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John Pinette

https://youtu.be/oRo6DCvJWIU

Fantasy:

1. The Hobbit

Comedy/Sci-Fi:

1. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
2. The Martian

I’d classify a must watch as something everyone should see, not just fans of the genre.

The only must watch shows are FMA Brotherhood and Cowboy Bebop. As for movies, I’d really only list Ghibli films like Howl’s Moving Castle and Spirited Away.

Glad you are in the minority. I don’t like all his movies but I definitely don’t find them boring.

I dunno if I’d call dying at 92 heartbreaking. That’s a good life right there. Thanks for the childhood memories Bill.

The real reason we have DRM-free stores is because there’s no copy protection on CDs themselves. Companies tried and failed several times to add copy protection to CDs. That, on top of a great public outcry, is the reason we have those online stores. For some reason the public didn’t fight as hard with video and rights are a lot harder to manage with so many contributors.

You’re right that Musicians can publish their products on their own because the funding requirements are much lower. Movie/TV costs have skyrocketed and very few can afford to publish their own products. Just look at Coppola with Megalopolis. He self funded like $200 million for the movie but still had to get a distributor.

There are plenty of boutique brands out there that have taken up the physical distribution in lieu of the content owners. As long as there’s a market for it, physical discs will still exist. There are definitely some companies that have decided not to license out distribution but they also own their own digital platforms (looking at you Netflix). Fortunately, much of what they produce is merely content and not worth owning.

I mean, it is in my house. It’s on my computer. But now I can access it from anywhere too.

I will admit that I prefer accessing my movies digitally. I will also admit that I absolutely prefer actually owning things I buy. So the compromise is to buy a disc, rip it onto a computer, and access it from there. Physical media won’t die until digital rights actually represents ownership. Unfortunately procuring those discs will likely continue to be more expensive and the discs themselves less prevalent.

I’d certainly hope so. That’s his job.

I was trying to place the screencap in one of the bioshocks.