New magazine-sharing site may violate copyrights (AP)

[Jorge]

AP - The magazine industry, already facing a decline in newsstand sales and falling ad revenue, is being besieged by a new foe: digital piracy.

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[mfgbypooter]

fucking pirates.



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[Feather]

These fucking dinosaurs need to learn to adapt to the times or become extinct.

[El Comandante]

wow.... cool site. I don't see how ad revenues will suffer but it will kill newstand circulation.... which is not how they make most of their money anyway....

[wapazoid]

First it was comics... I figured it wouldn't be long before an article got posted about mags. Unfortunately, print is becomming obsolete. I'm still a fan of paper. I've got almost 7,000 comics in *cough* digital format... but I don't enjoy them as much as lounging on my couch with the real deal, no matter how huge the screen is. Besides, I'm sure magazine publishers would find some idiotic way of justifying a high price for a digital copy of Men's Health or Maxim. Sort of like paying $.99 for a 128kbps aac file.

That's stupeeeeeeeeed. :icon_cycl

[shawners]

First it was comics... I figured it wouldn't be long before an article got posted about mags. Unfortunately, print is becomming obsolete. I'm still a fan of paper. I've got almost 7,000 comics in *cough* digital format... but I don't enjoy them as much as lounging on my couch with the real deal, no matter how huge the screen is. Besides, I'm sure magazine publishers would find some idiotic way of justifying a high price for a digital copy of Men's Health or Maxim. Sort of like paying $.99 for a 128kbps aac file.

That's stupeeeeeeeeed. :icon_cycl

Thats where your HIGH quality photo printer comes in.
Its not worthy since most magazine sites have all their stuff online about each issue and you can read without paying. I see PLAYBOY and MAXiM mag pdf files all the time.

[wapazoid]

Dude... major usage of ink. Way too expensive for that. You're better off just buying a copy.

When I heard Marvel was offering a fairly large and continuously growing collection of digital comics, I thought "Hey, I could buy them and feel like I'm supporting the industry both ways." The quality truly is superb.. most of the one's I've viewed do rival and even surpass those being posted by the scanning groups.

But that's my beef.. you can't download them. This won't stop a fan from purchasing a large WS lcd monitor that rotates, allowing for a reversed aspect ratio. You can get a crisp, huge screen grab of each page and simply crop. Joins are a piece of cake, and don't require any clone stamping. I've done a couple hundred of them this way. Then I realized it was too time consuming and went straight back to the local comic shop and DC hubs.

Ah well, at least they're trying.

[shawners]

All I think you can do is turn them into a photo slideshow and put it on a thumb drive and plug it in your philips dvd player =) Read it on TV.

[wapazoid]

A ginormous high def screen... that would be interesting. Or a high quality projector!

Wait, how did you know I have a Philips dvd player?


... who sent you!!

[DrewWilson]

Look for webcams in your room buddy. ;)

As for the story, heh, more people are reading their glossy headlines with words like "Split", "breakup", "Pregnancy", "Fight", etc. etc. in big yellow, blue, pink or red font. After Nintendo Power in the 90's, I was through with magazines and never looked back. What the heck do you do with all of those piles of paper afterwards anyway when all the cheat codes and walk-throughs you could ever find are all online anyway? Gossip/tabloid magz are a waste of time. Computer magz are replaced by news sites. Trucking magz are... well... you're probably better off on YouTube or even find a TV program instead.

Quite frankly, I'm surprised there's even a use for magazines to begin with.

[wapazoid]

Well, hmmm...

Would you rather sit on the pot with a Rolling Stone magazine, or a laptop?

The only mag I still pick up is Heavy Metal (illustrated). I do like having digital copies, but paper is far more portable.

[ratcat]

Well, hmmm...

Would you rather sit on the pot with a Rolling Stone magazine, or a laptop?

The only mag I still pick up is Heavy Metal (illustrated). I do like having digital copies, but paper is far more portable.




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[Signa]

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg255/ratcat73/Forum2/TimetoThink.jpg
How can that be comfortable..... or sanitary?

[wapazoid]

Oh my shit...

I hope she took the casing off and boiled it afterwards.

[ratcat]

How can that be comfortable..... or sanitary?

I don't thinks its either.

I think this one can be marked down as "Employee of the Month"


Oh my shit...

I hope she took the casing off and boiled it afterwards.

Ditto

[Mucci Man]

It's a nice site. Well thoguth out and simple to use. Some lag though...