How long has it taken the movie industry to realise what the music industry has found out?
And how long has it taken the movie industry to realise that you can mix around the Cinema -> DVD -> TV approach to satisfy customers? I've always believed that piracy flourishes due to lack of a commercial alternative and here we have someone looking at providing the movies in the period where consumers are demanding to watch the movie and are forced to go the cinema before the run is over.
This sort of approach should be to movies what iTunes was to music. All they need to do is make some deals with handheld movie player manufacturers and they could stitch it up!
I suppose I could hope that the movies will be DRM free and available all over the world, but there is no chance either will occur.
What I would love is to have speed signs that also have wireless capabilities that update your car's system that the speed limit is say "55". Then if you exceed 55 in your car, the car reminds you that you are speeding. When you pass a sign where the speed increases or decreases, you can also get reminded as well. The speedometer could light up the acceptable speed ranges that you could travel at and beep to notify you when the speed is too high. Sort of along the same lines as when your seatbelt is not on or your headlights are still on.
Yes it might be a bit annoying, but it is better than getting speed camera fines.
A bit of technology to pass the time away while we wait for cars that can drive themselves.
Perhaps the commoditisation of one of the most valuable resources of the world, human ingenuity, to be renamed as something called "intellectual property" needs to be considered and changed for the better.
Ingenuity and advance has always been on top of the inventions that came before. The circle became a wheel, the wheel became a cart, which became a carriage and finally a car. By stopping further developments by restricting them, hiding them and/or charging a fortune for them, of course development will slow down.
If I were to build a starship to travel into the galaxy, I'd have to settle about 16,000 patent claims and divy up a fortune of funds between thousands of organisations.
There is no way I am going to play a MMOG. I have enough problems getting addicted to single player games (wanting to play at work, staying home from work because I am 'sick') and I when games like Everquest get called 'Evercrack', I know I will stay away from it like the plague.
I hate subscription model games as well. I want to 'own' something, and have the ability to create a server of my own should I want to play with others.
Herein lies the problem with the industry and the power of the consumer.
The industry is facing obsolesence because it is not satisfying the demands of the fans. A recent paper on copyright I read stated that without a commercial alternative, people will find a way to satisfy their demand though illegal it may be. Consumers are less worried about the legal repercussions of their activities and more greedy nowadays.
Consumers have more power to create those works should the industry fail thanks to the internet and all the programs out there such as Bittorrent, VirtualDub, Xvid and Substation Alpha. If I want to watch the latest anime out of Japan, I don't go to US companies, I go on the internet to the latest and greatest bittorrent site. Fans are creating computer files with subtitles within a day of the show airing. Name one US company that is even considering how to compete with that.
So here is the challenge to the anime companies - Create a commercial alternative to fansubs or face irrelevance in your business models.
Not as much substance as I hoped as the article 'follows the money'. More conspiracy theories than anything else.
It certainly shows Microsoft repenting of its earlier mistake for not paying off politicians like all the other major corporations did so they didn't get investigated for violating laws. I'm sure all these wonderful contributions will keep it safe from further litigation and give it more power to manage the law making process as time goes on.
This could get amusing.
"Honey, can you swipe your arm for these groceries? My arm credit limit is a bit low this month."
When you get robbed in back alleys, the drugged up crims rip off your arm and take it to the ATM to pull out all your money.
I'm sure the "cost an arm and a leg" jokes are coming.
I think it demonstrates that spammers who actually spam in countries that enforce their anti-spam laws are idiots.
If I were an antispammer, I'm sure I'd have my spamming servers in Russia and merely link to them through my Australian broadband connection via a encrypted tunnel network (or something like that). I'd also have my money going through Swiss banks and Cayman Island arrangements to obfuscate its source and destination and send it back to Australia in amounts under $10,000 to avoid scrutiny as finance loans.
But hey, most spammers are stupid aren't they?
The anti piracy messages and lawsuits came in too late.
Many people have grown up with piracy (I prefer the phrase copyright infringers more) as a way of life. I copied my first game in 1984. A whole generation grew up knowing and doing these sorts of things and due to the popularity of 'free' and the growing momentum of these numbers, its too late. Even now children at the school my children go to talk about how they watch all the latest movies at home before they hit the cinema (or while they are at the cinema).
Is is societal corruption or evolution? And what does this mean for the future?
So in the future when housing is at a premium, I could go into an established suburb, buy all the houses, build high rise apartment blocks and coffin hotels and then the residents can come back and live in them. That would lead to a much more efficient way to house residents, lead to increased tax flow, etc. Hey, just what the "public" needs.
Perhaps saying that "Darknet sounds at times like it could have been written by a team of Slashdotters" could be considered a mean thing to say, but it reminds me of that senator who compared the US's treatment of prisoners to Nazi concentration camps, who was attacked for his comparison to Nazis and the actual point of his speech was forgotten.
The book sounds like a facinating read but its nothing new to me. MPAA and RIAA trying to curtail technology at their behest to restrict our rights as consumers (do we have any rights left?) and technology companies bowling over. One thing I can feel more confidant of is that technology companies are starting to be a little more thoughtful of the ride that the MPAA and RIAA are taking them on and they don't like the destination. I think the Grokster case has started to make them think.
It is a pity that none of these parties has the public's interests in mind but rather how to best exploit them.
Lets see, we have copy protection for computer games and applications, Macrovision and CSS for DVDs, stuff like SafeAudio for CDs and now a Broadcast Flag coming in for TV.
The DMCA provision forbidding the cracking of copy protection provisions for all these items means that your fair use rights are not wasted legislation and a piece of history. The final nail in the coffin.
And in other news, the WidgetCard from the WidgetCard corporation, breaking tradition from the main Credit Card corporations, are proud to announce that they have not lost any cardholder's data. This is an especially newsworthy event due to its rareness.
The intellectual property market happens to be one of the markets of the future for America. With all the manufacturing plants and skills that made America great in the last century being closed or going overseas, along with other skilled jobs, the creation and exploitation of IP will create a nice little wealth stream for the US.
And the government and lobbyists know this. Just look how they are cramming restrictive IP legislation down the throats of other countries.
This is kind of serendipitous because I just finished watching Objects in Space this morning.
I really loved watching Firefly and after finishing that episode I wished that it had kept going. The movie will be great to watch but the series has such a wealth of material to go with that I'm sure they could have done another 13 episodes of great original sci-fi and it seems a pity to cram it all down into a 2 hour slot.
Great great series.
This reminds me of the dinky little community station we have around here that use and abuse public domain TV shows as much as they can. Except this one is digital. There is a lot of great content out there, as long as the people who made it don't want much money for it.
The main problem here is the competition. There are a lot of other p2p places that don't charge a cent. They just happen to be illegal though.
I think its pathetic that the intelligence community which failed abysmally to thwart 9/11 and then come up with crap schemes like this to trace and identify possible terrorists. I'm sorry but they should be looking at schemes to find terrorists that don't involve abusing a cictizen's right to privacy.
I equate my right to privacy with my right to personal freedom so eat that you "freedom"-loving police-state-loving psychos.
It wasn't that they dropped out because they were stupid. It was because they had plans of other things to do when they did, such as start a business empire. If you drop out for silly reasons, thats bad.
I dropped out of further education because I had an opportunity to run a business and I found the experience much more rewarding. I'd say those two had similar ideas.... except their businesses are much much larger.
To take that point further, as an anime fan of many years, it wasn't the animation that attracted me to anime. It was the stories. Some of the greatest anime series were original stories with deep involving plots that weren't just fomulaic or "safe". Series like Evangelion, Ranma, Full Metal Panic, Escaflowne have well thought out characters, original stories and brilliant scripts.
My belief is Disney fails with most movies because it tries to make a movie as appealing as possible to everyone (dialogue adults and children understand, adapting known stories rather than making it original, dumbing down) and tries so hard that it messes it all up. If it tried to be a little more "out there" with their storylines, it may have some success.
Isn't it interesting to think that those doing business with China are sacrificing the very principles that are going into the banned word register in return for money?
This news article was published at 12:52 am by my time zone. Your post was made at 12:55 am, 3 minutes later.
You are either the fastest typist known to man or a copy and paste squatter ready for the right news article.
By the way, why do people run businesses that make losses and don't do anything about their situation but blame outside factors and continue to run themselves into the ground? Brainstorm some new business ideas and act on them or move on to something profitable. I feel for your family situation but you need to find out what people are spending money on nowadays (such as DVDs, consoles, etc) and follow the money. Have you noticed music stores sell mostly DVDS nowadays? The entertainment dollar is spent on a whole lot more than just music cds nowadays.
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How long has it taken the movie industry to realise what the music industry has found out?
And how long has it taken the movie industry to realise that you can mix around the Cinema -> DVD -> TV approach to satisfy customers? I've always believed that piracy flourishes due to lack of a commercial alternative and here we have someone looking at providing the movies in the period where consumers are demanding to watch the movie and are forced to go the cinema before the run is over.
This sort of approach should be to movies what iTunes was to music. All they need to do is make some deals with handheld movie player manufacturers and they could stitch it up!
I suppose I could hope that the movies will be DRM free and available all over the world, but there is no chance either will occur.
What I would love is to have speed signs that also have wireless capabilities that update your car's system that the speed limit is say "55". Then if you exceed 55 in your car, the car reminds you that you are speeding. When you pass a sign where the speed increases or decreases, you can also get reminded as well. The speedometer could light up the acceptable speed ranges that you could travel at and beep to notify you when the speed is too high. Sort of along the same lines as when your seatbelt is not on or your headlights are still on.
Yes it might be a bit annoying, but it is better than getting speed camera fines.
A bit of technology to pass the time away while we wait for cars that can drive themselves.
Perhaps the commoditisation of one of the most valuable resources of the world, human ingenuity, to be renamed as something called "intellectual property" needs to be considered and changed for the better. Ingenuity and advance has always been on top of the inventions that came before. The circle became a wheel, the wheel became a cart, which became a carriage and finally a car. By stopping further developments by restricting them, hiding them and/or charging a fortune for them, of course development will slow down. If I were to build a starship to travel into the galaxy, I'd have to settle about 16,000 patent claims and divy up a fortune of funds between thousands of organisations.
Opting out of spam? Hahahahahahahaha. Thats a good one.
There is no way I am going to play a MMOG. I have enough problems getting addicted to single player games (wanting to play at work, staying home from work because I am 'sick') and I when games like Everquest get called 'Evercrack', I know I will stay away from it like the plague.
I hate subscription model games as well. I want to 'own' something, and have the ability to create a server of my own should I want to play with others.
Herein lies the problem with the industry and the power of the consumer.
The industry is facing obsolesence because it is not satisfying the demands of the fans. A recent paper on copyright I read stated that without a commercial alternative, people will find a way to satisfy their demand though illegal it may be. Consumers are less worried about the legal repercussions of their activities and more greedy nowadays.
Consumers have more power to create those works should the industry fail thanks to the internet and all the programs out there such as Bittorrent, VirtualDub, Xvid and Substation Alpha. If I want to watch the latest anime out of Japan, I don't go to US companies, I go on the internet to the latest and greatest bittorrent site. Fans are creating computer files with subtitles within a day of the show airing. Name one US company that is even considering how to compete with that.
So here is the challenge to the anime companies - Create a commercial alternative to fansubs or face irrelevance in your business models.
Not as much substance as I hoped as the article 'follows the money'. More conspiracy theories than anything else.
It certainly shows Microsoft repenting of its earlier mistake for not paying off politicians like all the other major corporations did so they didn't get investigated for violating laws. I'm sure all these wonderful contributions will keep it safe from further litigation and give it more power to manage the law making process as time goes on.
This could get amusing. "Honey, can you swipe your arm for these groceries? My arm credit limit is a bit low this month." When you get robbed in back alleys, the drugged up crims rip off your arm and take it to the ATM to pull out all your money. I'm sure the "cost an arm and a leg" jokes are coming.
I think it demonstrates that spammers who actually spam in countries that enforce their anti-spam laws are idiots. If I were an antispammer, I'm sure I'd have my spamming servers in Russia and merely link to them through my Australian broadband connection via a encrypted tunnel network (or something like that). I'd also have my money going through Swiss banks and Cayman Island arrangements to obfuscate its source and destination and send it back to Australia in amounts under $10,000 to avoid scrutiny as finance loans. But hey, most spammers are stupid aren't they?
The anti piracy messages and lawsuits came in too late. Many people have grown up with piracy (I prefer the phrase copyright infringers more) as a way of life. I copied my first game in 1984. A whole generation grew up knowing and doing these sorts of things and due to the popularity of 'free' and the growing momentum of these numbers, its too late. Even now children at the school my children go to talk about how they watch all the latest movies at home before they hit the cinema (or while they are at the cinema). Is is societal corruption or evolution? And what does this mean for the future?
So in the future when housing is at a premium, I could go into an established suburb, buy all the houses, build high rise apartment blocks and coffin hotels and then the residents can come back and live in them. That would lead to a much more efficient way to house residents, lead to increased tax flow, etc. Hey, just what the "public" needs.
Perhaps saying that "Darknet sounds at times like it could have been written by a team of Slashdotters" could be considered a mean thing to say, but it reminds me of that senator who compared the US's treatment of prisoners to Nazi concentration camps, who was attacked for his comparison to Nazis and the actual point of his speech was forgotten.
The book sounds like a facinating read but its nothing new to me. MPAA and RIAA trying to curtail technology at their behest to restrict our rights as consumers (do we have any rights left?) and technology companies bowling over. One thing I can feel more confidant of is that technology companies are starting to be a little more thoughtful of the ride that the MPAA and RIAA are taking them on and they don't like the destination. I think the Grokster case has started to make them think.
It is a pity that none of these parties has the public's interests in mind but rather how to best exploit them.
Lets see, we have copy protection for computer games and applications, Macrovision and CSS for DVDs, stuff like SafeAudio for CDs and now a Broadcast Flag coming in for TV.
The DMCA provision forbidding the cracking of copy protection provisions for all these items means that your fair use rights are not wasted legislation and a piece of history. The final nail in the coffin.
And in other news, the WidgetCard from the WidgetCard corporation, breaking tradition from the main Credit Card corporations, are proud to announce that they have not lost any cardholder's data. This is an especially newsworthy event due to its rareness.
More news at five.
The intellectual property market happens to be one of the markets of the future for America. With all the manufacturing plants and skills that made America great in the last century being closed or going overseas, along with other skilled jobs, the creation and exploitation of IP will create a nice little wealth stream for the US. And the government and lobbyists know this. Just look how they are cramming restrictive IP legislation down the throats of other countries.
This is kind of serendipitous because I just finished watching Objects in Space this morning. I really loved watching Firefly and after finishing that episode I wished that it had kept going. The movie will be great to watch but the series has such a wealth of material to go with that I'm sure they could have done another 13 episodes of great original sci-fi and it seems a pity to cram it all down into a 2 hour slot. Great great series.
This reminds me of the dinky little community station we have around here that use and abuse public domain TV shows as much as they can. Except this one is digital. There is a lot of great content out there, as long as the people who made it don't want much money for it.
The main problem here is the competition. There are a lot of other p2p places that don't charge a cent. They just happen to be illegal though.
I think its pathetic that the intelligence community which failed abysmally to thwart 9/11 and then come up with crap schemes like this to trace and identify possible terrorists. I'm sorry but they should be looking at schemes to find terrorists that don't involve abusing a cictizen's right to privacy.
I equate my right to privacy with my right to personal freedom so eat that you "freedom"-loving police-state-loving psychos.
It wasn't that they dropped out because they were stupid. It was because they had plans of other things to do when they did, such as start a business empire. If you drop out for silly reasons, thats bad.
I dropped out of further education because I had an opportunity to run a business and I found the experience much more rewarding. I'd say those two had similar ideas.... except their businesses are much much larger.
To take that point further, as an anime fan of many years, it wasn't the animation that attracted me to anime. It was the stories. Some of the greatest anime series were original stories with deep involving plots that weren't just fomulaic or "safe". Series like Evangelion, Ranma, Full Metal Panic, Escaflowne have well thought out characters, original stories and brilliant scripts.
My belief is Disney fails with most movies because it tries to make a movie as appealing as possible to everyone (dialogue adults and children understand, adapting known stories rather than making it original, dumbing down) and tries so hard that it messes it all up. If it tried to be a little more "out there" with their storylines, it may have some success.
I think it is interesting how Disney makes stories out of public domain works and then tries to stop Mickey Mouse becoming public domain.
Kind of hypocritical, don't you think?
Isn't it interesting to think that those doing business with China are sacrificing the very principles that are going into the banned word register in return for money?
This news article was published at 12:52 am by my time zone. Your post was made at 12:55 am, 3 minutes later.
You are either the fastest typist known to man or a copy and paste squatter ready for the right news article.
By the way, why do people run businesses that make losses and don't do anything about their situation but blame outside factors and continue to run themselves into the ground? Brainstorm some new business ideas and act on them or move on to something profitable. I feel for your family situation but you need to find out what people are spending money on nowadays (such as DVDs, consoles, etc) and follow the money. Have you noticed music stores sell mostly DVDS nowadays? The entertainment dollar is spent on a whole lot more than just music cds nowadays.
Why bother coming back every 50 years when Mickey Mouse is about to expire and slapping another 50 years onto copyright terms?
Why not just make it 50 billion years and save Mickey Mouse from exploitation forever?
but only Congress can take it away.