Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-6-2010

[andrewducker]

• Flamboyant Bravery Under Fire
  (tags: war military bravery)
• The Woo of Lost, reviewed by Adam Roberts
  (tags: lost scifi)
• Govt. announces big constitutional changes
  66% to get force an election - unless no government can be formed in 14 days. I like that.
  (tags: politics reform uk)
• Things I won't work with - a catalogue of really unpleasant chemicals
  (tags: chemistry science funny dangerous explosives)
• Fighting with teenagers: A Copyright story
  (tags: copyright music law filesharing sheetmusic)

Comments

Re: Fighting with teenagers

[pete stevens (from livejournal.com)]

The pirated version is usually better than the original in the case of films. No trailers, no menu scenes, actually works on everything (windows/OSX/ubuntu), fast forward works, so does rewind etc.

I once decided to catch up on Southpark, and bittorrent.com were doing a special offer selling episodes at 0.01c each. When I discovered I'd have to buy them all twice and download them all twice to get a copy on my laptop and a copy on my desktop, and it'd take about three weeks through their horribly slow website to select them all I gave up and downloaded them illegally because I just wanted it to work.

Re: Fighting with teenagers

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

Yes, the IP owners don't seem to realise they're defending an ecology. They need to make it easy for people to pay for what they actually want - all the adverts on DVDs drive me crazy, especially on children's films where you just want to stick the damn thing in the machine and have it run so you can cook the meal.