Sandy asks…
Should the movie industry leave P2P alone?
P2P has been around for as long as there have been modems and BBS’s, but suddenly the movie industry is attacking these forums of file sharing because of the alleged prolifiration of pireted movies. I have done P2P and as a gag I searched for some movie titles on emule, edonkey and LimeWire and not once was I able to download an entire movie. So what is the movie industry attacking, the possibility that someone might get a song or movie?? P2P is needed and important because a lot of people use older hardware and the driver files and such are not readily available on the net and sometimes totally unavailable anywhere except through P2P. What do you think?
The point here is, should the proliferation of pireted movies be laid at the door of P2P software or elsewhere? I mean, even if P2P is shut down, will that stop people from making and distributing illegal copies of movies? No. So why attack P2P? Is it because someone somewhere said that 1/3 of internet traffic was P2P? Did that same person also confirm that the P2P traffic was people downloading illegal music and/or movies??? The problem here isn’t anything but greed… pure and simple.
Nagesh answers:
I don’t think this is sudden or without merit. The movie industry has been trying to protect their product for many years, going back at least to the entrance of the Betamax onto the market. They need copyright protection to survive.
This isn’t about greed. It’s about preservation of the right to intellectual property and the rights of creative people to make a living off the product they provide. If people weren’t trading movies and music on the internet then it would certainly lessen the effect. As it stands, it’s too easy. There was a copy of the Incredible Hulk movie on the internet before it hit the theaters!
At some point the latest stuff cools off and it’s perhaps reasonable to say a little trading on the internet isn’t digging into sales. But when millions of people have ready internet access to the summer blockbusters, that’s hurting the industry. They earned the right to charge money for that product.
If you have a DVD ripper and copy your friend’s movie, that’s one disc. You probably weren’t going to buy it, anyway. But if you offer it up to the entire world to download, you’re a free source competing with paid sources.
David asks…
desperately searching for a song from the movie “Rock-a-bye baby” with Jerry Lewis?
Hi friends,
well, I´m desperately searching for the songs from this movie, unfortunately I live in stupid germany, where it´s hard to find anything having to do with “old” american music or movies….
…so can anyone of you please tell me if there´s a cd or lp or a website (for downloading) with the soundtrack of this movie….I need two songs: “why can´t he care for me” and “in the land of la-la-la”….
please help me: I´m desperate!!! I can´t get this song out of my head (why cant he care for me)
HELP
greetings from snowy germany
Nagesh answers:
Not much easier here in Amerika die schone. Jerry Lewis’ last song album appeared in 1956, and we’re dealing with a 1958 movie. Haven’t found Why Can’t on any Connie Stevens album. Is there an old British “import” available?
But I can find used VHS videotapes of the movie on amazon, for a mere US$61 and change. (You might try eBay, and look to click a link below the auction listings that has something to do with international sellers who sell in English.) Problem: they’re NTSC (USA/Canada) format, and I don’t know whether they’re compatible with Deutschland, which might be PAL format. If there’s some way to plug in a VHS cassette player in Germany that plays NTSC, you’re in luck.
Charles asks…
Is there a way to put two songs on Windows Movie Maker?
I’m doing a voice over and I want music on top of that. But I can’t seem to overlap the two because I have the old version of WMM. Is there a way I can combine them? The voiceover is .WMA and the music I got from youtube is .WMV.
Also I downloaded Audacity to combine the two, but I cannot combine the .WMV with .WMA. Can I publish the first video with the music, and then edit the video again with the voice overs? Is that how it works?
Nagesh answers:
You’re exactly right. Because WMM doesn’t not have multiple audio tracks it’s usually best to finish the video then reimport it to a new project to add multiple tracks.
Other free video editors are…
Wax – http://www.debugmode.com/wax/ – this is also a compositor – a bit like Adobe’s After Effects – unlimited video and audio tracks
VideoLAN Movie Creator – http://videolan.org/vlmc/ – up to 64 audio and video tracks
TrakAxPC – http://www.trakax.com/software/pc/
VideoSpin – http://videospin.com/ – 1 video track
VideoPad – the free version – http://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/
Lightworks – http://www.lightworksbeta.com/ – I like this one – unlimited tracks ?
Serif MoviePlus – http://serif.com/free-video-editing-software/ – unlimited tracks ?
Ezvid – http://ezvid.com/ – 32 video and audio tracks
VirtualDub, RAD Video tools, AVITricks and Avidemux are also good tools you should look at. Although not full editors like the others they have some useful features.
Lightworks and Wax together are a very good video editing system for free.
All are safe, at least from the sites I’ve linked to.
Linda asks…
Names of good 80’s dance songs?
I love 80’s music or just old skool dance music at parties and I always want to download them but never know the names….Can you guys give me the names and artists of some good ones? Here are a couple tp get your brain working =)
P.S. If you’ve ever been to club Bang in Hollywood, Ca. Thats the kind od music I’m taking about =)
Nowhere Girl -By: B-Movie
Valerie Loves Me -By: Material issue
Nagesh answers:
New Order- “Bizzar love triangle”
Missing Person’s- “Destination Unknown”
Simple Minds- “New Gold dream”
Human League- “The Lebenon”
Erasure- “Sometimes”
Depeche Mode- “Best friend’s girl”
Red Rockers- “China”
Lene Lovich- “New toy”
Shiona Lang- ” Soviet snow”
Baltimora- “Tarzan song”
Buzzcocks-“Our Everything”
Big Audio Dynamite- “E=Mc2”
Daniel asks…
whats the name of this song??
it goes like “oh my love,my darling i hunger for your touch,are u still mine?”
its like an old song from the sixties,it was in that movie ‘ghost’.
my girl friend loves that song and wants to know the name of it,and also is there some place she can download it off the net?
thanks! ;p
Nagesh answers:
The song is “Unchained Melody” by the Righteous Brothers.
Here are the lyrics for you:
Oh, my love, my darling,
I’ve hungered for your touch a long, lonely time,
Time goes by so slowly and time can do so much.
Are you still mine?
I need your love, I need your love, God speed your love to me.
Lonely rivers flow to the sea, to the sea
To the open arms of the sea
Lonely rivers sigh, ‘Wait for me, wait for me’
‘I’ll be coming home, wait for me!’
Are you still mine?
I need your love, I need your love, God speed your love to me
Good luck!
Also, use LIMEWIRE. It’s the best free music downloading program on the net.
-Stef
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