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You sound like you would welcome this crap.

No, the devil's advocate is just there to put the brakes on irrational exuberance. It results in a more rigorous basis for our argument, making for cleaner communication once we simplify it into Eloi language.

We ultimately decide who's in power as far as technology goes.

Then how did Hollywood manage to get the U.S. Congress to enact the DMCA bilaterally over the collective head of the technology industry?

Did someone say "Irrational Exuberance"?
Yatta! Back from 2001 with a vengence! All your base's got nothing on this.

haha http://www.verylowsodium.com/fanimutation/exuberan ce.php

http://www.verylowsodium.com/fun.php#sign

End of this page!

Yes, and this was done by an electronics geek before, too.

Look in the "Fun" section of Very Low Sodium and you too can mess with someone's LED sign!

...when VeryLowSodium.com (the source of the famous "Yatta!" flash video) did the same thing. He even has a webcam so you can see your scrolling nugget of wisdom in action.

For example, I collect vinyl, and much of the vinyl I own there are very very limited copies of. Because of this they are worth something.

A vinyl record from the nth printing of an album will most likely still be worth something because it's from the nth printing. Example from comics: Even though MAD Magazine has reprinted its first 18 or so issues a few years ago, original copies of the first few issues still fetch a wad of dough.

I wonder how labels will go about structuring things to limit them for collectors.

Is it in a monopolist's interest to limit the production of a good at any level other than where marginal revenue equals marginal cost? No. That's the price that maximizes the bottom line.

how many [DVD Video titles from] other regions include Japanese subtitling or dubbing???

Does it matter? A lot of Japanese people know quite a bit of English. The "It's so easy, happy go lucky, we are the world oh, we did it" in the "Yatta" video (and the Flash video) wasn't an accident.

How many carry Japanese films, which are mostly crap and barely even sell in Japan

Another anime hater. Or does anime really sell better in the USA than in Japan?

Perhaps artists would look to sign with a label with more competitive expenses

Such as have somebody like Bad_CRC, Neil Cicierega or Veloso make their video. If it worked for "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" by TLMOM featuring Toaplan, "Hyakugojyuuichi" by Nintendo, and "Yatta" by Happatai, it'll work for any song.

Or you could just drink Ritalin like most Dance Dance Revolution players do.

Sweet! I can use it to translate my anime (no self-respecting nerd would even consider watching the dub!) and Japanese pop music!

Assuming it translates smarter than Babelfish and some of the crazy entries at Animelyrics, this would be an excellent device indeedy. Do you suppose it would outputs only in Romajii, though? What about katakana, hiragana and kanji? Nevermind, authenticity isn't anywhere near as important as Pocky, DiGi Charat and Hapatai.

Yatta, yatta...

Yatta! We are the wad of dough! Who dong hide?

Translation: "All right! We are the world! We just go to bed."

These are lyrics from "Yatta!" by Happatai (the Japanese version of the Village People), as interpreted in "Irrational Exuberance", a popular Flash music video of the song.

Surprisingly, the parent is somewhat on-topic because Flash videos use JPEG compression technology to save bandwidth.

By the way, GOSH (Great Ormond Street Hospital) owns a perpetual copyright on James M. Barrie's Peter Pan works. No, it's not a 95-year copyright or a life+70 copyright. It's a perpetual copyright, recognized by the Berne treaty. (Read More...) When Disney brings Peter Pan II to Region 2 (where European copyrights are more strictly enforced), GOSH is going to make a wad of dough on royalties, giving Disney a taste of its own medicine.

Don't you mean Irrationalexuberance?

And everybody say, Yatta!

Where would Adobe be today without the rampant piracy of Photoshop by tens of thousands of graphic art students (don't tell me this is not happening).

Probably selling a lot of copies of Photoshop Elements (that is, Photoshop minus the prepress engine) at $100 a piece (not $600) and making a wad of dough.

Photoshop has a HUGE learning-curve to do anything but the most basic operations.

How does it compare to GIMP's? Is GIMP 1.2 easier or harder than Photoshop Elements?

From their legal page, it seems that their encoding software apparently uses LAME. Isn't that kind of sad?

Thomson Multimedia (parent company of RCA and GE electronics division) controls patents on MP3 technology and charges a royalty of 2 percent of revenue on electronic music distribution. Thomson must be making a wad of dough on this deal.