53 month ago
jimray : Joel on pricing - "The entertainment industry has to maintain a straight face and tell you that Gigli or Battlefield Earth are every bit as valuable as Wedding Crashers or Star Wars or nobody will go see them."
Matthew M. Boedicker : the real reason record companies want tiered pricing for iTunes music
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55 month ago
jimray : Hollywood, Microsoft align on new Windows - Alternate headline: Microsoft tells future customers to grab their ankles
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56 month ago
jimray : Sony pays $1.5m over fake critic - But they're only gonna give you $5 back if you saw the craptacular movies they lied about
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58 month ago
jimray : Rick Boucher, the Wired interview - Almost makes me want to move back to Virginia. Almost.
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58 month ago
jimray : Hollywood Foots Bill for Spy Cams - Orwell had it almost right -- it won't be fascist governments putting their boot on the throat of humanity, but their corporate overlords. Also, this is some rather good reporting from Xeni Jardin, color me surprised.
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59 month ago
jkottke : Revenge of the Sith available online already
jimray : Episode III hits the net - In that oh-so-handy torrent format...
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61 month ago
jimray : Good Morning America booker almost arrested for trying to stop an NBC interview with Atlanta hostage Ashley Smith - God TV news sucks - this asshat was trying to score an exclusive interview from a woman who had just been held hostage
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61 month ago
jimray : Next Up, DVD Reimportation - Now I get why the MPAA wants region coded DVD's - so they can gouge American customers!
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62 month ago
Andy Baio : LokiTorrent fined $1 million in Dallas court - even though they didn't host a single file
jimray : LokiTorrent owner ordered to pay $1-million - This is pretty fucked in every way imaginable, not to mention the fact that LokiTorrent hosted exactly zero files (via Daring Fireball via Waxy)
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62 month ago
jimray : LokiTorrents 0wnz0red by MPAA, hands over server logs - No honor amongst thieves
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