Now something in German. There was a guy on my buddy list (Instant Messenger) that I didn't really know, so after some years (lol) I removed him from my buddy list because we never talked to each other. Then I changed my profile and he sent me a message to ask who I am and for some reason it feels like he's hitting on me... and now I'm wondering if my name sounds so female or if he's gay. Ulf ordered my to post it here, so I'm just doing it:

I would totally like to see a payment model just for TV series. We got the technical base for it (BitTorrent), a payment model that every TV series junkie like me would try (a flat rate) and enough people who are pirating the content just for lack of better ways to get it done, so why doesn't anyone take the chance to make money of it and at the same time content the customers? There are so many different approaches for that, but why doesn't anyone in the motion picture industry understand that they could really fight piracy by establishing something everyone can live with? I assume there are thousands, millions of people like me, who are willing to pay, but don't see the options here.
 
So here's my idea: A flat rate of about 20 bucks per month and therefore you get access to a private, commercial BitTorrent tracker that has _it all_. And I mean _everything_. I don't want to consider five different trackers for finding my stuff, I want one that is used by all publishers. And it has to be integrated with every software that's on the market: iTunes (okay, Apple won't do that, but let's dream a bit, it would be so nice...), Xbox Live, Windows Media Player, VLC - a plugin for every single app so you can make use of your content flat rate from every machine in your house.
 
Why I'm suggesting to use BitTorrent here? Well, one pleaded reason for expensive content is its infrastructure. With a flat rate it can easily come to a point that one user causes 50 or even 100 gigabytes of traffic a month and to avoid this, BitTorrent is the best way for all. It's mainstream, private trackers are nothing new and it's easily integratable into every architecture.

Very nice... this july is great sale at Hertie's in Wolfenbüttel. Sometimes 20, mostly 50 percent off for electronics, including things like Nintendo Points and such. Just bought a second Xbox 360 controller, a Play And Charge Kit for it, an Xbox 360 game and Anno for Nintendo DS (in three days it's my son's birthday) for just 65 Euros or something like that in total. Yay!

D'oh... I just checked the FAQs and noticed a lack of .MOV files in the list of compatible files you can upload to Posterous. Seemed a bit ugly to me, as the new iPhone 3GS records its movies as .MOV, but it seems that I should have checked the blogs before emailing the support line:

Posterous is the best way to publish video and photos from your new iPhone 3G S

Another nice one: You can always view Posterous sites in Mobile Safari, embedded videos will still play:

New on Posterous: Audio and video *plays* on your iPhone in Safari, no flash needed

Anyway, thanks for the hint and their super fast reaction to the support team!

 

Now here's the place I am starting over again. Hope to see and read you soon, folks!