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I disagree and am probably going to get tarred and feathered for this, but they kinda have a point. However they are doing it wrong.

ISP's are nothing more than distributors of content. They don't create or provide content, they just distribute it.

Disney is a large scale content provider. They make the content which an ISP then distributes. Disney has every right to charge for that content. If they decided not to put their content on the internet who would pay comcast or verizon or whomever for non-existent content?

What I mean by they are doing it wrong is that they should put a bid out to ISPs to distribute their content at a byte or GB distribution level. So comcast could offer to pay Disney $1.00 per GB to route their content, comcast can then charge other ISPs $1.10 per GB for their content. Verizon would then have to charge $1.20 to its customers for internet access on top of whatever monthly fee. Comcast could charge $1.10 to its customers since it had the premier content.

Then Verizon makes an offer to YouTube for $1.20 per GB to distribute its content... and the cycle continues.

Not only that but since every node on the internet is potentially a content provider contracts can be set so that whatever content you upload you could get paid for. Anything you download you pay them for and the costs are passed to the actual content provider.

Using this model the itunes store could distribute music for "free" although it would be charged at the per GB rate. Market competition should keep the costs down.

Hosting content isn't free. Distributing content isn't free. The internet isn't free... right now a lot of companies are providing their internet content at a loss. This type of model would fix the newspaper mess. An ISP would pay big bucks to host the WSJ, a small town newspaper would also benefit from this method. This is the answer to the question "How do you make money on the internet." Now we just have the means to pay the content providers directly.

With this kind of distribution method the 2 million+ Joss Whedon fans could have been directly supporting his program and theoretically firefly could still be being produced.
With this kind of distribution there is no reason for conglomorates to own all the media, the directors and producers have a direct line and business model that would work to support their production costs.
It would limit the pirating of software since it would still cost you to torrent, when you could just get the content directly for the content owner. I mean if you could just go to the artist website and download the song "for free" and they earn money from it wouldn't everyone be better off? If it cost you $3 do torrent a movie from TPB or $3 to download it from http://www.transformersmovie.com/ wouldn't you rather have your money support the actual content providers?

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Bruce should have asked him why "Toy Transformer Robots" are included on the Permitted / Banned items list, but the threat of actual Trasnformer robots are ignored by the TSA.

Haven't they seen the documentary currently playing at theaters across the nation?

Seth

I was extremely dissappointed in the film. But it's a must see disappointment. The spectacle is worth it alone.

When you see scenes like this during a moment that was far from funny, I wondered where they were taking this movie. That scene includes (in the movie) a fantastic long shot of a gunship firing and circling on the robot, but to mix it with camp comedy is a tragic mistake for American cinema.

The portrayal of a top secret government agency as keystone cops and a FBI raid that might as well have included the 3 Stooges and some Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld music just to top it off was well out of place. The film goes past campy then immediately is supposed to draw you back into the seriousness of the moment.

I'm not a Bay hater. I like his style, he has an energy to his shots and his films show the budget on screen. Having said that, Pearl Harbor sucked. What had the potential and formula to be a great film (love triangles classically have been the best stories. Look at any Opera) ended up being a crappy chick flick with bombs.

I realized why this movie had the final cut it has and why the producers would let this 144 minute movie that should have been trimmed by 30 minutes get a global release; the international markets.

Show US goverment agencies as idiots, American computer hackers fit the stereotype that they do nothing but play videogames and live at home with their mother, the pee jokes will go over well in Japan, there is an Austrailian that is smarter than the US Department of Defense, and the action scenes should please everyone.

Michael Bay made a movie with a little something for everyone; I just which that the US cut was 30 minutes shorter. You could really rename this movie "A Boy and his Car", cut the movie to reflect it as there is plenty of footage and it would be a pretty good movie.

They are going to speak. They hired Peter Cullen, the original voice of Optimus Prime, to perform his voice in the film, and for a while also had Frank Welker, the actor who voiced Megatron, to reprise his role (which he is still doing in the video game; you can hear it in some clips on the site). You can hear some voicework on the official movie site. Cullen sounds a bit older, but still very much like Prime. On the video game site, you can hear that Welker's voice has changed a bit, which may be the reason why he was dropped for Hugo Weaving, which means Agent Smith is going to voice Megatron (see the IMDb entry).

There's a clear strategy behind the trailers so far: they reveal more and more to keep old fans aching for more information, and this new information comes out bit by bit. And I guess they want to leave some things obscured so people actually go and see the movie...

Why not go to the movie's site? It's got the trailers there, no worries.

What this photo doesn't show is the large army of killer robots just off frame.

Bruce made a great hero, but personally I'm betting on the other guys. :-)

It's just another Hollywood hoax as part of the build up to the Transformers Movie. It's gone the same way as the UK's Mars Beagle mission shown in the teaser trailer on the site

This is a stunt to help promote the next Transformers movie. They'll probably send a video back to NASA showing the things last transmission.

They need to integrate this somehow into the upcoming Transformers movie.