On 01/19/2012 11:53 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > --- In [email protected], Emily Reyn<emilymae.reyn@...> wrote: >> Jon Stewart on SOPA: >> >> http://gothamist.com/2012/01/19/jon_stewart_sopa_will_drive_us_to_t.php > So appropriate, too, that the clip above is > shared by the non-copyright owner. >
I was thinking this morning about an example of how screwed up movie studios are. A couple years ago an Australian film based on a popular book "Tomorrow, When the War Began" was released and a few months later the DVD and Bluray was released. The distributor was Paramount. To date this film has not been released in the US though a lot of people have expressed interest in seeing or renting it. I don't understand what the delay is? Does it contain ideas they don't want American youth to see? So the uploaded copies of it including the ripped Bluray have long appeared on the web. You'd think at least Paramount would have licensed it to Netflix for streaming and makes some bucks off of it? It's not supposed to be a particularly good film so the rental and streaming venue might work best for those curious. To date it doesn't even show up as a "Saved" on Netflix. BTW, I don't the MegaUpload case is going to stick. I've used them to post *my own* videos before YouTube had HD support. I think I put the footage I shot with my first hybrid camera there and posted the link here. They've always had a "don't upload copyrighted material you don't own" message there. Torrents are another matter as any time you use a torrent client to get a torrent at any decent speed you have to open a port so that you are redistributing parts. I've done that with Linxu distributions and even a Michael Moore film that he and the Weinsteins made available as a torrent back before the 2006 election. It was to encourage younger folks to vote and I supported their effort. And that and the Linux distribution were legal torrents. Fortunately nowadays Linux distribution have their many mirror servers along with their own. Many web hosts have unlimited bandwidth these days even with $5 a month services.
