Yes, I'm getting the "Merry Christmas" spam, along with a fair amount sent from "Perverted Santa."
Book: Captain, you mind if I say grace? Mal: Only if you say it out loud.
'Serenity'
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Ginger - Dec 14, 2004 5:33:41 am PST #540 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
DXMachina - Dec 14, 2004 5:41:43 am PST #541 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Merry Christmas, Marry Christmas, Perverted Santa, Perverted Elf...
Consuela - Dec 14, 2004 8:07:38 am PST #542 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Did we know this? [link] The MPAA is planning to sue to shut down torrent tracking sites.
Hmm. Looks like people will go back to IRC and other more covert methods of distributing the files. Cause the thing is, all you need is the file itself, right? You don't have to have a webpage that hosts it...
Tom Scola - Dec 14, 2004 8:17:29 am PST #543 of 10003
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
The way bittorrent works, somewhat counterintuitively, the more people who are trying to download the file, the faster the downloads will go.
So no web links = fewer people downloading = less practical.
Consuela - Dec 14, 2004 8:47:34 am PST #544 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Okay, that's true.
sumi - Dec 14, 2004 9:00:36 am PST #545 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Well, apparently, I hadn't watched "Beauty and the Beasts" from my Buffy season 3 dvd set before last night-- because I discovered a bobble on the dvd.
It looks like a smudge -- is that a scratch in dvds? Does this mean that this dvd is completely screwed?
le nubian - Dec 14, 2004 10:24:13 am PST #546 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Well, I wonder if the movies can be removed from such BT sites and leave the TV links.
NoiseDesign - Dec 14, 2004 10:32:40 am PST #547 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
Yeah, but they are getting nasty about the TV stuff too, since they see it as a loss of future DVD sales.
le nubian - Dec 14, 2004 11:53:06 am PST #548 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
not hardly. These asswipes. If they produce DVDs that are high quality with extras, I most certainly will buy those above the crappy versions of what I have at home. I don't download tv shows to subvert a process, but if they schedule shows I want to see against each other - I can only watch/tape 2 programs. I have to BT the 3rd if I want to see a show before it is cancelled ("House", I'm talking to you).
It's the same argument the industry had against VCRs 2 decades ago. Did that destroy the industry? Not hardly.
§ ita § - Dec 14, 2004 11:54:14 am PST #549 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can see HBO et al protecting their assets, but North Shore? Gimme a break. They should pay me to do what I'm now doing for free.