Steve Boriss hits on a whole lot of truth in his latest post. The lede is that while U.S. media outlets continue to be threatened by the emergence of blogs, the U.K. media has no such problem? There are surely a number of reasons for this, but I think that in the end it boils [...]
Many artists work very hard for little to no monetary compensation. Some succeed and make vast profits but the majority never make it that far. Those whose art sells deserve financial compensation.
Who is really stealing from the artist though? Is it the college student downloading an album? While, there certainly is limited moral grounds for [...]
We breathlessly shared a rumor that Netflix had a surprise in store, the ability to watch it’s collection of streaming movies online from an Xbox 360. While that has yet to materialize officially, today we celebrate as a new plugin for Windows Media Center allows the playback of Netflix Watchnow videos from the console. Though [...]
There are dictionaries, and then there is THE dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary is the ultimate guide to the English language. It’s history is fascinating, as documented in the excellent book, the Professor and the Madman. This weekend’s New York Times Magazine brought us an update on the great linguistic lexicon. Oxford University Press has [...]
Remember back in the day, when you’d buy a new CD, listen to it for a week or so nonstop, and then lend it to a buddy? My friends and I would do that all the time, and it would open us up to worlds of music we never would have discovered otherwise (and I [...]
In case some of you just pay no attention to the world of video games, there’s a new game launching late tonight that’s generating a wee bit of buzz. The newest version of Grand Theft Auto, GTA IV, comes out at midnight and is sure to bring the usual hand wringing from groups afraid of [...]
One topic which we Impatient Sufferers find ourselves talking about frequently is media distribution. While the DVD format has provided us with a better quality and more features than any previous means of distribution, we think that it is time to move on.
The DVD is in many ways a perfectly awful format and it’s problems [...]
Though the first DivX phone hit the market almost a year ago, we are always glad to see more devices adopt open file standards. The DivX codec is a lightweight, high quality encoder for video files. The more devices that support it, the sooner we will achieve a future where content is quickly easily digitally [...]
We have seen some pretty silly stuff in the way of copyright issues recently. This takes the cake though. The New England Patriots went 18-1, loosing to my NY Football Giants in the Superbowl last season. They were close enough to taste the sweetness of a perfect 19-0 season and apparently that taste wasn’t enough.
As [...]
We already know the long list of things the RIAA doesn’t think you’re allowed to do with music you purchased. They are even telling consumers that they can’t even throw away or sell that demo CD they purchased. The latest absurd claim is that you don’t have the right to make a safe backup of [...]