Slashdot Mirror
Retro Vision
dncsky1530 writes "The Sydney Morning Herald reports: It babysat generations, distracted countless teenagers from homework and, as Homer Simpson sagely observed about television, became our 'teacher, mother, secret lover'. Sure, the shows may have been ludicrous - think Webster, The A-Team, Charles In Charge - but they became part of our lives nonetheless. So what do you do when they end? Immortalise them online. At least, you do if you're a diehard fan - and there are plenty of them out there. Look up a show, any show, and the odds are there'll be at least one fan site, possibly with a tinny version of the soundtrack playing in the background and certainly with photos galore, plot lines, trivia as well as 'where are they now?' information on the actors."
Who is this Homer Simpson you speak of?
http://www.beyourowneviloverlord.tk
http://www.frozenchickenthrowing.tk
http://www.killercamel.tk
What the fuck is a sommoflange?
Mummra touched my junk liberally. He strapped me down in his pyramid and couldn't keep his filthy hands off of me. I told him the Thundercats would not approve etc etc
Porte Ricans are lazy Michael. /chappell
The secret to getting modded up is to allways say i've got karma to burn in your sig..
Horseshit. The popularity of the DVDs did, as so many other wise sages who have replied before me have mentioned. Do you really think TV execs care about people who don't directly contribute to their revenue? They think (and they're right) that Internet users are stealing their shows. They don't give a fuck about what Internet users think about shows, they care about what paying customers think.
Yep, this is why we need a workable implementation of freenet. Something as easy to use as napster was, and as safe as freenet is.
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky
Well, perhaps by 2061 the government will have come to its senses.
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
That's attacking the problem at the wrong level. Hiding the fact that we're trading what should be public domain is a waste of energy.
Segregation wasn't outlawed in the U.S. by silent contempt -- it was changed by U.S. citizens publicly showing their discontent with the current system. Better P2P systems won't solve the problem, they'll just make the symptoms less painful.
Somebody get that guy an ambulance!
I doubt it.
Many companies produce mission statements which are meant to help to direct the companies actions towards a given goal. If a plan is suggested, it can be evaluated in terms of how well it helps the company to achieve its stated goals.
One would hope that the U.S. government's mission statement were truly the motivation to affect change which drives public officers. However, politicians are generally working towards their own best interests. Talking about how copyright is overextended is a sure-fire way to be ignored (or ridiculed) by popular media, which is decidedly against the goals of most politicians.
The government won't "come to its senses", because officials need the media to get elected.
Somebody get that guy an ambulance!
... '80s TV shows watch you!
The TV watches you!!!
Or so I've heard...Well, somebody had to do it..