He shouldn't, but it's simply not a criminal matter. It should be prohibited by theater policy, in which case once he starts he's trespassing. And making a copy of the movie is a civil matter between him and the owner of the movie's copyright.
Last I checked, Brightcove had deals with Sony/BMG, Discovery, Tribeca Film Festival, MTV/Viacom's The N, plus a syndication offering with Reuters that lets you put news stories directly on your own webpage.
Not to mention their Commercial Preview, which allows anyone to upload and host high quality video in customized video players TODAY!
Okay, for full disclosure, I work for Brightcove. However, it's more true to say that Internet TV is just getting warmed up. The announcments give us a taste for what is to come when this format really explodes over the next 1-3 years
It is commonly believed, as supported through observed evidence, that the length of movie previews is getting longer. Almost everyone recalls a time where there were only a few previews before any movie, and we can clearly see that currently there are at least 20 minutes of previews before the feature.
Because of this, many people will not even attempt to be punctual when arriving at the movie theater. "It's okay if we get there 5-15 minutes late," they might say, "because there's so many previews".
From the movie studio's perspective, this is a bad thing. People are missing out on the advertisements! So, let's assume that it's in the studio's (and the cinema's) best interest to encourage people to see the previews. Here's an idea that might prove useful to them.
We get to the cinema late because we know for a fact that there are always around 15-20 minutes of previews for each movie. So, it seems obvious that some movies should randomly be chosen to be shown without previews! After a few times missing the first 10 minutes of a movie, people would be more reluctant to stop for donuts on the way to the theater.
Of course, this is going to annoy the piss out of most people. I mean, they paid good money for a movie and it wasn't that unreasonable for them to expect some buffer time in the beginning. If the theater just said "tough biscuits, you were late", there would probably be a backlash and an overall negative effect on theaters. Instead, the theater should warn people ahead of time, with a written message on the ticket. However, if it simply said "Some movies are shown without previews", people might get suspicious and feel alienated. No one likes being tricked, especially when the trick is used to expose them to more advertising, which they hate.
So, the ticket should say "By customer request, select movies will be shown without previews. Enjoy!" This way, an audience member's annoyance at missing part of the movie will be tempered by his or her appreciation of the cinema's continued effort to serve him or her better. How kind of them!
Can someone quickly answer the following?
1) Why shouldn't you click HTML links, in general?
2) Why can't the certificate be revoked, since it is being used for fraudulent purposes?
Thanks!
This is seriously useful! If I have class every day from 2-4 PM, why should I always have to manually turn my damned ringer on and off? Where was this 8 years ago?
I've always been interested in the mythology of comic books, the fact that entire worlds are carefully woven over a long period of time....but I've never really gotten into reading them.
For me, the problem is the entry price. I'm not interested in a single episode, I want to digest an entire series. So from this perspective, the chief advantage of an online comic to me is the fact that with such low distribution cost, there is a potential economic model where I can get a vast quantity of comic goodness for a low price.
Maybe this is the "Long Tail" of false prophets and rumor-mongers.
Also, it's easy to know that "some" information on the web might be false. It's much harder to critically evaluate and cross-reference everything you read. Hell, some information on TV might be false, but it gets believed by people for the same reason....laziness and apathy (and of course I'll admit that I'm guilty of this as well).
Unfortunately, this applies to Wikipedia, too. It's a great resource, and mostly accurate. But many things that people post might be hearsay, if only for the fact that they don't cite any sources. Without citations, how can you really trust anything you read there?
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He shouldn't, but it's simply not a criminal matter. It should be prohibited by theater policy, in which case once he starts he's trespassing. And making a copy of the movie is a civil matter between him and the owner of the movie's copyright.
Last I checked, Brightcove had deals with Sony/BMG, Discovery, Tribeca Film Festival, MTV/Viacom's The N, plus a syndication offering with Reuters that lets you put news stories directly on your own webpage.
Not to mention their Commercial Preview, which allows anyone to upload and host high quality video in customized video players TODAY!
Okay, for full disclosure, I work for Brightcove. However, it's more true to say that Internet TV is just getting warmed up. The announcments give us a taste for what is to come when this format really explodes over the next 1-3 years
It is commonly believed, as supported through observed evidence, that the length of movie previews is getting longer. Almost everyone recalls a time where there were only a few previews before any movie, and we can clearly see that currently there are at least 20 minutes of previews before the feature. Because of this, many people will not even attempt to be punctual when arriving at the movie theater. "It's okay if we get there 5-15 minutes late," they might say, "because there's so many previews". From the movie studio's perspective, this is a bad thing. People are missing out on the advertisements! So, let's assume that it's in the studio's (and the cinema's) best interest to encourage people to see the previews. Here's an idea that might prove useful to them. We get to the cinema late because we know for a fact that there are always around 15-20 minutes of previews for each movie. So, it seems obvious that some movies should randomly be chosen to be shown without previews! After a few times missing the first 10 minutes of a movie, people would be more reluctant to stop for donuts on the way to the theater. Of course, this is going to annoy the piss out of most people. I mean, they paid good money for a movie and it wasn't that unreasonable for them to expect some buffer time in the beginning. If the theater just said "tough biscuits, you were late", there would probably be a backlash and an overall negative effect on theaters. Instead, the theater should warn people ahead of time, with a written message on the ticket. However, if it simply said "Some movies are shown without previews", people might get suspicious and feel alienated. No one likes being tricked, especially when the trick is used to expose them to more advertising, which they hate. So, the ticket should say "By customer request, select movies will be shown without previews. Enjoy!" This way, an audience member's annoyance at missing part of the movie will be tempered by his or her appreciation of the cinema's continued effort to serve him or her better. How kind of them!
Can someone quickly answer the following? 1) Why shouldn't you click HTML links, in general? 2) Why can't the certificate be revoked, since it is being used for fraudulent purposes? Thanks!
This is seriously useful! If I have class every day from 2-4 PM, why should I always have to manually turn my damned ringer on and off? Where was this 8 years ago?
I've always been interested in the mythology of comic books, the fact that entire worlds are carefully woven over a long period of time....but I've never really gotten into reading them. For me, the problem is the entry price. I'm not interested in a single episode, I want to digest an entire series. So from this perspective, the chief advantage of an online comic to me is the fact that with such low distribution cost, there is a potential economic model where I can get a vast quantity of comic goodness for a low price.
Maybe this is the "Long Tail" of false prophets and rumor-mongers. Also, it's easy to know that "some" information on the web might be false. It's much harder to critically evaluate and cross-reference everything you read. Hell, some information on TV might be false, but it gets believed by people for the same reason....laziness and apathy (and of course I'll admit that I'm guilty of this as well).
Unfortunately, this applies to Wikipedia, too. It's a great resource, and mostly accurate. But many things that people post might be hearsay, if only for the fact that they don't cite any sources. Without citations, how can you really trust anything you read there?