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(Almost) Free Movies On-Line... Sorta
Snaller writes "See the latest movies on the net? Its possible - apparently the law in Taiwan says that for a movie to be protected by copyright law one has to apply for such protection within a month after the opening in the theaters. This rarely happens and as a consequence movie88 has opened a virtual movieplex: See any of their films for 1 dollar. The movie is streamed in a format that doesn't allow you to save it on the harddrive, but for that 1 dollar you can view it anytime and as much as you like for 3 days. The selection includes movies like "Shrek", "Legally Blonde","American Pie 2","Gone with the wind", James Bond and Batman." Yeah this'll last.
Right. But it really demonstrates what TV will be like in the future
when you have access to thousands of movies. And the buck a film
rate strikes me as awesome. I'd watch a lot more movies if they were
only a buck.
hm,, shrek but no pr0n....decision.... no good
I wonder how much sway MPAA has in Taiwan. Certainly in the US this little "problem" would be fixed quickly...
Better mark Taiwan up on the Axis of Evil list too..
"Sorry !!
The RealPlayer video plugin was not detected !!!
You need to Download RealPlayer Basic
to watch our movie
Thank you. "
I'd rather not watch than have to watch it in Real.
So now, for a dollar, I can not only make a 20 minute phone call with 10-10-220, but now I can watch Shrek on my 'puter.
Heh. Eat that, Terry Bradshaw.
So long, michael. Don't let the door hit you...
When I first acquired broadband (a landmark event in my life). I figured it would be the nice thing to share out all the movies that I had downloaded for myself. All the movies I had downloaded were fresh releases, sometimes I had prerelease copies that weren't even in the theateres. I offered them in a format that could be saved to your hard disk... for free!
but the MPAA managed to hunt me down and send me and my ISP really naughty obscene letters. they quoted obscene literature such as "Copyright Act, Title 17 United States Code Section 106(3" and "we hereby state, pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title 17 United States Code Section 512" Eventually the letters started to get to offensive so I decisted all activity. But man, if I only had a team of lawyers at the time....
And ... I'll love to see this 'hacker-proof' format of theirs. I bet a hundered dollars it's already creacked :-)
:)
And that would get spent 50/50 on movies and CD/R's right
If there's one thing that can be certain, the island of Taiwan is the heart of true capitalism. Ever been to Hong Kong?
What are you really trying to say? Hongkong is not part of Taiwan. Or do you just mean the region? Hmm join the navy and not know the difference between Taiwan and Hongkong.
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
A new development - the site was slashdotted - it's extremely slow and video downloads do not work!
I can almost hear the engineer in the background... " She canna take much moore of it, keptin! "...
I'd suspect that even if they have access to the fattest pipes in Taiwan, the international feed to Taiwan would be saturated with
Here's to their good luck!
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
the amount of people involved in transferring and encoding must be staggering.
It's not like they are encoding the movies using a hex editor...
Just found a link. I almost thought it was damn near impossible to download the basic real player anymore...
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http://www.littlechapel.com/downloads/rp8-setup.e
It's a church site that lets you download real player to see one of their presentations. I guess they felt that it was sinful to let someone endure the pain of trying to navigate through www.real.com.