WOW!, entertainment has a 'food chain' and you need 'seven figure funding' to rise above a krill?
This stuff is amazing, do the people on YouTube and at Cannes know?
Better than anyone, and certainly better than the likes of you, who obviously never created anything in their life.
Be careful! Exercising fair-use is equivalent to genocide in these parts.
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Only those with guilty consciences and inferior arguments need to throw up their own straw men to knock down.
This...
Be careful! Exercising fair-use is equivalent to genocide in these parts.
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but then again I think you knew that.
Fair use as has been falsely propagated in this thread no longer exists.
Fair use now and in real terms is to put it (DVD/BD disc) into a physical DVD/BD player and watch it, privately.
You may think you should be able to rip and encode it...but you can't..legally and usually we can't choose which laws we follow.
Be that as it may...... whether the law is right or not is not the point.
It is illegal to circumvent the copy protection on any dvd/BD disc. End of story.
to rip it you must perform this circumvention so vis a vis ripping is illegal.
You can argue the non-enforcement of the law so far renders it worthless but again that isn't the point.
the basic premise of this law is correct in the US, UK and even in remote backward places like Oz...
j/k I love the place..!
It does no good to argue fact with rationalizing thieves.
Honestly, truly, people who genuinely give a rats-ass about a quality motion picture experience do not watch their content on a *computer*. They buy dedicated gear.
People passionate about audio, don't listen to it on an iPod.
People who care about performance motor vehicles don't ride around on Segways.
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No, but content CREATORS MUST PROOF their creations on everything but cutting edge equipment to the lowest common denominator piece of iCrap to make sure it works on all platforms and in every condition.
Apple makes this impossible through similar dead wrong stubborness that you display and defend.
Apple's revenue since the introduction of BluRay.
I just don't think they are feeling the consumer pressure.
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Take away iCrap from that graph, and the bars are cut fully in half to one-third where they're sitting now, through abject and deliberate neglect of the computer division.
THAT is a black line bubble, and it IS a bubble, and it will crash as soon as cheaper flashier iPad competition that handles flash comes out, and Jobs second attempt at AppleTV bombs.
Oh yes... and when people scream loud and long enough about the iPhone debacle.
With the hard-core audience, Apple's strategy is as unwelcome as Nintendo's - but welcome or not, it's hard to argue with the numbers.
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Glad you've been working, uh, shilling for Apple long enough to get the latest numbers. That said and done, remove iCrap from the figures and Apple has been crashing for years, through their own stupidity, lack of foresight or ridiculously too much foresight for the current market (have it either way or BOTH ways) and abject dereliction of their pro app base and high ticket market.
Numbers do lie, when a company completely changes over into another kind of company. From a cutting edge computer manufacturer into a temporary fad toymaker. In the short run? Fabulous.
In the long run? Disastrous as they will never ever get their high-end high-ticket base or cutting-edge cachet back again.
Or their corporate base. Once entire organizations switch platforms in anger, resentment, and disgust.
