Recent Comments:
TiVo offers limited transfer of Lifetime Service for $300 {Engadget HD}
Jun 29th 2007 3:32AM Wow. Too bad this is only for Series 2, and an 80 gig at that. This would actually inspire me to buy a Series 3. Oh, Tivo. How you continually break my heart.
SlySoft releases AnyDVD HD beta {Engadget HD}
Feb 16th 2007 2:36AM Just so we're clear -- those movies you watch are made by companies that employ people. They cost a lot of money to make (not just a dollar for the DVD processing). They cost nearly as much money to market. Just like it cost money for SlySoft to produce their product. The point that Mike and I are making is that SlySoft should be OK with people not paying for their product, right?
Think of it this way -- did you like The Insider or The Life Aquatic? What about The Prestige? The Village was a pretty great movie. I quite liked The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 25th Hour is one of my favorites, as is The Royal Tenenbaums and High Fidelity. Disney is taking Touchstone Studios from ten or twelve movies a year to one or two, so those movies, all Touchstone productions, have a much slimmer chance of getting made now. Slackening DVD sales have a lot to do with that decision, according to Bob Iger. Does any of that have to do with trading movies over the internet? I think it does.
Don't feel sorry for the studios, but don't think that your actions don't have an affect on the movies you love to watch. Pay for the things you like, and they'll make more of them. Don't pay for those things? They won't make them any more. Simple as that.
SlySoft releases AnyDVD HD beta {Engadget HD}
Feb 14th 2007 7:32PM I love how a company wants you to pay for their intellectual property that assists users in freely trading other companies' intellectual property. How happy would they be if I sold software for half the price that allowed users to get around paying for their software? If you're gonna do stuff like this, you shouldn't be making money off it.
