Comments for Media Soup http://jasonosder.com/blog Observations and Criticism by Jason Osder Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:42:18 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Comment on NO CROSSOVER: THE TRIAL OF ALLEN IVERSON (1st edition of my 2010 doc review series!) by Jason http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/103/comment-page-1#comment-569 Jason Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:42:18 +0000 http://jasonosder.com/blog/?p=103#comment-569 Quick follow-up. Kartemquin films, the production company liked this too: http://www.kartemquin.com/news/673/no-crossover-screenings-inspire-open-conversations-about-race Quick follow-up. Kartemquin films, the production company liked this too:

http://www.kartemquin.com/news/673/no-crossover-screenings-inspire-open-conversations-about-race

]]> Comment on NO CROSSOVER: THE TRIAL OF ALLEN IVERSON (1st edition of my 2010 doc review series!) by Jason http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/103/comment-page-1#comment-568 Jason Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:41:59 +0000 http://jasonosder.com/blog/?p=103#comment-568 Thanks Cindy, I'm impressed that this is going to be on ESPN for the same reasons. Thanks Cindy,

I’m impressed that this is going to be on ESPN for the same reasons.

]]> Comment on NO CROSSOVER: THE TRIAL OF ALLEN IVERSON (1st edition of my 2010 doc review series!) by Cindy Hill http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/103/comment-page-1#comment-565 Cindy Hill Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:53:28 +0000 http://jasonosder.com/blog/?p=103#comment-565 As always, a thoughtful and provocative review. I have been watching as many of the 30 for 30 episodes as I can. I have found them to be insightful, informative, and entertaining. I admire the manner in which the directors have taken on so many hot-button issues. DI alum Dave Cassidy is producing the one on the Yankees. Keep the reviews coming, Jason. As always, a thoughtful and provocative review. I have been watching as many of the 30 for 30 episodes as I can. I have found them to be insightful, informative, and entertaining. I admire the manner in which the directors have taken on so many hot-button issues. DI alum Dave Cassidy is producing the one on the Yankees.

Keep the reviews coming, Jason.

]]> Comment on Pirate Bay Goes to Jail by Robbie Carman http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/93/comment-page-1#comment-362 Robbie Carman Wed, 27 May 2009 02:45:30 +0000 http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/93#comment-362 The problem doesn't exist with the illegal distribution of the the content itself but with the fact that volume distribution of content allows for add revenue. If you're a site that claims to have access to 50000 ebooks, songs etc you can support higher add revs. No pirating service give two shits about the content, its simply a factor of the more content that is available on their site the more add revenue. The problem doesn’t exist with the illegal distribution of the the content itself but with the fact that volume distribution of content allows for add revenue. If you’re a site that claims to have access to 50000 ebooks, songs etc you can support higher add revs. No pirating service give two shits about the content, its simply a factor of the more content that is available on their site the more add revenue.

]]> Comment on Pirate Bay Goes to Jail by Evan M http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/93/comment-page-1#comment-337 Evan M Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:08:41 +0000 http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/93#comment-337 When I first started to download content illegally, it was because record stores were getting away with charging $18 for a new release, and the RIAA was adamantly against distributing music online. They thought they could solve their problems with series of lawsuits. The music industry consisted of oligopolies and the consumers were being screwed -- and so the world responded with napster. It took YEARS for industry to embrace online distribution. Well, they finally did with poor implementations like music-leasing services (e.g. Rhapsody and other subscription-based services). When iTunes opened up its music store, they released tracks wrapped in DRM and sampled at 128kbs. I continued to pirate music, because I didn't like iTunes on my PC and used Windows Media Player instead. I also preferred to listen to my music encoded at 256kbps or higher. My reasons for pirating were because the few players in the industry dictated how I should listen to music, and what rights I should have. Now with Amazon MP3, I can download those higher quality tracks with no DRM. And it's fast, and easy as hell. I gladly pay 99 cents for a song, or $10 for the CD because they're not screwing me. Heck, I'd even pay up to 35% more because it's so convenient and fair. For as long as we live now, digital content is going to be available through illegal channels. The Pirate Bay is not the only problem, and their failure to abide by takedown notices isn't going to change anything that much. I think the real challenge is to find a way to make the user want to pay for content versus stealing it. Don't blame the intermediary; blame the user. In your case, Jason, I don't think too many people are pirating eBooks. The thought of reading a book in PDF form on a computer screen doesn't appeal to too many people (I would hope). But with the Kindle, and other eBook readers, it will become a growing problem. Moving to a more digitized approach to distribute content, however, the production and distribution costs for books will go way down -- and theoretically so will the price. When a great product hits a great price, through a great medium, I think the problem resolve itself. When I first started to download content illegally, it was because record stores were getting away with charging $18 for a new release, and the RIAA was adamantly against distributing music online. They thought they could solve their problems with series of lawsuits. The music industry consisted of oligopolies and the consumers were being screwed — and so the world responded with napster. It took YEARS for industry to embrace online distribution. Well, they finally did with poor implementations like music-leasing services (e.g. Rhapsody and other subscription-based services). When iTunes opened up its music store, they released tracks wrapped in DRM and sampled at 128kbs. I continued to pirate music, because I didn’t like iTunes on my PC and used Windows Media Player instead. I also preferred to listen to my music encoded at 256kbps or higher. My reasons for pirating were because the few players in the industry dictated how I should listen to music, and what rights I should have.

Now with Amazon MP3, I can download those higher quality tracks with no DRM. And it’s fast, and easy as hell. I gladly pay 99 cents for a song, or $10 for the CD because they’re not screwing me. Heck, I’d even pay up to 35% more because it’s so convenient and fair.

For as long as we live now, digital content is going to be available through illegal channels. The Pirate Bay is not the only problem, and their failure to abide by takedown notices isn’t going to change anything that much. I think the real challenge is to find a way to make the user want to pay for content versus stealing it. Don’t blame the intermediary; blame the user.

In your case, Jason, I don’t think too many people are pirating eBooks. The thought of reading a book in PDF form on a computer screen doesn’t appeal to too many people (I would hope). But with the Kindle, and other eBook readers, it will become a growing problem. Moving to a more digitized approach to distribute content, however, the production and distribution costs for books will go way down — and theoretically so will the price. When a great product hits a great price, through a great medium, I think the problem resolve itself.

]]> Comment on Sir Ian by Arin http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/91/comment-page-1#comment-333 Arin Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:41:39 +0000 http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/91#comment-333 you amaze me everyday. you amaze me everyday.

]]> Comment on Sir Ian by Arin http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/91/comment-page-1#comment-332 Arin Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:40:59 +0000 http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/91#comment-332 You are so talented I can'yt believe it. good work honey. You are so talented I can’yt believe it. good work honey.

]]> Comment on Sir Ian by Robbie Carman http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/91/comment-page-1#comment-331 Robbie Carman Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:12:04 +0000 http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/91#comment-331 Freakin' Awesome! Freakin’ Awesome!

]]> Comment on Sir Ian by catherine http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/91/comment-page-1#comment-330 catherine Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:03:41 +0000 http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/91#comment-330 Well, look at you, Fancy Pants!!!! Amazing what can come out when you let it! Honestly, I am quite shocked that you were able to get such great detail, and with your first try at oil. It's fantastic, Jason! I hope you continue to explore this hidden talent!!! Yay for painting! Well, look at you, Fancy Pants!!!! Amazing what can come out when you let it!
Honestly, I am quite shocked that you were able to get such great detail, and with your first try at oil. It’s fantastic, Jason! I hope you continue to explore this hidden talent!!! Yay for painting!

]]> Comment on In the Dark with Strangers by Arin http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/88/comment-page-1#comment-323 Arin Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:21:46 +0000 http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/88#comment-323 Does an audience constitute a community? Under what circumstances can ths be so? We all sit seperated by intent, by desire. Why did we come? What are we responsive to? What impacts us-indivdually and collectively? I guess (as the girl who was rocking) I wonder if our emotions to films, or as an audience, originate within ourselves or if they are always some echo or reverberation from those around us? I know I was impacted by the elderly man-his contrast. He was at once so emotive and moved with his feeling and at the same time he was immobilized,--static. We too- were frozen and yet we remain moved by the event. THe shared structure of feeling to borrow from Raymond Williams comes to mind. When you experience something in the dark together it seems to act as a binder between us all. I am also thinking of when Jason and I went to the museum (previously chronicalled) and we experienced strangers talking to us int he dark about the exhibit. One woman approached me directly and engaged me about a particular piece in a very direct fashion. Are our guards down when we come together --in the dark--to experience something? Does the theater (or the darkened museum) lend itself to a collective experientiality that is laden with emotional resonance? What did we actually share in theat structure of feeling? Was it a memory for him, a twinge of regret fro tripping over him, awe at the horrors of Nanking, projections about our grandfathers onto him? Whatever oit was that was binding between us-it moved us all in the stillness, it showed us something within the dark. Does an audience constitute a community? Under what circumstances can ths be so? We all sit seperated by intent, by desire. Why did we come? What are we responsive to? What impacts us-indivdually and collectively? I guess (as the girl who was rocking) I wonder if our emotions to films, or as an audience, originate within ourselves or if they are always some echo or reverberation from those around us? I know I was impacted by the elderly man-his contrast. He was at once so emotive and moved with his feeling and at the same time he was immobilized,–static. We too- were frozen and yet we remain moved by the event. THe shared structure of feeling to borrow from Raymond Williams comes to mind. When you experience something in the dark together it seems to act as a binder between us all. I am also thinking of when Jason and I went to the museum (previously chronicalled) and we experienced strangers talking to us int he dark about the exhibit. One woman approached me directly and engaged me about a particular piece in a very direct fashion. Are our guards down when we come together –in the dark–to experience something? Does the theater (or the darkened museum) lend itself to a collective experientiality that is laden with emotional resonance? What did we actually share in theat structure of feeling? Was it a memory for him, a twinge of regret fro tripping over him, awe at the horrors of Nanking, projections about our grandfathers onto him? Whatever oit was that was binding between us-it moved us all in the stillness, it showed us something within the dark.

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