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So in a bar he gets a Movie recomendation, send a SMS to his home server which dumps the stream, rips and burns it to a plastic disk, ready when he gets home.
by deepnet 11y ago
So in a bar he gets a Movie recomendation, send a SMS to his home server which dumps the stream, rips and burns it to a plastic disk, ready when he gets home.
If he can't code hire a dev, $200 should suffice.
I found the problem in the past was licensing 'issues' prevented whole swathes of old movies ever being shown in the UK - this is pretty efficiently fixed now.
Solving the legal issues is a separate problem that was trivially solved for previous disruptive innovations.
Compulsory blanket licenses, existing media taxes, distribution agencies - just like when radio & libraries were innovations would allow outdated laws to catch up with technological reality. Maximalist copyright is an anti-capitalist protection racket devised by ancient distribution monopolies.
- nkurz 11y agoI think you misunderstand. He's not objecting to streaming and does not prefer a physical DVD. Instead, he's saying that the movies he is recommended are rarely available for streaming. If he could legally stream the movie rather than waiting for a DVD in the mail, he would do so.
- deepnet 11y agoI beg to differ, my last sentence suggests compulsory licensing to solve this. Pay musicians just like radio & libraries from the existing media taxes. This would allow all modern expression and access.