One Geeks Opinion » News http://www.onegeeksopinion.com One by one the penguins take away my sanity... Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:26:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 LXer: The RIAA – Hollywood – DRM – Linux Suicide Pact http://www.onegeeksopinion.com/2005/11/30/lxer-the-riaa-hollywood-drm-linux-suicide-pact/ http://www.onegeeksopinion.com/2005/11/30/lxer-the-riaa-hollywood-drm-linux-suicide-pact/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:21:56 +0000 One Geek http://www.onegeeksopinion.com/?p=341 LXer: The RIAA – Hollywood – DRM – Linux Suicide Pact
The entertainment industry has put itself on the fast-track to destruction, using well-proven tactics as explained in Preventing DVD Playback on Linux Like Prohibition in the 1920’s. Are their heavy-handed tactics to lock up and control everything we touch signs of plain old human stubborness? Stupidity? Insanity? A bit of each? How else do you explain their inexplicable actions?

]]> http://www.onegeeksopinion.com/2005/11/30/lxer-the-riaa-hollywood-drm-linux-suicide-pact/feed/ 0 The BitTorrent Effect http://www.onegeeksopinion.com/2005/01/01/the-bittorrent-effect/ http://www.onegeeksopinion.com/2005/01/01/the-bittorrent-effect/#comments Sun, 02 Jan 2005 04:54:35 +0000 One Geek http://www.onegeeksopinion.com/wordpress/?p=125 Here is a good article over at Wired. Interview with Bram Cohen the creator of BitTorrent. There is some good stuff in there about how the model of TV broadcasting and viewing is changing.

My view is that the broadcasters should host torrents that link to TV shows. To download the torrent file you would first need to watch a commercial or something first. I wish the MPAA etc would quit fighting new technology with old ways. If they embrace it, they can create new models that will still leave them plenty of room for control, which is what they want more than the money. It is not about piracy and money, if it was then they could easily trace back these screener movies etc to the source and stop it there. It is all about control, and how they want to control what we hear and see! They want to make the decision for you, they want to control who goes to number one, not who deserves it.

The BitTorrent Effect

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