I download illegal copies of a lot of movies, but this month alone I have gone to the cinema to see MIB 3, the Lorax, Avengers and will go to see Prometheus next week when it comes out. For me and my Family, thats over $160 gone into the movie market, becasue that is a service I dont mind paying for. I'd also buy DRM free movies if they were sold here (or at all), but then I would have to go to the movies less. My money supply is not bottomless, but is finite. If I spend $30 on a download in iTunes, thats one less movie I will take the family to at the cinema.
Exactly, under Fair Use, I am allowed to rip copies of my own DVDs for personal use. I can then store that file where ever the hell I want to. How is someone going to tell my personal use RIP from an identical copy on TPB, or on MegaUpload once the Feds get through with it. However as child porn possesion is illegal, I could be in the shit if found in my possession, where I ripped it from a DVD I won or not 8)
The only hard thing about cutting the cord is finding legal content. However, how come all the power of Hollywood can't workout how to make a buck selling a service like "TVShows" and Plex all bundled together? How do I get a new show now? I hear some buzz on a social network about an upcoming show, so I just subscribe to it on TVShows. It appears when ready and is downloaded automatically. Plex server then indexes it and it shows up in my unwatched or recent items in Plex frontent (on my phone, on my ipad, on my mac media centre, on my widows laptop etc), which I can then watch on just about any screen I own, anywhere on the planet where I can find the bandwidth.
Because if the way the torrents work, its not a huge internaltional load, because there are so many local peers. I would pay for this service if it was legal, and I could keep using whatever players I like, not having to use a prescribed TV box, or only a certain OS or tablet, in a certain country.
My moral standing: Its not theft if they won't sell it to you 8) as they arent loosing a sale. They wont provide the content I want, in my region, DRM free to work with my existing equipment, and now seem to have even less intention of doing so? Long live The Pirate Bay!
Just like it was easier to assassinate a Saudi citizen in Pakistan and dump his body at sea than go throught the messy business of extradition and trial?
But did they have to come after him with guns, helicopters, and dogs? There was no suggestion he was a mobster, no drugs, but they took him and his family down like terrorists. Think they were trying to send a message?
1: use encrypted peers 2: use a block list to avoid contacting known tainted peers. 3: if the torrents go down, resume downloading via usenet binary forums 4: continual attacks on the open Internet will just drive it into a new darknet. The signal wants to be free 8) And I 100% agree with the oatmeal. If they would sell it to me DRM free, I'd buy it.
You wouldnt need parking in may places, the cars could just go somewhere else to park on their own, and already know where a free space is opening up by communicating with a city wide parking management system.
Many families could reduce ownership to only one car. Take it to work, instead of having to pay parking all day long, it then returns under its own power to pick up the kids and take them to school, then trundle to the supermarket where it will pick up the shopping ordered online, and packed by a personal shopping bot (or human). At 3:00pm, return to school where a teacher will confirm my car has arrived for them and dismiss them, the car then takes them home, then return to the city to get me from work. If I'm going to be late, just have the car park outside of the city and wait until I'm ready (the main reason I dont use public transport, my schedule varies considerably, and doesnt coincide with bus or train timetables very well. Infact, why have my own car for this, just rent a "Jonny Cab" 8)
If its not availbale for sale in my region, its not theft. If they wont sell it to me, they cant claim lost sale. Want Game of Thrones outside the USA?? hahahahahahahahaha, only one way to get it. With ebooks I have I look for legal sources first, 70% of the time I am still faced with "not available in your region" I can buy the frikken paper book from Amazon and ship it around the world, but not a lousy 300Kb of data?
Generally, I'd agree, however this risk aside: Get a tower case with enough power to run all the drives you want, and any sort of mainboard/CPU just up to 1GB memory should be fine, and enough SATA/IDE orts for the drives you want. Then install OwnCloud or OpenFiler. Job Done.
Total theatre. We have nothing like these search procedures here in NZ, no body scanners, etc, but obviously some of this stupididty is creeping in. But he only terrorist act here in recent history was the French governemen\t bombing a greenpeace boat in Auckland Harbour. Most of the successfull attacks against the US on US soil have come from their own citizens. The planes hijacked to attack the US, were hijacked outside of the USA.
Nice to have these features, but what I really want is to be able to read my epubs on a kindle, the I might buy one. For now I'll keep using my tablet and phone so I can run any reader I want.
I think maybe tyhe teacher was confused. Enders Game may have a child protagonist, but it is not a kids book. But really, pornographic??? Some of the fanfic maybe, but I never got wood reading the original material! Maybe the parent was concerned their childs intellect might be aroused?
I'm thinking of the piece from the UK show Black Mirror, when the ads on TV are mandatory for people to watch, and you are financialy penalised if you cover your eyes or look away. Life imitates art?
I play zuma blitz way more often than I do Bioshock, but I still enjoy Bioshock, I just dont have the time to play it as often as I'd like. A PC to play a game like Bioshock is way more expensive than the console. I also like Flight Sims, and there is not a single consle or tablet offering a sim that is any good. That takes a propper desktop/laptop, and it wont be done over flash on the internet.
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It would be, it it was available outside the USA. Yes I know about VPNs etc, but it really is just easier to download the whole damn file.
I download illegal copies of a lot of movies, but this month alone I have gone to the cinema to see MIB 3, the Lorax, Avengers and will go to see Prometheus next week when it comes out. For me and my Family, thats over $160 gone into the movie market, becasue that is a service I dont mind paying for. I'd also buy DRM free movies if they were sold here (or at all), but then I would have to go to the movies less. My money supply is not bottomless, but is finite. If I spend $30 on a download in iTunes, thats one less movie I will take the family to at the cinema.
Exactly, under Fair Use, I am allowed to rip copies of my own DVDs for personal use. I can then store that file where ever the hell I want to. How is someone going to tell my personal use RIP from an identical copy on TPB, or on MegaUpload once the Feds get through with it. However as child porn possesion is illegal, I could be in the shit if found in my possession, where I ripped it from a DVD I won or not 8)
The only hard thing about cutting the cord is finding legal content. However, how come all the power of Hollywood can't workout how to make a buck selling a service like "TVShows" and Plex all bundled together?
How do I get a new show now? I hear some buzz on a social network about an upcoming show, so I just subscribe to it on TVShows. It appears when ready and is downloaded automatically. Plex server then indexes it and it shows up in my unwatched or recent items in Plex frontent (on my phone, on my ipad, on my mac media centre, on my widows laptop etc), which I can then watch on just about any screen I own, anywhere on the planet where I can find the bandwidth.
Because if the way the torrents work, its not a huge internaltional load, because there are so many local peers. I would pay for this service if it was legal, and I could keep using whatever players I like, not having to use a prescribed TV box, or only a certain OS or tablet, in a certain country.
My moral standing: Its not theft if they won't sell it to you 8) as they arent loosing a sale.
They wont provide the content I want, in my region, DRM free to work with my existing equipment, and now seem to have even less intention of doing so? Long live The Pirate Bay!
Just like it was easier to assassinate a Saudi citizen in Pakistan and dump his body at sea than go throught the messy business of extradition and trial?
But did they have to come after him with guns, helicopters, and dogs? There was no suggestion he was a mobster, no drugs, but they took him and his family down like terrorists. Think they were trying to send a message?
America hasn't been the land of the free since the Spanish arrived.
1: use encrypted peers
2: use a block list to avoid contacting known tainted peers.
3: if the torrents go down, resume downloading via usenet binary forums
4: continual attacks on the open Internet will just drive it into a new darknet.
The signal wants to be free 8)
And I 100% agree with the oatmeal. If they would sell it to me DRM free, I'd buy it.
Except when does malfucntion and cause a crash, baring negligent maintenance, who is responsible?
You wouldnt need parking in may places, the cars could just go somewhere else to park on their own, and already know where a free space is opening up by communicating with a city wide parking management system.
There are also a couple of highly trained drivers overseeing the autopilots operation.
Many families could reduce ownership to only one car. Take it to work, instead of having to pay parking all day long, it then returns under its own power to pick up the kids and take them to school, then trundle to the supermarket where it will pick up the shopping ordered online, and packed by a personal shopping bot (or human). At 3:00pm, return to school where a teacher will confirm my car has arrived for them and dismiss them, the car then takes them home, then return to the city to get me from work. If I'm going to be late, just have the car park outside of the city and wait until I'm ready (the main reason I dont use public transport, my schedule varies considerably, and doesnt coincide with bus or train timetables very well.
Infact, why have my own car for this, just rent a "Jonny Cab" 8)
If its not availbale for sale in my region, its not theft. If they wont sell it to me, they cant claim lost sale.
Want Game of Thrones outside the USA?? hahahahahahahahaha, only one way to get it.
With ebooks I have I look for legal sources first, 70% of the time I am still faced with "not available in your region"
I can buy the frikken paper book from Amazon and ship it around the world, but not a lousy 300Kb of data?
The unwelcome truth to the MPIAA, piracy isnt killing the movie industry. Crap movies are killing the movie industry.
To influence the others, you simply need money. Corporations can't vode, but ehy can sue as hell lobby!
Generally, I'd agree, however this risk aside:
Get a tower case with enough power to run all the drives you want, and any sort of mainboard/CPU just up to 1GB memory should be fine, and enough SATA/IDE orts for the drives you want.
Then install OwnCloud or OpenFiler. Job Done.
Total theatre. We have nothing like these search procedures here in NZ, no body scanners, etc, but obviously some of this stupididty is creeping in.
But he only terrorist act here in recent history was the French governemen\t bombing a greenpeace boat in Auckland Harbour.
Most of the successfull attacks against the US on US soil have come from their own citizens. The planes hijacked to attack the US, were hijacked outside of the USA.
Nice to have these features, but what I really want is to be able to read my epubs on a kindle, the I might buy one. For now I'll keep using my tablet and phone so I can run any reader I want.
Is that because having a dissenting political view is also suicide in China?
I think maybe tyhe teacher was confused. Enders Game may have a child protagonist, but it is not a kids book. But really, pornographic??? Some of the fanfic maybe, but I never got wood reading the original material!
Maybe the parent was concerned their childs intellect might be aroused?
Yup, I didnt buy one either.
8)
I'm thinking of the piece from the UK show Black Mirror, when the ads on TV are mandatory for people to watch, and you are financialy penalised if you cover your eyes or look away.
Life imitates art?
But they are so cheap, you could buy another one easily. Whats a 360 cost now? NZ$300 for an arcade console?
I play zuma blitz way more often than I do Bioshock, but I still enjoy Bioshock, I just dont have the time to play it as often as I'd like. A PC to play a game like Bioshock is way more expensive than the console. I also like Flight Sims, and there is not a single consle or tablet offering a sim that is any good. That takes a propper desktop/laptop, and it wont be done over flash on the internet.