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Peter Jackson and JJ Abrams 'Back' Sean Parker's Screening Room (variety.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Reports claim that Napster founder, Sean Parker, is working on a new service, called Screening Room, which would make major blockbusters available at home on the same day as they hit cinemas. The service would apparently charge users $50 per movie, and provide them with a 48-hour window to watch it. Now a new report claims that Hollywood titans Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg and JJ Abrams are among backers of Screening Room.
A fool and his money soon parted.
I have a 4K HDR Dolby Atmos dedicated theater in my basement. Sure a 100 foot screen is great and all, but I have better sound and video on my 133" screen than any theater within a 18 hour drive. I would gladly pay that fee, it would be cheaper than me and my wife going because of the cost of a sitter.
This reminds me of my college days. I always asked my roommates if they wanted cable. They all say YES! I then asked them if they wanted to pay for cable. They all say NO! We never had cable when I was in college.
You know what, if you go to the car dealer and think that car price is to high and you come back latter than night and make a copy with you own machine and supplies, well, you know what, that's fan-fucking-tastics, and woo hoo, you are to be celebrated and congratulated. Gees, think about, don't like the price of a big mack and can make an instant copies to feed yourself as well as the rest of the planet, you would be celebrated no matter how much maccas would want to fuck you up.
Dude, copying ain't stealing. In fact the only actually stealing that occurs is when the pigopolists with the backing of government storm troopers turn up to your door and actually steal and destroy the stuff you made with your equipment on your supplies, they also steal the equipment and suppliers and even your own self. The other big time actual stealing that is occurring is of course big time fraudulent DMCA claims where pigoplists do actually steal content that other people have produced by the pigopolists claiming it as their own.
Now here is a tricky one, did the cable companies steal quality of life from it's users by maliciously and disingenuously promoting unhealthy and socially destructive practices and should they be prosecuted for the harm and suffering they have purposefully caused, that harm being the theft of years of a persons life.
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