05.09.06

Now, with new high prices!

Posted in Copyright/Trademark/Patent Law at 1:09 pm by Clay

From the BBC, reporting from Los Angeles, about Time Warner’s coming service that will allow for legal downloads by bit torrent:

Pricing for a feature film will be about the same as the DVD release.

…

Warner added that whether a TV show or feature film, it will only play on the initial computer used to make the download.

So, with a DVD, I would have something that is:

·relatively easy to use on a bunch of different devices
·reasonably likely to still work in 5 years
·easy to lend to a friend
·possible to sell(or donate to the library)

Or, with pirated movies, I would have something that is:

·free
·relatively easy to use on a bunch of different devices
·reasonably likely to still work in 5 years
·easy to give to a friend

Or, with legal downloads, I would have something that is:

·unlikely to get me sued or put in jail
·possibly easier to find

Now, the legal download people would make the argument that it would be a higher-quality download, free of malware, but the thing is, with the illegal downloads, those in the know have an idea of which formats are dangerous and which aren’t. On the other hand, we’re supposed to trust Time Warner to not harm us when they’ve already included a layer of CRAP because they don’t trust us, and Sony deliberately included malware on their CDs on two separate occasions.

Yet, somehow after thinking over this situation, the content industry thinks that enough consumers will jump at the chance to pay extra for less service.

Perhaps they will. Me, I’ll stick to watching video blogs, where I’m not considered a thief for wanting to watch them on my Palm device.

05.07.06

Respect

Posted in Religion at 1:31 pm by Clay

Cardinal urges legal action against Da Vinci Code

“Sometimes it is our duty to do something practical. So it is not I who will tell all Christians what to do but some know legal means which can be taken in order to get the other person to respect the rights of others,” Arinze said.

“This is one of the fundamental human rights: that we should be respected, our religious beliefs respected, and our founder Jesus Christ respected,” he said, without elaborating on what legal means he had in mind.

An unelected leader of a religious faction that has a history of killing people who disagree with them says that it’s a “fundamental human right” that their religious beliefs should be “respected”, by which he means, “not questioned or contradicted”.

Aren’t there enough lawyers in Hell?