Comment Re:Blame the content makers (Score 1) 488
Technically, by taking your money, your sister is now rebroadcasting copyrighted content. No, seriously. She is.
Comment Blame the content makers (Score 5, Informative) 488
The estimate is that in 2012, Netflix's license fees will go from $180 million in 2010 to $1.98 billion in 2012, according to this.
Its going to be very hard for anyone to become the legal clearinghouse for media at a price point most consumers see as reasonable because the studios won't allow it.
Comment Re:Supported devices (Score 1) 162
It would seem that officially, only Qualcomm devices support the DRM scheme they aren't actually using, since other devices have been modified to work.
Comment Re:Your definition of movie may vary... (Score 4, Informative) 207
Actually, The Tunnel has completed principal photography and is in post-production, according to the Open Letter referenced in the article. And they supplied references to major media tracking their work, as IMDB requested.
Comment Re:Wikileaks isn't balanced in it's coverage (Score 4, Insightful) 711
Convince someone on the inside to leak 15,000 verifiable documents on any of those situations, and I bet WikiLeaks would jump on it. They aren't necessarily "focused" on the US, as much as that is what's mostly been made available to them. If the Taliban had a structure that required and kept comparable records, WikiLeaks would probably publish those, as well.
Submission + - Space station closure date (physorg.com)
jcdick1 writes: The current partners in the ISS are in discussion regarding the closure date of the space station.
From the article:
"The United States insists it will pull out of the station at the end of 2015 while Russia wants its life prolonged, said European Space Agency (ESA) chief Jean-Jacques Dordain at an astronautics congress in Hyderabad, southern India.
NASA administrator Michael Griffin has told space station partners that the US agency has no plans for "utilisation and exploitation" of the science research lab for more than five years after it is completed, Dordain said."
From the article:
"The United States insists it will pull out of the station at the end of 2015 while Russia wants its life prolonged, said European Space Agency (ESA) chief Jean-Jacques Dordain at an astronautics congress in Hyderabad, southern India.
NASA administrator Michael Griffin has told space station partners that the US agency has no plans for "utilisation and exploitation" of the science research lab for more than five years after it is completed, Dordain said."
