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Hard Drives Shipping with Star Trek
crimeandpunishment writes "Paramount Pictures is trying to live long and prosper by selling Seagate Technology hard drives with the latest Star Trek movie on board ... along with 20 other films. The 500GB hard drive will sell for a special promotional price of $100. It's the latest way for Hollywood to combat falling DVD sales due to piracy."
They also come loaded with a DRM system that will probably function like a virus or some form of malware to not only make it impossible to watch these movies without calling into the server, but also possibly scanning your system for other Paramount movies and either deleting them or reporting you to the MPAA. They could include 100 movies and it still wouldn't be worth it to have something like that lurking around on my system.
Frankly, I would have more trust in a hard drive I bought from a sleazy-looking dude with a Russian accent hanging on my local street corner. And Sergey is not very trustworthy.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
So, can I buy one of these drives, reformat it, and then torrent these movies legally?
Well stop shipping your cargo through the waters off the coast of Somalia!
You can't take the sky from me...
In other words.. you could say this hard drive comes with Data?
AND it's a post-Maxtor buyout Seagate drive. Avoid at all costs.
How the mighty have fallen...
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
Maybe so, but he could at least have ended his message with, "P.S. Frost Pist!!"
Thanks for sneaking in your Amazon referer ID in the URL, asshole!
My work here is dung.
You have a copy of GI Joe "on the printer"?
You're doing it wrong.
John
7. ???
8. Profit!
(Sorry, I couldn't help myself)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
It's vitally important that we recurse those sub, uh, avi files... *cough*
You know, to get the snakes.
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
It is perfectly legal to format shift media. Perhaps he just prefers the flip-book format his is video needs.
"It's the latest way for Hollywood to combat falling DVD sales due to Hollywood making crap."
He wasn’t. He was referring to the Amazon referral program. The ?ref, on the other hand, was referring to the HTTP referer header to which you referred, which was referring to the word “referrer” but designed by people who couldn’t be bothered with referring to a dictionary.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
That $140 figure was probably the price when someone thought up the promotion. By the time it got through all of their bureaucratic muckity-muck, they're putting an overpriced device on the market.
That's almost as bad as our local Wal-Mart. They have a Battlefield 2142 gaming mouse in their clearance section. It has been on clearance there for over two years (and was likely on the shelves for two years prior to that point), and they still have the price at around $69. Retailers (and, apparantly, movie studies) have a mistaken notion that tech gear holds its value over time.
I use irony whenever I can, but my shirts are still wrinkled...
to me it looks like *** **
He wasn't. He was referring to the Amazon referral program.
Actually I was referring to Amazon's referal program where I was released back into the Amazon jungle and accepted by a pack of developers. In time I relearned their ways and mated with their women. As fate would have it, Amazon had only deferred their deferal program and as soon as it went back into effect I took advantage of it and here I am clean and shaven--almost fully capable of using a keyboard again!
My work here is dung.
Minor correction:
Well, you don't expect some Paramount idiot board member to send his personal assistant to shop anywhere other than a big box chain store, do you?
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Is water wet?
Not when it's in the solid state....
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Define "wet"
A female state that most /.'ers will never experience first hand ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
A female state that most /.'ers will never experience first hand ;)
Well, you know what they say: "A bird in hand is worth two in the bush".