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Still A Fan Of Netflix

Zakhar — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:21:56 +0000

I have been a Netflix customer for a long time. I’m so glad they decided to keep “partitioned accounts” after announcing they were going to get rid of them. In the past, they reversed a price increase. Recently, they did not back down after splitting disc and streaming plans (but that one didn’t bother me even though it costs me more). Today, I found out their plan to turn the disc plan into Quickster has been abandoned. This is the third major reversal that I have been happy to watch Netflix make. Read the Netflix blog post announcement.

Ad-free site to check my IP address

Zakhar — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 02:56:28 +0000

check my IP address at address.cat

Piracy Is Lending, Not Theft

Zakhar — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:00:48 +0000

I’ve said this for a long time, but my audience is very small, so I’m glad someone with a bigger audience agrees (video below). I’m not ripping off artists if I download their works for free. I don’t think (m)any are. The way I look at it, I give as much as I can. Does that mean I should be barred from the rest? No. Frankly, if the completely legitimate practices of lending and time-shifting are combined, then what we’re doing is totally fine. There’s no way that all of us listening to our collections all at once can add up to the amount of playtime that accumulates from the CDs that have been bought and are just sitting on shelves somewhere. File sharing isn’t theft; it’s (the high tech version of) lending plus time shifting — both of which have been vindicated in U.S. courts.

Neil Gaiman talks to the Open Rights Group about how the internet affects the books and publishing industry

Now if only we could get people to realize copyright (and intellectual property rights) are a big deal. It affects starvation, disease, war, etc., and needs to be reasonable.

ps.mu noise music iec5010

Zakhar — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:47:57 +0000

ps.mu IEC5010 (noise) Music

A project from more than a few years ago finally surfaces on the web.

A “Real” Artist Gets It

Zakhar — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:54:44 +0000

The bit about being inspired by those artists that step before you was interesting, but I’m glad to see Francis Ford Coppola pondering the same idea (of artists making a living) I wrote about a couple years ago:

Francis Ford Coppola On Art, Copying And File Sharing: We Want You To Take From Us

… who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

negative income tax

Zakhar — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:01:19 +0000

Even though I’d prefer to go to a capitalistic system which only has sales tax, if we’re stuck with income tax, negative income tax (Wikipedia) seems a reasonable idea.

America is NOT a Christian Nation

Zakhar — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:02:41 +0000

I realize it’s more complicated, historically, than these “sound bites,” but the campaign is on the right track: New FFRF Bus Sign Campaign “America is NOT a Christian Nation”

Does Not Put Me Off

Zakhar — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:10:08 +0000

I realized if I (ha ha) ever wanted to go mainstream, I’ll have to rename this site. Changing “piss” to “put” would be easy enough.