I'd like to add that nowhere was any hint that they'd be reissuing this stuff on dvd comps or streaming in the future. There was no real internet when I was involved in the film biz. The music unions, OTOH, have much better terms for reissues, and we even got a cut every year , even the most lowly of us, from the collected tape and CD surcharges.. If you wonder where it went, that's where, it was to poor and rich musicians alike , according to how much they worked.. NOT how much they earned. The fairest surchage in the world.

Er.. Need work? Like everybody else that aren't "big stars" we have to accept what we get, unless it's our own project, and are hardly in any position to negotiate royalties!

Betcha he's turned the speaker volume waay down..

As opposed to Steve Jobs, who was not an MBA, but a dreamer. But with money. Nothing is going to upset the apple cart (pun intended) as fast as a dreamer with money, and the success of the Apple 2 made it possible. They nearly lost it all , too, with the Lisa.. but that experience and UI design went to good use with the Mac. As far as John Sculley.. ("d'ya want to make sugar water all the rest of your life?") Steve did admit "what can I say, I made a mistake"..but despite Sculley's disastrous leadership, IMHO, no, had he not gotten turfed we'd have had no "Next", therefore no OSX, and no post 1998 Apple rebound. And had he not returned, we'd probably had the return of Jean Luis Gassee, one of the the Sculley era Apple contemporaries (He was CEO of Apple France) who, along with Spindler, were mainly responsible for Apple's slide into the bargain bins of the department stores. And, not content with nearly running BeOS into the ground, he would have returned to Apple and done the same thing to it. I'm not saying that the Be OS wouldn't have been a wonderful basis for the new Apple Operating system. For several years I was a diehard devotee of Be (well, less than 2 years, actually, as it died hard and suddenly) With BeOS underpinnings, however, there's no question MacOS would have retained the "friendly" aura it always had with the classic desktop, and in all probability would even look the same, and even run the same apps but with more stability.. kind of like what A/UX promised but never really delivered. Actually, it makes me now wonder if Haiku has reached the practical daily user stage for an OS. Naw.. probably still not... Now if it can go a couple of weeks without my rebooting into MS or Apple.. or linux.. well..."that'll be the day. that I say good-bye" ;-)

I have been "whining" about precisely the same thing for several years now.. at least as far as the desktop software, in particular, the OS, is concerned. The "rot" started setting in around the time Steve Jobs got seriously ill, (Snow Leopard) and got really bad under Tim Cook. I simply cannot get around , efficiently, such a cumbersome OS.. EVERYTHING seems to need workarounds now, and it hampers my workflow. OTOH, I found Windows 7 to be a breeze to use, and for a diehard Macophile to say that (I've been using macs for 14 years) is worrisome. I don't know about Win8, nor do I want to, but perhaps Windows 9 is like 7. I'm not ready to switch though, because I still am using Snow Leopard as my maiin OS, which is the last one to support my years of investments in applications, many of which have not been upgraded by the developer as the constant changes by Apple were too hard to keep up with, so they folded. If pressed perhaps I'll switch to another unix-y like OS.. which would need to be Linux as there aren't a lot of consumer apps for QNX ;-(

Oh, and I never could figure out why the birds kept flying into my trailer a couple of months out of the year.. it also happens to be when the blackberries are overripe. Hmmm...

You mean a real "strawberry tree"? What are the fruits like? Good?

Ooh, and what about tibetan "Crazy honey"? The birds will fight for a bite.. and the monkeys are really adept at finding it, even to the point of getting repeatedly stung. Of course monkeys are the biggest dope and boozers in the jungle, besides elephants... Perhaps the bigger the braincase, the more the need for it?

"Low alcohol" fermented fruit? Musta not ever been in the jungle. Within a couple of really hot days it reaches 15 % w.v..

YOU are missing the point in a big way. *I* am one of those people that the studios have been stealing from, and I can tell you, I don't like it. How is it that these people can suddenly milk my work, for big bucks, and yet claim that I do not deserve a cent off of it? And you expect me to enthusiastically support copyright laws that don't give a fuck about one of the original creators?

Well, dumping tons of heavy water in the lake (accidentally or sabotage) during the 40s could have been a clue too ;-)

THe contract is FINISHED when all parties have been paid. It is NOT a fsair extention of any contract to suddenly squeeze x amount of "new" dollars out of it, unless EVERYBODY originally involved gets a cut. And believe me, they sure the fuck DON'T. Take your "attack of the 50 foot woman" Did any of the actors get part of this renewed Amazon and netflix or google play proceeds? What avbout the Best boys? the Gaffers? The extras and the makeup department? No? But I hear you screaming "they got paid already". Indeed they did. And therein lies the moral argument against "they should be allowed too squeeze as much out of it as they want, it's their film". What you're saying actually is THE INVESTORS should , as any artists have a right to,. squeeze as much out of it. But investors arent artists. And none of the actual artists ARE getting reimbursed. So I call extended copyright out and out theft, from the public, and the original artists and technicians involved, both.

Wouldn't there be some way to completely encrypt communications with a modified Bit coin code?

In a way, yes. The Fed, after all, is, essentially, "skimming" off the top, via the deficit. It's an entirely corrupt scheme that dshould never have been allowed, and before, 1913, it wasn't..

Yes. Cripple the entire corrupt banking system.