Seven minutes of video isn't reams. Youtube would probably be a smarter choice in this case... there seems little point to using bittorrent for this other than to make a political statement that loads of other people already do anyways.
Can't do a DCMA takedown notice on a torrent the way you can a Youtube upload...
If they posted the 7 min clip on Youtube, the *AA would probably hit it with a DCMA takedown notice. They've done it before even on content they don't 'own'.
Give it time. Congress is getting ready to 'overhaul' copyright law. And if you believe it'll be for the public good, I've got some lovely land to sell you in Florida. It's halfways between Key West and Havana, liberal zoning laws, you can do anything you want there, as long as you can do it in 200+ feet of water...
In a sane world, "a comprehensive review of copyright law" would lead to cutting copyright terms back drastically. Something on the order of 14 years plus an optional, one-time 14 year extension. This would take care of abandoned works (after 14 or 28 years they'd be public domain) and would enable us to simplify copyright law.
Disney will outright start shooting Congressmen before they let that happen.
Yup, they have to protect that 500,000% profit potential of Star Wars. Otherwise, all the money they paid Lucas for it has been wasted.
Good idea. It'll never happen. Keep in mind that lawyers like vague laws that are difficult to understand and enforce. Lawyers make money on the loopholes and grey areas because they can argue either side of an argument. And laws tend to be written by lawyers for their corporate clients. Keeping things vague and difficult to understand keeps lawyers working.
Personally, I'd be happy to see Emperor Skywalker frying Ewoks. After all, he's in love with his sister, his 'parents' were violently killed, and how many people did he kill when he blew up the Death Star? It's not going to take too much to push him over the edge.
Shouldn't take more than a couple of mai-tais and a good legal review of his contract.
Disney is about making money and if the bad directors like Abrahms don't deliver, they will find others. And if not... well... after the prequels surely things can only get better well, if Abrahams dies a horrid dead at least.
Just because you say it, doesn't 'make it so'. I liked (as most did) JJA's latest Trek reboot and am looking forward to what he does with SW7.
Meh. The Trek reboot was a bit too much 'Starfleet Academy 90210' for me. Seriously, you commission a 3rd year cadet as a fucking starship captain? You're talking jumping like 8 ranks there.
Just because there's a metric shit-ton of Star Wars books out there doesn't mean Disney's going to use any of them. Likely, we'll see Princess Leia cavorting around with alien bluebirds cheesily CGI'ed in, circling her and chirping irritatingly, in the musical version of Star Wars.
They're planning to own the exclusive rights to anything star wars related for the next 2000 years, if they can do it cheaply and shoddily for ridiculously high licensing fees, they will.
Of COURSE it's not Walt's Disney anymore. They went to the Dark Side when they hired Michael Eisner. Any takers on where Lucas got the inspiration for Darth Vader?
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Emphasis there on "reams of data".
Seven minutes of video isn't reams. Youtube would probably be a smarter choice in this case... there seems little point to using bittorrent for this other than to make a political statement that loads of other people already do anyways.
Can't do a DCMA takedown notice on a torrent the way you can a Youtube upload...
If they posted the 7 min clip on Youtube, the *AA would probably hit it with a DCMA takedown notice. They've done it before even on content they don't 'own'.
It's like owning matches makes you an arsonist in the *AA's eyes. If you have bittorrent on your computer, you're a pirate, plain and simple.
A 7 minute trailer distributed by bittorrent (After all, that's about all it will be equivilent to) gets the *AA up inside themselves? Good deal.
Give it time. Congress is getting ready to 'overhaul' copyright law. And if you believe it'll be for the public good, I've got some lovely land to sell you in Florida. It's halfways between Key West and Havana, liberal zoning laws, you can do anything you want there, as long as you can do it in 200+ feet of water...
Um, the American public is product not customers.
AKA 'Everything on the Internet is copyrighted. All your copyrights are belong to Disney.'
Disney will outright start shooting Congressmen before they let that happen.
Yup, they have to protect that 500,000% profit potential of Star Wars. Otherwise, all the money they paid Lucas for it has been wasted.
Good idea. It'll never happen. Keep in mind that lawyers like vague laws that are difficult to understand and enforce. Lawyers make money on the loopholes and grey areas because they can argue either side of an argument. And laws tend to be written by lawyers for their corporate clients. Keeping things vague and difficult to understand keeps lawyers working.
Personally, I'd be happy to see Emperor Skywalker frying Ewoks. After all, he's in love with his sister, his 'parents' were violently killed, and how many people did he kill when he blew up the Death Star? It's not going to take too much to push him over the edge.
Shouldn't take more than a couple of mai-tais and a good legal review of his contract.
The Vulcans allow a planet driller owned by a Romulan within range of the home planet. uh huh fail.....of plot
And the 'higher tech than most Federation planets' Vulcans never noticed it til the planet imploded? Shades of Pearl Harbor...
the best Sci-Fi story ever made!
For some extremely loose definition of science fiction. Star Wars had fiction but no science. It is sword and sorcery in space.
Well, to be honest, everything after TOS was 'physics as wishful thinking'...
4) Release shovelware Action RPG (bonus if it blackscreens on install, bricks the computer, + the patch takes 2 months and costs $75)
FTFY.
Minutes? I thought sarriac digestion took years.
1000 years, if Jabba the Hutt is correct. But why dump just Jar-Jar into the sarlak? Why not dump the whole production team in?
Lids on the pods slide open in unison, as the camera zooms in to the blank soulless gaze of a Jar-Jar clone
As opposed to the blank soulless gaze of the original Jar-jar?
Disney is about making money and if the bad directors like Abrahms don't deliver, they will find others. And if not... well... after the prequels surely things can only get better well, if Abrahams dies a horrid dead at least.
Just because you say it, doesn't 'make it so'. I liked (as most did) JJA's latest Trek reboot and am looking forward to what he does with SW7.
Meh. The Trek reboot was a bit too much 'Starfleet Academy 90210' for me. Seriously, you commission a 3rd year cadet as a fucking starship captain? You're talking jumping like 8 ranks there.
Hey, I liked Howard the Duck.
Just because there's a metric shit-ton of Star Wars books out there doesn't mean Disney's going to use any of them. Likely, we'll see Princess Leia cavorting around with alien bluebirds cheesily CGI'ed in, circling her and chirping irritatingly, in the musical version of Star Wars.
Well, that certainly explains a lot...
My pleasure.
A Jar-Jar snuff film might actually be fairly popular.
I am hard already....
I've got a couple bucks for the bootleg dvd...
So, its kinda like a TV series, but you have to pay $10 per episode. Genius!
$16. Per seat. Plus the hideously overinflated styrofoam popcorn.
I didn't want to string up Jar-Jar.
I wanted to barbeque him and feed him to my dog. BIG difference.
They're planning to own the exclusive rights to anything star wars related for the next 2000 years, if they can do it cheaply and shoddily for ridiculously high licensing fees, they will.
FTFY.
Of COURSE it's not Walt's Disney anymore. They went to the Dark Side when they hired Michael Eisner. Any takers on where Lucas got the inspiration for Darth Vader?
Damn, why is it getting so hard to breathe here? My throat feels pinched...