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UltraViolet Movie locker aims to let you own movies for eternity, and beyond.
Providing a piece of TechBytes to munch on.
Yesterday it was announced that there’s this interesting new concept of media ownership called Ultraviolet Movie Locker.
The skivvy is that any time you purchase a movie in any form (VHS, DVD, Blue-Ray, Itunes, etc.) you also purchase a sort of “Ownership Token” on that title, essentially indicating that you legally own it and thus can freely snag another copy of it in whatever form the future brings.
This aims to preserve collections through our constantly changing digital world. It’s not too unlike the idea that, so long as you previously purchased an album one way or another, it’s not illegal for you to go and and bit-torrent the MP3′s.
Whether this supports grandfather ownership remains to be seen, though.
For instance, I own the original Pokémon movie on VHS. If I register this with UV and get my theoretical ownership token, does that mean I could technically demand Itunes give me the digital copy for free since I already own it? Cause that would be -sweet-.
The project aims to preserve playlists too. It’s backed by big names such as Microsoft, Warner Bros., Sony, even Adobe.
This seems like a pretty epic system! But there’s also room for abuse (as with anything) and Apple’s notorious forced Apple-Only formats may have issues with the ordeal.
The whole shebang is set for testing soon.
Thoughts?
Further Reading:
Original Coverage by Wired
Associated Press via Google
New Videos, Future Videos
It’s been a while since I’ve done anything video-wise, mostly because I am a boring gamer and lame video editor.
I did manage to put together a Canthan New year vid, which is terrible but it was mostly me practicing Vegas 8.
As far as stuff I wanna eventually get done… my dance video, PT2, which is about 2 1/2 years late. And it sucks cause I was shooting to get it out on the 2 year anniversary of PT1, but that never happened.
I also wanna get together some GW pvp footage of PvP action, specifically Spirit Spamming in competitive missions, and beast mastery experimentation.
I’ve got a ton of footage wasting space on my harddrive of sooo much random crap. 55 monking, speed clears, and Zaishen elite ridiculousness in Guild Wars, and random bullshit from WoW.
Too bad I hardly have time to breath anymore.
Lasty, I leave you all with this hilarious IM convo from my friend Ben:
Ben: I was reading your blog, and i found something hilariously ironic.
Izzie: orly?
Izzie: was it a bad spelling error?
Ben: yeah, the way you harp on Varian all the time, makes me think you’re JUST LIKE HIM.
Ben: your posts are riddled with spelling errors
Izzie: uuuuuhhh what?
Izzie: ARE YOU CALLING ME RETARDED?
Ben: no no
Ben: according to you he’s anti-orc because he secretly loves them. i think you’re anti-varian because you have a crush on him.
Izzie: …WTF??
Ben: Don’t deny it! you pick on him like a 12-year-old schoolgirl in love!!!!
Izzie: YOU. ARE SO FULL OF POOP.
Izzie: I hate you forever.
Screen Post
Other than messing around on 3.2 PTR, there’s not much of note to update, so I thought I’d go and post some random screenshots of me causing more trouble on WoW and Guildwars.
Next post will have some 3.2 stuff or videos.
Belf with a Beard??
Chicks are Hot…
My shaman is a QTPI as a human.
Typical Weeknight Flist.
Gotta pay repair bills somehow…
Chinalove
Fuck Outland…
23 holy pallies are serious business. Maybe not.
Not flaming at all.
Eveverly hasn’t been “updated” since some random GW patch business. SHe’s pretty fuckin creepy.
WoW Videos / Babble
So wow, it’s been a month (uh oh!), and a crazy one at that. Sorry for the lack of updates.
Beta is over (boo!) and sadly, I didn’t get a chance to see what new changes to Strand (if any) came with the last handful of patches before PTR and Beta were taken down.
I really wanted to have a fleshed out version of my strat guide ready for when people started playing, but it’s not that big of a deal.
I imagine not much has changed, other than the much needed upgrade from 10v10 to 15v15. This may seem like a small detail, but depending on how people play, it could mean a huge shift when it comes to the way players pull off the offense / defense.
We’ll see how it goes come live.
In other news, I plan on attending the NYC Lich King launch party next weds night, with a bunch of my nerdy wow friends, maybe a face or two from Andorhal as well. I’m gonna try to get my hands on a camera to document the “festivities”.
And to leave this update with less than boring-ness, I’ll post a few good finds from Youtube that’ll be sure to cause laughs or good times.
WoW in the Real World Pick: Judge Judy vs Deadbeat WoW Boyfriend
WoW Fanworks Pick: Rogue vs Warrior
WoW Crossover Pick: Sylvannas in “Out Tonight” (who’ve thought rent + warcraft = good times? Epic ending is epic, btw.)
WoW Pop Culture Spoof Pick: LEAVE SYLVANNAS ALONE (it’s easy to pick out my favorite npc from warcraft lore)
Rise Up: Music Video
self plug:
a guildwars/wow video i made. Trying to break my ass back into the groove of video editing. so rusty. @_@ but alas, it recieved positive review so I’m happy.
Back from vacation, itching to do some guildwarsssing, since it’s been like. A week. As soon as JB gets his ass on. Woot woot.
