$2 each....

[laurion]

Babylon 5 has now made its way onto the iTunes store. Season one so far, but others are on their way. As someone who (he admits sheepishly) has only seen a handful of episodes, this is a dangerous thing.

On an unrelated note, people who do technical work are frequently called technicians, but very few people who do medical work are called medicians.....

View the Original Post Here

Comments

[taellosse.livejournal.com]

I admit I haven't watched the issue all that terribly closely. I've never been terribly interested in the legal details, honestly. It'll happen, and the tools necessary to make it happen will be available, regardless of the legality. If I find myself wanting to make a copy, I'll get what I need to do so. I'm not going to start selling pirated movies or music or anything, but as far as I'm concerned, if I paid for it, I can do with it as I please.

The 2 Netflix accounts has more to do with the fact that we each had it before we moved in together than anything else. At that time, it wasn't possible to set up profiles for multiple people on a single account, as it is now, and there's also the fact that we've both got queues numbered in the hundreds, that neither of us wants to take the time and energy to recreate on a new account. Our combined accounts cost cost the same amount as the 6-at-a-time version does (actually, oddly, its 1 cent cheaper), so there's no reason to change it, really.

[jducoeur]

I've never been terribly interested in the legal details, honestly. It'll happen, and the tools necessary to make it happen will be available, regardless of the legality.

Mayyybe. To the hacker, likely true. But at the consumer level, it's becoming steadily harder, quite rapidly. Most consumer-grade tech these days obeys the copy-protection bits, and it's getting to the point where consumer-grade computers are doing so as well.

So while I suspect that the dedicated hacker will always be able to circumvent copy-protection, it's fairly likely that those avenues will close for 95% of the public, fairly soon...

[taellosse.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm no hacker. I've never had all that much trouble tracking down the tools I need before, though, whether its media or software. I am a firm believer in benefiting from the effort of others, and hackers inclined to circumvent such restrictions frequently do so out of philosophical objections to the protections, and then make their cracks available online. It takes a bit of creativity and diligence to track down something, but it's rarely impossible to find.

On the other hand, 95% of the public can't navigate the internet as well as I can, most likely (that's not intended to sound arrogant or anything, it's just probably true), so you're undoubtedly correct all the same.