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Paying to renew it is much different than transfering ownership, or changing the name servers for it. It would have been a lot harder for the person to re-register it for themselves.

Plus they would have been torn apart later in court. remember, you can only legally steal domain names if you're a bunch of Tree huggin' hippies

*cough* WWE *cough*, unless you are referring to the giant panda

Not with myopic legislation.

First, you have to create things people find value in and want to experience. "Mindless entertainment" is a modern concept. Art used to be entertainment and vice-versa. Shakespeare wrote for the masses and the highborns alike, and managed to please all without insulting anyone's intelligence. When your industry blows itself up to the point where most movies have high budgets and rely on huge opening weekend grosses to succeed, there is a larger issue than internet piracy that you need to deal with. Start making quality films that people form attachments to, and you've got a customer you can sell something to. If you spend the majority of your funds pumping out stuff like Scary Movie 15 or Urban Legend 24 or I Still Am Reasonably Certain I Know Exactly What It Is You Did Last Summer or The Art of War or what have you, relying solely on the Holy (wood) sacraments of Boobs and Explosions to sell tickets to teens with allowances, don't make a stink when the movies stop making money after the first 2 days, and the rentals tank. It isn't because of the wily internet pirates.

Second, you have to outcompete internet piracy. Yes, it's illegitimate competition, but honest capitalists have had to outcompete illegitimate competitors since the dawn of society. With the big studios' resources, outcompeting pirates should be easy to do, and the LOTR DVD sets are great partial examples. Added value is the key. Give people something they want to own forever, that they can only get from you. This isn't the movie, they can see the movie through any theater, second-run theater or rental store; this is the exclusive extras on-disc, artwork, subscriptions, cards, figurines, sexual favors, midgets with rockets, you name it. Since you've followed through with the first step and you've made a good movie, it's done well at the box office for more than a weekend and made a profit already, with further anticipated profit from rentals and merchandising... So use your muscle to outcompete some more. Added value. Don't price a DVD set that cost pennies to manufacture at $40, price it at $20 - or even $15 - and see how many people, even hardcore pirates, can resist. So you might not make as big a profit. So what? Your media cartel has bled everyone dry for decades with your insane price-fixing schemes, but only because people lacked options - are you so used to the luxury of not having to compete that you've forgotten how to sell? Keep that pricing/value system up, and most people will not have a reason to pirate. Problem solved.

All of the above goes for the wealth-mad RIAA cartel and its member companies as well, who have done exactly the same thing with nearly the same sacraments (Boobs and Violence) for exactly the same allowance money. Wow, people aren't buying your $20 Shakiraguilera Britn'sync CDs? You don't say? And it's all home taping, er, the internet's fault, huh? Not the outrageous price or lack of quality/sustainability, right?

I wish Lucas or S/K/G or some other independent person or group with money (Vince McMahon?) would establish a separate distribution company and use it to outcompete the MPAA cartel legitimately. Then what would they do? Run to the government and force every company to join the cartel by law?

I just hope Vince McMahon doesn't get wind of this technology. It would really make for some great PPVs though.

Someone mentioned this in another discussion a few weeks ago, but I think it bears repeating for those who run Windoze and might have missed or dismissed it.
Popup Killer works quite well. Though it does occasionally miss a popup or close a window I actually wanted open (depending on the settings,) its benefits outweigh its drawbacks IMHO.

It's not even just pr0n sites that are bad (though they're probably the worst.) wwf.com is pretty bad for popups.

Yes, I know it's fake.

Yes, it is bullshit, but at least my bullshit is looking outwards, towards the world as it exists (and could be), and not inwards towards some constructed fantasy called the human condition.

If anything, nihilism that has given me this outlook, for I see no intrinsic difference between Pro Wrestling and "great literature", except the scope of the portrayed conflict and the competance in the fiction's execution. Since my values are an aesthetic choice, and my reason is simply the attempt to reconcile those values (prejudices) with what I perceive, I choose the fiction that does the most to challenge my preconceptions, since that is the way things stay interesting.
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Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom

Like the "story-arc" shows in the X-Files, where you need to be watching from the beginning to have a clue of what is going on, or those "special episodes" of sit-coms where they try and get deep and serious and get a message across. It doesn't always (ever?) work. B5 (and most of the modern ST series as well seem to suffer from this problem more often than not. They forget why we, the fans, watch in the first place.

I'm not saying that action shows shouldn't have character development. It's just that you need above-average writing and decent actors to portray them. It works rarely in the film, to have a completely dialogue driven film, and I can think of only one television show that delivers charcacter development with action on a consistent basis. :)