felony obscenity? I'm kind of baffled that there is a "felony obscenity" category in the first place, and secondly, I would think it would involve something like getting naked, sneaking up behind a woman and tapping her on her shoulder with your member so that she turns around and comes eye to eye with the ol one eye. Now *that* I can see as a "felony obscenity".
One time someone played hardcore pornography through the Apple TV on the 50" plasma at my work. Even funnier, someone was selling to a family with his back facing the tv, and the kids were looking and pointing to the tv. Leave it to the Apple TV to freeze at such a critical moment, since it became unresponsive during an anal scene, and everyone was too stupid to just yank the power cord. Eventually, with 6 employees freaking out at this tv, and the whole store watching, I finally came and yanked the power cord like a non-idiot. Priceless moment.
Has there been any consideration of that, by posting this man's picture associated with the linked article, it suggests that this is a picture of the guy who unleashed filth upon an innocent drove of Wal-martyrs?
I see the "People of Walmart" watermark, but maybe not everyone is that observant? Or has heard of that joke site? I hadn't, personally, before I Googled it just now.
I mean, if somebody snaps a picture of me when I'm just chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool at the local 'Mart with my t-shirt poncho and mullet, I already can't imagine why anyone would find it funny enough to post online...
I REALLY wouldn't appreciate having my face on perhaps the most popular gadget blog linked to such a title/article/post.
I guess it's sufficiently blurry, but come on, Giz, let's not automatically associate "country" or "hick" or "redneck" with such behavior. I know it was unintentional, but put yourself in the place of that poor guy, just minding his own business and checking out a video game.
@drewkkake: Let me admit that I posted the above because I had initially read "One of the guys worked there" as that the picture of the culprit was snapped by an employee, and figured that others could have done the same. It requires clicking on the internal link (the VERY last sentence of the post) to explain the "People of Walmart" reference, so as far as anyone who hadn't seen the picture before or doesn't click on every link to other Giz posts knows, that is the guy.
Yes, that isn't the HDTV area, and yes, it is a video game console kiosk. Why he's controlling porn with that? I leave up to you. Close enough.
I also concede that the picture might be an accurate representation of the part of Oklahoma in which the crime took place, I don't know - don't plan to go there. Ever.
MY POINT IS, I wouldn't want some paparazzi photo of me linked to a public porn matinee. Sorry if my complaint seemed blunt or unfounded (or unrealistic or absurd).
@drewkkake: just hard to take decency or ethics complaints seriously from someone who named themselves drewkkake. Now when StuffinMuffins bitches, we all listen.
@tensai: I hope it's as the article implies, and the media is HDDs fed by internet downloads. (For god's sake, with an option to backup or re-download if needed!)
Barring that, I'd say solid state storage. Sorta like the Atari and NES cartridges of yore, but with more giggly bites.
Physical media will exist for a long time (imo), because a lot of people like to cling to cover art and such and have something to display. Plus what happens when you HDD full of movies crashes? Wouldn't it be useful to have that physical media backup? I'm sure it will eventually end, but not anytime soon. So I believe no, the era of physical media is not over, not anytime soon that is.
@350z-racer: I think it's coming to a very close end. My covert art of CDs and DVDs look better on my computer than they do printed.
And I have them all on back up via my portable hard drive. I can fit days of music and hours of movies in my pocket. But the price of storage is still to high. Once the price of storage comes down, internet speeds increase, and more sources of downloadable content are available, physical media won't be the main source for movies.
@macpatrick: Ive seen external 1TB drives for $99 over at newegg. Of course they will get cheaper to a point, but what the hell, man? A 1GB drive used to cost that much. If you are constantly waiting "for the price to drop", or the "next best thing", then you will always be waiting.
@PaintTheSkyGrey: well CD's took things from 3.5MB to 700mb so they were defiantly useful. Thanks to all the great things about CD-R it became quite beneficial to have them in the computer for backup purposes (to transfer photos and what not)
but now with USB sticks, you dont need the slow process of a disc format burning to transfer music and photos.
Also Blu-ray burning is simply too expensive. Each disc can cost $25 (per disc!!!). so it is just impractical considering you can get an external pocket drive for the same cost.
So wait, CD ripping software, like iTunes is legal, but DVD ripping is not? Seems to me like the motion picture industry has better lobbyists.
Oh, the almighty dollar.
@MacAttack7388: I believe it has to do with encryption. CD's aren't encrypted so you don't have to break the encryption to make a copy. Since DVD's are encrypted, the circumvention of the encryption is what is illegal.
Yeah? Well osculate with my posterior, douchebiscuit. Unless a more convenient, legal and less restrictive means to have my library exist as a collection of files on my Macbook/iPod becomes more apparent, HandBrake will be my bestest friend in the whole wide world.
I don't see what the problem is with dvd copying software. I bought the cd and thus it is my property and i can do whatever i want with it, i don't see how anyone can say you can't do xxx with YOUR dvd.
This is not a great precedence....What about when the same thing is rolled out to CD copying. Will iTunes be illegal? Will MP3 players? This is basically the same thing with different media. I'm pretty sure the DMCA covers music CDs the same way that it covers DVDs...so is the MP3 player industry in trouble now?
So, let me get this straight.....it could very easily (and in light of the CD situation, incredibly likely) be that making DVD backup copies is legal and a-ok. But distributors get to tack on software that makes these a-ok copies impossible, and then make it illegal to get around that software?
Yes. Yes I think that accurately summarizes how royally screwed up this mess is.
@OCEntertainment: My thoughts exactly. Get out of my head!
Anywho, it should be completely legal to make copies for your own personal backup and use (like it supposedly is) and be legal to use the tools to do so. They will never ever ever be able to stop people from pirating and bootlegging DVD's so they may as well make it easier on the rest of us.
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I see the "People of Walmart" watermark, but maybe not everyone is that observant? Or has heard of that joke site? I hadn't, personally, before I Googled it just now.
I mean, if somebody snaps a picture of me when I'm just chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool at the local 'Mart with my t-shirt poncho and mullet, I already can't imagine why anyone would find it funny enough to post online...
I REALLY wouldn't appreciate having my face on perhaps the most popular gadget blog linked to such a title/article/post.
I guess it's sufficiently blurry, but come on, Giz, let's not automatically associate "country" or "hick" or "redneck" with such behavior. I know it was unintentional, but put yourself in the place of that poor guy, just minding his own business and checking out a video game.
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Yes, that isn't the HDTV area, and yes, it is a video game console kiosk. Why he's controlling porn with that? I leave up to you. Close enough.
I also concede that the picture might be an accurate representation of the part of Oklahoma in which the crime took place, I don't know - don't plan to go there. Ever.
MY POINT IS, I wouldn't want some paparazzi photo of me linked to a public porn matinee. Sorry if my complaint seemed blunt or unfounded (or unrealistic or absurd).
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Barring that, I'd say solid state storage. Sorta like the Atari and NES cartridges of yore, but with more giggly bites.
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And I have them all on back up via my portable hard drive. I can fit days of music and hours of movies in my pocket. But the price of storage is still to high. Once the price of storage comes down, internet speeds increase, and more sources of downloadable content are available, physical media won't be the main source for movies.
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but now with USB sticks, you dont need the slow process of a disc format burning to transfer music and photos.
Also Blu-ray burning is simply too expensive. Each disc can cost $25 (per disc!!!). so it is just impractical considering you can get an external pocket drive for the same cost.
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Oh, the almighty dollar.
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Yes. Yes I think that accurately summarizes how royally screwed up this mess is.
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Anywho, it should be completely legal to make copies for your own personal backup and use (like it supposedly is) and be legal to use the tools to do so. They will never ever ever be able to stop people from pirating and bootlegging DVD's so they may as well make it easier on the rest of us.
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