From how far away? It's relative size that counts.
Sound system I couldn't get away with playing at that volume without the neighbors complaining in any urban/suburban neighborhood.
I invite them - or they're watching something in their basement and don't hear anything anyway.
I can get a half dozen friends with their families into a movie theater comfortably.
So, you're going to spend $500 - $1,000 on tickets and over-priced food for all them?" Sure, I can't fit 30 people in at once, but I can easily fit a dozen people in my living room - more if they want to be "extra friendly." So we'll have 2-3 showings instead, and let people circulate between the living room, kitchen, dining room, home office, etc., if it HAS to be all at one event.
Unless you are genuinely wealthy and can afford a home theater that is essentially a real theater it just can't compare.
A movie is going to be leaked. There's no way around it. They can do whatever they want, but it's going to get online
... and they seem to have found a way to make money out of that, by going after 50,000 people who are downloading it. At even $3k a pop, that's $150 million.
I'd pay $3-5 to stream a legit movie a few days after it's in theaters, even if it was loaded up with DRM.
Why should they let you pay $3 for, say, 5 people (after all, it's not just you that will be watching it), when they can get $50 for the same 5 people? So 4 out of 5 decide to skip it - they're still ahead by 334%
Streaming to the home would have to be at least twice the cost of a movie ticket for current releases. Same as pay-per-view events.
You can buy a multi-region/multi-format dvd player. I paid $60 for one almost a decade ago. Plays NTSC, PAL, VCD, SVCD, MPG, etc. Don't be stupid and buy a Sony.
Also, if you wait long enough, everything makes its way onto dvd/blu-ray. Don't be so impatient... waiting 5 years won't kill you.
Streaming the video makes it impossible NOT to be copied, or to be seen by 10 people for the price of 1
And if it's any good, those 10 people will want to see it in the theater instead of on a (relatively) small screen at home.
Are you kidding? I don't know anyone who's gone to the movies after watching something at home.
When you have a 50" or greater plasma tv at full hi-def, a nice surround-sound system, the fridge, friends, air conditioning set exactly right, your favourite couch, the best seat in the house, AND the ability to hit "pause", why would you want to go to the movies?
Oh, right - the "movie experience "...
Have to travel there and back.
Kids? Baby-sitter.
Wait in line
Over-priced concession stands
Starting time is the starting time - you're late - sux 2 B U
Seats nowhere near as comfy as my couch
"Where's the liquor?"
Sticky floors
People talking
Obligatory advertising - hey I *paid* to see this!!!
Heads of people in front of you.
No "pause for a pee break"
No "pause for a snack break"
No "??? - rewind that"!
No "Bonus features"
I haven't been to the movies in years, and I doubt if I will ever go again. Movie theatres are so last century.
It's up to them - not you or me. Their property - their decision. Streaming the video makes it impossible NOT to be copied, or to be seen by 10 people for the price of 1, so I don't blame them for saying a big F.U. to that.
And the fact is that it *does* deprive them of some future revenue, so at this point, I'm going to side with the "it *IS* theft crowd. Same as Identity Theft is theft, even thou you haven't been deprived of your name.
Come to think of it, your identity is probably the oldest "intellectual property" around, and people have been stealing other people's names for thousands of years to try to gain an advantage, from inheritances to kingdoms and everything in between.
You know, I'm getting sick of all the whiners too.
Someone makes a movie and *gasp* wants to make money from it. You have several choices:
Pay full price and watch it in the theatre soon after release
Wait for it to come to the cheaper screens
Wait a bit longer for it to come to DVD/Blu-ray
Wait still longer for it to come to TV
If you're not happy with any of the options, then do without. Find something else. There's more to life than movies and music, and you don't have an inherent right to just take stuff any more than I have an inherent right to "borrow" anything from you without asking first. If you stopped pirating crap tomorrow your world isn't going to end - you'll just have to find something constructive to fill your time with - like interacting with people.
an area of the brain just above and behind the right ear known as the right temporo-parietal junction (RTPJ), which other studies had previously related to moral judgments
... do you hold your cell phone to your left ear, or your right ear? It would be interesting to correlate road rage, for example, with whether the person spends more time with their cell phone clued to the right side of the head, and also whether incidents of road rage are declining with laws against cell phone use while driving.
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You're a jerk.
Shameless publicity whore. She profited in a grand way from this too-doo. Point. Of. Fact.
Absolutely false. Groklaw doesn't run ads, and the donations go to things like court transcripts.
And "who is PJ"? Just some Small Town Paralegal *that just happened to be interested in Linux*? - YEAH RIGHT. I got a bridge.
... because a woman can never grok linux... riiiight. Go back in your basement.
The same everyone who is always instructed by a judge that they do NOT have that right.
Ever sat on a jury?
I have. Jurors know. Maybe it's just American jurors who are too stupid/sheeple to exercise their rights, but Canadian jurors have done so often enough, to the point of forcing the laws to be changed because jurors here won't convict if they think the law sucks.
If you think you need these, you have bigger issues.
let you know that you've got issues by texting. Incontinence issues, to be more precise
Cheaper - just stick a cell phone battery in your underwear. Urine is a conductor - you'll know when you've shorted it out - your underpants will catch fire and dry themselves out automatically.
It's a LOT safer than 3am, in the dark, nobody around except other drunks. Also decent lighting and probably video cameras, so less problems with identification. 2 incidents 30 years in public libraries? You'll see more than that in 1 hour at some bars.
Books still do in-depth coverage that just isn't being done by the vast majority of the sites on the Internet.
Perhaps surprisingly, there are actual books available on the Internet...
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Yes, at any book store and at the library, just like they have books on computers and food and stuff... and you can even use the Internet to order them!
Too bad you can't just download the book off the Internet - they haven't found a way to send pulp and ink and glue through the t00bs directly...
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the lighting's better (avoids "coyote ugly" scenarios)
each of you can tell by the books what the other person is into
you're both local
there's no "hook up or die" pressure on either of you
no hangover
your real names are on your library cards, so women can identify their stalkers/molesters/etc -safer
you still have the rest of the day to do things - either alone or together
What's easier - asking someone if they want to go for an ice cream cone or a burger after they've finished at the library, or asking someone to hit the sheets at 2am?
Books still do in-depth coverage that just isn't being done by the vast majority of the sites on the Internet.
They also have the advantage of better editing (compare, for example, to slashdot...)
Libraries also do other things than just lend out books - if you or someone you know has pre-school kids, for example, you might want to check out their other programs. Ditto for pretty much any other age group, right up to seniors.
As a meeting place, they're also a lot safer than the local bar.
I did it in c "way back when" in the days when a 286-20 couldn't give the performance otherwise. Not even ISAM files - just a program with enough smarts to be able to calculate where in the flat-file "index" the ascii representation of integer offset to fseek to in the data file was - and enough smarts to know which index to look into. Went from "press a key... wait... wait" to results in well under a second. Sure, it's more work in the sense of "you have to figure out in advance your data representation, etc." but the planning paid off in quicker development time, since you then had a clear target to aim at.
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It's not the act of copying - it's the later act of using it that results in the theft. The mens rea and the actus reus are then "perfected".
From how far away? It's relative size that counts.
I invite them - or they're watching something in their basement and don't hear anything anyway.
So, you're going to spend $500 - $1,000 on tickets and over-priced food for all them?" Sure, I can't fit 30 people in at once, but I can easily fit a dozen people in my living room - more if they want to be "extra friendly." So we'll have 2-3 showings instead, and let people circulate between the living room, kitchen, dining room, home office, etc., if it HAS to be all at one event.
Unless you are genuinely wealthy and can afford a home theater that is essentially a real theater it just can't compare.
It beats the real theatre hands down.
Why should they let you pay $3 for, say, 5 people (after all, it's not just you that will be watching it), when they can get $50 for the same 5 people? So 4 out of 5 decide to skip it - they're still ahead by 334%
Streaming to the home would have to be at least twice the cost of a movie ticket for current releases. Same as pay-per-view events.
Taking something that doesn't belong to you without permission is stealing. Get over it. Stop trying to justify your selfish anti-social behavior.
And if you didn't have access to illegal downloads? Guess what - you'd have to either pay for SOME of it or do entirely without.
If it's good enough for you to watch, then it's good enough for you to pay for.
You can buy a multi-region/multi-format dvd player. I paid $60 for one almost a decade ago. Plays NTSC, PAL, VCD, SVCD, MPG, etc. Don't be stupid and buy a Sony.
Also, if you wait long enough, everything makes its way onto dvd/blu-ray. Don't be so impatient ... waiting 5 years won't kill you.
Are you kidding? I don't know anyone who's gone to the movies after watching something at home.
When you have a 50" or greater plasma tv at full hi-def, a nice surround-sound system, the fridge, friends, air conditioning set exactly right, your favourite couch, the best seat in the house, AND the ability to hit "pause", why would you want to go to the movies?
Oh, right - the "movie experience "...
I haven't been to the movies in years, and I doubt if I will ever go again. Movie theatres are so last century.
It's up to them - not you or me. Their property - their decision. Streaming the video makes it impossible NOT to be copied, or to be seen by 10 people for the price of 1, so I don't blame them for saying a big F.U. to that.
Identity theft has been going on for centuries.It's even mentioned in the Old Testament.
You still can't do it without my permission.
And the fact is that it *does* deprive them of some future revenue, so at this point, I'm going to side with the "it *IS* theft crowd. Same as Identity Theft is theft, even thou you haven't been deprived of your name.
Come to think of it, your identity is probably the oldest "intellectual property" around, and people have been stealing other people's names for thousands of years to try to gain an advantage, from inheritances to kingdoms and everything in between.
You know, I'm getting sick of all the whiners too.
Someone makes a movie and *gasp* wants to make money from it. You have several choices:
Pay full price and watch it in the theatre soon after release
Wait for it to come to the cheaper screens
Wait a bit longer for it to come to DVD/Blu-ray
Wait still longer for it to come to TV
If you're not happy with any of the options, then do without. Find something else. There's more to life than movies and music, and you don't have an inherent right to just take stuff any more than I have an inherent right to "borrow" anything from you without asking first. If you stopped pirating crap tomorrow your world isn't going to end - you'll just have to find something constructive to fill your time with - like interacting with people.
Sorry about that - at least I got the continent right :-)
You're a jerk.
Absolutely false. Groklaw doesn't run ads, and the donations go to things like court transcripts.
Ever sat on a jury?
I have. Jurors know. Maybe it's just American jurors who are too stupid/sheeple to exercise their rights, but Canadian jurors have done so often enough, to the point of forcing the laws to be changed because jurors here won't convict if they think the law sucks.
Same lesson as Viet Nam.
Same lesson as bailing out Wall Street.
If you think you need these, you have bigger issues.
Cheaper - just stick a cell phone battery in your underwear. Urine is a conductor - you'll know when you've shorted it out - your underpants will catch fire and dry themselves out automatically.
Santa Fe, California (where the story is set) is not in Africa.
It's a LOT safer than 3am, in the dark, nobody around except other drunks. Also decent lighting and probably video cameras, so less problems with identification. 2 incidents 30 years in public libraries? You'll see more than that in 1 hour at some bars.
[mode type="blonde_moment"] ... and you can even use the Internet to order them!
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Yes, at any book store and at the library, just like they have books on computers and food and stuff
Too bad you can't just download the book off the Internet - they haven't found a way to send pulp and ink and glue through the t00bs directly
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Yo. stupid mods. you missed the typo in the story title.
"How Do Yo Land a Nuke-Powered Mini-Cooper On Mars?"
What's easier - asking someone if they want to go for an ice cream cone or a burger after they've finished at the library, or asking someone to hit the sheets at 2am?
What do you expect - ask a stupid question ...
Books still do in-depth coverage that just isn't being done by the vast majority of the sites on the Internet.
They also have the advantage of better editing (compare, for example, to slashdot ...)
Libraries also do other things than just lend out books - if you or someone you know has pre-school kids, for example, you might want to check out their other programs. Ditto for pretty much any other age group, right up to seniors.
As a meeting place, they're also a lot safer than the local bar.
This is a great idea.
I miss those days.