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  25. desember 2003


Movie industry not likely to sue file sharers, yet

The movie industry has been learning from the recording industry's monumental mistakes, it claims.

First, it will get a system going for allowing movie fans to download and watch movies over the Net, legally, at an acceptable price, before file exchange of movies becomes the problem it is for the music industry.

Second, Hollywood will not insult and anger every one of its potential customers by suing school children and grandmothers, as the RIAA has been doing (hmm, but what about DVD Jon?). It simply sends cease and desist messages to those it finds are sharing files (and it floods the net with bogus files with hit movie names)..

Third, it will have tough encryption in place which will make "piracy" so cumbersome and difficult people will rather pay for the service or the DVD. We'll believe that when we see it.


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Beagle, call home!

The Beagle 2 has landed. Or crashed. Or burned out. We don't really know yet, as the little Mars lander was not expected to call home before around now. And it's still silent, apparently, which is increasingly sounding like bad news. But it's still early.


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Season's greetings

Thanks for a great blogging year and a merry xmas to all my regular and coincidental readers.


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Today's pet peeve

I'm sorry, but everybody else is wrong and I am right. J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is not a trilogy. It is one long novel that for practical reasons is usually (but not always) published in three volumes. The same is true about the movies.


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