Proving you can take the property out of the studio but you can’t take the studio mentality out of screwing up the property…

Dear Marvel, please pay the man so we can hopefully enjoy Iron Man 2 as much as the first. Let X3 be lesson learned, not repeated.

Regarding the rumors that Marvel wont bring back Jon Favreau for IRON MAN 2… — Aint It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
MARVEL has the opportunity to create franchises that last - not for a few years, but for decades. But they have to make the right decisions and be willing to work with the artists that will grow and evolve the properties into franchises that are worth existing. When an artists run grows stale, thats when you change horses - not after the first win.

You’ve got to be @#$%ing me? Last time I checked, the Canadian Government was to be elected and funded by the Canadian people to protect our interests from threats foreign and domestic, not bought off by Big Media to not only ignore the people’s interests, but to actively harm us with draconian laws that obliterate traditional and vital principles of Fair Use, but the cardinal doctrine of presumption of innocence.

Here’s an idea: Instead of taking Big Media money and wasting our tax dollars prosecuting Canadian citizens for Fair Use of media we bought and paid for, why don’t you prosecute Big Media for criminal stupidity for failing to evolve their business model to not only keep up with the information age, but leverage it for Google-sized profits. Instead of letting them turn on, and try to feed off their own customers as desperate middle-men struggle to keep their mob-like control over content and distribution in a world that never wanted — and no longer needs — them, fine them for every penny they ever extorted from creators and bilked from consumers, and lock them up wasting our Governments sorely needed resources for their own selfish, and final, death throws.

Thanks much.

Controversial copyright reform to be unveiled Thursday

The new Copyright Act has been updated to reflect the growth of digital media and is said to include a number of contentious provisions including:

– A $500 fine for each illegal file shared online

– Making it illegal to unlock cellphones or copy music from protected CDs to iPods

– Forbidding the right to copy “time shifted” shows onto personal video recorders if flagged by broadcasters.

Case in point:

Zune: Microsoft Developing Copyright Filter for Zune, Will Block Pirated Content

“In the long term, the consumer wants there to be quality premium-produced content, and in order for that to continue to be a viable business, there needs to be significant protection around it.” This is the same NBC that was working with AT&T to build a network-wide dragnet for pirated content, so color us totally not surprised. Just don’t know why Microsoft would agree to this and give people a reason to avoid Zunes (whether it’s a legitimate one or not), when they’re already way behind the iPod (which told NBC to take a flying hoo-ha).

Awesome article. Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Why Apple is more expensive than Amazon

Buy what you like, where you like. But remember why things are the way they are. Apple is more expensive than Amazon because the labels want you listening to music on a Zune.

So my friend got an Xbox Arcade for his birthday. He wanted to use it primarily as a Media Center Extender, so the Arcade SKU made sense. When he opened it and tried to set it up, however, he discovered that the power cable they provided was not compatible with the Xbox SKU he’d received. It could literally not be plugged in (there was a difference in the middle section of the cable that didn’t match the middle section of the socket on the Xbox unit).

We took the Xbox back to the Big Box retailer and customer service told us it was the second one they’d had returned for that reason (I forgot to ask in how long, but it was in the rep’s recent memory).

There as no other Arcade SKU in stock, so we “upgraded” the Pro SKU, which had the same power cable as the Arcade, but a different socket on the Xbox unit which accepted it just fine (we checked in-store before leaving with it).