What you like is often buried under tons of crappy content...When we went from the 3 networks + locals + PBS universe and replaced it with the seemingly infinite channel universe, quality didn't go up, it went down...
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if you hate the internet so bad, turn off your computer and go buy a newspaper. bestbuy still sells CDs, and network television is still free. knock yourself out.
a plot synopsis that sounds interesting, or an involving or intrigueing tralier that doesn't immediately make me think that all the good bits of the film are in the trailer
excessive marketing has a negative effect on me. to this day i haven't seen films like "minority report" or "the transformers" because i saw too many commercials for them.
young males buy games and go to the movies. they buy games and go to the movies because games and movies are geared for them. it's practically a tautology.
FTFA:
In Hollywood, though, not all quadrants are created equal. If you, for instance, have a vagina, you're pretty much out of luck, because women, in studio thinking, are considered a niche audience that, except when Sandra Bullock reads a script or Nicholas Sparks writes a novel, generally isn't worth taking the time to figure out. And if you were born before 1985... well, it is my sad duty to inform you that in the eyes of Hollywood, you are one of what the kids on the Internet call "the olds." I know—you thought you were one of the kids on the Internet. Not to the studios, which have realized that the closer you get to (or the farther you get from) your thirtieth birthday, the more likely you are to develop things like taste and discernment, which render you such an exhausting proposition in terms of selling a movie that, well, you might as well have a vagina.
there are enough people out there that would use this stuff to cheat and since it's software based my understanding is that it's much harder to detect.
I understand wanting to mod stuff that you own and offline I don't care what you do to your console but what about those who use those same tools for cheating and thus ruining the service for everyone else who plays.
i don't think that being kept off of online play is at issue among the jailbreak community. i could be wrong, but most hombebrew types don't expect to be invited to the PSN/XBL party.
the executer chip in my original xbox had a kill switch so you could shut the mod off in order to play xbox live.
the foregone conclusion is that there will be more action taken to enforce copyright and maintain the rights of legitimate content owners. Piracy is only "a foregone conclusion" at the current levels if you assume nothing will be done.
it's not based in the idea that nothing will be done. piracy is a foregone conclusion regardless of what is done.
hollywood can capitulate to piracy in order to cut its losses, or it can go full-orwell and bring everyone who is concerned about basic freedoms into the fight. either way, piracy wins.
except that the war on piracy is a war of attrition.
hollywood's weapons are all based on money: lawyers, lobbying, lawsuits, digital right management technology, coin-operated legislation, even law enforcement. it all costs money, which is finite.
piracy's weapons are all based on time and talent: reverse engineering, freely distributed tools, collaboration, encryption, etc. they're all the products of talented people and invested time, which are both infinite.
hollywood has fallen victim to one of the classic blunders - the most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: never expend finite resources to fight someone whose resources are infinite.
My thoughts are that 2009 was probably peak piracy, and it's all downhill from there.
and my thoughts are that pirates are just getting started. groups like the Free Software Foundation didn't care about piracy when piracy was just about getting free music.
the more this sort of thing starts to resemble a battle for basic freedom, the more time and talent becomes available for the fight.
There are fewer and fewer countries that will tolerate it, and they may end up finding themselves on the outside looking in, with no legal sources for material. Like it or not, countries like Spain could end up with most file sharing sites shut down because the content they will list won't be legally available in the country, which will no longer make it a simple copyright violation case.
i hope that does happen. one of two things will result:
1) spain becomes the "haven for piracy" that hollywood would have us believe that china (and canada lol) is. how do you combat piracy then? invade spain?
2) spain becomes the new bollywood and a wealth of new, non-hollywood material hits the net, legal or otherwise. what do you do then? compete with spain?
either way, hollywood overplays its hand and only hurts itself.
piracy is a foregone conclusion. eventually hollywood will realize this and give up, but in the mean time, people have to be vigilant so that bad laws that threaten privacy and free speech don't get passed in the mean time.
i also routinely fly with a power squid and a 20' extension cord and haven't had an issue yet.
funny story, my last trip to defcon my wife forgot a small multi-tool in her carry on which was confiscated, while i, dressed all in black with my phreaknic "i watch you" t-shirt (http://www.cafepress.com.au/toddlyles/663254) and 20 feet of wire made it through the TSA just fine.
it appears to me that as soon as someone expresses a dissenting opinion they are called names and run out of town. That's a real shame, because otherwise Techdirt would be a great place to debate important issues.
i think the vitriol gets unleashed on people who make 5 year old arguments. i know i have unleashed the fury on a couple of "what if i were to copy your blog..." comments in the past.
i think the conversation here has progressed beyond a lot of the stuff that ACs tend to throw out and it looks like a lot of the regulars are just tired of having out the whole "OMG stealing" or "that only works/would never work for bands of X size and X popularity" debate for the thousandth time.
If you saw "freemovies.google.com", would you think that Google was now in the free movie business? If you see "childpr0n.mooo.com" do you make the same assumption about mooo.com?
blogspot.com is owned by google, and as you can see there are thousands of sites dedicated to free movies:
if the sites in question were really engaging in illegal activity, why not take control of them and use them for sting operations like the FBI did with ShadowCrew:
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if someone can't do research then they deserve to pay too much for crap. it's the closest our society will ever come to a tax on stupidity.
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tl;dr
if you hate the internet so bad, turn off your computer and go buy a newspaper. bestbuy still sells CDs, and network television is still free. knock yourself out.
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Re: Re: Competition
excessive marketing has a negative effect on me. to this day i haven't seen films like "minority report" or "the transformers" because i saw too many commercials for them.
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FTFA:
In Hollywood, though, not all quadrants are created equal. If you, for instance, have a vagina, you're pretty much out of luck, because women, in studio thinking, are considered a niche audience that, except when Sandra Bullock reads a script or Nicholas Sparks writes a novel, generally isn't worth taking the time to figure out. And if you were born before 1985... well, it is my sad duty to inform you that in the eyes of Hollywood, you are one of what the kids on the Internet call "the olds." I know—you thought you were one of the kids on the Internet. Not to the studios, which have realized that the closer you get to (or the farther you get from) your thirtieth birthday, the more likely you are to develop things like taste and discernment, which render you such an exhausting proposition in terms of selling a movie that, well, you might as well have a vagina.
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Re: What I've always hated
what are you some kind of communist?
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ZING!
congratulations, you beat the internet.
that's it everyone, party's over. turn off your computers and go buy some CD's.
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crack crypto:
http://hackaday.com/2008/12/30/25c3-hackers-completely-break-ssl-using-200-ps3s/
molecul ar biochemistry:
http://www.gpugrid.net
(used to be ps3grid.net, but now the site doesn't mention the PS3 at all)
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well, not for microsoft it isn't: http://articles.cnn.com/2009-11-12/tech/cnet.xbox.live.ban_1_banned-modern-warfare-informationweek?_ s=PM:TECH
live/PSN are services, and in the case of live, it's a paid service to boot, so banning folks from the service for mods/cheats is fine by me.
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i don't think that being kept off of online play is at issue among the jailbreak community. i could be wrong, but most hombebrew types don't expect to be invited to the PSN/XBL party.
the executer chip in my original xbox had a kill switch so you could shut the mod off in order to play xbox live.
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it's not based in the idea that nothing will be done. piracy is a foregone conclusion regardless of what is done.
hollywood can capitulate to piracy in order to cut its losses, or it can go full-orwell and bring everyone who is concerned about basic freedoms into the fight. either way, piracy wins.
except that the war on piracy is a war of attrition.
hollywood's weapons are all based on money: lawyers, lobbying, lawsuits, digital right management technology, coin-operated legislation, even law enforcement. it all costs money, which is finite.
piracy's weapons are all based on time and talent: reverse engineering, freely distributed tools, collaboration, encryption, etc. they're all the products of talented people and invested time, which are both infinite.
hollywood has fallen victim to one of the classic blunders - the most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: never expend finite resources to fight someone whose resources are infinite.
My thoughts are that 2009 was probably peak piracy, and it's all downhill from there.
and my thoughts are that pirates are just getting started. groups like the Free Software Foundation didn't care about piracy when piracy was just about getting free music.
the more this sort of thing starts to resemble a battle for basic freedom, the more time and talent becomes available for the fight.
There are fewer and fewer countries that will tolerate it, and they may end up finding themselves on the outside looking in, with no legal sources for material. Like it or not, countries like Spain could end up with most file sharing sites shut down because the content they will list won't be legally available in the country, which will no longer make it a simple copyright violation case.
i hope that does happen. one of two things will result:
1) spain becomes the "haven for piracy" that hollywood would have us believe that china (and canada lol) is. how do you combat piracy then? invade spain?
2) spain becomes the new bollywood and a wealth of new, non-hollywood material hits the net, legal or otherwise. what do you do then? compete with spain?
either way, hollywood overplays its hand and only hurts itself.
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it's more like this:
piracy is a foregone conclusion. eventually hollywood will realize this and give up, but in the mean time, people have to be vigilant so that bad laws that threaten privacy and free speech don't get passed in the mean time.
cory doctorow says it a lot better here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/apr/16/digital-economy-act-cory-doctorow
and if hollywood somehow manages to succeed and turn the internet into a dictatorship, boxes like these are the exit strategy.
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i flew home from defcon 16 with my badge: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&biw=1280&bih=831&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&a mp;q=defcon+16+badge&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
plus my neighborcon badge (which looks like a box cutter):
http://www.radiantmachines.com/2009/07/neighborcon-2-badge/
and defcon 17:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&biw=1280&bih=831&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&s a=1&q=defcon+17+badge&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
and defcon 18:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&biw=1280&bih=831&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&s a=1&q=defcon+18+badge&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
and so far nothing.
i also routinely fly with a power squid and a 20' extension cord and haven't had an issue yet.
funny story, my last trip to defcon my wife forgot a small multi-tool in her carry on which was confiscated, while i, dressed all in black with my phreaknic "i watch you" t-shirt (http://www.cafepress.com.au/toddlyles/663254) and 20 feet of wire made it through the TSA just fine.
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i think the vitriol gets unleashed on people who make 5 year old arguments. i know i have unleashed the fury on a couple of "what if i were to copy your blog..." comments in the past.
i think the conversation here has progressed beyond a lot of the stuff that ACs tend to throw out and it looks like a lot of the regulars are just tired of having out the whole "OMG stealing" or "that only works/would never work for bands of X size and X popularity" debate for the thousandth time.
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Re: Abdication or responsibility and victim mentality
it's a corporation's policy of protecting itself by encouraging employees to not protect themselves.
in walmart's view it would actually be better from a litigation perspective if the thief actually hurt one of the employees.
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scale is often trotted out as the difference between home taping and file sharing.
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blogspot.com is owned by google, and as you can see there are thousands of sites dedicated to free movies:
https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=802&q=si te%3Ablogspot.com+free+movies&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
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https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/ShadowCrew
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i don't think dynamic DNS means what you think it means.
dynamic DNS doesn't help you hide. it does the opposite, it helps people find you.
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