Leaked Screenshots Show Netflix Downloads

Mike1024 writes "US DVDs-by-post company Netflix appears to be planning a service that will let users download movies over the internet. Hackingnetflix.com has some accidentally-revealed screenshots, and the Netflix jobs page includes a product manager position, saying "The Electronic Delivery Service (EDS) will augment Netflix's current DVD delivery model with high quality movies delivered to consumers' home TVs through the Internet, on a subscription basis". Apple's iTunes demonstrated many people are willing to live with some DRM and hardware/vendor lock-in."

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Re:Unintentinal "publishing" ala Harry Potter?

[tomstdenis]

If I got one of those books the first thing I would do is talk about it all over the net.

Rights of the citizens over the rights of the corporations. And if some book store [or movie or whatever] sold me something I thought to be in good faith then too f'ing bad. I'd rather go to jail then have some judge tell me my rights are less important than those of "Harry Potter Publishers Inc." or whatever.

Now it would be different had I known they weren't supposed to be sold, or they were stolen, or copied, or whatever. In that case the sale wasn't in good faith and really if you knew that then too bad.

I mean why stop there? Why not say people who are tech early-adopters can't speak ill [or good but do you think they would care if you spoke well of it] of a product before a certain "advertising blitz" finished...

Tom

Re:Unintentinal "publishing" ala Harry Potter?

[tomstdenis]

I'm not saying I want to go to prison or that I would like it. I'm saying I live a principled life and would rather fight stupidity and ignorance [and arrogance] when duty calls then sit back and take it.

I mean it's a fucking book. I'm sure they're going to still sell 80 million copies or whatever, even if the 15 people who have copies DID blab about it.

So really want they want is

a. Press from filing the injunction [and it makes it more awe inspiring and mysterious]

b. Draconian distribution protection

I was about 10 years too late for the crypto fights of the 90s [I was a teenager then] but I admired the folk like Zimmerman et. al who fought naive stupid politicians who thought they can impose 1950s mentality on the current world.

I'm sure had I been born in the 70s instead of the 80s I'd be on the other end of a governmental inquest as well.

Anyways, it's just harry potter. Let me ruin the book for you.

1. He goes to school.
2. Something spooky happens
3. Instead of going to witch classes he sneaks around with the chick [who he never bangs] and finds some 50 yr older student trapped in a $NOUN. They learn the horrible story of years past.
4. They go looking for the magical $NOUN and upon the way wander into the hideous beast $NOUN
5. They defeat the beast, probably with a mix of magic and harry throwing stones like a girl
6. They get magical $NOUN, harry doesn't get laid and the school year finishes with unicorn house winning the prize.

There, I ruined the book for you.

I mean it's coo that kids read, but this is like what? The 13th fucking book in the series... kids, read another genre for a change!!!

Tom