News, news, news...

[lbd_nytetrayn]

From nintendojo, courtesy of the Penny Arcade Forums:

Old man Yamauchi may be retired, but he never fails to surprise. Below is our translation of the latest news from Japan:

Nintendo advisor Hiroshi Yamauchi said at a press conference in Kyoto on the 29th that he will propose the idea of working on a feature-length anime film at an October management meeting.

Yamauchi, board chairman of the Kyoto cultural foundation, spoke to the audience about taking up the cause for an anime based upon 100 Poems by 100 Famous Poets after the ground-breaking ceremony for a museum dedicated to the classic Japanese literary work.

According to Yamauchi, "I'd like to work on a product that is common not only in Japan, but abroad as well. Video games and movies share a close similarity. If it's the decision at the management meeting, I'd like to go into that field. It'd be good for Nintendo to take a risk."

Whenever Nintendo takes a risk, don't people usually end up on fire or something?

Courtesy of The Allspark: Spaceballs Episode 2: A New Hope of Revenge For The Return of the Phantom of The Menace of the Schwartz(since they can't use Jedi/Sith) That Strikes Back...

Bush's hometown endorses Kerry; fans of irony let out expected amounts of laughter.

From ChessPieceFace of The Allspark: "Bush will never see it, he said he doesn't read newspapers."

And of course, no newsreel is complete without some cocklicking jackassed buffoonery out of Hollywood(courtesy of www.IMDB.com via the Penny Arcade Forums:

A new technology called BitTorrent, which can download a pirated feature film in DVD quality in less time than it takes to watch, is posing a new threat to movie studios. According to Mercury News, the technology, which requires several "owners" of a particular film to "share" individual parts of it with others, is particularly tough for the studios to battle since the sharing network shuts down after the film is downloaded. The BitTorrent software was created by Bram Cohen of Seattle, who receives no money from sales of pirated films but does welcome "donations" from visitors to his website. However, that may not insulate him from a lawsuit by the MPAA. John G. Malcolm, director of worldwide anti-piracy for the Motion Picture Association of America, told Mercury News: "BitTorrent and others who are complicit in copyright theft should take little comfort from their temporary celebrity status."

LBD "Nytetrayn"

Comments

[tossy.livejournal.com]

Next thing you know they will be trying to "shut down" video codecs such as DivX, because "DivX is frequently used to pirate movies".

Then they'll try to shut down the internet.

[lbd-nytetrayn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, on PA some joked about suing Bill Gates for being responsible for this to some minute degree.

I'd love to see that.

Because I'm sure if ANYone on the planet can go toe-to-toe with the MPAA, RIAA, and such in some sort of lawsuit and WIN, it'd be him.

LBD "Nytetrayn"

[rorita.livejournal.com]

Zounds! I must check out this newfangled "Bit-Torrent" technology post-haste so that I may acquire Hollywood's most popular moving pictures without giving those industry jackanapes a haypenny of my hard-earned dollar!

What's that, Lassie? You say Bittorrent is last year's news and this is the usual example of the media being way behind? And there's a cocksmoking RIAA stooge trapped in the well by the old mill? Eh, let him die.

[lbd-nytetrayn.livejournal.com]

^ I roffled.

LBD "Nytetrayn"

[yuriranch.livejournal.com]

Bit Torrent is awesome, so it's normal for the corporate big shots down at MPAA and others to try to take it down... (damn them all...)
...Though the part about it being downloaded in less time than it takes to watch it is slightly incorrect... it all depends if somebody out there wants to give it to you (stingy people...)

[thenekomancer.livejournal.com]

Great. Wonderful. To think I've been planning on restoring PMM's media empire via BitTorrent, and now this. Damn MPAA. I wonder what it must be like to have a job solely devoted to making people unhappy.

[tossy.livejournal.com]

you know, of course, they can't really do much except bitch and moan

[lbd-nytetrayn.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't worry too much about it. It's not something they can really squash, it's just like any other piece of technology that some people decide to use for a bad reason; there really is no way to stop it. It's like trying to stop .jpg or .html.

LBD "Nytetrayn"

[makzu.livejournal.com]

I'm going to send them an anonymous letter to see if I can't get them to try to sue the makers of the TCP/IP stack. (For the uninitiated, TCP/IP is the protocol that runs the internet)

After all, 100% of music and movie piracy over the internet uses TCP/IP. They ban that, then piracy will go way down, and we'll get back to GOOD OLD AMERICAN MUSIC BUYING.

[makzu.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. Don't forget, you guys, that this is the same MPAA that said that "The betamax player is to the film industry what the boston strangler is to women."

You can't make this bullshit up. You really can't.