I'd definitely vouch for Media Portal. An excellent open source, free option for organising movies and tv show files - very effective scraping if your file names are meaningful - brining back plot synopsis, cover art, episode caps, cast and crew details, running time, imdb rating. scrape sources are customisable (as is most of the programme) and puts tvdb and imdb to good use. As far as i can tell, it doesn't allow you search by director or actor etc, but it does allow for effective list viewing by year of release or genre etc.
There are many plugins available, and maybe one is able to accomodate your needs exactly. failing that, it has a good community, and most plugin creators are open to suggestion when it comes to new and useful features for thier next update.
Not so great on the music files though, but my impression of that may be related to the small amount of effort i've put into configuring it.
Check out a free opensource program called Media Portal - it's fantastic for setting up a home theatre PC and organising all your movies and tv shows. I rate it highly.
I tried a few standard cordless mice, and had to go to bluetooth to get further than about 1.8 metres or 6'. The garden variety ones wouldn't reach from my home theatre PC to the coffee table.
If you want to use it for presentations or at least from a distance, make sure to check the range - although most boxes won't state any distance/range.
Are there many lawsuits getting around in Australia? Or are they simply trying to get ISP's to warn users off P2P? I haven't heard of any Australian lawsuits, but maybe i've just had my head in the ground...?
Could it be that they're just reducing the size of the Test Group, to minimise any negative findings??
Either way, it sounds like they don't have much confidence in the system.
Unethical?
Yes - without doubt. I wouldn't even consider doing it myself.
Illegal?
Is it? What laws actually protect the integrity of a free email service? Is it regarded the same as snail mail?
This is an interesting move - good on them!
You could easily argue that CDR and DVDR are predominantly used for piracy, but they openly sell them at all the major gorcey and department stores. Obviously becuase they have other legitimate uses too - just like bittorrent.
Bring it on - I'd quite happily pay a $5/month P2P surcharge to get rid of all the legal hassles surrounding it.
I honestly don't know why it hasn't been seriously suggested at that level before. They could be getting so much good information from P2P stats, and the scope that it opens up for new artists to suddenly make it huge (along with all the other "safe" artists) must be worth something to even the big companies.
Set up a board of reps from each affected industry and come to an agreement on splitting up the pie.
How does the rotation of a planet affect it's orbiting bodies? over time do they drift toward the equator?
I thought that i'd heard years ago that there was a moon (or moons) with rings. Is this really new news, or am i mistaken?
What if by default, all internet plans were officially shaped to reduce P2P traffic and we could choose to pay a premium surcharge to remove the shaping.
The premium to be split up between the ISP (for increased bandwidth usage, even for currently legit P2P users) and several bodies representing the Movie TV and Music industries.
If everything was above-board, the organisation of the files could be very good, so that the funds collected could be distributed back to the companies/artists relative to the amount of downloads on a monthly basis. In the interim, the Representative Bodies could collectively get the benefit of the "micropayments" to the fund.
That way people who choose not to d/l copyrighted media aren't hit with any additional cost.
Without doing all the maths, it seems like a system in which the only people losing out would be the current digital music vendors (iTunes etc) unless they jumped on the concept and provided the interface to achieve the same thing on a monthly subscription basis rather than the per song/album system.
What if by default, internet plans were shaped for P2P traffic and we could choose to pay a premium surcharge to remove the shaping.
The premium to be split up as follows:
1) A percentage of the surcharge goes to the ISP - if you're a P2P/BT user, then you most likely have a higher D/L than your average non p2p user, even if it's all legitimate stuff you're downloading.
2) A percentage goes to various bodies representing affected copyright holders.
Percentage 2) to be split relative to type (music/movie/etc) and split further by each industry's governing body, relative to market share. That way even the small independents who meet certain criteria are entitled to their share of the pie too.
If BT/P2P was made legitimate, it should beceome well filed/tagged to the extent that it ends up being simple maths to divide up the fund between which artists, in pretty much the same way that iTunes probably works right now.
Instead of passing on a fixed amount per sale though, they get a relative percentage of the monthly funds raised.
Excel 2003 has 65,536 rows. one number off... Coincidence?
What's the logic for selection of this amount of row limitation?
What's the significance of this number to Excel?
Is it possible that Wii's first party sales domination, is due to the proliferation of poor, low-value-for-money 3rd party output?
Perhaps the linked article is focusing too hard on the effect, and not the cause.
What does this mean for other countries who receive these shows weeks or months after they air in the US?
Wouldn't ABC's afilliated non-US networks have a problem with these shows being so legally freely available before they've had a chance to milk their advertising dollar. After they've already paid for the rights to broadcast the shows.
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I'd definitely vouch for Media Portal. An excellent open source, free option for organising movies and tv show files - very effective scraping if your file names are meaningful - brining back plot synopsis, cover art, episode caps, cast and crew details, running time, imdb rating. scrape sources are customisable (as is most of the programme) and puts tvdb and imdb to good use. As far as i can tell, it doesn't allow you search by director or actor etc, but it does allow for effective list viewing by year of release or genre etc. There are many plugins available, and maybe one is able to accomodate your needs exactly. failing that, it has a good community, and most plugin creators are open to suggestion when it comes to new and useful features for thier next update. Not so great on the music files though, but my impression of that may be related to the small amount of effort i've put into configuring it.
Unconsummated...? Does that mean that Disney haven't yet "done the deed" to the catalogue of Marvel characters...?
I'm wondering how the "coastal" town of Bowen right on the Whitsunday islands could be referred to as Outback? :)
Check out a free opensource program called Media Portal - it's fantastic for setting up a home theatre PC and organising all your movies and tv shows. I rate it highly.
I tried a few standard cordless mice, and had to go to bluetooth to get further than about 1.8 metres or 6'. The garden variety ones wouldn't reach from my home theatre PC to the coffee table. If you want to use it for presentations or at least from a distance, make sure to check the range - although most boxes won't state any distance/range.
Are there many lawsuits getting around in Australia? Or are they simply trying to get ISP's to warn users off P2P? I haven't heard of any Australian lawsuits, but maybe i've just had my head in the ground...?
Could it be that they're just reducing the size of the Test Group, to minimise any negative findings?? Either way, it sounds like they don't have much confidence in the system.
Unethical? Yes - without doubt. I wouldn't even consider doing it myself. Illegal? Is it? What laws actually protect the integrity of a free email service? Is it regarded the same as snail mail?
This is an interesting move - good on them! You could easily argue that CDR and DVDR are predominantly used for piracy, but they openly sell them at all the major gorcey and department stores. Obviously becuase they have other legitimate uses too - just like bittorrent.
Bring it on - I'd quite happily pay a $5/month P2P surcharge to get rid of all the legal hassles surrounding it. I honestly don't know why it hasn't been seriously suggested at that level before. They could be getting so much good information from P2P stats, and the scope that it opens up for new artists to suddenly make it huge (along with all the other "safe" artists) must be worth something to even the big companies. Set up a board of reps from each affected industry and come to an agreement on splitting up the pie.
How does the rotation of a planet affect it's orbiting bodies? over time do they drift toward the equator? I thought that i'd heard years ago that there was a moon (or moons) with rings. Is this really new news, or am i mistaken?
What if by default, all internet plans were officially shaped to reduce P2P traffic and we could choose to pay a premium surcharge to remove the shaping. The premium to be split up between the ISP (for increased bandwidth usage, even for currently legit P2P users) and several bodies representing the Movie TV and Music industries. If everything was above-board, the organisation of the files could be very good, so that the funds collected could be distributed back to the companies/artists relative to the amount of downloads on a monthly basis. In the interim, the Representative Bodies could collectively get the benefit of the "micropayments" to the fund. That way people who choose not to d/l copyrighted media aren't hit with any additional cost. Without doing all the maths, it seems like a system in which the only people losing out would be the current digital music vendors (iTunes etc) unless they jumped on the concept and provided the interface to achieve the same thing on a monthly subscription basis rather than the per song/album system.
Great point! It's a tried and tested system.
What if by default, internet plans were shaped for P2P traffic and we could choose to pay a premium surcharge to remove the shaping.
The premium to be split up as follows:
1) A percentage of the surcharge goes to the ISP - if you're a P2P/BT user, then you most likely have a higher D/L than your average non p2p user, even if it's all legitimate stuff you're downloading.
2) A percentage goes to various bodies representing affected copyright holders.
Percentage 2) to be split relative to type (music/movie/etc) and split further by each industry's governing body, relative to market share. That way even the small independents who meet certain criteria are entitled to their share of the pie too.
If BT/P2P was made legitimate, it should beceome well filed/tagged to the extent that it ends up being simple maths to divide up the fund between which artists, in pretty much the same way that iTunes probably works right now.
Instead of passing on a fixed amount per sale though, they get a relative percentage of the monthly funds raised.
Excel 2003 has 65,536 rows. one number off ... Coincidence?
What's the logic for selection of this amount of row limitation?
What's the significance of this number to Excel?
Thought for the day: Whatever you do, don't fall asleep in the wheelchair!! You could wake up anywhere...
Is it possible that Wii's first party sales domination, is due to the proliferation of poor, low-value-for-money 3rd party output? Perhaps the linked article is focusing too hard on the effect, and not the cause.
What does this mean for other countries who receive these shows weeks or months after they air in the US? Wouldn't ABC's afilliated non-US networks have a problem with these shows being so legally freely available before they've had a chance to milk their advertising dollar. After they've already paid for the rights to broadcast the shows.
That toally makes sense, there's obviously all kinds of debris scooting around Saturn. It may also account for its apparently odd orbital pattern.