because it's over-the-top violent.

Gee. Tee. Eh?

Right after we finish "Kingdom Hearts" I've told her Link is next.

Stop. Playing. Kingdom. Hearts. Now.

You don't want your 5-year-old to become a fan of the biggest corporate sponsor of the Perpetual Copyright Act. Trust me.

If you are a fan of sane copyright laws, avoid Walt Disney's ABC network. If the poor quality of ABC's shows hasn't already turned you off, here are some more reasons not to watch ABC.

Lat least lhey lon't lave lo lange lilo's lame!

You sound like the Chinese version of Scooby-Doo.

[]at least [t]hey [d]on't [h]ave [t]o [ch]ange lilo's [n]ame!

Yes they do; otherwise, they become vulnerable to lawsuits from The Walt Disney Company alleging infringement of the Lilo & Stitch mark, no?

Congress could repeal the copyright laws tomorrow, if you could get enough votes to do so.

Actually, repealing huge chunks of Title 17, United States Code, would take two years and about 10 months, as that's how long it would take to cycle out a majority of representatives and senators in the Congress. Those who have held their offices since 1997 or before have showed by their unanimous consent to the Bono Act and the DMCA that many of them are so bought-and-paid-for that they won't listen to letters from those who care about the rights of users of works.

more Americans use peer-to-peer networks than voted for George Bush.

I'll vote based on my research of the issues from a broad spectrum of sources. However, too many people vote based mostly on what they see on news networks owned by the movie studios, who have an economic interest in stifling discussion about rolling back the scope and duration of copyright. In addition, both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party seem bought and paid for; not enough people have considered a third party to be able to get even four-tenths of the vote in any given House district.

ranging from speaking out

Such as handing out leaflets in support of a boycott of The Walt Disney Company?

to practicing civil disobedience.

What about this civil disobedience?

Misspellings don't matter much on Slashdot; even the editors make them.

ObTopic: I hate Disney too. In fact, if I were a fan of Studio Ghibli's films, I would region-mod my DVD player just so that I could buy DVDs from regions where Disney isn't distributing Ghibli.

Misspellings don't matter much on Slashdot; even the editors make them.

ObTopic: I hate Disney too. In fact, if I were a fan of Studio Ghibli's films, I would region-mod my DVD player just so that I could buy DVDs from regions where Disney isn't distributing Ghibli.

Holy Crap! Disney owns Discovery?

I don't think so. Here's a list of what Disney owns. Discover magazine is on there (scroll up to magazine titles), but it has no connection to Discovery Communications that I can find (scroll down to cable TV).

Damn right.

You obviously don't like any of the movies done by Quentin Tarantino because, you know, those are violent for violence sake!

I don't like the movies done by Mr. Tarantino because The Walt Disney Company publishes them, and Disney is even more evil than the rest of the MPAA.

Disney's Cold Mountain was a bad idea in two ways: 1. it's published by the Eisner Company, which is even more evil than the rest of the MPAA, and 2. its title reminded me too much of the name of a map in the second half of Super Mario 64 .

Might want to add that little peice of knowledge to the existance of Santa Clause and ether.

Clarification: those two might not in fact be good examples of what you were trying to say.

• Santa Claus existed, but he's dead now.
• The Santa Clause exists, but shouldn't we be boycotting Eisner?
• Ether exists but not to carry EM waves.

M-I-C: See you real soon!

K-E-Y: Why? Because frankly, Mr. Eisner, I don't like you.

I was under the impression that it was three movies after Nemo, but I could be wrong.

Disney and Pixar made two deals. One was for Toy Story and one or more sequels; the other was for five new franchises. These turned out to be 1. A Bug's Life, 2. Monsters Inc., 3. some fishy movie that tries to make everybody forget about Winsor McCay's famous comic strip, and the forthcoming films 4. The Incredibles and 5. Cars.

(couldn't remember if Shrek was a Pixar film).

Shrek was made by DreamWorks/PDI. Coming soon: a sequel.

Pixar still has three movies it owes Disney.

Two now that Finding Nemo is done[1]. Or does the contract specify that Pixar owes Disney something beyond The Incredibles and Cars?

How long do you think it would take Disney to setup a Pixar knock-off?

Knockoff? Not long at all. Division whose movies survive for a strong second weekend? Not while Eisner remains in power.

[1] "Done" as in "dinner's ready".

When you buy Disney's Toontown, you're buying the Bono Act.

Hand a 3 year old a GBA? I don't think so. He can break Jello.

Sorry; I was thinking 5 rather than 3.

And the Berenstain Bears are a bunch of socialists.

What do you find wrong with a little socialism at the local level? Or could you show me where Libertarian privatization, such as of health and income insurance, has Just Worked(tm)?

I'd rather have the animism of Brother Bear.

Yeah, except the real Brother Bear is one of the Berenstain Bears. Disney just ripped off the name.

And already have Land Before Time and Secret of NIMH along with about 50 other movies for the monster

Even though I'm mostly boycotting Disney, I still occasionally watch Disney movies. I don't see them in theaters, I don't buy them on home video, and I don't rent them when they're new releases. I wait about a year (until they're $1 for 2 nights at the local Video Stop) and then rent them. Heck, if I can find them at the local public library, I get them for free (as in root beer) instead. This way, I get the most movie for my money, and Disney doesn't get as much to funnel back into lobbying. You might want to investigate this for your kid(s).

For those who would rather maintain principles than succumb to cravings for adaptations of DNA's work, there's Losing Nemo.

Disney is involved with several companies. e.g, they own Miramax

So? Miramax's earnings, like any Disney earnings, still go straight back into lobbying for anti-consumer legislation such as a possible sequel to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and several proposed sequels to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

If you don't want to fund your enemy, here's what to avoid.

I paid to see TTT, Matrices 2/3 and Kill Bill this year

When you buy Kill Bill, you're buying the Bono Act!

I wish Disney would use Miramax and make an adult animated film.

And I wish Disney would use Cyanide and make no more bribes to senators. To each his own, I guess.

"full-size Nemo video"

You mean Captain Nemo from LXG? Spare me.

Oh, you meant Disney/Pixar Finding Nemo. Still, spare me.

The only Nemo video I want to scrub is this video featuring Winsor McCay's Little Nemo.