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Twiddling thumbs
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Can't think of stuff to post for now.
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Pausing Project PanoLapse
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The weather isn't cooperating, the risk of lightning/rain is too high. Unless I get a recommendation on weather-proofing, I can't make another shoot for a few weeks.
Challenges: rain, lightning, wind, not being seen by the camera.
Challenges: rain, lightning, wind, not being seen by the camera.
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From what I've heard, it's one of the best movies. Ever. I know many quotes from it, and some key plot points, but never actually saw the movies. I'm sure I would love it as much as I love Harry Potter and Star Wars.
I borrowed the first set of disks, thinking we had the whole series of movies. Of course, all it has is the first movie, and some five DVDs of behind-the-scenes work. I don't have a problem with that: I just want to see the movies first. Unfortunately, I only have the first movie. That's only the beginning of my quest to watch the movies.
I tried putting the first disc in the set into my desktop, and told my movie player to play the disk. (I told my computer not to use auto-run.) My disk drive starts up, then slows down.
"An error occurred"
"Could not read DVD. This may be because the DVD is encrypted and a DVD decryption library is not installed."
Translation: "Wait, you want to WATCH our movie? No, no, no. You bought the DISK, but WE own the movie. Stop trying to watch this."
Now for some heavy sarcasm:
Thank you, New Line Entertainment. You have made this viewing experience extremely short and unpleasant. I also thank you for choosing to NOT put allow Hulu to publish your movie. You have made it very difficult and unpleasant to watch your movie. Thank you for being reasonable people. I'm sure this experience, in combination with all of your re-released materials, has made you so rich, you can't think of anything to do with your money. Feel free to exploit paying customers like me to your hearts content.
Alright, so watching a movie in Ubuntu on a desktop that was built for gaming and movies, both making and viewing, isn't going to work because New Line Home Entertainment doesn't want you to be entertained at home. Fortunately, I have a DVD player! Great news! It won't connect to my monitor! I have to get a bulky CRT TV from the basement if I want to watch a DVD behind DRM overkill.
So by the time I can get a DVD to play at all, I'll watch "The Fellowship of the Ring", find myself at an exciting cliff-hanger, and then be unable to watch the last two movies because I don't have the DVDs, and don't want to pay any money to get the later DVDs after this kind of annoyance.
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In the Defence of Publishers in General:
In terms of movies.
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I understand that you want to make money. I have no problem with you making special editions for your movies. I'll even pay several times a reasonable price to get a bag of popcorn in theaters. In addition to this, I understand that pirating is a problem for you. I wish to make it clear why it happens, at least some of the time.
Technology is improving at an alarming rate. There is now a thing called "The Internet". It lets you transmit information around the world. This includes text, pictures, and videos, big and small, long and short, original or pirated. MOST content on the Internet is LEGAL. While BitTorrent, for instance, may be used to transmit your films illegally, it is also used to legally download game content, often behind the scenes, to download original works LEGALLY, or to transmit files to yourself. Blocking BitTorrent or the Internet would hurt, and maybe KILL, the largest and fastest growing part of our troubled economy. DO NOT BREAK THE INTERNET. If an Internet expert tells you that blocking BitTorret, while entirely possible, would be morally wrong and damage the Internet, you look for OTHER ways to fix your problem.
Why do people transmit copyrighted movies online? I believe it is the same reason books are transmitted online: to always have it with you. You can view movies on your phone, but no one wants to pay for a movie TWICE when both purchases have the SAME content. Netflix and Hulu are services that allow movies to be viewed anywhere, and Netflix still provides DVDs for those who have poor Internet connections, or if NetFlix cannot send the movie online. Try to one-up these services: create a program like VALVE's STEAM or Apple's iTunes that can stream movies online or save them for offline viewing later. You might even want to ask them for pointers, since Steam uses a secured BitTorrent connection to make sure that games can download even under the worst of Internet connections.
While we're at it, I have an idea that I don't think anyone's done yet: For every DVD you sell, include a unique code, and maybe a password to match. People who own the DVDs could register an account with your website that allows them to prove ownership of movies. Then with a single username/password combination, they can access all of the movies they have paid for, on any device, or online. Want to make sure that no copy of a disc is viewed by two people, unless they're looking at the same screen? Fine. Go ahead. It's your site. You can do that. If a user wants to lend a copy of the movie to a friend, then your site could allow the movie to be borrowed by that friend, so long as both users aren't viewing the movie at once. Feel free to make it so that the first user's friend cannot lend the movie to other, but can only send it back. Same idea as with a physical disc. If the first user wants to give the movie to their friend, then let them. Simply require that the friend has the code on the disc's box, and therefore almost certainly has the DVD, in order to claim ownership of the disk. Again, this would disable the original user's access to the disk. Rather than making the disk unviewable after 5 or so changes in ownership, you could provide an option to lock ownership of the movie in the user's account. This however, requires you to be responsible for unlocking stolen content, but it also means that you have far better control of piracy, since it occurs in your own system, rather than a system you have no control over.
I hope this solution is as useful to you as I think it would be to consumers.
I borrowed the first set of disks, thinking we had the whole series of movies. Of course, all it has is the first movie, and some five DVDs of behind-the-scenes work. I don't have a problem with that: I just want to see the movies first. Unfortunately, I only have the first movie. That's only the beginning of my quest to watch the movies.
I tried putting the first disc in the set into my desktop, and told my movie player to play the disk. (I told my computer not to use auto-run.) My disk drive starts up, then slows down.
"An error occurred"
"Could not read DVD. This may be because the DVD is encrypted and a DVD decryption library is not installed."
Translation: "Wait, you want to WATCH our movie? No, no, no. You bought the DISK, but WE own the movie. Stop trying to watch this."
Now for some heavy sarcasm:
Thank you, New Line Entertainment. You have made this viewing experience extremely short and unpleasant. I also thank you for choosing to NOT put allow Hulu to publish your movie. You have made it very difficult and unpleasant to watch your movie. Thank you for being reasonable people. I'm sure this experience, in combination with all of your re-released materials, has made you so rich, you can't think of anything to do with your money. Feel free to exploit paying customers like me to your hearts content.
Alright, so watching a movie in Ubuntu on a desktop that was built for gaming and movies, both making and viewing, isn't going to work because New Line Home Entertainment doesn't want you to be entertained at home. Fortunately, I have a DVD player! Great news! It won't connect to my monitor! I have to get a bulky CRT TV from the basement if I want to watch a DVD behind DRM overkill.
So by the time I can get a DVD to play at all, I'll watch "The Fellowship of the Ring", find myself at an exciting cliff-hanger, and then be unable to watch the last two movies because I don't have the DVDs, and don't want to pay any money to get the later DVDs after this kind of annoyance.
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In the Defence of Publishers in General:
In terms of movies.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I understand that you want to make money. I have no problem with you making special editions for your movies. I'll even pay several times a reasonable price to get a bag of popcorn in theaters. In addition to this, I understand that pirating is a problem for you. I wish to make it clear why it happens, at least some of the time.
Technology is improving at an alarming rate. There is now a thing called "The Internet". It lets you transmit information around the world. This includes text, pictures, and videos, big and small, long and short, original or pirated. MOST content on the Internet is LEGAL. While BitTorrent, for instance, may be used to transmit your films illegally, it is also used to legally download game content, often behind the scenes, to download original works LEGALLY, or to transmit files to yourself. Blocking BitTorrent or the Internet would hurt, and maybe KILL, the largest and fastest growing part of our troubled economy. DO NOT BREAK THE INTERNET. If an Internet expert tells you that blocking BitTorret, while entirely possible, would be morally wrong and damage the Internet, you look for OTHER ways to fix your problem.
Why do people transmit copyrighted movies online? I believe it is the same reason books are transmitted online: to always have it with you. You can view movies on your phone, but no one wants to pay for a movie TWICE when both purchases have the SAME content. Netflix and Hulu are services that allow movies to be viewed anywhere, and Netflix still provides DVDs for those who have poor Internet connections, or if NetFlix cannot send the movie online. Try to one-up these services: create a program like VALVE's STEAM or Apple's iTunes that can stream movies online or save them for offline viewing later. You might even want to ask them for pointers, since Steam uses a secured BitTorrent connection to make sure that games can download even under the worst of Internet connections.
While we're at it, I have an idea that I don't think anyone's done yet: For every DVD you sell, include a unique code, and maybe a password to match. People who own the DVDs could register an account with your website that allows them to prove ownership of movies. Then with a single username/password combination, they can access all of the movies they have paid for, on any device, or online. Want to make sure that no copy of a disc is viewed by two people, unless they're looking at the same screen? Fine. Go ahead. It's your site. You can do that. If a user wants to lend a copy of the movie to a friend, then your site could allow the movie to be borrowed by that friend, so long as both users aren't viewing the movie at once. Feel free to make it so that the first user's friend cannot lend the movie to other, but can only send it back. Same idea as with a physical disc. If the first user wants to give the movie to their friend, then let them. Simply require that the friend has the code on the disc's box, and therefore almost certainly has the DVD, in order to claim ownership of the disk. Again, this would disable the original user's access to the disk. Rather than making the disk unviewable after 5 or so changes in ownership, you could provide an option to lock ownership of the movie in the user's account. This however, requires you to be responsible for unlocking stolen content, but it also means that you have far better control of piracy, since it occurs in your own system, rather than a system you have no control over.
I hope this solution is as useful to you as I think it would be to consumers.
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Are you still there?
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For a while now my computer has been talking to me as I enter and leave me room. Mainly it plays quotes from Portal and Portal 2. I now have the program on my blog.
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nngprojects.wordpress.com/
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I have a BLOG now!
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I now have a place to store non-picture, non-video type projects! Such as the programs I wrote to quote GLaDOS and the Turrets whenever I approach or leave my computer!
I now have a place to store non-picture, non-video type projects! Such as the programs I wrote to quote GLaDOS and the Turrets whenever I approach or leave my computer!
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