ThunderPeel2001

Man, that sounds brilliant. That's never happened to me. I need to get a cabbie to bash through a toll booth!

Well, we certainly get swamped by news if it captures the public's fear node... But I guess you're right re: actual quality. (Sorry for using the word node, I've been watching and enjoying Nathan Barley recently.)

Yeesh, sounds pretty lame However, I think the idea is that it's aimed at the "teen" market... whatever that means for the music included...

It's pretty lame that you can't get decent hard news coverage on this thing

So that would make the "original three" that SynthGerbil mentioned then, and the ones that I've already seen... What about the other four? Edit: Found them. The second wave of directors were: Anton Corbijn Jonathan Glazer Mark Romanek Stephane Sednaoui

I guess this is the problem with all of this being translated. Like that judge's statement about it being illegal to use BitTorrent with the Pirate Bay... Surely that doesn't even make sense? There's also talk about a LOT of pressure from outside bodies for Sweden to do something about The Pirate Bay. Does anyone know if there's any truth to these rumours, and if there's any indication of unfair pressure?

So what is it?!

I didn't even know there were any more DVDs in the series. Presumably they were obscurer, "less cool", directors?

Huh?

Wicked! Thanks for the heads up, I really enjoyed the last DVD There should be more of them.

* a ghostly spectre appears -- it seems to resemble ThunderPeel... he seems be saying something... you can just make it out... * ...diiiiiiiiictionarrrrry... * with that, he disappears. forever. *

If that's so... what is your point? Why did you even bring it up? So now we're inventing new meanings for words, in order to justify an argument? * keels over and dies *

Wow. Cool

It's the only one that deals with the REAL issues

I see it now!

Please stop using it the word "unethical". It does not mean what you think it means. What you are writing does not make any sense. Once again: Morality is the idea of what is right and wrong, and ethics are how you implement that morality. You cannot be "probably not immoral" AND "probably unethical". Someone who is acting "ethically" is applying their morals. Someone who is acting morally is being ethical. The two words are synonymous. Ethical (adj.) Synonymous with: moral, principled, proper, right, righteous, rightful, right-minded, virtuous. Moral (adj.) Synonymous with: ethical, principled, proper, right, righteous, rightful, right-minded, virtuous. I have no idea what your point is, probably because you're not using the correct words to describe it.

I toned it back. Just for you

Morality is the idea of what is right and wrong, and ethics are how you implement that morality. Both, obviously, are open to debate. Man, your post makes zero sense. You know that now, right?

As an artist you're given an advance. The cost of your album comes out of that advance. (What do you think the musicians live on while they're making and promoting the album??) Also, the bald truth is that unless you're a massive artist, you'll barely earn enough to eat. Period. If you'd like to learn more, do me a favour and start here. Please get down from the patronizing, morally superior, high-horse. We all have different ideas of what morality is. Allow me to offer a counter-argument to yours: I don't know if you're old enough to remember, but cassette tapes had no form of copy protection, blank tapes where sold everywhere and 90% of stereos advertised a "tape to tape"/"high speed dubbing" function. Cassette tapes were the most commonly sold form of music at the time. What about videos? Videos were the ONLY way you could buy movies. Then came the advent of home video RECORDERS. You could record what you wanted at the same quality that was available to buy in the shops. Neither of these piracy methods where required anywhere near the level of knowledge and understanding that BitTorrenting does. In short, my Mum could press "record" on a VHS, and that was all she had to do. Yet through all of this, both industries persevered and grew, massively. So what has been the damage from this new "threat"? The judge estimated the total cost of damages done by The Pirate Bay, the world's largest bit-torrent site, at $3,620,000. The total damage done to ALL 1400+ members of the IFPI, including Warner Bros, Universal, Sony/BMG, in FIVE years. In 2001 the RIAA estimated the industry profits from CD sales at $12,900,000,000 (since then -- about the time that people started noticing that rise of CD burners/Napster hadn't affected profits -- their numbers have been kept secret). So a judge, able to look at all the information we're not allowed to see, decided that the impact of The Pirate Bay, in its five year existence, has done less damage that it costs to market a single Britney Spears album. So once again, this discussion is not about morality. Please don't reduce this discussion to the level where we have to start philosophising. There is no universal truth. If you'd been brought up in a cannibalistic society, eating humans wouldn't be immoral. To re-iterate: Please don't let this thread descend into arguments about who has the best morality.

Erm. Apart from Braid and Dave Gilbert's adventures, I'm pretty much in the dark... Except when I listen to the podcast I hear intriguing games, like something called "Marriage"? Made by some dude at EA or something? I have a feeling that there's a ton of genius indie games that I'm totally not aware of. I'm not so interested in the indie games that attempt to ape more expensive titles, but instead those that do something a big company would never attempt. This weird Marriage game, whatever it is, sounds very promising... Where can I find it and what else is there around this sphere of genius/experimental games?

Best review of 2009

Then they can let their website go down so hardly anyone can get a free can... Just like they did when they ruined the release of Chinese Democracy. (Edit: You know, there's a great Onion story in there about the democracy process in China being derailed by Dr. Pepper.)

Me neither. Way to spoil it...

Everyone knows that Jesus likes eggs, chocolate and bunnies... You're just talking crazy with your backwards foreign ways.

Did you just have a lobotomy? You are, of course, aware that the "hardworking filmmakers", musicians, etc. get paid in advance, right? I don't recall seeing many musicians or filmmakers complaining about piracy -- because they make fuck all after it's been sold. I have, however, seen many artists LIKING piracy -- the fact that people are enjoying their hard work. I'm not talking about independently produced works here. As far as I'm concerned you should never (EVER) share indie works because you literally are stealing from the artist. People who pirate Braid or World of Goo, for example, are scumbags, IMO. I'm also not condoning piracy in any form, but this discussion isn't about the "rights and wrongs" of piracy, and you should really know better than to start talking nonsense about "saving the poor starving artists".