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Lifestream/// Passenger-Carrying Spaceship Makes Desert Debut
Interesting. I think that we will surely see more private initiatives in the coming years. No longer will governments be the only ones dabbling with space travel. I’m still anxiously awaiting the global mining industry to catch up on this …
/// Hollywood alters movies to foil camcorder pirates
Hollywood sends enforcers with night-vision goggles into movie theaters and puts metal detectors outside advance screening rooms, but still the industry can’t stop pirates from recording films and selling illegal copies before their theatrical debuts.
Interesting. Yawn. I don’t think this is the major problem they should be concerned with.
The Motion Picture Association of America estimates studios lose more than $3 billion per year from piracy in various forms.
BS! I would be very interested in how they calculate something like this. I assume that it is somehow based on the number of copies in circulation .. and probably rounded to a nice a big figure. Well, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. You can never ASSUME that just because someone leeches a screener copy (or camcorder like in this case) they would have actually gone and seen the movie in a theater. It’s absurd to reason like this. And if they’re counting box office figures then I must point out that you can never expect to increase your revenues every single year. It is a fact that ticket prices have risen all over the world while the quality (of movies) hasn’t. Have you ever considered the possibility that this is in fact just a “natural fluctuation” that only you (the movie and record industry) can change by putting out affordable products and raise the bar for quality. I really hate repeating myself …
/// Washington to ban ‘violent’ game sales
Washington State’s senate passed a bill Thursday that would institute a fine of up to $500 to retail employees who sell violent video games to anyone under the age of 17.
The bill passed the Senate 47-7 and is expected to be signed into law by Gov. Gary Locke. Rather than targeting games based on their ratings, the bill specifically mentions those that depict violence against law enforcement officials.
This would put the industry’s top selling title, “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City,” square in the bill’s crosshairs. As of late February, the PlayStation 2 version of the game had sold more than 8.5 million copies worldwide
*Shudder*. Need I really comment on this? As the article says, it is parents who buy the games anyway so this wont do any good. There already is a rating system that works pretty well. Besides, the violence against law enforcement officials is plain stupid. Even if violent games could be shown to make kids more violent in real life situation I SERIOUSLY DOUBT you could show them to discriminate against law enforcement. This goes to prove how little the proponents have actually thought it thru.
If you think that you can correct the problems with the american society by targeting the gaming industry and ‘violent’ games you are so very wrong I feel sorry for you. Take care of the real problems instead. As if ‘violent’ games were the only blemishes on an otherwise spotless record …
Wow. Talking about the gaming industry. Will this game by ‘violent’? Duh …
