Oh and also - realize on the above, that if not for watching movies with friends and family - I would likely spend almost ALL of my time coding or video gaming and filmmakers wouldn't get a cent from me buying DVD's or paying for On-Demand, or even cable for that matter.
I have a flat screen TV, cable box, and pay for movie channels - to entertain company. By and large, if I was single and didn't have any family that came over my house, I probably wouldn't have anything but a higher powered PC that I would code/game/veg-out on.
So you 'filmmakers' OWE the people who are freely watching your junk an apology - because if not for them, I wouldn't pay 100 a month for cable and have like 200+ DVDs. Jerks.
"The idea that I have to accept as a filmmaker that a certain percentage of the people who see my stuff are never going to pay me for it... in film school, I never thought I'd have to live with that. What other business would it be okay to lose 50% of your product and not receive income for it?"
How is this different from me buying a DVD and a friend coming over and watching it?
One person - in that case - got to watch it for free, right?
Should that be illegal? Let me know if it is, so I can stop buying DVD's also.
Sad part of this whole thing is - ANY terrorist with ANY sense in his/her head would avoid the airlines like a plague.
Not only is it 'old news', but with the focus on the TSA and the failing airlines, it would quickly be clear that another target will likely be woefully unprotected.
The TSA claims to be there for our 'safety' - yet, they even fail at that.
If the woman has type 1 diabetes, it's potentially life threatening to go without insulin for many hours! So who is the bigger threat here? The woman or TSA?
It depends:
If you are talking in terms of reality - the TSA is *obviously* the bigger threat.
But in today's cesspool of a world, the media and government spin would indicate that the pregnant woman was the threat.
If the government can print cash why does it have to borrow?
Please explain.
Because it's in debt to the federal reserve, along with bons owed to investors (China holds a LARGE amount of these; thus the 'debt' to China). At one point, bankers thought it would be a good idea to hold a financial gauntlet over the American people - and here we are..
On a separate note, the reason given for having to keep House's laptop for so long? Because the laptop ran both Linux and Windows and the tech geniuses at Homeland Security had trouble understanding how to deal with that
LOL, so what's the point?
I mean, obviously if THIS was a problem for them - then the possibility of hidden data being found is pretty much Zero.
But again, if you have data you don't want found on your laptop - put it on a flash drive and put it in the mail.
Indeed. I just got upgraded Saturday to 30MB - and it's great, but the router they brought is junk and needs replaced. The DNS keeps 'failing' on it. I know it's this, because I can connect by IP without fail. BUT I can't change 'steam' or anything to deal with this issue.
And sure, give me the bullshit of 'you can wait' - but I spent ALL DAY Saturday working on the house and cleaning - while I waited on my internet upgrade, etc, etc.
Saturday night comes and I can't play anything on Steam, same Sunday - so what was it worth to me when I had time to play it? ZERO. My gaming time is very limited, when I want to play and can't - I get quite annoyed.
So yes indeed... I'll pay for a single MMO now and find other hobbies. No more Steam style authentication. And no more 'EA style' BS either. I really didn't feel up to fully installing the 5-6 SIMS 3 DVD's I had because of some stupid error - and I know that's JUST what I'll have to do.
In both cases - sorry, but I'm no longer a PAYING customer. Your product has failed me, regardless of what you say - it has.
There are one or two game/series that I have REALLY had enough of.
One of them is 'The Sims 3' - I'm so SICK of installing all the BS anytime something gets screwed up, because of their fail DRM.
Another is anything on Steam - ANYTHING. It's a good concept, but I'm tired of server problems and it's reliance on the internet. I just got an upgrade from my ISP and am having some issues. Tech is coming back out, but in the interim, I can't play ANYTHING I paid for on Steam because it's not in "offline mode", so screw Steam. You can't always predict when you'll need to change that.
I'm frankly getting sick of DRM and it's associated control concepts. I don't need to play games that bad. It's annoying. I'll stick to my one MMO.
I think I'll take the money I would spend on games over this whole next year and have my piano tuned instead. At least it won't fail to function because of DRM.
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50% of the 'viewers' in that case didn't pay for the movie.
If I invite 3 friend over that means 75% didn't pay for it.
If I invite 9 people over then 90% didn't pay for it.
....
Of course, that doesn't mean one or more of my friend and family won't go out and buy the movie, if it's good, later on.
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I have a flat screen TV, cable box, and pay for movie channels - to entertain company. By and large, if I was single and didn't have any family that came over my house, I probably wouldn't have anything but a higher powered PC that I would code/game/veg-out on.
So you 'filmmakers' OWE the people who are freely watching your junk an apology - because if not for them, I wouldn't pay 100 a month for cable and have like 200+ DVDs. Jerks.
On the post: CoC's 'Victims Of Internet Piracy' Look More Like 'Victims Of Propagandist Exploitation'
How is this different from me buying a DVD and a friend coming over and watching it?
One person - in that case - got to watch it for free, right?
Should that be illegal? Let me know if it is, so I can stop buying DVD's also.
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Not only is it 'old news', but with the focus on the TSA and the failing airlines, it would quickly be clear that another target will likely be woefully unprotected.
The TSA claims to be there for our 'safety' - yet, they even fail at that.
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Re: Who is the bigger threat here?
It depends:
If you are talking in terms of reality - the TSA is *obviously* the bigger threat.
But in today's cesspool of a world, the media and government spin would indicate that the pregnant woman was the threat.
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Certainly not protecting the citizens.
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Why aren't they suing anything with 'yearbook', 'textbook', or similar in it?
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Is Facebook somehow considered legal proof of identity?
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Please explain.
Because it's in debt to the federal reserve, along with bons owed to investors (China holds a LARGE amount of these; thus the 'debt' to China). At one point, bankers thought it would be a good idea to hold a financial gauntlet over the American people - and here we are..
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=193828.0
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LOL, so what's the point?
I mean, obviously if THIS was a problem for them - then the possibility of hidden data being found is pretty much Zero.
But again, if you have data you don't want found on your laptop - put it on a flash drive and put it in the mail.
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
Indeed. I just got upgraded Saturday to 30MB - and it's great, but the router they brought is junk and needs replaced. The DNS keeps 'failing' on it. I know it's this, because I can connect by IP without fail. BUT I can't change 'steam' or anything to deal with this issue.
And sure, give me the bullshit of 'you can wait' - but I spent ALL DAY Saturday working on the house and cleaning - while I waited on my internet upgrade, etc, etc.
Saturday night comes and I can't play anything on Steam, same Sunday - so what was it worth to me when I had time to play it? ZERO. My gaming time is very limited, when I want to play and can't - I get quite annoyed.
So yes indeed... I'll pay for a single MMO now and find other hobbies. No more Steam style authentication. And no more 'EA style' BS either. I really didn't feel up to fully installing the 5-6 SIMS 3 DVD's I had because of some stupid error - and I know that's JUST what I'll have to do.
In both cases - sorry, but I'm no longer a PAYING customer. Your product has failed me, regardless of what you say - it has.
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There are one or two game/series that I have REALLY had enough of.
One of them is 'The Sims 3' - I'm so SICK of installing all the BS anytime something gets screwed up, because of their fail DRM.
Another is anything on Steam - ANYTHING. It's a good concept, but I'm tired of server problems and it's reliance on the internet. I just got an upgrade from my ISP and am having some issues. Tech is coming back out, but in the interim, I can't play ANYTHING I paid for on Steam because it's not in "offline mode", so screw Steam. You can't always predict when you'll need to change that.
I'm frankly getting sick of DRM and it's associated control concepts. I don't need to play games that bad. It's annoying. I'll stick to my one MMO.
I think I'll take the money I would spend on games over this whole next year and have my piano tuned instead. At least it won't fail to function because of DRM.
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