October 31, 2008
Movie Piracy
It exists because smart people are smart, greedy people are greedy, and the grey area between them is vast like a very vast thing.
The smart people...the greedy corporations hate them.
The movie companies, choosing to lemmingly following a foolish tip from the now-hemorrhaging-profit-price-gouging-can-you-taste-karma record companies, create, market, and distribute the only thing other than CDs and video games that explicity warns you that once you have purchased their product -- for better or for worse -- your money is gone.
To simplify:
If I buy a $2400 widescreen HDTV from Best Buy, get it home, and realize I don't like it, I can bring it back to Best Buy and they will give me back my $2400.
If I buy an apple from the grocery store, and I get to my car and see that there's a nasty, rotted bruise on the apple, I can go back inside the grocery store and get my $1.09 back. (It was a big apple. Organic. I got paper towels instead.)
However, I much choose not to drive to a theater (burning gasoline, earning wear-and-tear on my car) and eat nothing while there, to avoid spending this minimum of $10 per person to find out if a movie is at all decent, nevermind whether it is good enough to invest in forever by purchasing a static copy when the DVD comes out.
My next choice is rental or On Demand; where I live, both rentals and On Demand are about $5 for a weekend.
In other words, with zero evidence that a DVD copy of a motion picture is worth a monetary investment, motion picture production and distribution companies have created a racket in which the average consumer must invest a non-refundable amount of money TO FIND OUT IF THE MOVIE IS WORTH SPENDING ANY MONEY ON IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Yes they can not figure out why the act of movie piracy continues apace; and why the latest metrics show that 75% of males aged 25-54 who pirate movies own massive conteporary DVD collections (100 or more), race to the store when a "good" movie becomes available on DVD, despite having downloaded an illegal copy -- and complain how much garbage is cranked out each year by the movie corporations (oh so invested in zero level of artistry).
Oh, and this will be my last Texticity.
Cheers!
Tomorrow's Man
The smart people...the greedy corporations hate them.
The movie companies, choosing to lemmingly following a foolish tip from the now-hemorrhaging-profit-price-gouging-can-you-taste-karma record companies, create, market, and distribute the only thing other than CDs and video games that explicity warns you that once you have purchased their product -- for better or for worse -- your money is gone.
To simplify:
If I buy a $2400 widescreen HDTV from Best Buy, get it home, and realize I don't like it, I can bring it back to Best Buy and they will give me back my $2400.
If I buy an apple from the grocery store, and I get to my car and see that there's a nasty, rotted bruise on the apple, I can go back inside the grocery store and get my $1.09 back. (It was a big apple. Organic. I got paper towels instead.)
However, I much choose not to drive to a theater (burning gasoline, earning wear-and-tear on my car) and eat nothing while there, to avoid spending this minimum of $10 per person to find out if a movie is at all decent, nevermind whether it is good enough to invest in forever by purchasing a static copy when the DVD comes out.
My next choice is rental or On Demand; where I live, both rentals and On Demand are about $5 for a weekend.
In other words, with zero evidence that a DVD copy of a motion picture is worth a monetary investment, motion picture production and distribution companies have created a racket in which the average consumer must invest a non-refundable amount of money TO FIND OUT IF THE MOVIE IS WORTH SPENDING ANY MONEY ON IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Yes they can not figure out why the act of movie piracy continues apace; and why the latest metrics show that 75% of males aged 25-54 who pirate movies own massive conteporary DVD collections (100 or more), race to the store when a "good" movie becomes available on DVD, despite having downloaded an illegal copy -- and complain how much garbage is cranked out each year by the movie corporations (oh so invested in zero level of artistry).
Oh, and this will be my last Texticity.
Cheers!
Tomorrow's Man
October 15, 2008
Nothing sadder than seeing my undies stapled to that billboard up there; wish it wasn't all 28 pair of them; wish they hadn't been arranged in order of whiteness; wish my name and picture hadn't been silkscreened across them to form a perfect composite image of me looking for my undies.
Damned Mondays.
Damn. It's Wednesday.
Damned Mondays.
Damn. It's Wednesday.
October 14, 2008
Oh dear. My monkey has a wet case of singing bowel syndrome.
October 10, 2008
"Time is all out of joint, but that's because she's a contortionist."
October 09, 2008
With a pocket full of rockets and fistsfull of pills I am the THRILL
this is a ride
Climb my spine it's a rollercoaster track whipping suds off the moon
this is a ride
A million quivers I shiver and the arrows fire a shadow that tans the sun's hide
this is a ride
And I'm afire I'm afire
I am THRILL
Let's ride.
this is a ride
Climb my spine it's a rollercoaster track whipping suds off the moon
this is a ride
A million quivers I shiver and the arrows fire a shadow that tans the sun's hide
this is a ride
And I'm afire I'm afire
I am THRILL
Let's ride.
October 06, 2008
Fear on the fly 'round this Hallow'd 'Tween time,
I approach in a whisper and with a flick decide, "Aye,"
You may live on, abide, until I decide
The time that the tooth for the tooth has arrived.
I approach in a whisper and with a flick decide, "Aye,"
You may live on, abide, until I decide
The time that the tooth for the tooth has arrived.
October 05, 2008
"Confirmed. It's turtle herpes."
October 03, 2008
Your Life Has a Chance to Depend on It
During this time of year, when the veil grows dangerously ephemeral between the worlds, show greatest care and pay vital attention to the great horned flying monkey dog carpet weasel beast.
Or else.
Or else.
October 02, 2008
Seeing lots of "McCain/Palin" signs oot and aboot these days.
Seeing lots of "Obama '08" signs as well.
The Obama camp not-quite-0telling us some impending news?
Seeing lots of "Obama '08" signs as well.
The Obama camp not-quite-0telling us some impending news?
October 01, 2008
Flame and fowl may beget a roasted duck, but nothing scores the neck of a Jack O'Luck like peppered candy sills, glistening in the moonlight, cold and sweet and steady.