True, but like iPlayer/Kontiki you don't have to use the network. Don't watch crappy MS-distributed DRM files and nothing changes. Just stick with the usual clear torrents.

What if glasses that could see though any matter became common place, would that mean we should never have a reasonable expectation of privacy? No way. Any surveillance that requires more than human eyes and a visible light source should have a warrant IMO.

This is so backwards:

The main limitation that's taking shape is Big Content's want for absolute control over media files. What we're balking at is the idea of locked down files that only play on certain network-connected systems with licensed hardware or software. The solution is to sell DRM-free files of content we actually want.

Music albums, TV networks and to some extent movies are all designed around selling content we want mixed with crap we don't want. Well guess what? The jig us up.

I clicked this link in my RSS reader for the sole purpose of seeing how long it took for a MOMS joke.

I'm saddened that I had to wait all the way to post #2.

Just throwing that out there...

If some computer-related activities can (apparently) change the way the brain works, I wonder if too much of it can have adverse effects. For example I've been using computers for about 30 years now and it's pretty apparent that my brain works quite differently than people who don't. Has this left me at a disadvantage WRT social interaction? I wonder if anyone has done research on that. *searches Google for it* d'oh!

haha that's a good point. I know you're being tongue-in-cheek but from a socially conscious point of view isn't it better that $56B be spread amongst many citizens rather than accumulated by an already wealthy few?

Glad to hear it, eh! It's amazing what you can do when you get internet in your igloo.

Guess what Hollywood? Even if I couldn't easily download your movies I would never buy them. They suck. Make something worth watching and maybe I'll bother seeing it in the theater. Or, you know, try making a movie that doesn't need millions of dollars of special effects to make up for the overwhelming lack of creativity.

Last time I paid $20 to turn something on it didn't involve a phone...

...AMEN!

I wonder if the fact that the movie is available in IMAX delays what would normally be opening weekend income. There are far fewer IMAX screens so most people who want to see it in that format won't be able to view it at that time.

For example here in Ottawa there is only one IMAX screen playing it and if we estimate 20 showings over the weekend at 400 people per showing that's only 8000 viewers. Not much for a city of a million.

I'll be more interested to see first-week sales figures.

lol I've never been one for diplomacy, does it show? :D

Actually, it's because we don't give a fuck.

I picked this up a couple of years ago and the mouse works really well. The keyboard isn't compatible with OSX and has Logitech's lame ins/del/home/end/pgup/down layout which as a programmer I simply can't use so I sold it off. I'm still very much enjoying the mouse though.

Don't forget I-ANAL...