Gaagh! (HAL update)

Only have 1 scene left to do, when suddenly YT Movie Maker, the program I use to make these videos, just out of nowhere decides it doesn't like to work with .mpg format videos anymore, recognizing them as audio files.

Fortunately the video formatting software I'm using has plenty more options, but they're proving a bit dodgy as well. Biggest problem is audio sync. Kinda hard for a Sonic Rainboom to have the same comedic impact when the Road Runner "meep meep ZOOM" meant to accompany it* comes in 3 seconds later.

Oh well, I'll get this sorted at some point...I hope.



*Not an actual example of anything in the video.

Go figure.

As a Christmas present to myself, I ordered a new MacBook Pro to transfer Miyuki over into, as well as a Firewire cable to accommodate said transfer.

Cable shipped first, with the laptop going a day later.

Laptop showed up today, cable didn't.



what

...what

"Rogue web sites that steal America's innovative and creative products attract more than 53 visits a year."

This was written by the US Chamber of Commerce to the New York Times as justification for the Stop Online Piracy Act.


Let's do some guesstimations here, assuming that all 53 of these visits are from different people:
Average number of movies a person buys in a year: Let's say 20 for good measure.
Average cost of a movie: $30.

That's $600 a year, roughly, per person, which means that, by what the Chamber of Commerce has stated, movie piracy is costing the motion picture industry, a multi-billion dolloar financial powerhouse, $31,800 a year.

To put things in perspective, they raked in 31.8 billion in theatre revenues in 2010, making the estimated revenue they lost...

.0000001%. That's a percent of a percent of a percent, a penny of every ten thousand dollars earned.


Long story short: The revenue lost from the backlash of this thing becoming law would be infinitely worse.