Amazing update. Finally supports ignore list or “rules”, as well as the ability to mount ftp disks in Finder as volumes (omg wtf!?), quicker uploads, redesigned interface, menubar quick access, and 100s more features.
It’s $34 or if you’re a owner of Transmit 3 you can get it for $19.
It’s obvious that pirating music is the cheapest way to obtain music. Pirating because you’re interested in the band or just don’t want to pay the money. Buying an album usually costs around £8 for a digital download (in my latest experience of harddrive crashes I’m rejecting these unless they’re pirated), £9 for new CD or… £3 for a second hand CD.
I want to know, what does the record industry think of second hand sales, and how do they equate these sales into the ‘falling CD sales’ profit losses.
We often hear the music industry is in dire problems and losing money because of illegal downloading. But how much of these lost sales are going to second hand sales. These second hand sales don’t pay any further royalties to the music industry so i guess the music industry would consider this to be in the same category as an illegal digital download.
I gather this because:
Some guy buys the album for £9, then realises it’s not his cup of tea. He can’t sell/swap it from the shop he bought it so his only option is to re-sell it. He puts it on Amazon where many others have done the same. To compete with the other second hand sales, he has to drop his price to well over half what he bought it for, £3. Someone else buys it, sells it again. And so on and so on. Music industry only sees the initial sale of £9.
Now, same goes for the pirate. Some guy buys a copy of the album for £9. Uploads it to thepiratebay. Users x 10 download it for free. Music industry still on sees £9.
To me I see no problem of either downloading illegally or buying second hand. People would tend to think it’s more moral to buy the second hand copy – however the music industry doesn’t see a penny more from either. If you like your artist, support them by buy tickets to see their gig – buy limited edition tee’s or records that come with DVDs etc..
Check out all the second hand copies on Amazon or steal you some music today. Same thing really…
Made by Blumac Software, Mac BlurayRipper Pro is great software to decrypt your Bluray discs to your HDD. It only decrypts the files, leaving the structure intact so it can be backed up to Bluray media in the future.
If you want to transcode the video to a different format such as MKV or MP4 you’d be better off with some other software (such as MakeMKV) as it doesn’t support chapters, subtitles, language information.
But for $20 – it’s a good tool to have if you’re into backing up your stuffs.
I’ve just received my first Blu-Ray disc (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) and straight away, OS X reads it. I thought OS X couldn’t read Blu-Ray?
Was it that OS X can’t play back the files? If so, I don’t mind. I have MakeMKV (currently ripping the disc) which seems okay so far. Disc was read fine, titles and chapters have been scanned and now it’s decrypting.
It says it will take roughly 50mins to extract the main title which is just over 30gb.
MakeMKV is touted as some kind of freeware or opensource (at least that’s what I thought) until the Blu-Ray disc was read, it popped up a message saying that in 30 days my trail time will end.
Nevertheless, if it succeeds then I’ll buy it.
Update: Yeah, this works sweet. It outputs the file as MKV but it’s transcoded, so quality isn’t lost, picture isn’t cropped etc. Then i drop that into Handbrake and re-compress to suit 4.2gb (single layer DVD) or 8.4gb (dual layer)! Great quality 
Just a shame the app is expensive at £50 as all it does is dump the decrypted info. Surely there will be an open source decrypt somewhere?
Now that the UK has forced its nation into a 1984 type of guilty until proven innocent, we need to keep ourselves safe. I understand that copying music/movies/software hurts people who create them. I also understand that dogs don’t eat where they poo. Most of the time the movies/tv I watch are disposable and i wouldn’t recommend them. Sometimes there’s a good one.
I’m not saying i pirate all the time. I’m a subscriber to LoveFilm. I buy music/movies/software from artists I am a fan of. For me, anything else is advertising to get me to become a fan. I attend my favourite artists concerts when they come to town.
Example, I once dislike Marilyn Manson. I thought his music was all about killing, witchcraft and weirdo stuff. I then saw Come White on MTV, heard the lyrics and understood the character. So i downloaded all his albums, illegally on bittorrent. After listening to them and becoming a fan, i bought each of his albums, his book, and a dvd.
Same goes for Pink Floyd. I have all their stuff now. Having listened to records of my dad’s, listening to cassettes (probably recorded off a mate!)…
This is turning into one of those rants.
Anyways, here’s how you can shield a bit of your identity. Use magnetised torrents. If you don’t know about them, they’re pretty much a link which contains has information allowing you to connect to a swarm of seeders – rather than asking a server for details.
This keeps the initial prying eyes of the govt off your bits. So to speak.
Seriously, these guys rock.
I bought some Q Acoustics 1000ST speaker stands from the dicks at Superfi to suit my Q Acoustics 1020i bookshelf speakers. The package arrived by a friendly man from DPD Couriers but was missing screws, spikes and rubbers for one of the stands.
I rang Superfi hours later, to be treated with “NO, you have to email us at because that’s not my responsibility”. So I emailed them. No reply. Two days later, I email again. Still no reply.
I understand that we are all busy at the moment. We’re all excited about the Olympics in 2012 and things need to be done before the Queen visits us all and separates the wheat from the chaff.
I Google and quickly find the contact details for Q Acoustics (which is a product line made by parent Armour Home Electronics) email them with my receipt and explaination. I follow this up with a phone call, a very helpful man answers and does his best to help but suggests I call his colleague as it was her department.
A nice old lady answers, and knows everything about the speakers and products. “Ah yes, the 1000ST to suit the bookshelf 1020i’s”. Brilliant, thats 5 points right there. She then takes my number to call back when she’s found some. Another 5 points. At this stage, I’m happy that i’ve gotten this far, thinking she’ll probably call back in a week or two. An HOUR later, calls back and says she’s found a set of screws etc and will send them to me, free of charge (bonus 20 points + 10 points KO bonus).
It’s very rare that you find this customer service in England, so this is why I’m writing about it. Armour Home Electronics should be commended for customer service. I’ll even write a letter back to them with a link to this article expressing my gratitude.
So hopefully by Thursday I will have my surround sound speakers nicely placed and not just lying there on the floor.
Thank you nice old lady from Armour Home Electronics. You made my day
Update: The Jiffy bag arrived the next day..
Sorry this prolly wont make sense to you, but is mainly for me.
You can use jQuery’s regular expressions to find what you’re looking for in a string.
^ = identify the value at the beginning
$ = identify the value at the end
* = identify the value at an arbitrary position.
This is useful for finding stuff such as href’s that have ‘mailtos’ etc. so you can .addClass of ‘.email-icon’ or whatever.
I think OoO messages are ridiculous and I blame Microsoft. It’s so easy to setup an Autoreply for holidays and when you are out of the office.
But these emails are quite frankly stupid. All they do is send an email back, no matter what, that says something retarded like:
“I’m on holiday in the Bahamas. Will be back on 11 July. Please contact Charlie for anything urgent”.
It’s retarded because now I have to email someone else again. Why couldn’t that email have been forwarded automatically to Charlie. Since this is a business, and you want to keep customers/new clients, why not keep this as simple as possible? This a very easy process and simply adds a forward rule to new mail.
To be honest, you can’t even do this with Apple Mail. I’m sure an Applescript could work fine though.