{"id":386,"date":"2005-12-02T00:23:39","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T00:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newblog.odedsharon.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2005-12-02T00:23:39","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T00:23:39","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"OMGPLOSION !!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An email i&#8217;ve sent to Lee this morning consisted of the following words:<\/p>\n<p>OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG !!!<\/p>\n<p>and a link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cad-animation.com\/\">http:\/\/www.cad-animation.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tim Buckley (who was mentioned in an earlier post), the creator of<br \/>\nCtrl+alt+del comic, is making an animation series from his comic strip.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s gonna be downloadable only for paying customers, and their<br \/>\nbusiness model is the one me an one of my anonymous friend (you blog<br \/>\nreaders who know me also know him, he talks LOUD), are talking about<br \/>\nthat if we were only given the chance to buy a downloadable copy at<br \/>\nreasonable quality of our favorite shows from their official website,<br \/>\nwe wouldn&#8217;t have reduced ourselves to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.odedsharon.com\/shows\/\">piracy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since you never clicked &#8220;personalize now&#8221; you don&#8217;t know what i&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a short discussion with Randy, from Blind Ferret<br \/>\nEntertainment, who are behind this animation feature and also behind<br \/>\nthe wonderful online comic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leasticoulddo.com\/\">Least I Could Do<\/a> which I&#8217;m still waiting for it&#8217;s books to arrive. Here&#8217;s a copy of my email I thought i&#8217;d share it with the world:<\/p>\n<p><i><br \/>\nHey Randy,<\/p>\n<p>First, if you remember, we&#8217;ve talked about shipping the LICD books to Israel<br \/>\nsome few months ago.. Still anticipating.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBoth me and my girlfriend are CAD and LICD fans, although I&#8217;m more CAD fan and<br \/>\nshe&#8217;s a more LICD fan. Odd that she likes LICD better. Can&#8217;t tell you why, it<br \/>\nsimply is&#8230; Just like mount everest IS and Alma Kogan isn&#8217;t.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n(some old Monty python quote.. sorry)<\/p>\n<p>The resolution of the trailer is acceptable, but having an HDTV projector i<br \/>\nalways aspire for better.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my dilemma about the file format, Quicktime is my preferred format (other<br \/>\nand getting a good old l33t xvid file straight to you hard drive). Sadly you<br \/>\ncannot view it in full screen from withing your browser unless you&#8217;re saving it<br \/>\nand opening it with it&#8217;s dedicated player. And since you&#8217;ll most probably<br \/>\ndisable the &#8220;save&#8221; option I&#8217;ll get stuck with watching it non full screen, which<br \/>\nsucks.<br \/>\n<br \/>\non the other hand, IMHO Windows media player sucks more big time. I tried<br \/>\nwatching the trailer now just to test it our. it&#8217;s choppy, plays a second then<br \/>\npauses, then plays a second again. I can&#8217;t configure it to stream the whole<br \/>\nmovie before playing, and i can&#8217;t use it with my Mozilla properly.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHave you thought about Realplayer ? I&#8217;ve had a pretty good experience with them too.<\/p>\n<p>A free advice about file sharing. My work experience includes 2 years work at a<br \/>\ngame company, and prior to that more then 2 in various jobs related to computer<br \/>\nsecurity, some as a professional hacker.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTrust me when I say this. No matter how strong your DRM enforces is, or what<br \/>\nmeans you use to make sure it does take 5 minutes for you video to hit the file<br \/>\nsharing softwares, it will just take the better hackers 10 minutes, 20 minutes,<br \/>\nan hour, or worst case, a day.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNo matter how strong is the encryption you make for your video game, it&#8217;ll be<br \/>\ncracked and even pre-released.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe morality I believe in, is that if there&#8217;s something worth spending money<br \/>\nfor, you do. Regardless if I can get the same thing for free from your favorite<br \/>\nfile sharing software. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ll pay for the premium membership in any<br \/>\ncase. I just wanted to make sure I&#8217;ll get my money&#8217;s worth&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>My point being is, that you should try and appeal to your costumer&#8217;s ethics, and<br \/>\ndo all the thing you are already doing like offering extra content for paying<br \/>\nmembers.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI hope you succeed making enough profit to keep this project not only running<br \/>\nfor the whole time, but also extending it.<\/p>\n<p>CAD-animation is the amongst the first &#8220;TV&#8221; shows that offer you to buy them<br \/>\nrather then watch them on the air with too many commercials.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard many of these arguments before, but it&#8217;s just some more<br \/>\nfood for thought&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAnd all the best luck with your projects !<\/p>\n<p>Oded<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An email i&#8217;ve sent to Lee this morning consisted of the following words: OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG !!! and a link: http:\/\/www.cad-animation.com\/ Tim Buckley (who was mentioned in an earlier post), the creator of Ctrl+alt+del comic, is making an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/?p=386\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}