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Australia Rules DVD's are Films, Not Software
divereigh writes: "The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that an Australian Federal court has decided this case in favour of the Australian Video Rental Association. The Association had taken Warner Home Video to court for trying to classify DVD's as software and thus double the price for those sold into the rental market."
I hearby claim the first post in the name of the Queen of Spain!
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Thanks so much for the Mtn. Dew. It's been great for these past few weeks.
-Your apartment-mate, Mark
I have now suceeded in posting the first post, otherwise known as a "fr0st p1st" or an "fp." I am, without a doubt, the most elite reader on this website. Please, hold your applause. I am masturbating to my accomplishment at the moment!
Yeah, yeah, but I had to try...
I for one will gladly pay twice as much for DVD content as I would for equivalent VHS content; the extensive capabilities of the DVD format make the medium that much more valuable. By declaring this practise illegal, I'm afraid Australia could be severely stifling the incentive of movie companies to include special DVD-only features. This move doesn't benefit anyone; both the content producers and the consumers suffer.
Loneliness is a power that we possess to give or take away forever
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda sat back in his chair gently massaging his cock. He was leafing through the latest issue of the Leisure Times porn catalog, contemplating which video he was going to buy next. The jerk-off factor of each video decreased after a few weeks, so he had to constantly update his collection.
... Ooohhh..." moaned Malda when he turned the page to the all-boys section; his cock throbbed with lust. "OK, how about 'Uncut Hunks' and 'Babes with Balls', you little freak," he said to his cock as he started to pump a little harder. He reached for the lube in his bottom drawer, slathering his hand and cock with the slippery stuff. He closely examined each small picture on the page. He especially liked the really muscular young guy in 'Boot Camp Boys'. Oh, to run his hands up and down that smooth, muscular stomach as he knelt in front of him, pulling that huge cock into his mouth.
Malda often spent late night hours at his office like this; his apartment was just too lonely. The benefit of having a basement office was no casual passers-by. Cliff always thought he was working late on some paperwork; he was notoriously slow in finishing anything dealing with the next Slashdot submission. Or doing work on the latest Slashcode revision. Cliff thought correctly that Malda had no personal life.
"Hmmm, should I get 'Killer Cumshots' or 'Ass Eating Insanity'? Or maybe I
Malda arched his back and groaned as he came, shooting cum all over the desk. He slumped back down into the chair as his breathing slowed to normal. "I'm definitely going to order 'Uncut Hunks' and 'Boot Camp Boys'."
After a few minutes he pushed his cock back into his pants and wiped up the lube and cum with a tissue. This had become almost a nightly ritual after his last meeting with Jon Katz earlier in the year. Malda wondered if he would ever figure out when that rat bastard would quit his job.
"I wonder if any of these videos star brunettes with green eyes?" Malda said thoughtfully as he flipped back through his catalog. "Or petite redheads?" he chuckled as he looked at the ad for 'Clit Licking Lezzies'.
Malda started to daydream about Michael and Timothy 69'ing each other. "Not again," he groaned as he leaned back to pull his erection out of his pants. He got into a great rhythm. The subjects of his daydream morphed from two homosexual men to two other homosexual men--CoyboyNeal and Hemos sucking each other's cocks.
"Yeah, that's it. That's it!" he panted, imagining himself sliding deftly in between those two hunks. He wanted nothing more than to be on his hands and knees sucking CowboyNeal's cock with Hemos fucking his ass.
"Uh...uh..." whimpered Malda; he could feel the cum ready to explode out of his cock when the door to the office slammed open and heavy footsteps, belonging to 2 or 3 people, pounded on the floor. Before he could cry out or even identify the intruders a heavy, black hood was shoved over his head and he was hauled roughly to his feet.
To be continued...
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Ah, cock. Lovely, long, thick, wide, juicy man meat, in my hand. Delicious cock. What a glorious phallus. Mmmm, penis...
I hope that someone can take it one step further and gain a ruling that DVDs legally purchased anywhere else in the world can be played legally in Australia - effectively, a ruling invalidating any so-called 'right' for content producers to restrict disks to geographical regions.
The 'region encoding' thing totally sucks. Not only do the anti-De-CSS rulings effectively make it illegal to play a DVD on a Linux box, it's also a thin edge of the wedge allowing content producers to exercise ridiculous levels of control over how people are able to consume content. What'll it be next? You can't watch a show unless you key in a serial number from inside the lid of a Coke bottle, plus a code from inside a Pizza Hut carton?
Australian legislators have some 'quirky' notions of technology that often differ to those elsewhere in the world - it just might be possible to get such a ruling and overturn this ridiculous region coding bullshit once and for all.
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Let's have a close look at the costs involved when running a Windows system.
An important factor in Windows' cost is its maintenance. Windows requires a *lot* of maintenance, work doable only by the millions of low- paid Windows administrators that put themselves - of course willingly - at a great place in the market. Windows seems to be needing maintenance continuously, to keep it from breaking down.
Add to this the cost of loss of data. Windows' native file system, FAT32, is known to lose data like a firehose spouts water when the file system is accessed. Other OS file systems are much more tolerant towards unexpected crashes. An example is the FreeBSD file system, which with soft updates enabled, performance-wise blows FAT32 out of the water, and doesn't have the negative drawback of extreme data loss in case of a system breakdown.
According to Windows advocates, an alternative to FAT32 would be FAT. Unfortunately, FAT is still in beta stage. This means it is not intended for production use (although according to many Windows advocates this shouldn't be a problem, which makes me wonder how (little) valuable they find your data).
The other proposed 'solution', NTFS, is nothing more than an ugly hack to put journaling into the file system. All the drawbacks of the ancient FAT32 file system remain in NTFS, for the sake of 'forward- and backward compatibility'. This is interesting, considering that the EXT2 heritage in EXT3 was considered a very bad thing by the Windows community, even though it provided what could be called one of the best examples of compatibility, ever. When it's about Windows, compatibility constraints don't seem to be that much of a problem for Windows advocates.
Back to Windows' cost. Factor in also the fact that crashes happen much more often on Windows than on any other OS. On other OSes, crashes usually are caused by external sources like power outages. Crashes in Windows are a regular thing, and nobody seems to know what causes them, internally. Windows advocates try to hide this fact by denying crashes ever happen. Instead, they have frequent "blue screens of death".
The steep learning curve compared to about any other operating system out there is a major factor in Windows' cost. The system is a mix of features from all kinds of other OSes, but not one of them is implemented right. A Windows user has to live with badly coded tools which have low performance, mangle data seemingly at random and are not in line with their specification. On top of that a lot of them spit out the most childish and unprofessional messages, indicating that they were created by 14-year olds with too much time, no talent and a bad attitude.
I could go on and on and on, but the conclusion is clear. Windows is not an option for any one who seeks a professional OS with high performance, scalability, stability, adherence to standards, etc.
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Yeah - I always thought it was a bit of an exageration that so many US citizens are so insular - 'til I saw George Bush on TV.
Mind you when you've got such things as - World Series Baseball (which contains only US teams) the last thing your country needs is people like you going about encouraging the stereotype. Especially at this particularly politically sensitive time.
The amount of junk mail I get from US companies is amazing - and they all have this little disclaimer at the bottom saying I was spammed in accordance with some US law. Well heads up guys - I don't *live* in your country ffs !
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The Director's Edition of Robocop was $40 (and worth buying btw). T2 *was* $40 when it came out, it's cheap now because it's been out a while. Could it have been purchased cheaper? Sure. But I'm an impulse buyer. If I want it and it's there, I'll get it. If I want it cheaper, I can try eBay or Amazon or something. To get either of those movies for $32 back then would have either required a ride to a local Costco (membership fee) or waiting a few days to get it from Amazon (shipping fees).
The last few DVD's I've purchased were about $20 each. They don't have any special features to speak of though, not on the same level as T2 or RC. The only reason these were worth $20 for me was that I'm a fanatic for MST3k. Frankly, though, I would have bought VHS versions for cheaper if I had known they were so light on features.
"Derp de derp."
Why isn't Steve Irwin dead yet? Anyone who can one minute say 'This is one of the deadliest snakes in the world' and the next minute say 'Lets pick him up and have a look at him' has definate suicidal tendencies...