Posts by Stewart MacDuff 6 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Oct 2008
What is all this talk about Netflix and streaming? Netflix doesn't get good new films the day they come out and surely nobody with a soul should pay into the Murdoch empire? So what matters is how well it plays torrented downloads.
Few people want to download much more than 5Gig files and a good BR rip of that size on a 1080p plasma is so good it'll take me happily to the grave.
Maybe one day the Studios will wake up and make it available directly to their consumers thus.
We don't need DRM, indeed we must make DRM unlawful, on all platforms PC and Mobile. That way we will destroy the copyright monopolists. Media companies will be forced to distribute their products in the ways customers demand and at the price customers are willing to pay.
An entire album will be $1, not per song. A movie file will be $2 for new releases and $0.50 for old. Easily and instantly downloaded in any country in any format. Artists will make more not less money. Indeed most of the middle men should cease to exist.
The problem would be the European Convention and the Human Rights Act 1998 which represents it in the UK.
The UK just needs to update the HRA to make freedom of speech *almost" absolute as per the US bill of rights and to remove all and any special protection for religions.
Once we can talk the truth, or any rubbish we might make up, without fear. Once religions must conform to the same legal and human rights standards as any corporation. Britain will be a hugely better place.
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