Prologue Has anyone noticed how cheap Home Media players are becoming? The latest price is $35.00 (hard-disk separate.) Available on Ebay. Those chaps over in Hollywood must be a religious bunch, every Blockbuster film release is these days accompanied with the prayer shawls (being ironed) the yamulkas being brushed and the nails being [...]
Sometimes when you are being serviced by a professional, you have to say “No, I don’t like what you are doing for me. I don’t like your charging regime and I certainly don’t like the lack of results that you are managing to achieve.” Most members of the public consider lawyers are Gods. They understand [...]
I was chatting to Chris yesterday about the addictive nature of many of the Facebook games. I dropped a statistic on him: Statistic – the Bureau of Economic Development (USA – BEA) have discovered that the average American watches four hours and eleven minutes of televised (inc. Cable) content daily. Well, that is [...]
How binary is the law? By that I mean, how black and white is it? Let's look at a couple of current legal issues and try to make some sense of the legality, the humanity, the social equity of it all. First there is the case of the quadriplegic man in WA who the courts [...]
Lately, readers may be noticing that I have been blogging about the CRTC hearings in Canada.The outcome of those hearings has Global ramifications regarding giving permission for “Big Brother” to look over our shoulder and attempting to profit from in various ways from invading our privacy.If the CRTC commissioners cave into ISP demands that all [...]
On Movie Greats (Foxtel Channel 415) last night I saw an oldie (1959) but a goodie North West Frontier so I looked up the IMDB Database (click on the title to go there), I thought movies over 20 years old were the exclusive domain of TCM. Obviously not. This particular title has been screened [...]
In the last decade I owned and managed various ISP’s and Co-Lo businesses; I used to get a buzz out of sitting in front of the monitors and watching the MRTG graphs never peaking. (MRTG Graph “borrowed” from Wikipedia) Peaking was bad; peaking meant that customers were not getting what they were paying for, [...]
For some time, an Australian Company Perceptric Pty. Ltd., has been researching the damage to content provider revenues from illegal file sharing activities. Empirically we can find no conclusive evidence that file sharing damages the income stream for copyright owners, in fact, quite the reverse. We have found definitive statistics that show the [...]
Last Friday in a Swedish Court, the four pirates were awarded four years of jail time and financial damages against them (for running a Google search engine) of over three million dollars. In February three Thai CD Pirates were handed out jail sentences under a year each and fined $14,200 each for pressing 306 [...]
The definition of coincidence is interesting to contemplate. Have P2P’ers notice the remarkable coincidental disappearance of the majority of fake files and malware ridden content since media Defender laid its little head down ? And interestingly enough, it was the content industry that was paying them to infect our computers and waste our [...]