Comments on: no ironing needed

By: MikeandEllie

MikeandEllie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:13:31 +0000

I’m happy to download the (very) occasional torrent of something, and yet once when someone I was meeting for the first time came to my house with a folder full of torrented films I was mildly put out by it, by his assumptions or whatever. Isn’t that odd? Clearly, my morals are a bit flexible…when it suits me!

But absolutely, let’s cut out the greedy record companies etc; if the material is any good, it’ll sell itself.

By: sheepster5000

sheepster5000 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:02:40 +0000

A Jonathan Coulton mention!

Funny how everything links up. I watch Jonathan Coulton on YouTube, and I watch Robert Llewellyn on YouTube, seemingly with no connection. Then one of them mentions the other.

I do admire the way Coulton has made a name for himself, but there’s not many people who can do the same thing. He did that Thing A Week series and people heard about it because it was quirky. To replicate that would be hard. People start thinking “oh, it’s been done before”.

By: bakura23

bakura23 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:46:08 +0000

there making torret’s harder now by banning illegle downloads by making it so if your cauth once you get an email, twice lose conection for a week, three time’s you lose you conection completley, i just wonder if this count to you-tube or any-streem site, i don’t use torret, just streem-site’s, and there’s alot i watch and don’t want to lose it.

By: truthseekers666

truthseekers666 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:31:13 +0000

lubetube, i love it.

By: re1d

re1d — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:26:19 +0000

agreed, was just going to post that.

Cool posters background a la Hank Green.

By: SlightlyCompletely

SlightlyCompletely — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:32:24 +0000

Good points man. I’m 33 and I still like the experience of buying and holding actual physical ’stuff’ when I really like it. I still go to the theater too, if I think I will like the movie.

Otherwise I just download the stuff. To get people to spend money, you have to sell the experience, not just the ‘content’. You have to make me want to own it. Not just see it or hear it.

By: KeeperOfTheGood

KeeperOfTheGood — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:32:52 +0000

Hmm I wonder what Professor Vivian Alice’s take is on this subject? What does he teach his students about “file sharing”?

By: Flickyhecky

Flickyhecky — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:19:04 +0000

I was too busy watching your screen rather than listening to you! I noticed Tony Hawks and Danny John Jules!

As regards to file sharing and all that buisness, most people watch a film in the cinema first then download it later, and as you say, the quality is top notch.

The music and media industry will cave in under the pressure to allow people to download stuff legally from the internet, it’s the only way forward for them to go.

By: MakaraDC5

MakaraDC5 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:23:10 +0000

There’s definitely a cultural shift going on aboout how people regard media. Everyone is getting used to having things for free, some maybe getting everything for free. However, it may not mean the end of bought-media, just like home taping didn’t kill music. It just means the dinosaur recording industries have to start thinking proactively rather than just sitting there raking the money in.

By: Rightnutter

Rightnutter — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:24:37 +0000

I can’t believe you didn’t get any money for all the RD videos, I’d be bitter to.
About 4 weeks ago, I was given a copy of Sweeny Todd, (because they know I am a Johnny Depp fan), so I didn’t have to pay to go to the cinema to see it, it was as good as any you can buy in the shop, I don’t know where it came from, but I’m sure it wasn’t the only copy made.
great video as always