Hard Drives Shipping with Star Trek 271
crimeandpunishment writes "Paramount Pictures is trying to live long and prosper by selling Seagate Technology hard drives with the latest Star Trek movie on board ... along with 20 other films. The 500GB hard drive will sell for a special promotional price of $100. It's the latest way for Hollywood to combat falling DVD sales due to piracy."
Added bonus (Score:4, Funny)
They also come loaded with a DRM system that will probably function like a virus or some form of malware to not only make it impossible to watch these movies without calling into the server, but also possibly scanning your system for other Paramount movies and either deleting them or reporting you to the MPAA. They could include 100 movies and it still wouldn't be worth it to have something like that lurking around on my system.
Frankly, I would have more trust in a hard drive I bought from a sleazy-looking dude with a Russian accent hanging on my local street corner. And Sergey is not very trustworthy.
Buying a license for the movies? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Buying a license for the movies? (Score:5, Funny)
Due to piracy? (Score:5, Funny)
Well stop shipping your cargo through the waters off the coast of Somalia!
Re:$100 ... PLUS $10-$15 Charger PER Title (Score:5, Funny)
Re:$100 ... PLUS $10-$15 Charger PER Title (Score:3, Funny)
How the mighty have fallen...
Re:$100 ... PLUS $10-$15 Charger PER Title (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe so, but he could at least have ended his message with, "P.S. Frost Pist!!"
Re:Amazon referer ID (Score:5, Funny)
Thanks for sneaking in your Amazon referer ID in the URL, asshole!
Re:Fixed that for ya. (Score:3, Funny)
You have a copy of GI Joe "on the printer"?
You're doing it wrong.
Re:Amazon referer ID (Score:2, Funny)
7. ???
8. Profit!
(Sorry, I couldn't help myself)
Re:Wait... I can see it already! (Score:3, Funny)
It's vitally important that we recurse those sub, uh, avi files... *cough*
You know, to get the snakes.
Re:Fixed that for ya. (Score:5, Funny)
It is perfectly legal to format shift media. Perhaps he just prefers the flip-book format his is video needs.
Not necessarily piracy (Score:3, Funny)
"It's the latest way for Hollywood to combat falling DVD sales due to Hollywood making crap."
Re:Amazon referer ID (Score:5, Funny)
He wasn’t. He was referring to the Amazon referral program. The ?ref, on the other hand, was referring to the HTTP referer header to which you referred, which was referring to the word “referrer” but designed by people who couldn’t be bothered with referring to a dictionary.
Re:$100 ... PLUS $10-$15 Charger PER Title (Score:5, Funny)
That's almost as bad as our local Wal-Mart. They have a Battlefield 2142 gaming mouse in their clearance section. It has been on clearance there for over two years (and was likely on the shelves for two years prior to that point), and they still have the price at around $69. Retailers (and, apparantly, movie studies) have a mistaken notion that tech gear holds its value over time.
Re:Fixed that for ya. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Amazon referer ID (Score:5, Funny)
He wasn't. He was referring to the Amazon referral program.
Actually I was referring to Amazon's referal program where I was released back into the Amazon jungle and accepted by a pack of developers. In time I relearned their ways and mated with their women. As fate would have it, Amazon had only deferred their deferal program and as soon as it went back into effect I took advantage of it and here I am clean and shaven--almost fully capable of using a keyboard again!
Re:Ummm (Score:3, Funny)
Minor correction:
Well, you don't expect some Paramount idiot board member to send his personal assistant to shop anywhere other than a big box chain store, do you?
Re:$100 ... PLUS $10-$15 Charger PER Title (Score:4, Funny)
Is water wet?
Not when it's in the solid state....
Re:$100 ... PLUS $10-$15 Charger PER Title (Score:5, Funny)
Define "wet"
A female state that most /.'ers will never experience first hand ;)
Re:$100 ... PLUS $10-$15 Charger PER Title (Score:4, Funny)
A female state that most /.'ers will never experience first hand ;)
Well, you know what they say: "A bird in hand is worth two in the bush".