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It could also just be the fact that as the Daleks were not allowed to play, the Hartnell Doctor didn't know much about them and the name didn't register. Or he could have forgotten due to the old age of his first body. Also, since the Dalkes seemed to develope Time Travel as a means of hunting down the Doctor it seems possible that he might have altered the timeline and contributed to the Daleks making some sort of "Comeback". He was quite willing to give the Dalkes the secrets of the TARDIS in the first story-maybe he did.

I'm not knowledgeable of all the details of the settlement, but I suspect that the MPAA is claiming that the money that Niteshdw recieved through donations was used for P2P file-sharing and belongs to them for copywrite infrigement. If they do ettle ang get the money, they will have to report it as income and pay taxes on it (although their accountants can probably try to write off the alleged "loss in income" that Niteshdw cost them from P2P file sharing). I don't believe or agree with that viewpoint, and probably a lot of other don't either, but it doesn't really matter. The MPAA isn't really interested in collecting money from Niteshdw (he doesn't have enough to make a difference to THEM), they are just trying to make an example to him to discourage other from hosting P2P trackers. The amount chosen was probably decided just so that it paying it would really put the screws on Nite. If Nite was a millionaire, the MPAA would have demanded millions in the settlement. Essentially, it's legalized extortion.

Nite- about the way the MPAA's ettlement is worded. Does it provent you from using any sort of donations for the settelmet, or just those from niteshdw and or a P2P website? I was just thinking that is the restriction is to donations to the niteshdw website, you coul set up some sort of alternate way to accept money to help with the lawsuit.

According to some of the people involved with the series, the show surivived primarily becuase they couldn't think of anything better to replace it with. After each series/season the production staff would be asked to come up with new ideas for shows to replace Doctor Who. BBC management would then look over the ideas and, generally, decide that the concepts were not as good as Dr Who, or would cost too much, etc.

Another way he gcould hve gotten the address would be if he somehow got mail from her or if her friends forwarded any mail to him. A lot of people use the "Send all" option toforward jokes and stuff, and one of the three people who you gave the email adress to could have sent out a "send to all" message. These typically have the email adress of ALL the recepients in the header. So, instantly, he would have the email adresses of all that person's contacts. Also, if the guy knows any of your friends passwords to thier accounts, he could logo onto thier account, ssift through thier email online, and no one would notice a thing.

No, the most they can do is go over and buy up a lot of businesses and media. Then, they use that to influence the populace and politicians. Next thing you know, some Member of Parliment with a new summer home in the Bahamas introduces a few new ideas. Some more payoffs and suddenly the UK goes anti-filesharing. One thing about multinational business is that they are MULTI-national. Money and influnce extend beyond the borders of just one country. While the MPAA can't attack and conquer the UK in a military sense. They don't have to, need to, or even want to. Just grease the right palms, open up a business or two and it becomes easy to get your way. Especially when the opposition doesn't throw any money against you.

I probably download less. There are somethings I still DL,stuff that isn't available through other means-mostly anime (and the anime community has a different set of rules about file sharing). On the other hand, having once been caught up in a witchhunt by Warner Bros over a film that I did not download, I have in my own small way, retailited. I no longer buy Warner Bros DVDs, so the WB will never make another dime off of me. I started buying Region 2 Doctor Who DVDs from amazon uk, even through they do cost more that the US releases, just so that Warners doen't make any money off of it. Anything out from Warner that I REALLY want, I pick up used from one of several shops that sell used DVDs. I aslo avoid Warner films in the cinema. So far, Warner's stupidity has cost them over $300 in DVD sales (of my money, anyway) in 2005, and over $100 so far for 2006. You know, if everybody who doesn't like the way the big studios and the MPAA were to adopt a similar philosphy, we would have a compley legal, low cost way to get our point across to the MPAA in a method that they might understand and take notice off. There is a big difference between losing an estimated $5 million dollars a year and losing $5million dollars in profits. Maybe more. Just a thought.

Sort of a lot of overlap there. I know that several of the "mising" episodes that have surfaced over the years were from former BBC employees who grabbed an reel or two of film from the trah bin. My person option is that there are probably a few more episodes tucked away in various stations around the wrld. It's not like people are scoureing through every tation' archies actively searching for old Who episodes.

Okay, I did think about it. I didn't like what came to mind. If mankind had such copyright laws in the past, we'd never have any sort of technology. Fire, the Wheel, antibiotics, anestesia, movable type, the piano, the alphabet, newtonian physics, calculus, language, mathematics, powered flight, indoor plumbing, crop rotation, the internal combustion engine, magnetisi. Where wuold we be if we all had to pay copyright royaties to use any of them? All invention and advancement is built upon the achievements of others. Anything that anyone invets today i done using information and skills, and technology that others developed years ago. Think of what our lives would be like if someone owned the patent for the whell, or if Gutenburg's decendants owned the copyrite for movable type. What if they guarded that right jealously, and only allowed certain books to be printed? What if Gutenburg's family didn't allow Shakespear's works to be printed? What if Shakespears family couldn't work out a pecentage with Geutenburg's family to print Hamlet? Come to think of it, Shakespears works are based upon the works of others, and they could sue Shakespear for copyright infringement. ...and they would get sued by those people who'se ancestors used to do cave paintings. Whick would be all of us, since it would be impossible to advance beyond the caves--someone would probably secure the rights to engineering. After a point technology should belong to mankind, not to one man/woman/or group. Extending copywrite laws would hurt mankind just so a small number of people could make more money off something just because they were luky enough to be related to someone who actually went out and did something. If the invention was really that fantastic they would have inherited enough money from thier Inventor relative to live in luxury. Besides, all the big companies viloate copywright laws whenever they can get away with it. Such "rights" only protect those with the money to afford the lawyers to defend them All the motion picture companies today are violating Thomas Edison's copyright for the "kenetiscope" (motion picture camera). So how can thieves have rights to anything made in direct violation of another's copyright?

I couldn't see anyone spending $3000 if the $200 piece of equipment actually does give virtually the same quality. But it probably doesn't. I know several peole with CRT TVs who swear that they see no difference in picture quality between DVD and VHS. After watching some stuff on thier TV's I didn't see that much difference either. But I noticed a big difference between DVD and VHS on my LCD TV monitor (a $600 one, I can't afford one of those $10000 "Enterprise main viewscreen" jobs, and mine doubles as my computer monitor, too). Older TVs only have a resolution of 325 scan lines, newer ones 525, and after a certain point, it doesn't matter how good the source video is. The TV is the limiting factor. Also, Blue-Ray players (not writers) are going to come out at around $500-600, and will pretty rapidly drop to below $400. THis is exacly how VCRs and DVDs started out. Now you can get a cheap VCR or DVD player for $30. CD-RWs were astronimically priced back in 1987, now they are under $50.

SCI-FI channel has really gone downhill over the last couple of years. I have heard that execs have finally noticed that thier programming policy hasn't worked (generally dumping all thier Sci-Fi shows), and has in fact alientated thier viewer base. With Galactica doing so well, someone was able to point out to the channel' leadership that people really do want to watch space/futuristic Science Fiction. I think the BBC's plans to relse the new series on DVD in North America probably helped to et a US network to commit.

Well, there is a LOT of TREK, and selling for $100/season. A lot of the other TV shows are now being sold in box sets for $25-50 per season. Putting one season on a signle disc for the same price as a box set shouldn't be a problem. Getting an entire series at 4-5x that will be a bit harder. TOday some shows can be bought as a boxed set, or as separate discs (at a slightly higher price). Higher storae capacity and next generation computers also opens up the door for uncompressed video, unlike DVD.

Not the 39" ones, I suspect those will be in the $300-500 dollar range by then, depending on make and features. Just look at how LCD and CRT screens have dropped in price over the last few years. Now there are lots of LCD monitors out there for a couple of hundred bucks.

End? I don't think that the world has finished beginning yet.

I agree. My (rich) uncle has a big HDTV. In all honesty, I wasn't impressed. Pretty sure I'd rather put that $10,000 towards a shiny new car. Well, for starters an HDTV isn't necessarily showing and HD programs yet. Most stations, broadcast and cable, and still tramitting at the old TV standard, so there isn't going to be any difference in picture quality, yet. As for the price, all that will drop over time. As someone else pointed out, the same astronimcal prices appeared when CR-RW drives came out. This is typical with new tech. It is very expensive when first released, then drops in price over time. This has been true from everything from video game systems (the Atari 2600 orginally sold for $400), the VCR ($1,000), PCs, laptops (remember when a color laptop cost $4000?), CD write drives, DVD drives, DVD players (I knew people who bought playstations to get a low cost DVD player), DVD recorders, LCD TVs, LCD monitors, and blank media. Just last year blank DVD-DL media went for around $10 each, now down to $2-5). The same will happen with LCD TVs (has already started), Plasma TVs, HD-DVD and Blue-Ray. In 10-15 years they will be selling for $50-100. In the long run the higher storage capacity is going to be the thing that will make the new formats the new standards. With PC RAM and Hard Drives growing, the larger storage capaicity will be needed. Just look at what CD and DVD drives have done to floppy discs. It's just a matter of waiting until all the technologies get worked out, implemented, and the prices start to drop.

Well considering the historyof the comics industry, the reponse was to be expected. It was probably less "homophobia" than fear of repating the whole Seduction of the Innocent circus. After all, it was claims that Batman and Robin were homosexuals that lead to the creation of the Comics Code.

This difference is in what type (format) discs it can burn. Double Layer is DVD+R and Dual Layer is DVD-R. This might be important depending on what sort of drives or DVD players you own. It used to be that + and - were incompatable with each other, but these days many manufactueres make drives that can can use either format.

The pronblem with that reasoning is that Ford and Chevrolet don't design and sell vehicles for the primairy purpose of getting into accident's that take peoples' lives. A TiVO, on the other hand, is designed and sold to allow the user to record broadcast TV programs. "It's okay to make it, sell it, and own it, but is unlawful to use it." I think sales of TiVo will drop dramtically when users wind up in jail. Ditto for PVR's and VCRs and DVD recorders.

Yup, two differnet version of Highlander 2, and mutiple alternate universes. Now is the anime series actually new or a rehash of the animated Highlander series (there goes the mental block...argh!)

[quote=Potato I've seen quite a few of these and although what you say is true in some of them, she is more reconizably Amanda especially as the season went on. The final episode rocks by the way...what a cliffhanger to leave after the cancellation. Well, as I stopped watching the show about 5 or 6 episodes into it, I probably dropped out of it before they "Amada-ized" the series.

I saw a few episodes of it and didn't like it-althought I really wanted to. I really liked the character of Amada, but her personality was a bit different in the Raven series. Apparently the series wasn't supposed to be about Amanda, but a different female immortal. When Adrian Paul decided to quit the Highlander TV series, Elizabeth Gracen was suddenly available and Raven got reworked as an Amada series. A nice idea, except in many cases they altered Amanda to fit the Raven concept rather than altering the plots of the Raven stories to account for Amanda. Amanda went from a con artist sneak thief to a female Duncan McCleod.

Personally I consider the entertainment industry should go after themselves. For example if Sony Entertainment doesn't want people to copy thier programs off of TV they should stop Sony Electronics from producing VCRs and DVD recorders that do just that. Hollywood should go after the companies that sell PVR/Tivo devices,including most cable companies, not the people who buy them. We didn't make all this technology to record TV shows, we just bought it and are using it as per the manufactuer's instructions. In the long run, I suspect it will be all the companies that manufacture all these high tech devices that will wind up fighting Hollywood with big bucks anyway, otherwise they are going to loose thier market.

Yes, but a decrease in population also means a decrease in consumers and therefore a drop in demand, leading to a drop in the need for workers leading to "downsizing". Now if you can keep demand constant despite a drop in poulation then demand can go up.

It would make sense if Japan was a pre-industrial argarian based culture like Eurpoe was when the Black Death hit. But it it's not. In Fuedual Europe , when the Black Death ravage Eurpoe's population it led to a shortage of serf to farm the land. This was in a era when over 90% of the population was required to farm the land, and technology such that famine struck about one in 3 years, anyway. Under those circumstances wiping out one third of the population mean wiping out nearly a third of the workforce needed for farming. It also occured in a highlt over popluated, socially stagnant culture, and over a very short period of time. Plus, everthing was produced by hand, so less people meant less production. In Modern Japan, less than 5% of the population is involved in farming (probably much, much less than 5%), and with the aid of technology one person an do the work of many. Addtionally Japan imports food as well. Uner these circumstances, a gradual reduction of the poupulation over time, via reduced birth rate, would hardly have the same effect. Less people means fewer imports, but not necessarily less production.Industiralzation and automation have changed that. It's a whole different ballgame. P.S.} THe whole cow methane destroying the ozone layer thing is just a plot by the fish to strike at the cows in thier age old rivalry. The entire story , called the "Surf 'n Turf Wars" is rather long and bloody, and dates back to the dawn of history. Early versions have been discovered witten in sumerian and even on the walls of Egyptian Tombs. Today, bits of the tale can be found on the menus of many a resturant. ;)