What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies?
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Re: What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies?
#2Pure genius. You can, by the way, offer better licensing to specific companies and unaffiliated individuals -- leaving Hollywood with the unskippable ads, "premium tweets," and all the rest.
Good luck, however, winning in court to enforce your license.
Re: What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies?
#3Pure genius. You can, by the way, offer better licensing to specific companies and unaffiliated individuals -- leaving Hollywood with the unskippable ads, "premium tweets," and all the rest. Good luck, however, winning in court to enforce your license.
But what if by losing, the court invalidates all of Hollywood's ridiculous licensing ploys as well? That would be winning by losing. :)
Re: What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies?
#4pre-edit: nevermind, Aaron removed it. Better now :)
Whatever that black popdown thing is called is really, really obnoxious.
Here is what it looks like in my browser: http://imgur.com/cKiYN
Chrome 16.0.9 on Snow Leopard.
The problem is that it covers text as I'm scrolling through the page.
To recreate it: start scrolling down the page.
Re: What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies?
#5I think Hollywood is just a facàde for the US government. A while ago, Hillary Clinton admitted the US government is losing the "information war"[1]. What could possibly be better for winning an information war, than to pass legislation like this, under the guise of "fighting piracy"? The government could not be seen as promoting this kind of legislation.. otherwise, they´d be on the same league as Iran or China..
Hollywood´s not the problem. Your government is.
[1] Hilary Clinton Admits US Is Losing The "Information War": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMoeDaLV2WA
Re: What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies?
#6pre-edit: nevermind, Aaron removed it. Better now :) Whatever that black popdown thing is called is really, really obnoxious. Here is what it looks like in my browser: http://imgur.com/cKiYN Chrome 16.0.9 on Snow Leopard. The problem is that it covers text as I'm scrolling through the page. To recreate it: start scrolling down the page.
I agree. Readers were asking me for share and tweet buttons, even though they were in the post, but that pop down is annoying. I killed it.
Re: What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies?
#7I think Hollywood is just a facàde for the US government. A while ago, Hillary Clinton admitted the US government is losing the "information war"[1]. What could possibly be better for winning an information war, than to pass legislation like this, under the guise of "fighting piracy"? The government could not be seen as promoting this kind of legislation.. otherwise, they´d be on the same league as Iran or China.. Ho…
It's wonderfully hypocritical that Russia Today is accusing the US of pushing propaganda and stifling disenting perspective.
Re: What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies?
#8Pure genius. You can, by the way, offer better licensing to specific companies and unaffiliated individuals -- leaving Hollywood with the unskippable ads, "premium tweets," and all the rest. Good luck, however, winning in court to enforce your license.
As mentioned on the Wikipedia page for EULAs towards the end [1], the solution is to encase absolutely everything in DRM, making it a DMCA violation to remove the DRM without permission. Then, Google permits everybody except Hollywood to remove it freely.
Oh, and while the DMCA requires DRM to be "effective", that has proved to be a low bar.
More seriously, EULA case results are mixed, and Wikipedia's somewhat sarcastic first sentence of that section as I write this is broadly correct: "The enforceability of an EULA depends on several factors, one of them being the court in which the case is heard." Maybe there's some other legal doctrine about contracts that would knock this out, but it's not immediately obvious to me that this couldn't be done. (Not that it will, of course.)
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_license_agreement#Enfo...
Re: What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies?
#9pre-edit: nevermind, Aaron removed it. Better now :) Whatever that black popdown thing is called is really, really obnoxious. Here is what it looks like in my browser: http://imgur.com/cKiYN Chrome 16.0.9 on Snow Leopard. The problem is that it covers text as I'm scrolling through the page. To recreate it: start scrolling down the page.
I can't recreate this in Chrome or Safari on OSX Lion. Are my corner actions preventing me from seeing it?
Re: What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies?
#10pre-edit: nevermind, Aaron removed it. Better now :) Whatever that black popdown thing is called is really, really obnoxious. Here is what it looks like in my browser: http://imgur.com/cKiYN Chrome 16.0.9 on Snow Leopard. The problem is that it covers text as I'm scrolling through the page. To recreate it: start scrolling down the page.
I can't recreate this in Chrome or Safari on OSX Lion. Are my corner actions preventing me from seeing it?
I killed it. Only added it because some readers were having a hard time finding the "share" buttons. I'll find a better solution.