Wednesday, May 2, 2012

The Oatmeal Nails It

Basically, the artist described his experience attempting to legally rent Game of Thrones.

Here are the first few frames:


link

Read the whole thing.  It shows how the need for control makes the studios sh%$ on their customer, which in turns drives people who want to act in accordance with the exclusive license that the content producers hold to Bit Torrent and the like.

Read the whole thing.
Posted by at
Labels: , , ,

4 comments:

  1. Your brother, danielMay 3, 2012 at 5:47 PM

    Except the Oatmeal is wrong. Andrew and I have a weekly night of watch Game of Thrones shipped by Netflix. So, it's there.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Matthew G. SaroffMay 3, 2012 at 6:39 PM

    It's an old comic, and the underlying truth is true.

    So if it it's not true, it's truthiness.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Your brother, danielMay 4, 2012 at 6:44 AM

    Yeah...but you don't want to be a Republican and say, "It's true. Just not the example I used is true."

    ReplyDelete
  4. Matthew G. SaroffMay 7, 2012 at 8:30 PM

    I dunno.

    When you look at Republicans, it appears that lying works.

    I did note that it was an old ad.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)