Posted by leo86 on 12/06/06 16:09

Modemac wrote:
> Wal-Mart's plan for legal movie downloads: buy a DVD, then pay some
> more to "legally" download it to your iPod:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/technology/29bitt.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
>
> Let's see if I understand this right: you pay for a DVD, and *then* you
> pay a fee of $1.97 or something to download that DVD to your iPod.
> This effectively means that you're accepting the line that ripping a
> DVD that you purchased, to play on your own iPod, is illegal.
> Evidently the Sony-Betamax decision doesn't cover copying movies to an
> iPod.
>
> Gosh darn those awful Internet movie pirates!
>
> --

Once upon a time, if you wanted to watch something, here's what you
did. First, you looked in the TV Guide or your newspaper's TV listings
and found out when it was on. Then you made plans to be home when it
was on and be sitting in front of the TV set when the program started.
At the appointed time, you pressed a button on your TV set and the
screen slowly lit up and you turned the channel dial to the correct
channel and then you sat down and watched it. When it was over, you
could choose between watching the next program that was on or turning
the TV off to go do something else. If you liked what you saw and felt
a desire to see it again, you would have to wait until the TV station
which showed it decided to rerun it, hopefully within six months to a
year.

Life was so much simpler then (and TV was so much more enjoyable).

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