http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/13/canadians-flocking-t.html
Once again the powerful people of the entertainment industry have shown their complete lack of understanding their customers, their market and the problems they are facing.
It never seize to amaze me to what lengths these people will go to defend and obsolete business model. Music and film distribution on a disk is so – well – last century.
Making it illegal to use a region free dvd player and uploading content to YouTube is just another bound-to-fail attempt of maintaining the disk (cd and dvd) as the only way of buying, watching and keeping music and video.
Again, as I have mentioned in an earlier post, the reason why people like their music and films on their computer, iPod or phone is not because they want to break the law, avoid paying for it or going around regional coding. It is because it is easier, more convenient and a better solution for most peoples needs.
Outlawing your entire customer base seems like a bad idea.
June 14th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Where did you get your blog layout from? I’d like to get one like it for my blog.
June 14th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Hey Dan!
Glad you like it … it is actually the “Personal theme” from wpdesigner that I have just tweaked a little bit.
You can find the original here: http://www.wpdesigner.com/demo/index.php?preview=Personal
September 17th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Please note! Dan commented on the design of this blog before it was changed. Unfortunately the theme he commented on is lost forever, since I lost both server hotel and hard drive within the same two weeks. And for some reason I did not have a full backup of the theme on my backup drive.