But what the TV networks are missing out on is that THEY should offer torrents of their shows right from their web pages.
But they won't. This isn't about losing money. This is about control over what you watch and how you watch it. With broadcast tv, the entertainment cabal has a reasonable guarentee that you will see the commercials. However, with the idea you are describing, they have no way of knowing if you are watching their DRM'd sealed and approved subpar real video file, or a h4x0r3d high quality commercial free divx file based on what they sent out. They fear the distribution potential the internet offers not because of potential revenue losses from "piracy", but because they lose a degree of control to the *gasp!* unwashed masses, whom they don't consider rational human beings, but rather as a valuable resource to be exploited to the highest degree.
When I first got online (early to mid 90's) I sadly thought AOL was the big network and the internet was just a part of AOL. Three seconds later, I realized that getting on the net (which at the time to me consisted only of WWW) was like walking out of the fence.
we've got another broken window, cruise over to the space K-Mart and get a space scooter full of whoever is hanging around to work on it.
Don't you mean:
Space we've space got space another space broken space window, space cruise space over to the space Walmart and space get a space scooter space full of space whoever is space hanging space around to space work on space it.....SPACE!
This reminds me of when I wanted to play Star Trek when I was little. I would say I'm captain and about a dozen others would start saying "well I'm 2nd captain, well I'm 3rd captain, well I'm 4th captain, well I'm 5th captain....." and so on.
And if Nintendo pulls another Pokémon-like mania...
For the love of all that is right and good, this evil must be prevented! To endure another round of merchandising blitzes and an endless parade of clones would be a crime against humanity.
I had a class on AS400 once. The only thing I can clearly remember about it was when the teacher was giving us the answers to our in-class assignment (as we were doing it) and was yelling at us for not paying attention.
Instead, he's probably proposing some sort of notification system where, every other decade or so, an author has to fill out some short form to notify the Copyright Office that she doesn't want her work to be considered abandoned.
I think this would violate the Berne Copyright Convention of 1976 which I think states that all copyrighted works are required to be renewed automatically.
Have the advent of Tivo, the DVD-R and the VCR prevented the purchase of the rampant release of entire season's worth of programming on DVD?
I have every episode of Season 4 of Futurama on my Tivo, yet I still plan on buying the DVD set (already preordered it). Why? Because of the funny commentaries, the hidden easter eggs, quality picture, and the other stuff you can't record to a hard drive, video tape, or burn to a CD/DVD. The excuse that home recording is cutting into sales of DVDs is weak when comparing a TV quality, commercial ridden, stand alone television show to a DVD quality package of an entire season complete with extras.
Slashdot Mirror
I share the same birthday with Yahoo. Hooray!!!
Aren't they forgetting about Netscape? Opera? Lynx? That thing I copied out of my Visual Basic textbook and compiled? 2 browser world my butt!
But what the TV networks are missing out on is that THEY should offer torrents of their shows right from their web pages.
But they won't. This isn't about losing money. This is about control over what you watch and how you watch it. With broadcast tv, the entertainment cabal has a reasonable guarentee that you will see the commercials. However, with the idea you are describing, they have no way of knowing if you are watching their DRM'd sealed and approved subpar real video file, or a h4x0r3d high quality commercial free divx file based on what they sent out. They fear the distribution potential the internet offers not because of potential revenue losses from "piracy", but because they lose a degree of control to the *gasp!* unwashed masses, whom they don't consider rational human beings, but rather as a valuable resource to be exploited to the highest degree.
When I first got online (early to mid 90's) I sadly thought AOL was the big network and the internet was just a part of AOL. Three seconds later, I realized that getting on the net (which at the time to me consisted only of WWW) was like walking out of the fence.
Grunka Lunka Dunkity Darn Guards.....
SHUT THE HELL UP!!
Huckabee's that is!
/Cowabunga!
Bah! No one can resist the power of Grizzlebee's. Not even Grandma!
we've got another broken window, cruise over to the space K-Mart and get a space scooter full of whoever is hanging around to work on it.
Don't you mean:
Space we've space got space another space broken space window, space cruise space over to the space Walmart and space get a space scooter space full of space whoever is space hanging space around to space work on space it.....SPACE!
This reminds me of when I wanted to play Star Trek when I was little. I would say I'm captain and about a dozen others would start saying "well I'm 2nd captain, well I'm 3rd captain, well I'm 4th captain, well I'm 5th captain....." and so on.
Robo-Puppy mistreatment alert!!!
Robo-Puppy mistreatment alert!!!
Incorrect, I have also measured his comment and found the quote to have come from this man.
What the government needs to do is to set up broadband deployment like they did with the interstate highway system.
Do you really think that "Big Brother" will really reach out and destroy your precious Nerd Utopia?
Yessssss......myyy..pressssiiousssss......
And if Nintendo pulls another Pokémon-like mania...
For the love of all that is right and good, this evil must be prevented! To endure another round of merchandising blitzes and an endless parade of clones would be a crime against humanity.
In the US, we not only have a sense that the punishment should fit the crime, it's law, the highest law of the land (US Constituion, Ammendment 8).
In this specific case then, they should just confiscate the kid's camera and footage and ban him from the theater for a year.
I'm still waiting for : FreeAS400
I had a class on AS400 once. The only thing I can clearly remember about it was when the teacher was giving us the answers to our in-class assignment (as we were doing it) and was yelling at us for not paying attention.
more than 2.5 million lines of code...
Just 500k more lines of code and you got a nice looking pony.........as long as the code is BASIC........and the holoshed doesn't malfunction.
they'll get bigger and bigger and then start killing humans. Just like the wheat obviouslly would.
If a stalk of wheat ever got the chance, it'd kill you and every one you care about!
(Troy McClure)
Perhaps that's one of the laws he's trying to overturn!
Unfortunately, the Berne convention is an international treaty. Treaties are not easily overturned by the efforts of non-government individuals.
Instead, he's probably proposing some sort of notification system where, every other decade or so, an author has to fill out some short form to notify the Copyright Office that she doesn't want her work to be considered abandoned.
I think this would violate the Berne Copyright Convention of 1976 which I think states that all copyrighted works are required to be renewed automatically.
Hence, this treaty outlaws the universe.
Bombing will begin in 5 minutes.....
Have the advent of Tivo, the DVD-R and the VCR prevented the purchase of the rampant release of entire season's worth of programming on DVD?
I have every episode of Season 4 of Futurama on my Tivo, yet I still plan on buying the DVD set (already preordered it). Why? Because of the funny commentaries, the hidden easter eggs, quality picture, and the other stuff you can't record to a hard drive, video tape, or burn to a CD/DVD. The excuse that home recording is cutting into sales of DVDs is weak when comparing a TV quality, commercial ridden, stand alone television show to a DVD quality package of an entire season complete with extras.
What!? Today it's the mad scientists, tomorrow it'll be the mad grad students. When will it end?
Will we design our heads around it?
Is it the greatest innovation in telephone technology history?
Has it ever been referred to as "it"?
Top quality exercicle for sale
/should've been in bold
There's no such word as virii,
There's no such word as virii,
You don't win friends with salad.....