Dashed off - or why piracy sometimes works best when it's messed up.

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In one way this is timely, since UK copyright law is about to be wrenched into the digital age with rather more sighs of relief than kicks or screams. Crazy though it sounds, ripping a CD you've bought and plonking it onto your MP3 player has technically been illegal here since the days of the original vinyl/tape dichotomy. (Vince Cable, Business

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The existence of a commentary track is also the single most reason why I buy DVDs.

one recent example was the collection of extras sneaked out from the Nic Cage film, Drive Angry, although God knows why.
Yes, that was very amusing.

I sometimes wish they would change their habit of creating multiples of 700MB rips. Once you approach a movie duration of two hours you usually get two CDs. Why not create files in a more linear fashion. Like 700MB for up to 100min and about 850MB for 120min. Pretty much everything should be under 1GB that way. Thankfully, it now happens more often that files built in that fashion surface if you wait long enough.

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*Nods.* I often feel that the scene's "rules", being so ripe for parody, are only maintained as a means of distinction from the more flexible (and numerous) P2P groups, although the lines are increasingly being blurred. Whenever a debate ensues - for example, about file sizes and formats - you can usually predict with a high degree of accuracy exactly how the arguments will fall into camps, and how vocal their respective supporters will be. Unfortunately, the end result is that hardly anything ever changes for the better - if at all.

You're absolutely right, though, and the logic of a sliding scale to match duration is inescapable. (I believe this happened with Scream 4 as a counter-move against the original 2 CDs release, with a non-standard 800Mb .avi resultant filesize, something which has been commonplace among the P2P people and ex-scene stalwarts like AXXO and VOMiT for years.)

Of course, the reason for DASH's third stab at putting out The Ward was a problem with how the second release was RAR'd - a particular bugbear of

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Talking of films, the one where Phil plays Saddam Hussein is out this week, complete with the poor sod having to have his hair dyed and wearing brown contact lenses; it's like reloacting a mafia don to the middle east.
PS back from Devon................ liver still in hospital due to over consumption of Brannock as we got through a 72 pint barrell in a week.

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Oh, is that The Devil's Double (or something like that - the trailers kicked off about a week ago but are very short, and I keep missing the title)?

Consider me duly impressed re: your intake! (And thank you for the crazy cat photos!)