The BBC sometimes uses our money to buy a short lience to films or series (think 24) so I can understand the advantage of having DRM on that content. I imagine that they have made a deal of the '8 days to view' and have put it on all content so not to confuse people. Hopefully BBC made programs will eventually be made availble well outside of the 8 days time frame. But most of the old programs rights have been sold for DVDs and such.
I'm more worried about the AOL mountain, you have no choice about getting those through you door!
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I think I may well be temped to buy sony, but only if the price is right (you gotta get the extended warranty with sony because you know it will break 3 days after it runs out.) But I will definatly be getting a revolution as i think it has the potential to kick start my love for computer games (the last gen didn't really do much for me)
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The Revolution will have alot higher specs than the current gamecude (and if you have played resident evil 4 you will know that they were high already) plus wifi built in, the disks will be bigger enabling more space etc...
Just like all the next gen machines, the has been losts of little improvements, but this time the controller will add a new dimension to the control, and this will come as standard.
What you should do, is mark any person who makes a good comment as a friend, and people who make stupid or retarded comments as foes.
Then mark up your friends, mark down foes, mark down ACs, mark down funnys, don't show treads that are below your threshold and customise the rest as you want. Grab the rss feed and ignore/delete the headlines that are obvious dupes.
After a few months of doing this you will start to notice a real difference in the quality of posts.
Apart from I see a big difference between stealing property and stealing intellectual property.
Even then, I completly agree with squaters rights (In the UK you have a right to use an abandoned house without asking permission to use it, and once you are in it is hard to evite you without notice etc...).
Its simple not true, I buy lots of movies and programs (about 5 a month). I consider £10-£20 ($35.7 USD) fair for a DVD and £20-35 ($62.4 USD) for a series and I don't mind waiting a few months/years for the series to drop in price (both of those that I wanted where from the early 90's).
But at £180 for 19 episodes, I consider it extorsionate and would not consider waiting for it.
no their not, they have a few of the old eps and some one the new series, but there is 5 old series and they don't have those. I don't even think they have the first episode
Well I have to actually interact in the real world, so I can't go around telling everyone they are wrong all the time.
Plus I do listen and watch and read what I want, and have a very geeky edge that my friends don't. The fact that almost all music, tv and movies are owned by a very small amount of companies means that I can't 100% avoid there content which is what the discussion was about. I'm not talking about listening to Britney hear, I'm talking about listening to Agent Blue or Acade Fire or some other newly signed band not the Singles chart.
That is true, my tastes in music are not exactly the same as my friends, but we know each others music because we have heard it. When I start talking about 'Rock of Travolta' or 'Do Me Bad Things' then my friends wont have a clue. If all my music was completly unknown things, and there music was the same (ie other unknown stuff), then it would be weird (Me: Have you heard of this new band, they sound like...; Friend: Nope. ; Me: oh... well you should;)
I even tried it for a while and stopped buying (and downloading) music and started going to lots of gigs and buying cds direct from artists only. But a big part of living is social interaction and if you arn't listening to the same music as your friends then you don't have as much to chat about and you lose out.
I've also stopped watching ALOT of TV and enjoy going out, exercise and cooking instead, but when the big shows are on (like Lost and 24) I still watch them, I dont think i have a choice in this modem society, but when you know that you giving Mindspace its not so bad as its on my terms.
If i where in China and trying to access a News site illegally would you be saying the same thing?
I don't think its acceptible behaviour to try and scam your customers (The new Outer Limits 'Complete Series') or just to deprive/control content with no good reason. When corperations can't keep a check on these things themselve its up to us as the people to do it. If that means creating a P2P network to 'compete' then so be it.
I would prefer to buy the content and reward the artist but sometimes they make this to painful with complety unjustified costs. £180 for an old TV series that would have been paid for at the time is just plain outragous if it where £30 I would have bought it there and then.
Show me a place I can buy, rent, watch or download the entire X-men oringal series cartoon and I will stop downloading it now and buy it.
In fact most of what I download are things that I simple cannot buy or or so expensive that I wouldn't ever consider paying that much money for it (would you pay £180 / $321 USD (£150 now) for My So Called Life which is only 19 episodes long and a one of my faviourate shows from when i was a kid, or would you download load it for free?).
If they would be reasonable about the whole thing I would be happy to pay for old shows and films, but this simply isn't the case.
My guess is that Opera use the word "internet" more on their site or people often are linking to Opera as the "internet suite" which was its tag line for one year IIRC etc...
From what I understand, it removes P2P programs and flags/deletes suspect files contained within the download folders. IMHO this is a good thing as it will give some power back to employers and parents over what is happening n thier computers.
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Remember, Nintendo is on its last legs and can't compete in the video games market
The BBC sometimes uses our money to buy a short lience to films or series (think 24) so I can understand the advantage of having DRM on that content. I imagine that they have made a deal of the '8 days to view' and have put it on all content so not to confuse people. Hopefully BBC made programs will eventually be made availble well outside of the 8 days time frame. But most of the old programs rights have been sold for DVDs and such.
Its not like anyone is going to buy them...
I'm more worried about the AOL mountain, you have no choice about getting those through you door!
I think I may well be temped to buy sony, but only if the price is right (you gotta get the extended warranty with sony because you know it will break 3 days after it runs out.) But I will definatly be getting a revolution as i think it has the potential to kick start my love for computer games (the last gen didn't really do much for me)
The Revolution will have alot higher specs than the current gamecude (and if you have played resident evil 4 you will know that they were high already) plus wifi built in, the disks will be bigger enabling more space etc...
Just like all the next gen machines, the has been losts of little improvements, but this time the controller will add a new dimension to the control, and this will come as standard.
Woooosh!!
I think you missed the joke.
If Google and Yahoo are providing books for free, where do the authors get there income from
What you should do, is mark any person who makes a good comment as a friend, and people who make stupid or retarded comments as foes.
Then mark up your friends, mark down foes, mark down ACs, mark down funnys, don't show treads that are below your threshold and customise the rest as you want. Grab the rss feed and ignore/delete the headlines that are obvious dupes.
After a few months of doing this you will start to notice a real difference in the quality of posts.
See if you can sneak in some stuff like ip address and a sub-domain so you can fuck them up when they export your job to india ;)
Basically yes.
Apart from I see a big difference between stealing property and stealing intellectual property.
Even then, I completly agree with squaters rights (In the UK you have a right to use an abandoned house without asking permission to use it, and once you are in it is hard to evite you without notice etc...).
Its simple not true, I buy lots of movies and programs (about 5 a month). I consider £10-£20 ($35.7 USD) fair for a DVD and £20-35 ($62.4 USD) for a series and I don't mind waiting a few months/years for the series to drop in price (both of those that I wanted where from the early 90's).
But at £180 for 19 episodes, I consider it extorsionate and would not consider waiting for it.
I don't mind paying my way.
no their not, they have a few of the old eps and some one the new series, but there is 5 old series and they don't have those. I don't even think they have the first episode
Sometimes you have to take a stand before the 'slip' turns to 'slide'.
If I don't stand up for ALL that I believe in now (which I do) then we might as well enter 1984 now.
Well I have to actually interact in the real world, so I can't go around telling everyone they are wrong all the time.
Plus I do listen and watch and read what I want, and have a very geeky edge that my friends don't. The fact that almost all music, tv and movies are owned by a very small amount of companies means that I can't 100% avoid there content which is what the discussion was about. I'm not talking about listening to Britney hear, I'm talking about listening to Agent Blue or Acade Fire or some other newly signed band not the Singles chart.
Damn you AC!!!!
That is true, my tastes in music are not exactly the same as my friends, but we know each others music because we have heard it. When I start talking about 'Rock of Travolta' or 'Do Me Bad Things' then my friends wont have a clue. If all my music was completly unknown things, and there music was the same (ie other unknown stuff), then it would be weird (Me: Have you heard of this new band, they sound like...; Friend: Nope. ; Me: oh... well you should;)
And the same goes for tv and movies.
I get what you are saying.
I even tried it for a while and stopped buying (and downloading) music and started going to lots of gigs and buying cds direct from artists only. But a big part of living is social interaction and if you arn't listening to the same music as your friends then you don't have as much to chat about and you lose out.
I've also stopped watching ALOT of TV and enjoy going out, exercise and cooking instead, but when the big shows are on (like Lost and 24) I still watch them, I dont think i have a choice in this modem society, but when you know that you giving Mindspace its not so bad as its on my terms.
If i where in China and trying to access a News site illegally would you be saying the same thing?
I don't think its acceptible behaviour to try and scam your customers (The new Outer Limits 'Complete Series') or just to deprive/control content with no good reason. When corperations can't keep a check on these things themselve its up to us as the people to do it. If that means creating a P2P network to 'compete' then so be it.
I would prefer to buy the content and reward the artist but sometimes they make this to painful with complety unjustified costs. £180 for an old TV series that would have been paid for at the time is just plain outragous if it where £30 I would have bought it there and then.
Show me a place I can buy, rent, watch or download the entire X-men oringal series cartoon and I will stop downloading it now and buy it.
In fact most of what I download are things that I simple cannot buy or or so expensive that I wouldn't ever consider paying that much money for it (would you pay £180 / $321 USD (£150 now) for My So Called Life which is only 19 episodes long and a one of my faviourate shows from when i was a kid, or would you download load it for free?).
If they would be reasonable about the whole thing I would be happy to pay for old shows and films, but this simply isn't the case.
I loved Lexx, it kept me going (along with V) during my insomnia period (they used to show Lexx at 4am on Channel 5 [uk]).
My guess is that Opera use the word "internet" more on their site or people often are linking to Opera as the "internet suite" which was its tag line for one year IIRC etc...
You are talking about 70-95% of all people who use computers. You are being unrealitic.
Are you going to give us an example then?
From what I understand, it removes P2P programs and flags/deletes suspect files contained within the download folders. IMHO this is a good thing as it will give some power back to employers and parents over what is happening n thier computers.
I presume you don't live in the USA, since its fairly apparent that the Government there arn't us, nor are they accountable to the people.