Re: [SLUG] Movielink

From: Smitty (a.smitty@verizon.net)
Date: Mon Nov 11 2002 - 21:16:24 EST


On Monday 11 November 2002 20:38, you wrote:
> LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Five top Hollywood studios opened online box office
> Movielink on Monday in their first, tentative step to sell blockbuster
> films like "Ocean's Eleven" on the Web after years of fretting over the
> copyright piracy now threatening the music business.

"Piracy" is a term that has its origins in an entertainment cartel pr firm
using the propaganda by redefinition of words ploy. They don't want to call
it what it is, unlicensed copying. Piracy has connotations of desparate
seaborne bandits disposed to rape, pillage and hijack. Actually, this
describes the characters who run the major recording companies far more so
than some adolescent geek ripping mp3s because he doesn't make the income his
dad does and he is attempting to acquire those very things that the
entertainment cartel has promoted as highly desirable, but ironically, not
affordable to a large sector of their targeted public.
>
> How difficult would it be to simultaneous play and record into a different
> file utilizing a different format one of the movies?

You would need conversion utilities and a large enough buffer cache to handle
the feed.
Smitty
>
> Frank



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