The movie/music industries may have failed to realize the value in torrents, but I know the usual torrent network ports have to be available on my machine for WoW to run its updates...
A lot of torrent sites require registration; a subscription site, run by , allowing torrents of their media products, would let them distribute easily and offload most of the bandwidth requirements to their customer base.
Admittedly the market for x86 UNIX has collapsed in the face of Linux' rise, but the bankruptcy trustee's attitude about the lawsuits seems to be there's-so-much-horse-there-must-be-a-pony-in-here-SOMEWHERE.
The trick will be to ensure some overeager IP troll doesn't pick this up and start the whole damnable thing up all over again.
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The witch is never named in the Baum books; Elphaba is from the Gregory Maguire "Wicked" books/plays.
EXCELLENT riff on Hollywood accounting
Rob Reid (Rhapsody founder) did a riff on this at TED that will leave you ROTFL http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang///id/1390
Re: evil torrents
The movie/music industries may have failed to realize the value in torrents, but I know the usual torrent network ports have to be available on my machine for WoW to run its updates...
A lot of torrent sites require registration; a subscription site, run by , allowing torrents of their media products, would let them distribute easily and offload most of the bandwidth requirements to their customer base.
Sell off the software, keep the [ bogus ] lawsuits?
Admittedly the market for x86 UNIX has collapsed in the face of Linux' rise, but the bankruptcy trustee's attitude about the lawsuits seems to be there's-so-much-horse-there-must-be-a-pony-in-here-SOMEWHERE.
The trick will be to ensure some overeager IP troll doesn't pick this up and start the whole damnable thing up all over again.
SCOX(Q) DELENDA EST!!