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Re: The Interview

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Post by click170 »

maccard wrote: post #111
eugeneionesco wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not in the US, will torrent for sure just to make a statement. I support online releases but this is not an online release, there are no borders on the internet.

But this is progress at least. We should support progress in this area, in the hope hat it encourages these companies to be more accepting and open im with future releases

I disagree.

It's great that they're making progress, but by supporting them in the way they are currently attempting to segregate the Internet now, we will lose future debates about the border-less Internet.

Compromise is appropriate in many places, but I do not think this is one of them. We should make sure they know why we're not supporting their current move, but I don't think we should capitulate the border-less Internet.

Re: The Interview

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Post by tim333 »

valarauca1 wrote: post #53
ojbyrne wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_interview_2014/ Some of the selected quotes there: "It's just stupid enough that some things are funny. Sadly, it isn't smart enough to realize that other things aren't terribly funny and that an opportunity was lost here." "The remarkably dismal quality is emblematic of the mind-set that brought the movie, and its attendant crises, into being."

Rotten Tomatoes gives Stars Episode III and The Shining within 2% rating of each other. Rotten Tomatoes is pretty horrible for determining if a movie is worth seeing.

I'm guessing "Stars Episode III" is Star Wars Episode III? As far as I can see they give Star Wars III 80% and The Shining 92% which is more like a 12% difference by my calculation. The tomatometer is just an indication of whether the critics liked the movie really. The Shining gets 4/5 from audience while SW III gets 3.1/5 which I'd translate as pretty good and mediocre respectively. Probably not to far off.

The Interview is looking pretty mediocre from the reviews but I look forward to seeing it anyway.

Re: The Interview

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Post by nitrogen »

waterlesscloud wrote: post #103
smtddr wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Too bad for them... actually I've debated this type of thing with you before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5276226

Where you said, "I'm just going to pirate it, end of story." Your position is pretty easily summed up then.

In a digital world, those distribution partnerships need to move a lot faster or a lot of people will give the same answer.

Re: The Interview

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Post by undefined0 »

avargas wrote: post #41

I hope Stripe developers didn't write this code. I got the movie for free, jesus ... http://imgur.com/a/hf8FZ - and I didn't get a job after my interview with Stripe earlier this year.

I've found a second method to see the movie for free.

Step 1) Go to https://twitter.com/search?q=seetheinterview.com%2Fplayer%2F

Step 2) Click on a link to seetheinterview.com's player

Step 3) Either use a USA VPN or enter the '403 Forbidden' URL into a USA web proxy such as http://www.usawebproxy.com/

Re: The Interview

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Post by revicon »

undefined0 wrote: post #135
avargas wrote: post #41

I hope Stripe developers didn't write this code. I got the movie for free, jesus ... http://imgur.com/a/hf8FZ - and I didn't get a job after my interview with Stripe earlier this year.

I've found a second method to see the movie for free. Step 1) Go to https://twitter.com/search?q=seetheinterview.com%2Fplayer%2F Step 2) Click on a link to seetheinterview.com's player Step 3) Either use a USA VPN or enter the '403 Forbidden' URL into a USA web proxy such as http://www.usawebproxy.com/

Not bad. Works.

Re: The Interview

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Post by anonymfus »

legohead wrote: post #8

If it's not free, I hope everyone buys it instead of waiting for a torrent. We should support online releases.

>We should support online releases.

Why? Paying to movie producing companies means more DRM schemes, more filesharing restrictions and more copyright lobbying. To protect freedom of speech and weaken copyright regulations we need Hollywood to die from starvation.

Re: The Interview

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Post by grhmc »

avargas wrote: post #41

I hope Stripe developers didn't write this code. I got the movie for free, jesus ... http://imgur.com/a/hf8FZ - and I didn't get a job after my interview with Stripe earlier this year.

Anyone feel like this is Sony testing The Internet on how we behave if they give us nice things, like streaming movies online right when they are released without DRM?

Re: The Interview

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Post by cyphunk »

lol! Am I the only one trying to understand why Stripe felt reason to give moralist post? "We’re proud to work with organizations defending digital freedoms such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Freedom of the Press Foundation ... We don’t always endorse what businesses sell through Stripe, but" I mean props, but are you doing this because you figured out the vibe on the internet is that Sony is an souless and shallow company or is it you don't want N.K.'s elite hackers to get an idea you're gun-ho-america on this release and target you?
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