I would imagine that you can block scripts with ad block plus, or one of the other blocking add-ons I have seen for Chrome. I would think if Ad Block doesn't do it then Blocker would.
I never got the point of 3D anything, games or movies using shutter glasses/colored glasses. The effect isn't of things flying out of the TV/screen it has always been more of a depth of the TV/Screen appearing to be deeper, rather than flat. Like you could stick your hand in to the TV, rather than something leaping out of it.
The ONLY time I ever really got the point of 3D was when I used to go to a local arcade that had those Virtuality 1000/2000/3000 systems that Edison Brothers had for the US. We had one of the test arcades here that had all the Virtuality gaming systems here. So I got to play all the stuff and even a few games that it seems were never officially released to the general public (other arcades).
Those were the only games I ever got the use of real 3D, because they were using 2 displays that were several inches from your eye, and covered most of your field of vision, and blacked out everything else so you didn't really notice that it wasn't 100% of your FOV. Or at least I never really noticed in the middle of game that it wasn't 100% of my FOV.
All you need is a 120+hz/120+fps video camera to make sure it actually catches ever frame that is put up on the screen and your fine. The cycle your glasses at the correct 60hz or whatever, and you will see the exact same thing as what everyone else in the theater saw. So no it isn't hard in theory to still cam a 3D film. The problem is, if you can find a camera that records enough fps to do it. I have no idea how many fps most camcorders do these days.
Time Traveler wasn't holographic. It just used a cute trick with a curved mirror and a regular monitor of mostly black background video to make you think it was holographic. It wasn't even close to holographic. They even sell a similar "holographic" trick science kit in most gift shops at museums and science centers.
There is a company that sells one of those kits that is just a set of mirrors that fakes out your eye to make you think it is hologram when it isn't.
The black backgrounds in Time Traveler are what help to sell the trick, other than the special mirrors. If the background in the videos had been full multiple color backgrounds then the trick would not have worked.
Call me back/let me know when they actually have code that you can look at and test and see if it is everything they are claiming it will be, and not something impossible for the average mother to set up and use. If you have to have someone else host the software/site for you and set it up then what is the point. It's no better than Facebook, because the admin could change anything at anytime and expose your info in ways you don't want them to.
All these people who talk about you can't be allergic to certain scents. I am here to tell you that I am. I have a physical reaction, and have been tested by several different doctors for allergies and yes I have them. I have been tested by ENT (auto-laryngologists) and a dermatologist. Some things when they land on my skin break me out, and certain dyes and colors do the same thing from products like laundry soap, and body washes. Also certain things I smell make my eyes water and nose run and create drainage for me.
I can also tell you that those air clears that are electric that create ozone to clean the air. They give me one serious headache. I can smell them the second they are turned on, and a few moments after they are turned off I know it. It only takes about 5-10 minutes of smelling them before I start to get a headache, and if it continues I end up with a migrane. So it wouldn't suprise me if people would be allergic to charcoal or pepper smell that this billboard is putting out. Seems like something that shouldn't be allowed to be forced on to the general public. You can do whatever you want until it begins to be a problem for others. I think I once heard it put as "your right to swing your fists/hands, ends at my nose" or something to that effect. Seems the same should apply here.
It looks like China already beat everyone including to a degree the Open Source community with a clone of the iPad. They are already selling an iPad clone in China. It looks just like the iPad in everyway, but the guts. I understand it is suppose to have an 600mhz Intel CPU inside, and 2gb of storage with USB port and I thought a memory card. It also has Wifi and web cam built in.
Seems like this thing beats the iPad in almost every area that people complain about for the iPad. Much lower price, same size screen (7"), open and can do all the things the iPad can't or won't. Seems like a pretty good iPad killer to me, and it run Android already so there isn't really an issue of limited apps either. Runs Flash, MKV/H.264, MPEG 1&2, RM/RMBV, MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC, AAC,AC3, WAV.
If I were going to buy a tablet computer I would certainly give this one a serious look.
If the screen isn't big enough for you. I have seen other Orphan Electronics tablets advertised with bigger screens, but of course they cost more than this version does.
At $100 retail in China and $150 retail on some web sites. Seems like this is exactly the kind of table that all the Linux companies like Ubuntu should be looking to use as their hardware platform. At the price of $100-$150 it beats even most eBook readers on price, and it has wifi built in so adding more books/music/software isn't an issue, not to mention the USB port on it.
Apple is trying to create a walled garden and are desperate to own the content because they know that pretty soon everyone is going to catch up with OS X in terms of usability and then they will just be another also choice. I give it another 5 maybe 10 years at the outside until most OSes are pretty much the same in terms of look and feel and usability, baring anything stupid in terms of software patents.
So Apple knows that since its days are numbered they need to own or control the content. Which is why the do everything they do. They don't care about the OS any more, they care about owning and controlling the content now.
As for the walled garden, we all know how well that worked out for AOL and other similar companies. The walled garden approach almost never works because there ends up always being something outside of the walled garden that people want. Walled gardens will never work in the long term.
I think Apple is just scared to death of the future repeating itself and Apple being a nothing on it last legs in 5+ years, like it was 5-10 years ago. So they are willing to do anything to try and make that not happen, including doing stupid things that make it happen faster.
If it is all about the OS then Linux is going to eat Apple's lunch given enough time, and every time. There is very little that OS X has currently that isn't available in Linux. Plus Linux being open source and free means more and more companies who don't want to pay an OS tax are using it. Linux is showing up everywhere on every kind of device you can think of, and neither Apple or Microsoft can hire enough programmers to combat that level adoption or features being added by so many companies and developers. Is Linux perfect? No, but it gets better all the time, and what is clear is that Linux is good enough for a lot of things currently. Perhaps Linux isn't prefect for everything, at least not yet, but that will change in time.
Steve Jobs knows he won't be at the head of Apple forever and probably won't be around after another 10 years, so he has to do whatever he thinks he can to make Apple be able to survive when he is gone so they don't have a repeat of what he sees as the past failures while he was gone. In the end the more he or anyone else tries to put a tight grip on things to control them, the more they lose control of the very thing they want to control.
Microsoft learned long ago, you want your platform to succeed then you need to win the minds of developers. It seems Apple never really learned this, or at least not well. The more Apple pisses off developers the faster they will become an also or a has-been.
If you vote with your dollars and not buy something, especially hardware. They will just claim you pirated it, not that people thought it sucked and didn't buy it.
Blizzard vs. Bnetd wasn't the case name, it was Vivendi vs. Bnetd and it had nothing to do with virtual property. It was only a small part about the ability to enforce the EULA, and it was much more about supposedly copying and reverse engineering, sections of the EULA, to make a compatible server.
ProCD vs. Zeidenberg was also about EULA's and if a list of phone numbers can even be copyrighted, which they held they can NOT. The case was around the EULA's ability to limit people from redistributing the data.
So actually both of the cases you cite have nothing to do with virtual property and they don't make it clear that such a thing would hold up. You have to remember that these cases are about specific EULAs and if those clauses are legally enforceable. There is nothing saying that the Haboo's EULA would be legally enforceable until it gets before a judge/jury.
If fact I seem to recall a few cases with Ultima Online and Linden Labs about how you can actually sue over loss of virtual property at least in the US and other countries it appears.
Proliferation of internet access? What are you smoking? There are fewer companies offering actual internet service (connections) now that 5-10 years ago. Competition isn't better it is much much worse. There were a whole bunch of small ISPs offering dial up, ISDN, dedicated lines and wireless service, now look at how many there are today. Way way less than there were. You can thank the telco's, the cable companies, for unfair competition and your local state reps/senators for the laws they passed that favored the telcos and cable companies and effectively put the independent ISPs out of business.
But if you don't buy it, at least when it comes to software, then you must be pirating it rather boycotting it. At least that is what every software company will tell you when the sales on their software are down. So voting with your money doesn't seem to work either.
The reality is in this day and age, all internet pipes are pretty much the same. Or at least they should be unless the company screws up their own network design somehow. The only difference, in reality, is if a network is oversold or not, other than that all networks are the same pretty much. So basically everyone is selling dumb, fat pipes to everyone. The only issue is who actually has more bandwidth and isn't over selling their network and promising you pie in the sky about bandwidth they don't really have.
Microsoft was also refusing to allow OEMs to install any other browser on the desktop and even for awhile on the system at all. It wasn't just that Microsoft was giving away a browser. It was that Microsoft was preventing other browsers from even being installed by default by system makers. You could download it after you got your PC, but Microsoft didn't want another browser to show up on your desktop or system when you booted it up for the first time.
That was one of the many problems that Microsoft got busted for. Microsoft also got busted for saying that IE was part of the OS and not an add on that could be removed or replaced. They screwed that demo up right in front a of a judge and were yelled at in court for it.
Then there was the whole EU monopoly suit that was over the browser and all kinds of other stuff. Both the US and the EU eventually made Microsoft open up a lot of their protocols and file formats so that everyone could inter-operate and compete somewhat with them.
I am guessing that most people here either didn't follow the trial or forgot what the whole thing was about.
People will always put their heart and soul into making things they love even if they are paid or not. Here I will give you several examples of that:
Open Source Software The guy who plays music in the public park on the weekends The guy who goes to open mic night at the comedy club Many of the people who work at the public/free play houses over the summer Many of the bands who play in bars (most make almost nothing to a little more than nothing) People who put stuff on public access channels
Is all of it great compelling stuff/entertainment? No, but some of it pretty damn good.
Wow way to be tolerant. Who gives a rip what other people think, no one is making you believe or think that. So why do you have to rip on people who don't think the same exact way that you do?
Sounds like the makings of a seriously intolerant person who iis just a hop, skip and jump away from being a racist.
Way to be narrow minded. Thinking like that is what expands science...oh wait no it doesn't. It not listen to what anyone else around you says and trying things on your own, and testing new ideas that maybe everyone else doesn't agree with, but doing it anyway. Tolerance should one of the main foundations of science and thought in this day and age.
Same people who pay for TV shows to get made that are shown over the air for free. The same exact people who made books and music and all kinds of stuff long before their was any guarantee of making a million off of their work/art. The same exact kind of people who band together to release software and entire operating systems for free.
If every single song, movie and book were mandated by law to be free today, there would still be people who made them because they wanted to make them and had something to say to the public. I think that long term if that were to happen we would actually have better movies, music, and books being created because they were created out of love/want and not a desire to see how much money they could squeeze out of the public.
Would we end up with some crap stuff at first? Yes, we probably would, but it would even out in the long haul of 20 to 30 years, and our public domain would all the better for it, and arts would actually improve since people could freely build on top of everything in the public domain. As it is now our public domain is dying a slow death because companies are trying to lock things up for a long as the possibly can to try and squeeze everyone for as much as possibly can. Which is morally and ethically wrong. Copyrights and Patents were there to encourage people to ADD to the public domain, not try and see how long they could keep it from the public domain for their own personal benefit.
Paid product placement in movies is at an all time high. If you have any doubts about this just look at one example currently playing in theaters where the product placement has been talked about to no end.
Just google "Sex and the City 2" and product placement and you will see tons of articles about it. From the clothes, and jewelry to the computers and cars.
There is no end to the amount of product placement that movies can do, and usually do end up doing. Movie companies are just greedy and they want more more more without end.
Not paying directly for the DVD. I meant that you pay for it in a round about way with your city and county taxes that are used to run the libraries and donations from local companies, not to mention other fund raisers your local library may do.
Yea you can watch a movie when it comes out on DVD without paying for it, directly, and without it getting you possibly arrested. At least it is currently legal, but I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the movie companies are trying to outlaw it. It's called your local library, where you can checkout a DVD for free. My local library buys every major Hollywood movie that comes out and they buy multiple copies of it. They generally buy about 10 copies for most Disney and family movies, so the wait isn't too long and you can get on the waiting list before the DVD comes out. I know a lot of churches are starting to do the same thing. They are building up libraries of books and DVDs that church members can check out for free as well.
So at least for the moment there are options, until the movie companies get too freaked out by this and try to get a law passed making it illegal.
I have checked out dozens of DVDs this way from my local library and find it a very nice service that they offer.
I don't believe you. I don't think that your pirate amounts were 10 times the amount of your sales.
Also, I think you are blaming a VERY common problem that happens on the internet on piracy. Who in the world even knew you existed? I mean that is the main problem on the internet how to even let people know you are out there. If you don't spend but a mere penitence on advertising then don't be surprised that people can't find you, but places where they hang out and new things are announced are more successful at getting notice. If you can't properly market your product to a very larger and targeted audience then that isn't anyone's problem but your own.
Getting noticed on the internet is hard, and simply throwing up a web site with e-commerce on it, isn't nearly enough anymore. Those days of build it and they will come are long gone. Sounds like you need to take some marketing classes, and some internet marketing classes to learn how to better promote your business online.
So if the TV show was already sold to the TV stations, then why does it matter if I download it a few days later? I mean they already got their money. If they want to be greedy bastards and try and sell it to me again on DVD, and again on streaming downloads with more ads, and all that crap, then forget it. They were already paid for their product by the TV stations. I don't feel they are entitled to every single possible dime they might be able to squeeze out of the public, and trying to use laws and the police to squeeze even more out of people isn't my problem. So they only got 5 million or whatever per show per show, rather than 15 million per show episode. Cry me a river. That is just being a greedy asshole.
Also don't tell me how I am stealing from the keygrip, the camera man, the actor, and all the little guys who work on a movie. PLEASE! They got paid regardless if a TV station picked up the series or not. Regardless if goes on to DVD release or not. The little guy got paid the second he showed up for work, and got a check at the end of the week for every hour he was there on the set working. You can be damn sure the movie unions made sure of that. So stop the stupid ads and comments saying I am stealing from the small guy in Hollywood.
Saying anyone is stealing from the small guy in Hollywood, is like saying the door greeter at Wal-Mart made less money today because someone shoplifted. It doesn't work that way and you people know it.
Slashdot Mirror
I would imagine that you can block scripts with ad block plus, or one of the other blocking add-ons I have seen for Chrome. I would think if Ad Block doesn't do it then Blocker would.
Blocker for Chrome.
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/epdedalbkhcbhcmcpfglmhngjpgimcmm?hl=en
I would think between the two of them, you should be able to block what you want in Chrome.
I have Ad Block Plus installed on Chrome. So I am not exactly sure what in the world you are even talking about.
I never got the point of 3D anything, games or movies using shutter glasses/colored glasses. The effect isn't of things flying out of the TV/screen it has always been more of a depth of the TV/Screen appearing to be deeper, rather than flat. Like you could stick your hand in to the TV, rather than something leaping out of it.
The ONLY time I ever really got the point of 3D was when I used to go to a local arcade that had those Virtuality 1000/2000/3000 systems that Edison Brothers had for the US. We had one of the test arcades here that had all the Virtuality gaming systems here. So I got to play all the stuff and even a few games that it seems were never officially released to the general public (other arcades).
Those were the only games I ever got the use of real 3D, because they were using 2 displays that were several inches from your eye, and covered most of your field of vision, and blacked out everything else so you didn't really notice that it wasn't 100% of your FOV. Or at least I never really noticed in the middle of game that it wasn't 100% of my FOV.
All you need is a 120+hz/120+fps video camera to make sure it actually catches ever frame that is put up on the screen and your fine. The cycle your glasses at the correct 60hz or whatever, and you will see the exact same thing as what everyone else in the theater saw. So no it isn't hard in theory to still cam a 3D film. The problem is, if you can find a camera that records enough fps to do it. I have no idea how many fps most camcorders do these days.
Time Traveler wasn't holographic. It just used a cute trick with a curved mirror and a regular monitor of mostly black background video to make you think it was holographic. It wasn't even close to holographic. They even sell a similar "holographic" trick science kit in most gift shops at museums and science centers.
http://www.chinaberry.com/prod.cfm/pgc/11900/sbc/11907/inv/16066/tid/628021801?zmam=7946946&zmas=2&zmac=40&zmap=16066
There is a company that sells one of those kits that is just a set of mirrors that fakes out your eye to make you think it is hologram when it isn't.
The black backgrounds in Time Traveler are what help to sell the trick, other than the special mirrors. If the background in the videos had been full multiple color backgrounds then the trick would not have worked.
Call me back/let me know when they actually have code that you can look at and test and see if it is everything they are claiming it will be, and not something impossible for the average mother to set up and use. If you have to have someone else host the software/site for you and set it up then what is the point. It's no better than Facebook, because the admin could change anything at anytime and expose your info in ways you don't want them to.
All these people who talk about you can't be allergic to certain scents. I am here to tell you that I am. I have a physical reaction, and have been tested by several different doctors for allergies and yes I have them. I have been tested by ENT (auto-laryngologists) and a dermatologist. Some things when they land on my skin break me out, and certain dyes and colors do the same thing from products like laundry soap, and body washes. Also certain things I smell make my eyes water and nose run and create drainage for me.
I can also tell you that those air clears that are electric that create ozone to clean the air. They give me one serious headache. I can smell them the second they are turned on, and a few moments after they are turned off I know it. It only takes about 5-10 minutes of smelling them before I start to get a headache, and if it continues I end up with a migrane. So it wouldn't suprise me if people would be allergic to charcoal or pepper smell that this billboard is putting out. Seems like something that shouldn't be allowed to be forced on to the general public. You can do whatever you want until it begins to be a problem for others. I think I once heard it put as "your right to swing your fists/hands, ends at my nose" or something to that effect. Seems the same should apply here.
Orphan Electronics Apad M800 $150-$200 Street Price
http://pricedinchina.com/buy-orphan-iped-mid-slate---m800-wifi-7-android-tablet-pc---m800-iped.aspx
It looks like China already beat everyone including to a degree the Open Source community with a clone of the iPad. They are already selling an iPad clone in China. It looks just like the iPad in everyway, but the guts. I understand it is suppose to have an 600mhz Intel CPU inside, and 2gb of storage with USB port and I thought a memory card. It also has Wifi and web cam built in.
Seems like this thing beats the iPad in almost every area that people complain about for the iPad. Much lower price, same size screen (7"), open and can do all the things the iPad can't or won't. Seems like a pretty good iPad killer to me, and it run Android already so there isn't really an issue of limited apps either. Runs Flash, MKV/H.264, MPEG 1&2, RM/RMBV, MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC, AAC,AC3, WAV.
If I were going to buy a tablet computer I would certainly give this one a serious look.
If the screen isn't big enough for you. I have seen other Orphan Electronics tablets advertised with bigger screens, but of course they cost more than this version does.
Here is one with a 10" screen for $290 and has more storage and still uses Android.
http://chinagrabber.com/buy-10-orphan-iped-m16-1024-x-600-android-apad-wifi-tablet-pc-m16-mid.aspx
At $100 retail in China and $150 retail on some web sites. Seems like this is exactly the kind of table that all the Linux companies like Ubuntu should be looking to use as their hardware platform. At the price of $100-$150 it beats even most eBook readers on price, and it has wifi built in so adding more books/music/software isn't an issue, not to mention the USB port on it.
Apple is trying to create a walled garden and are desperate to own the content because they know that pretty soon everyone is going to catch up with OS X in terms of usability and then they will just be another also choice. I give it another 5 maybe 10 years at the outside until most OSes are pretty much the same in terms of look and feel and usability, baring anything stupid in terms of software patents.
So Apple knows that since its days are numbered they need to own or control the content. Which is why the do everything they do. They don't care about the OS any more, they care about owning and controlling the content now.
As for the walled garden, we all know how well that worked out for AOL and other similar companies. The walled garden approach almost never works because there ends up always being something outside of the walled garden that people want. Walled gardens will never work in the long term.
I think Apple is just scared to death of the future repeating itself and Apple being a nothing on it last legs in 5+ years, like it was 5-10 years ago. So they are willing to do anything to try and make that not happen, including doing stupid things that make it happen faster.
If it is all about the OS then Linux is going to eat Apple's lunch given enough time, and every time. There is very little that OS X has currently that isn't available in Linux. Plus Linux being open source and free means more and more companies who don't want to pay an OS tax are using it. Linux is showing up everywhere on every kind of device you can think of, and neither Apple or Microsoft can hire enough programmers to combat that level adoption or features being added by so many companies and developers. Is Linux perfect? No, but it gets better all the time, and what is clear is that Linux is good enough for a lot of things currently. Perhaps Linux isn't prefect for everything, at least not yet, but that will change in time.
Steve Jobs knows he won't be at the head of Apple forever and probably won't be around after another 10 years, so he has to do whatever he thinks he can to make Apple be able to survive when he is gone so they don't have a repeat of what he sees as the past failures while he was gone. In the end the more he or anyone else tries to put a tight grip on things to control them, the more they lose control of the very thing they want to control.
Microsoft learned long ago, you want your platform to succeed then you need to win the minds of developers. It seems Apple never really learned this, or at least not well. The more Apple pisses off developers the faster they will become an also or a has-been.
oops I meant software.
If you vote with your dollars and not buy something, especially hardware. They will just claim you pirated it, not that people thought it sucked and didn't buy it.
Blizzard vs. Bnetd wasn't the case name, it was Vivendi vs. Bnetd and it had nothing to do with virtual property. It was only a small part about the ability to enforce the EULA, and it was much more about supposedly copying and reverse engineering, sections of the EULA, to make a compatible server.
ProCD vs. Zeidenberg was also about EULA's and if a list of phone numbers can even be copyrighted, which they held they can NOT. The case was around the EULA's ability to limit people from redistributing the data.
So actually both of the cases you cite have nothing to do with virtual property and they don't make it clear that such a thing would hold up. You have to remember that these cases are about specific EULAs and if those clauses are legally enforceable. There is nothing saying that the Haboo's EULA would be legally enforceable until it gets before a judge/jury.
If fact I seem to recall a few cases with Ultima Online and Linden Labs about how you can actually sue over loss of virtual property at least in the US and other countries it appears.
Bragg v. Linden Labs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bragg_v._Linden_Lab
Virtual Currency Extortion
http://www.pcworld.com/article/165447/china_sentences_virtual_currency_extorter_to_prison.html
http://services.martindale.com/internet-law/article_Sheppard-Mullin-Richter-Hampton-LLP_689960.htm
Dutch Teens Convicted of Virtual Theft
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,442322,00.html
So it is clear that you can say in a EULA that virtual stuff has no value, but the courts are not seeing it that way at all.
Proliferation of internet access? What are you smoking? There are fewer companies offering actual internet service (connections) now that 5-10 years ago. Competition isn't better it is much much worse. There were a whole bunch of small ISPs offering dial up, ISDN, dedicated lines and wireless service, now look at how many there are today. Way way less than there were. You can thank the telco's, the cable companies, for unfair competition and your local state reps/senators for the laws they passed that favored the telcos and cable companies and effectively put the independent ISPs out of business.
But if you don't buy it, at least when it comes to software, then you must be pirating it rather boycotting it. At least that is what every software company will tell you when the sales on their software are down. So voting with your money doesn't seem to work either.
The reality is in this day and age, all internet pipes are pretty much the same. Or at least they should be unless the company screws up their own network design somehow. The only difference, in reality, is if a network is oversold or not, other than that all networks are the same pretty much. So basically everyone is selling dumb, fat pipes to everyone. The only issue is who actually has more bandwidth and isn't over selling their network and promising you pie in the sky about bandwidth they don't really have.
Microsoft was also refusing to allow OEMs to install any other browser on the desktop and even for awhile on the system at all. It wasn't just that Microsoft was giving away a browser. It was that Microsoft was preventing other browsers from even being installed by default by system makers. You could download it after you got your PC, but Microsoft didn't want another browser to show up on your desktop or system when you booted it up for the first time.
That was one of the many problems that Microsoft got busted for. Microsoft also got busted for saying that IE was part of the OS and not an add on that could be removed or replaced. They screwed that demo up right in front a of a judge and were yelled at in court for it.
Then there was the whole EU monopoly suit that was over the browser and all kinds of other stuff. Both the US and the EU eventually made Microsoft open up a lot of their protocols and file formats so that everyone could inter-operate and compete somewhat with them.
I am guessing that most people here either didn't follow the trial or forgot what the whole thing was about.
Actually Netflix and Blockbuster do NOT have an agreement with the movie studios. They buy the same exact DVDs that you and I buy and they rent them.
People will always put their heart and soul into making things they love even if they are paid or not. Here I will give you several examples of that:
Open Source Software
The guy who plays music in the public park on the weekends
The guy who goes to open mic night at the comedy club
Many of the people who work at the public/free play houses over the summer
Many of the bands who play in bars (most make almost nothing to a little more than nothing)
People who put stuff on public access channels
Is all of it great compelling stuff/entertainment? No, but some of it pretty damn good.
Wow way to be tolerant. Who gives a rip what other people think, no one is making you believe or think that. So why do you have to rip on people who don't think the same exact way that you do?
Sounds like the makings of a seriously intolerant person who iis just a hop, skip and jump away from being a racist.
Way to be narrow minded. Thinking like that is what expands science...oh wait no it doesn't. It not listen to what anyone else around you says and trying things on your own, and testing new ideas that maybe everyone else doesn't agree with, but doing it anyway. Tolerance should one of the main foundations of science and thought in this day and age.
Same people who pay for TV shows to get made that are shown over the air for free. The same exact people who made books and music and all kinds of stuff long before their was any guarantee of making a million off of their work/art. The same exact kind of people who band together to release software and entire operating systems for free.
If every single song, movie and book were mandated by law to be free today, there would still be people who made them because they wanted to make them and had something to say to the public. I think that long term if that were to happen we would actually have better movies, music, and books being created because they were created out of love/want and not a desire to see how much money they could squeeze out of the public.
Would we end up with some crap stuff at first? Yes, we probably would, but it would even out in the long haul of 20 to 30 years, and our public domain would all the better for it, and arts would actually improve since people could freely build on top of everything in the public domain. As it is now our public domain is dying a slow death because companies are trying to lock things up for a long as the possibly can to try and squeeze everyone for as much as possibly can. Which is morally and ethically wrong. Copyrights and Patents were there to encourage people to ADD to the public domain, not try and see how long they could keep it from the public domain for their own personal benefit.
Paid product placement in movies is at an all time high. If you have any doubts about this just look at one example currently playing in theaters where the product placement has been talked about to no end.
Just google "Sex and the City 2" and product placement and you will see tons of articles about it. From the clothes, and jewelry to the computers and cars.
There is no end to the amount of product placement that movies can do, and usually do end up doing. Movie companies are just greedy and they want more more more without end.
Not paying directly for the DVD. I meant that you pay for it in a round about way with your city and county taxes that are used to run the libraries and donations from local companies, not to mention other fund raisers your local library may do.
Yea you can watch a movie when it comes out on DVD without paying for it, directly, and without it getting you possibly arrested. At least it is currently legal, but I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the movie companies are trying to outlaw it. It's called your local library, where you can checkout a DVD for free. My local library buys every major Hollywood movie that comes out and they buy multiple copies of it. They generally buy about 10 copies for most Disney and family movies, so the wait isn't too long and you can get on the waiting list before the DVD comes out. I know a lot of churches are starting to do the same thing. They are building up libraries of books and DVDs that church members can check out for free as well.
So at least for the moment there are options, until the movie companies get too freaked out by this and try to get a law passed making it illegal.
I have checked out dozens of DVDs this way from my local library and find it a very nice service that they offer.
I don't believe you. I don't think that your pirate amounts were 10 times the amount of your sales.
Also, I think you are blaming a VERY common problem that happens on the internet on piracy. Who in the world even knew you existed? I mean that is the main problem on the internet how to even let people know you are out there. If you don't spend but a mere penitence on advertising then don't be surprised that people can't find you, but places where they hang out and new things are announced are more successful at getting notice. If you can't properly market your product to a very larger and targeted audience then that isn't anyone's problem but your own.
Getting noticed on the internet is hard, and simply throwing up a web site with e-commerce on it, isn't nearly enough anymore. Those days of build it and they will come are long gone. Sounds like you need to take some marketing classes, and some internet marketing classes to learn how to better promote your business online.
So if the TV show was already sold to the TV stations, then why does it matter if I download it a few days later? I mean they already got their money. If they want to be greedy bastards and try and sell it to me again on DVD, and again on streaming downloads with more ads, and all that crap, then forget it. They were already paid for their product by the TV stations. I don't feel they are entitled to every single possible dime they might be able to squeeze out of the public, and trying to use laws and the police to squeeze even more out of people isn't my problem. So they only got 5 million or whatever per show per show, rather than 15 million per show episode. Cry me a river. That is just being a greedy asshole.
Also don't tell me how I am stealing from the keygrip, the camera man, the actor, and all the little guys who work on a movie. PLEASE! They got paid regardless if a TV station picked up the series or not. Regardless if goes on to DVD release or not. The little guy got paid the second he showed up for work, and got a check at the end of the week for every hour he was there on the set working. You can be damn sure the movie unions made sure of that. So stop the stupid ads and comments saying I am stealing from the small guy in Hollywood.
Saying anyone is stealing from the small guy in Hollywood, is like saying the door greeter at Wal-Mart made less money today because someone shoplifted. It doesn't work that way and you people know it.