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nigeria, india and china produce 4x more films per year than hollywood, despite rampant privacy. how does this work?
My first surprise was the discovery that in each of these famously pirate-laden countries, piracy is not really rampant – at least not in the way it is usually portrayed by copyright police. Piracy of imported (i.e., Hollywood) films is rife, but locally produced films are pirated to a lesser degree. The reasons are complex and subtle.
Today, scientific publishers are production companies. In 10 years, scientific publishers will be technology companies.
except for the sports page. funny how the most irrelevant part of the paper is too sacred for this experiment.
It’s hard to imagine the Times doing anything like the June 10 experiment, though. For this edition of the paper, nearly all the rules taught in journalism school were thrown out the window. Writers used the first person and showed up in nearly every photograph alongside their interview subjects, including the likes of Defense Minister Ehud Barak and President Shimon Peres.
From William Randolph Hearst’s ginned up hysterical stories about marijuana to the “10-cent plague” comic book scare of the 1950s to The New York Times warning of “cocaine-crazed Negroes” raping white women across the Southern countryside, the media has always whipped up anxiety and increased readership via thinly sourced exposes of the next great threat to the American way of life. No publication has done a better job of scaring the crap out of post-baby boomer America than Time, the top-selling newsweekly that’s dropping subscribers like the mythical meth mouth drops teeth.
Those movies then stay exclusive to the premium channels for 15 to 18 months — let me repeat 15 to 18 months! And from there it only gets worse. After the year and a half in premium channel jail, movies then go to the regular cable channels and big networks for airing. As I understand it, some online rentals are again okay during this time, but then, they often go back to the premium channels for a second run. That means they get pulled once again. This whole process often lasts for 7 years or more. It’s only after that time period that movies are really free to be distributed a bunch of different ways. That includes Netflix’s popular Watch Instantly streaming feature — so now you see why the selection of movies on that service is mostly older films.
how the bild tabloid sold 1000s of branded flips which default to sending their videos to bild, and how they now have all these citizen reporters.
I posted a story on Jerry’s USB finger. We all thought the replacing a lost finger with USB storage was cool in a cyberpunk way. The worldwide interest around it took us by quite a surprise. The story was On all major news websites, and even on radio morning shows.
Jon Stewart is an ass. That’s what he gets paid for. And if you think that watching him makes you smarter, you’re probably an ass, too – albeit an unpaid ass.
Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister is the competition of a lifetime. Young Canadians have the ears and eyes of the nation listening to their thoughts about what would make our country even better.
This will be way more popular than real policy. Fortunately, there won’t be consequences.
i wonder who is behind this “apply now to work for us for free” business model? it seems to work.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 