Tag Archives: Video

One of the recurring arguments that the music industry makes about its legal campaign against file sharers is that they can’t compete with free. This is, of course, crap, because you can compete with free with a superior product, service, convenience, etc. Now in the arena of DVR’s, TiVo must …

One of the wildest, funniest movies of all time, a 25th anniversary version of National Lampoon’s Animal House comes out on DVD tomorrow with bonus material “Where Are They Now? A Delta Alumni Update,” “Did You Know That (Universal Animated Anecdotes),” and “The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion.” Animal House …

Remember all that cool news I mentioned about the Willie Nelson-Ani DiFRanco concert to benefit Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign scheduled for September 6 in Cleveland? It was all a lie: Concerts Being Rescheduled In order to better fit the Kucinich campaign’s schedule, the Willie Nelson concerts set for in September …

We watched Twister on TV twice on our vacation – we missed the beginning the first time and the ending the second time so it all evened out. I am somewhat embarrassed to admit we loved it. Our almost-four-year-old called it “the movie with cows and tomatoes.” I believe she …

On our vacation we watched a fair number of movies at night on actual TV, not something we’d normally do what with commercials, clumsy editing and the like, but doing weird things is what vacations are all about, baby. So anyway, we watched Men in Black and our almost 4-year-old …

U.S.A.'s new Wild West forensics series.

The way this is working is the RIAA – as a very well funded institution with lawyers out the ass – has about zero per unit cost to subpoena all of these file sharers, while for the targets, the cost in real and potential cost in money, time and emotional …

Director of Midnight Cowboy, The Falcon and the Snowman dies at 77: The British-born filmmaker had a debilitating stroke in December 2000, and his condition deteriorated significantly in recent weeks. He was taken off life support at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs on Thursday and died early Friday, …

For a bizarre deranged blood-drinking psycho-bitch, Angelina Jolie is pretty hot.

Dan Gillmor on the RespectCopyrights.org campaign: a campaign (also including TV commercials and in-theater pitches) aimed at convincing us all of a single point — that it’s wrong to infringe on copyrights. Well, of course it is, especially when the purpose is to get something of value for nothing or …