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 [...]
Setting the Scene. Consultants are people/firms that are hired to divorce an organisations internal politics from a result and quite often, consultants bring with them a differential focused expertise in the area requiring their expert attention. There’s an accepted modus operandi for consultancy firms in business, “When you get hired, look for more [...]
I was slammed into reality the other day by the fact that a Solicitor that I have known for many years who dealt in the area of the law known as Trade marks which falls under the auspices of Intellectual Property Law, got some basic knowledge about the Australian Copyright Legislation wrong. (No 'P' it's [...]
Earlier this year we blogged about the fact that Pornography appeared to be decreasing on the internet due to the wide variety of other content available via the P2P networks. The other day we blogged about Facebook games as being an escape from the doom and gloom of the Global economy. Historically, there [...]
What to do with my aging music and video collection. Like many 50+ year olds, I have an entertainment collection. LP’s 35 45’s 29 Cassettes 65 CD’s Music 112 CD’s Videos 9 VHS Movie 146 DVD’s Music 17 DVD’s Movie 85 BTW, there are quite a few duplicates, casettes of LP's and CD's [...]
In years to come, we will see P2P “Enabled” hardware advertised by the Goodguys. For the moment, P2P users must get used to the idea that just like in the early eighties, prior to the Sony Betamax decision, everyone that owned a VCR was a criminal.In 1984, after seven years of litigation, the Supreme Court [...]
Why is it that we love to speculate about what is going to happen to someone else’s industry, business, economy, (you name it) – but we are less enthusiastic about accepting the inevitability of change to that which we are directly involved in? Is it because we are all infallible? Is it because we think we [...]
Hollywood is not the only casualty of P2P. In 1998, Forrester Research published a report on the online “adult content” industry which speculated on an industry-wide aggregate figure of $8-10 billion The prefix porno- is derived from the Greek term for a prostitute; hence, it may be argued that pornography is as old [...]
The price of DVD’s and CD’s have steadily decreased over the last twenty-six years. I started a Video Store (Video World) in Darwin in 1982. Trying to obtain content was an interesting experience. Beta was available but VHS was yet to make its appearance outside Japan. My initial stock of 42 titles was Beta. e.g.: [...]
To most readers it is no news that Television is migrating to the Web. With the evolution of the VCR into the TIVO, PVR, VCR, DVR and the ability to download almost any TV show from over the last thirty years via P2P using tvunderground (http://tvunderground.org.ru/index.php?show=show&bst=num) as the indexing catalogue service – why does [...]