Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 23 Dec 2015 @ 3:00pm
Close, but...
The kind of person paying little or nothing for the film is not the kind of person who would otherwise be lined up at the theater to hand over $20 for a ticket to the film.
Actually, close but no cigar... Some Of the people (maybe even most) paying little or nothing for the film isn't the kind of person to line up to pay $20 to see it.
But equally, some are the sort of people that'll still line up and pay to see it, even after having downloaded it. Some more are the sort of people that'll line up and pay to see it after having downloaded it if it's not a total pile of shite.
Were I "Hollywood", I'd be less concerned about people downloading films and more concerned about people like me; Those who are increasingly of the opinion that most of the wank coming out of the major studios recently isn't worth wasting 3 hours of their life to see, free or not!
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 7 Dec 2015 @ 4:16am
Sooooo...
Do I have this straight? Technology is this wicked, demonic thing used primarily by criminals to commit all sorts of foul and terrible acts and needs to be carefully regulated, controlled, limited and broken. Guns are cute, cuddly toys that everyone should have and are at best only peripherally involved in crime.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 5 Dec 2015 @ 3:07pm
With a veritable banquet-sized alphabet soup tureen of federal agencies all squabbling over funding pie, with recognition from "daddy" government based on "results" (i.e. convictions), this kind of crap is sadly not only unsurprising, but inevitable.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 20 Nov 2015 @ 4:07am
Re: Re: Re:
Closed captions are generated and overlaid locally -- in the TV, STB, DVR etc. There's no way they can be obscured by an in-program popup.
Maybe not... but they can, and do, obscure burnt-in subtitles for anything with foreign language in. Not to mention whatever visual information may be in that (often large) portion of the screen, removing value from content you've already paid a &^$&$ fortune in subscription fees to watch.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 16 Nov 2015 @ 4:45am
Not a double-standard at all
Aren't these assholes using a terrible and violent event involving guns as an excuse to curtail constitutionally protected freedoms the same assholes who usually rail endlessly against anyone daring to suggest limiting another one when mass shootings happen domestically?
Maybe they're not.... Hypocritical US media assholes start looking kinda similar from a distance...
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 10 Nov 2015 @ 3:16pm
2 can play
“However those skills came at a cost. Although the child could walk, he preferred to crawl. He had the language skills of an 18-month-old. This boy probably had some underlying developmental problem – but I’m sure long hours on the iPad made it much worse.”
Well that's Apple for you.... I gave my son an Android tablet at birth and he could tap-dance, sing "La Traviata", hack into MI6 and had re-decorated his own room with Michelangelo-esque murals by the time he was 2.
I'll see your pointless hyperbole and raise you...
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 5 Nov 2015 @ 11:10am
Re: Re: It's not about the money
Geo blocking, release windows, and all those other things have everything to do with making money AND meeting the laws of different countries and areas.
...this would be the laws that these very organisations created themselves through lobbying, secret "trade" agreements, where necessary bullying and likely outright buying of politicians, right?
Talk with your local government about restrictions on movie distribution, [and other stuff].
Restrictions that, given the interenet, a global economy and universal availability of credit cards that pay for stuff in any currency, become entirely meaningless as soon as you remove geo-restrictions and put the purchasing decision and responsibility back where it should be - in the hands of people instead of governments.
Blaming the studios for local laws is just plain stupid.
No, that would be pretending the studios' lobbying arms had nothing to do with those laws...
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 5 Nov 2015 @ 10:30am
Re: It's not about the money
Because doing so would require them to give up the control that they cherish, even more so than the money they love so much.
Not sure it's about control as such.... To paraphrase the small gem of point in one of the... "opposing" replies to your post; ultimately "it's about the money".
Let's face it; the current situation sucks for consumers, is hopelessly complicated, involves lots of very expensive lawyers and has so many other bad points it would take an age to list; BUT... for all the constant whining from the **AA about how "piracy" is "killing" them, it does make a s**t-ton of money
So I think it's not so much control as fear. The studios can keep doing things exactly as they are and make a f**king enormous pile of cash, spending a fraction of it to keep buying new laws to prop up a business model that would fall over in a second in a free market. (And there's no real evidence so far of that methodology failing any time soon). OR, they could take a chance and embrace the real world and competition. Sure, given their massive lead over any competition likely in this scenario, everything points to them making even more s**t-tons of money with even minimal competence... but what if they don't?
Until laws stop being purchasable, I think "A bird in the hand" is going to win hands-down every time.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 5 Nov 2015 @ 10:11am
Re: Re: It's not about the money
Geo blocking, release windows, and all those other things have everything to do with making money AND meeting the laws of different countries and areas.
...this would be the laws that these very organisations created themselves through lobbying, secret "trade" agreements, where necessary bullying and likely outright buying of politicians, right?
Talk with your local government about restrictions on movie distribution, [and other stuff].
Restrictions that, given the interenet, a global economy and universal availability of credit cards that pay for stuff in any currency, become entirely meaningless as soon as you remove geo-restrictions and put the purchasing decision and responsibility back where it should be - in the hands of people instead of governments.
Blaming the studios for local laws is just plain stupid.
No, that would be pretending the studios' lobbying arms had nothing to do with those laws...
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 21 Oct 2015 @ 7:19am
Rallying cry?
If I remember correctly, Islamic fundamentalists often label the US "The Great Satan" and the UK "Lesser Satan".... who knew they got it the wrong way round?
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 19 Oct 2015 @ 6:07am
The other side of the coin
So.... Twitter account name linked to IP address to email account name to facebook account name to exactly the person they want. Setting aside the encryption thing for a moment, 2 things seem obvious:
1) Metadata is more than enough to identify and track both a person and their behaviour so claiming there's no problem hoovering up every bit of metadata is self-evident bull.
2) The trail appears to have started at a Twitter account name linked to a specific act and not within the huge haystack of hoovered up data so said haystack would appear to have little use.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 15 Oct 2015 @ 4:39pm
Re: Re: Re: Re: 77% of the comments go to the troll
so I just don't see why it's such a issue for some people when threads veer off-topic here
Were it off-topic and at least faintly constructive, I suspect it would not be such an issue. Personally, I'd rather have the ability to collapse a whole thread or sub-thread of comments whether because it's random abuse, pointless drivel, or simply a thread of comments I'm not interested in... but one can't, so for the likes of the former, "report" is about the only option.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 15 Oct 2015 @ 12:53pm
Re: Re: 77% of the comments go to the troll
Trolls shouldn't be ignored, but dragged out from under the bridge and exposed for the trolls they are.
Great in theory.... in practice (and partly because there's no collapse function), the comment threads become an unreadable wall of spam with troll spouting (usually) off-topic vitriol and others (yes, I'm occasionally guilty too) trying to refute said utter bollocks.
Usually it's about the equivalent of listening to a fanatical catholic and a fanatical atheist argue about the existence of god when you're trying to watch a documentary about cars. Hence, I suspect, the inevitable ignoring.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 15 Oct 2015 @ 6:10am
Brilliant motivation
Soooo... let me get this straight: You're saying that is one were to pirate all the CN content, one would get to see the content at no cost AND have privacy; but if one were to use their official application one would get to see their content at no cost but have NO privacy?
Hmmmm.... let me think about that for a moment....
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 9 Oct 2015 @ 12:52pm
Ok... riiiight
We glorify sick and senseless acts of violence in virtually every element of our pop culture, and we have been doing that for at least a generation.
Uh huh...
We have generations of young boys who were raised on video games where they compete with other young boys around the country and the world to see who can kill the most humans.
So that's why spree killings Mr Jindal? We get all the same films and games you do and there's only been 3 in my lifetime that I remember in the UK, versus how many in the US? Think there may be a little more to it than that... just sayin'
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Close, but...
Some Of the people (maybe even most) paying little or nothing for the film isn't the kind of person to line up to pay $20 to see it.
But equally, some are the sort of people that'll still line up and pay to see it, even after having downloaded it. Some more are the sort of people that'll line up and pay to see it after having downloaded it if it's not a total pile of shite.
Were I "Hollywood", I'd be less concerned about people downloading films and more concerned about people like me; Those who are increasingly of the opinion that most of the wank coming out of the major studios recently isn't worth wasting 3 hours of their life to see, free or not!
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Re:
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Sooooo...
Technology is this wicked, demonic thing used primarily by criminals to commit all sorts of foul and terrible acts and needs to be carefully regulated, controlled, limited and broken.
Guns are cute, cuddly toys that everyone should have and are at best only peripherally involved in crime.
right?
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But wait...!
Damn! Wrong again!
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Progress?
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Re: Re: Re:
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Not a double-standard at all
Maybe they're not.... Hypocritical US media assholes start looking kinda similar from a distance...
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2 can play
I'll see your pointless hyperbole and raise you...
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The ONLY Daily Mail you need:
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Re: Re: It's not about the money
Restrictions that, given the interenet, a global economy and universal availability of credit cards that pay for stuff in any currency, become entirely meaningless as soon as you remove geo-restrictions and put the purchasing decision and responsibility back where it should be - in the hands of people instead of governments.No, that would be pretending the studios' lobbying arms had nothing to do with those laws...
On the post: MPAA Whacs A Few More Moles, Declares Premature Victory While Making Movie Fans Worse Off
Re: It's not about the money
Let's face it; the current situation sucks for consumers, is hopelessly complicated, involves lots of very expensive lawyers and has so many other bad points it would take an age to list; BUT... for all the constant whining from the **AA about how "piracy" is "killing" them, it does make a s**t-ton of money
So I think it's not so much control as fear. The studios can keep doing things exactly as they are and make a f**king enormous pile of cash, spending a fraction of it to keep buying new laws to prop up a business model that would fall over in a second in a free market. (And there's no real evidence so far of that methodology failing any time soon).
OR, they could take a chance and embrace the real world and competition. Sure, given their massive lead over any competition likely in this scenario, everything points to them making even more s**t-tons of money with even minimal competence... but what if they don't?
Until laws stop being purchasable, I think "A bird in the hand" is going to win hands-down every time.
On the post: MPAA Whacs A Few More Moles, Declares Premature Victory While Making Movie Fans Worse Off
Re: Re: It's not about the money
Restrictions that, given the interenet, a global economy and universal availability of credit cards that pay for stuff in any currency, become entirely meaningless as soon as you remove geo-restrictions and put the purchasing decision and responsibility back where it should be - in the hands of people instead of governments.No, that would be pretending the studios' lobbying arms had nothing to do with those laws...
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Rallying cry?
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The other side of the coin
Setting aside the encryption thing for a moment, 2 things seem obvious:
1) Metadata is more than enough to identify and track both a person and their behaviour so claiming there's no problem hoovering up every bit of metadata is self-evident bull.
2) The trail appears to have started at a Twitter account name linked to a specific act and not within the huge haystack of hoovered up data so said haystack would appear to have little use.
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Wrong question
The real question is:
Why is the court acting like this is the law?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: 77% of the comments go to the troll
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Re: Re: 77% of the comments go to the troll
Usually it's about the equivalent of listening to a fanatical catholic and a fanatical atheist argue about the existence of god when you're trying to watch a documentary about cars. Hence, I suspect, the inevitable ignoring.
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Brilliant motivation
You're saying that is one were to pirate all the CN content, one would get to see the content at no cost AND have privacy; but if one were to use their official application one would get to see their content at no cost but have NO privacy?
Hmmmm.... let me think about that for a moment....
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Ok... riiiight
We get all the same films and games you do and there's only been 3 in my lifetime that I remember in the UK, versus how many in the US? Think there may be a little more to it than that... just sayin'
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