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• On the post: No One Wanted To Pay $30 For In-Home Movie Rentals… So Now Universal Will Try $60?

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2011 @ 03:15pm

  Re: Blockbuster?

  This. Movie studios are clueless, this movie will flop. Badly.

• On the post: How Quickly We Forget: Google's Competitors Falsely Claim Google Dominates Because It Was 'First'

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2011 @ 08:31am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  I'm with you, I can run a ton of tabs and I usually sit around 250MB of RAM.

• On the post: Entertainment Industry's Coordinated Effort To Blame Third Parties Taking Shape

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2011 @ 10:42am

  Re: Re: Re: "Nothing in this will make anyone want to buy." -- So?

  You're crazy, what about Netflix? Hollywood has done everything in its power to price Netflix out of business.

• On the post: Netflix: We're Sorry About The Huge Price Increase, So, Uh… Qwikster!

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2011 @ 10:25am

  Re: Customers leaving in droves?

  Why? I don't get why everyone is so upset by this move. Oh no streaming isn't free!! What did everyone expect?

• On the post: Netflix: We're Sorry About The Huge Price Increase, So, Uh… Qwikster!

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2011 @ 10:18am

  Re: Re: Understand the frustration, but...

  Keep in mind that the USA is the only country Netflix operates in that even has the DVD by mail option. Everywhere else is streaming only. If it is working everywhere else why not in the US?

• On the post: MPAA Mocks Entrepreneurs For Being Concerned About MPAA's Efforts To Stifle Innovation

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2011 @ 02:17pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  League of Legends. Google it.
  
  17 million people playing for FREE and counting. Making money doing it.

• On the post: Printing Error Shows Flaw In 'Lock-It-Up' Video Game Business Model

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2011 @ 02:26pm

  Thanks tips. Without this comment I wouldn't have known what the story was about!

• On the post: Google Kills Tricorder Android App After CBS Sends A DMCA Takedown?

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2011 @ 01:25pm

  Re:

  Haha, the internet is awesome.
  
  I've never heard of this app before today but now I've got it installed. Thanks for the links Addict!

• On the post: Debate Time: Ubisoft Says DRM Is Needed, Valve Says No It Isn't.

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2011 @ 09:10am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Valve Fanboy

  Open Steam.
  Library -> Right Click on Game -> Properties -> Updates Tab -> Automatic Updates = "Do Not Automatically Update This Game" -> Close.
  
  Problem solved.

• On the post: Dear MPAA: Stomp Your Feet And Repeat It As Many Times As You Want, But Infringement Is Not Theft

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2011 @ 02:31pm

  Re: "Steal" and "theft" is true for sites that charge premiums and/or run ads.

  How do you know about them? Freetard much?

• On the post: Stealing Isn't Saving, But Sharing Isn't Stealing

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2011 @ 08:43am

  Re:

  I am in my late 20's, I've never met a single person in my age group who found file sharing, of any kind, to be morally wrong. Most people say the only reason they don't file share is because they aren't computer literate enough to setup bit torrent.
  
  That seems like a pretty big problem for the content industry that won't adapt.

• On the post: Stealing Isn't Saving, But Sharing Isn't Stealing

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2011 @ 08:39am

  Re: Okay, Mike: "come up with all sorts of productive answers".

  How about a studio owned Netflix type service with new releases at a Netflix like price point?
  
  That could never work though could it? Netflix type price point is too close to what consumers want to pay, that won't do.

• On the post: Fox Decides To Drive Fans To Piracy, Rather Than Giving Legitimate Options

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 27 Jul, 2011 @ 02:14pm

  Re: Re: I actually disagree this time

  Or they don't live in the USA.

• On the post: Woman Arrested For Not Letting TSA Grope Her Daughter

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2011 @ 03:47pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  How come no one ever mentions the commercial air cargo in the hold of all of those passenger planes? You know, the cargo that doesn't go through any sort of screening at all?
  
  You want your kids to grow old flying on planes maybe you should be more concerned with getting the commercial cargo screened instead of patting down little kids.

• On the post: Entitlement? Spoiled Brats? Or Just Progress?

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2011 @ 02:08pm

  Re: Re:

  Screw MW3 and its subscription service, just play BF3 and its pretty much identical free service.
  
  Back on topic...

• On the post: New Zealand Libraries Considering Shutting Off Public Internet Access To Avoid Three Strikes Law

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 20 May, 2011 @ 12:48pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: "held hearings" = "Lobbying"

  We've got enough stupid as is up here already, you keep your stupid where it is!

• On the post: Latest Wikileaks Release Shows How US Completely Drove Canadian Copyright Reform Efforts

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2011 @ 09:32am

  Re: How does Notice and Notice work?

  Michael Geist can explain it better than I can:
  
  http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1705/125/

• On the post: Latest Wikileaks Release Shows How US Completely Drove Canadian Copyright Reform Efforts

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2011 @ 09:26am

  Re: How does Notice and Notice work?

  It gives the party that posted the material a chance to respond to the take down request before it is taken down.
  
  In the US system once the notice is sent the service provider has to "take down" the item at the heart of the complaint right away to keep their safe harbors, in the proposed Canadian system the "accused" has a chance to prove they had the rights to use the works before they are removed.

• On the post: Latest Wikileaks Release Shows How US Completely Drove Canadian Copyright Reform Efforts

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2011 @ 09:22am

  Re: Re: Re:

  I with you as well, I don't trust any of the current parties with a majority. The NDP sounds nice with all of their social policies but how are we going to pay for them?
  
  The Conservatives would sell us out to the US and corporations in a heart beat if they could and I can't stand the Liberals. I'm in Alberta however, it'll be a few more years yet before we stop electing anything other than blue. I swear the people hear just vote Conservative without a second thought.
  
  Conservatives internet and copyright policies scare me.

• On the post: SWAT Team Raids Home Because Guy Had An Open Wireless Router

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2011 @ 02:53pm

  Re: Re: Re: Headline a bit misleading

  It isn't illegal to have an unsecured wifi network. This was overkill plain and simple.

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