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Phantom Menace Pre-Orders Available

Posted by emmett on from the i'll-take-the-widescreen-no-jar-jar-edition dept.

Geckoman writes "Amazon.com has The Phantom Menace available for presales in both widescreen and pan-and-scan. If you're boycotting Amazon, then you can also find it at Reel.com among other places."

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  1. Other things you could be doing and spending on... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5
    These are a few of the things I'd rather do than give money to someone whose new trilogy is supposedly about the evil of greed and then sets new standards in it (the real reason SW1 not on DVD? I'm betting it's that there's only 5 million players out there now. Drive demand up, wait till there's an established base of 40 million, say, then flood it out).

    10) Install Windows 2000

    9) Surf the Gay Jedi fanfic page.

    8) Call up the MPAA and rat on people who link to DeCSS

    7) Make Natalie Portman posts on /.

    6) Try to make money by getting my friends to read my epinions (you too can be a spammer).

    5) Run Ultima 9 on a non VooDoo 3 card.

    4) Start a Daiktana fan page

    3) Meet Jeff K on IRC for hacking tips. (FrEE KEVIN NITMACK!)

    2) Code a DOS Emulator for Linux so I can play badass games designed for 486s

    1) Order DVDs from MPAA aligned studios on Amazon.

    These may sound evil - but they're probably more productive for your own karma in the long run.

  2. no DVD, no sale by LocalYokel · · Score: 5
    No DVD, no sale -- and even if there was one, I'd be hesitant to get a copy of TPM before The Matrix and about a hundred other movies that I think were better, including episodes IV-VI.

    Can an article be moderated as flamebait? We've been over all of this, and I'm sure that it will just be a matter of moments before the forum is ignited and flames about the lack of DVD (like myself), the evil MPAA and their handling of DeCSS, the supposed "boycott" of Amazon.com for their software patent, and of course, the beautiful Natalie Portman start flying...

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  3. Re:Sigh, Amazon! by gargle · · Score: 5

    In case you haven't noticed, Slashdot has a partnership with Amazon.com. There's even a nice big Slashbox where you can search for books on Amazon, and if you buy something, Slashdot gets a cut. When money is involved, professed principles get thrown out of the window.


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    If you follow the links around here, and eventually buy a book, we get a percentage of the cost!

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