when you move to a new computer, just copy the iTunes folder and put it at the folder on the new computer, will work as if nothing has changed! You just have to tell iTunes where to find the Music on the new Computer.

AS for syncing with pre, just don't update your iTunes... easy as that.

It is for real. They had a cover yesterday evening by the public television in Switzerland. But it's still not meant for mass production or even any other form of production. I think at the moment it's just a proof of concept and a very expensive hobby of a man who has a lot of money and an unhealthy motivation to be like Bond :D

the good thing about would be the red laser! Much cheaper than blue and more reliable, at least so far.

it actually isn't! They tested and compared the 30D and compared to an equivalently cropped picture from the 5D. The 5D always bettered the 30D. Sorry, don't have the link anymore.

make it play DVDs (region free)

make it record TV programs

make it stream from any other device in the network (not iTunes only)

keep it low on sound development

low on energy consumption

remote control by any bluetooth device such as cell phone

that's about it

not sure, whether you are taking the piss out of me ;) but we can already do a lot! I only know numbers for Switzerland but this stuff should work anywhere. For example, it is possible to build houses that don't need any energy input, I even saw some studies where the houses produced more energy than they needed!

If all the electronic devices would be completely turned off (taken from the power line) instead of putting to sleep then we could safe energy for a whole nuclear power plant (although this number might be slightly over exaggerated by the anti power plant lobby)

Another fantastic project: a tower out of plastic (anyway, a see through material). The sun heats it up and the air rises. On top is a turbine and makes a vast amount of energy! There was a prototype planned for the world expo in Germany a few years ago but was not built in the end because of money.

Another project which proves that sun energy works: they built a huge power plant in Spain where the sun is collected with mirrors and concentrated in one spot. So far they are absolutely stunned at the energy they can produce and want to increase it. The amazing thing about it is that it is mainly built for Germany so they actually plan to transport all the electricity over to Germany!

Iceland claims they can produce enough H2 to make all the public transport in Europe work with it, just using their hot springs and volcano activity.

I think Sweden officially stated that they want to be independent of oil by the end of 2023!

I am looking forward to the future. At least the politician realized that they can catch a few votes with energy politics. That means they will at least raise money for these projects...

well, what do you do, when there is no wind? Exactly, most people turn on the motor! the whole experience was to show, that there is technology out there which can perform even in bigger projects than just recharge your cell phone! Use these technologies, make it happen. We don't necessarily need oil, we have alternatives... let's explore them!

I would be interested what happens if your iPod or computer gets stolen and they share the stuff on the web?! I certainly have no intention on sharing my stuff worldwide, people should pay for what they want to consume. But what if I share with friends (legal here in Switzerland) and they share on torrent? Or I have my iTunes on sharing in my network an dpeople use 3rd party software to download rather than stream the music? I certainly can't be held responsible for that!

Therefore, I doubt that this is a decent way of tracking infringements. In the end they can only sue the owner of the IP who was sharing it. My personal, completely non-educated guess. And if you ask yourself why am I writing this; I want to agree, don't share illegaly and you should be fine!

PS: One just has to love you Americans for things like this ;) "15. You also agree that you will not use these products for the development, design, manufacture, or production of missiles, or nuclear, chemical or biological weapons."

Hi Heather,

thank you for that very interesting point of view! I totally believe, that it is in their best interest to sell us as many movies as they can. So I had to think about what you said and came up with this theory...

First of all, they can do with their content whatever they want to. I am only a customer and honestly, I can live if they decide not to offer the thing I'm looking for. I can always decide whether I want to buy it or not. So I am better off since they can't force me to buy anything from them (not yet ;)). So no one should be angry with them, DVDs, movies or music are no human right... there is right for free or cheap movies in the human right charta, at least not to my knowledge.

The other thing you mentioned was about the right management. Well, I can only say that these contracts are poorly made up. They could buy the rights for the current form of distribution and any other coming. You don't have to name it, although you might have to pay more for it ;)

So why do they still bother to have all these protections, lawsuits and massive PR going on if the customer clearly doesn't want it? I guess we have to accept that they want to make money! Why using copy protection which don't help stopping downloads? Why showing clips and accusing customers of theft? Why having region codes? To make money... and that's ok!

Copy protection makes a certain amount of customers to buy the movie or music again if they want to do something else than originally intended with the first media. Some will be able to circumvent these copy protections, most won't (just guessing there). So therefore, extra income without any work!

I'm not quiet sure about the thief spots yet but I guess they want to raise the awareness of the illegality of downloads/copying.

Well the region codes are obvious to all of us, why they decide to cripple movies with strange subtitles or stupid language menus, I don't know. Why is Windows not easy to use? I guess the wrong people are designing the things...

So to finish my conspiracy theory (which isn't really one because they won't deny that they try to make as much money as possible) I think they try to sell us the same stuff, with less rights to use it for the same price if not more! At the moment the customer still takes it. When he doesn't anymore, they will adapt... ah, good old market... let's hope, anyway

I think no one should download movies just to watch them for free! Period. There is absolutely no reason to do so (test drive or not, either you take the risk or you wait for it to appear on TV or the music on radio).

But I hate the attitude of the MPAA! I have to watch these insulting "you are a thief" adverts and have to wait on my DVD player until they think I've read an FBI warning (which doesn't apply here in Switzerland and I couldn't care less about). I have to put up with their insane licensing practices (I can only have English sound if I also have German subtitles?!). I always have to choose my country when I start my DVD in a list of 1 million languages, which hardly make a percentage of the whole market in Europe (or Switzerland for that). I have to pay for extras which don't interest me the least (give them in a special version, all I want is a movie). And still, with all this, I only buy a right to see the movie on my TV and not to have it and watch it the way I want (on my computer, put it on my media server, ...). I can't get a new DVD if mine is broken or scratched or if it is uneven (I have several DVDs which make my DVD player jump because they are crap in production).

Still, I own over 500 DVDs and no download, because movies are an important part in my life and I want them to keep up producing them (not necessarily Hollywood). Please stop calling me a thief. Give me the right to do with the media what I want (as long as I keep it for myself) and stop selling me crap quality (I'm not talking about the story, I talk about hardware). Give me a user friendly product which I can enjoy and don't get angry every time I try to watch it!

So that's what sucks about MPAA, not that they sue people who download movies, I actually support that, as long as it wouldn't make DVDs more expensive or crippled with copy protections. Admit that all these measures don't grip and keep suing but leave me alone with my bought stuff! I decided to put up with these insults and stupidity for now, but whoever decides not to, should also not download the movie! But I understnad that these people don't give a crap about what I say so I just wrote this to unload my frustration about the situation and if anyone has an idea how we can make the movie industry to produce user friendly products then I am more than happy to help making it come true!

Cheers,

Michael