Well it will install under wine, I just did it. But the only thing I can find in my.wine c_drive folder is a dir called HQ codec and the files register.exe, Uninstall.exe. Register.exe crashes wine, and Uninstall.exe removes the HQ codec directory and the start menu links. I don't have a real install of windows and so far thats all I can find on my system. I'll dig around but it didn't appear to send any data out when I ran either exe. Maybe register.exe is it and it crashed before it could do anything. I wanted to at least see a zcodec.dll file.
video rental places spend lots of money on a copy of a dvd, because they get a copy thats licensed for rental.
Sorry, that's not right. Video rental places (including mine) purchase DVDs from the likes of Engram entertainment at wholesale prices depending on quainty of purchase. They are the same as the ones you buy at Wally-world. First sale is the reason you can rent out tapes and DVDs. Back in the good ol days (1987) new release tapes would retail for $89 and I would buy them for $60 - $70. This may be what you are thinking about. Now everything is at the sell thru price of $19 to $25 retail so cost is around $14 to $18. Blockbuster once had a deal with the studios for a pay per rental scheme but I don't know if the still do or not.
A while back I got an extra job to help pay bills. (As a Corrections Officer in a local jail... long story)
The inmates are held in dorms with up to 24 men each. Almost all of these guys will scrub the toilet seat clean before they use it. Yet these same people will make tattoo needles and get staf infections or smoke each others roll your own cigs. Also if an inmate is thought to have HIV you'll have to get him out quick or you will get a mini riot.
but I would be very surprised if the MPAA didn't make money off of blockbuster/netflix/etc. either on a per-rental basis or a monthly/quarterly/annual fee. If they didn't, then it must be legal to rent videos, or else the MPAA would have taken them to court for their money
I wouldn't be suprised if Blockbuster is paying the studios on a per rental basis. A long time ago Blockubster cut a deal with the studios for low/no cost copies of movies in return for a pay per rental fee. Don't know if they still do or not. If you rent from a smaller store like mine the mpaa will only be payed once for the movies I buy for the store. Also be aware part of the orginal deal was that the studios got the used tape back or a precentage of the sale. So buying a used tape/dvd still netted them money.
So if you can still find a small store in your area, rent from them. Sure they don't have 200 copies of the latest Hollywood pap, but you can still find something worth seeing.
Oh BTW the rental of tapes/dvds isn't covered by the copyright law. It's called "First sale".
Let's just hope the price of these 0-day DVDs don't skyrocket to the price of admission for a family of 4 to the theater in order to compensate.
They would have to, they make too much money from theaters.
But.....
Say they raise the price to $89.95, that means my wholesale price would be about $65.00. I would buy 0-Day DVDs put them on my New Release shelf for $3.00 a night, so would all of the other videostores. It would be no different than it was in the early 1990s, they would reprice them sell thru in a few months. I 'll bet that videostores would love it! I know I would, and I own a videostore. It would be just like the early days of movie rentals, I'd be making money again.
Reminds me about the time we had arcade machines in our videostore (1987). We rented the machines for a 60% split of the profit. The catch was we had to pay the electric bill, our bill more than doubled and the money from the machines didn't pay for the extra electricty. After doing the math my sister got mad and unplugged the machines at closing and plugged them back in in the morning. This wiped the high scores. Kids would come in and see their score gone and set a new one. We ended up making about 40% more than we did before we unplugged the machines and cut our electric bill too. If anyone complained My sister would blame it on the electric company.
That has been setting under the counter since 1991. The only time it quit working was when the original hard drive died in 1995. It now has a WD 1.2G in it but can see only 512 MBs of it. It runs dos 5.0 and a Point of sale program for my store.
Dosen't the Bork law says videostores can't give out this kind of info without a warrent? My older customers like being able to ask if they have rented a movie before. I usually delete this info at the end of the year just to save space on the hard drive. The problem with the program I use it's all or nothing.
We all know that terrorist rent movies to learn how to blow up things.;-)
Yep, I do.... I had thought of posting this but it was hosted on DSL at the time. It's now on a T3,but I think the little RAC server it's on won't hold up too well.
Do not make the false claim that the Linux kernel violates the DMCA, it does NOT, you need to install DeCSS to do that. DeCSS will run fine under the Windows OS as well. (There, the "bold" makes it easier to see)
It seems you replied to the wrong post. I quoted the original and got modded down. I simply made the point that Windows(tm) was used as an OS to make copyright violations more than Linux. You're right, the OS shouldn't have anything to do with do with this, at least until Windows DRM(tm) is in full force.
I need hardly mention that the Linux kernel itself is currently in violation of the DMCA w.r.t media systems, as it has no TCPA to prevent criminally stolen movies from being played.
Since when does Windows(tm) stop you from playing "stolen" movies? Isn't that what most people use to violate copyright with?
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Don't worry marketing will just spin it and call it a "Creature Feature".
I'm waiting for someone to blame GW.
oops never depend on their log. it dosen't delete anything execpt Uninstall.exe , register.exe is still there. Hmmmm
Well it will install under wine, I just did it. But the only thing I can find in my .wine c_drive folder is a dir called HQ codec and the files register.exe, Uninstall.exe. Register.exe crashes wine, and Uninstall.exe removes the HQ codec directory and the start menu links. I don't have a real install of windows and so far thats all I can find on my system. I'll dig around but it didn't appear to send any data out when I ran either exe. Maybe register.exe is it and it crashed before it could do anything. I wanted to at least see a zcodec.dll file.
here it is :http://www.zcodec.com/index.html
But It dosen't run on linux.
Not until I agree to the insurance payoff and sign it over, it's mine until then.
Been there and done that one.
Neanderthal man did not run on Linux.
And that's why they are extinct.
video rental places spend lots of money on a copy of a dvd, because they get a copy thats licensed for rental.
Sorry, that's not right. Video rental places (including mine) purchase DVDs from the likes of Engram entertainment at wholesale prices depending on quainty of purchase. They are the same as the ones you buy at Wally-world. First sale is the reason you can rent out tapes and DVDs. Back in the good ol days (1987) new release tapes would retail for $89 and I would buy them for $60 - $70. This may be what you are thinking about. Now everything is at the sell thru price of $19 to $25 retail so cost is around $14 to $18. Blockbuster once had a deal with the studios for a pay per rental scheme but I don't know if the still do or not.
I don't know what to disbelieve any more - what you wrote, or that you didn't mention that they fuck each other up the arse.
;-)
Thats why I started to post AC...
Yes it happens,but far less that people think. Most of the time it's more like "whacking off in thr shower"
I started to post this as an AC, but.....
A while back I got an extra job to help pay bills. (As a Corrections Officer in a local jail... long story)
The inmates are held in dorms with up to 24 men each. Almost all of these guys will scrub the toilet seat clean before they use it. Yet these same people will make tattoo needles and get staf infections or smoke each others roll your own cigs. Also if an inmate is thought to have HIV you'll have to get him out quick or you will get a mini riot.
but I would be very surprised if the MPAA didn't make money off of blockbuster/netflix/etc. either on a per-rental basis or a monthly/quarterly/annual fee. If they didn't, then it must be legal to rent videos, or else the MPAA would have taken them to court for their money
I wouldn't be suprised if Blockbuster is paying the studios on a per rental basis. A long time ago Blockubster cut a deal with the studios for low/no cost copies of movies in return for a pay per rental fee. Don't know if they still do or not. If you rent from a smaller store like mine the mpaa will only be payed once for the movies I buy for the store. Also be aware part of the orginal deal was that the studios got the used tape back or a precentage of the sale. So buying a used tape/dvd still netted them money.
So if you can still find a small store in your area, rent from them. Sure they don't have 200 copies of the latest Hollywood pap, but you can still find something worth seeing.
Oh BTW the rental of tapes/dvds isn't covered by the copyright law. It's called "First sale".
dude! you're totally in the wrong place! go look elsewhere.
Nah, lots of brains around here. They should be real tender too, they don't get used much.
Let's just hope the price of these 0-day DVDs don't skyrocket to the price of admission for a family of 4 to the theater in order to compensate.
They would have to, they make too much money from theaters.
But.....
Say they raise the price to $89.95, that means my wholesale price would be about $65.00. I would buy 0-Day DVDs put them on my New Release shelf for $3.00 a night, so would all of the other videostores. It would be no different than it was in the early 1990s, they would reprice them sell thru in a few months. I 'll bet that videostores would love it! I know I would, and I own a videostore. It would be just like the early days of movie rentals, I'd be making money again.
Reminds me about the time we had arcade machines in our videostore (1987). We rented the machines for a 60% split of the profit. The catch was we had to pay the electric bill, our bill more than doubled and the money from the machines didn't pay for the extra electricty. After doing the math my sister got mad and unplugged the machines at closing and plugged them back in in the morning. This wiped the high scores. Kids would come in and see their score gone and set a new one. We ended up making about 40% more than we did before we unplugged the machines and cut our electric bill too. If anyone complained My sister would blame it on the electric company.
I compleatly agree... You go first. They can get to me in about 40 years, I'll make sure my grave location is posted to Slashdot.
That has been setting under the counter since 1991. The only time it quit working was when the original hard drive died in 1995. It now has a WD 1.2G in it but can see only 512 MBs of it. It runs dos 5.0 and a Point of sale program for my store.
I'll program it to be Bender.
It will sit around all day watching soap operas and say, "Bite my shiney metal ass, meatbag"
Nah, it's the same guys. This is the pay-off for all of those Microsoft ads that show up here. Things will get back to normal tomorrow.
I kinda expected that...;-)
Dosen't the Bork law says videostores can't give out this kind of info without a warrent? My older customers like being able to ask if they have rented a movie before. I usually delete this info at the end of the year just to save space on the hard drive. The problem with the program I use it's all or nothing.
;-)
We all know that terrorist rent movies to learn how to blow up things.
Yep, I do.... I had thought of posting this but it was hosted on DSL at the time. It's now on a T3,but I think the little RAC server it's on won't hold up too well.
It would be fun to put a shark fin on it and cruise thru the swimming area at a beach.
;-)
Now that would be trolling.
Do not make the false claim that the Linux kernel violates the DMCA, it does NOT, you need to install DeCSS to do that. DeCSS will run fine under the Windows OS as well.
(There, the "bold" makes it easier to see)
It seems you replied to the wrong post. I quoted the original and got modded down. I simply made the point that Windows(tm) was used as an OS to make copyright violations more than Linux. You're right, the OS shouldn't have anything to do with do with this, at least until Windows DRM(tm) is in full force.
mod away I got plenty....
I need hardly mention that the Linux kernel itself is currently in violation of the DMCA w.r.t media systems, as it has no TCPA to prevent criminally stolen movies from being played.
Since when does Windows(tm) stop you from playing "stolen" movies? Isn't that what most people use to violate copyright with?
Too easy, the NRA has guns as well as legislators. The RIAA wouldn't stand a chance, hmmm maybe it would be fun.