Blackmoor Vituperative

Werewolf-Movies.com is the definitive resource for werewolf movies.

Google-owned web site YouTube has decided to block music videos in the UK rather than give in to the Performing Rights Society (PSA) of Music, a group representing artists and publishers in the UK.

“… PRS is now asking us to pay many, many times more for our license than before,” he wrote. “The costs are simply prohibitive for us – under PRS’s proposed terms we would lose significant amounts of money with every playback.”

He also claims PRS is unwilling to even tell the video streaming site what songs are included in the licensing renewal being negotiated. Walker claims the deal is “like asking a consumer to buy an unmarked CD without knowing what musicians are on it.”

(from YouTube blocks music videos in UK, The Register)

Good for you, YouTube!

It is a sad day.

RPGnet has a pretty good review of the Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide.

(This is for the tabletop game, by the way, not the computer game.)

Watch this short film about Julie Fowlis.

Ten Ton Hammer has a review (or preview) of Jumpgate Evolution. So far, it looks pretty interesting.

So-called “Daylight Saving Time” does not save anything. Not time, not money, not lives. On the contrary, it costs the USA millions in lost productivity. It also costs lives. Studies have shown that traffic accidents increase every time Daylight Saving Time is implemented. It is time to put an end to this wasteful, anachronistic foolishness. Write to your state and federal representatives. It will only take a moment to do, and it really can make a difference.

I stumbled across Movies in Fifteen Minutes earlier today. It is really quite funny.

I took some time and wrote up a recommendation for people who still use Microsoft Office. It’s easy to criticize people still using Microsoft Office, but perhaps they really don’t know why they should migrate to OpenOffice.org. I hope that this detailed recommendation helps them make the best decision.

It is imperative that businesses eliminate all unlicensed software. Migrating from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org offers a cost-effective alternative to purchasing additional licenses of Microsoft Office. In addition, migration to OpenOffice.org offers significant benefits, such as cross-platform compatibility, increased security, and more reliable access to archived documents. Migrating to OpenOffice.org also provides a more user-friendly upgrade path than migrating to Microsoft Office 2007, because OpenOffice.org uses a standard, familiar user interface.

(from Recommendation to migrate from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org [PDF])

Penguin Pete is far more optimistic than I am. The history of media (words, music, images, etc.) in the USA and elsewhere is one of increasing layers of restrictions on consumers, and ever-expanding protections for the media robber barons and the Digital Rights Mafia (DRM).

It will get worse before it gets better. Or, as my grandmother once said, “You can’t get blood out of a turnip, but you can sure ruin the turnip trying.”