Drunken Pumpkin

I’ve noticed a fair number of DVDs now come with exclusive web content. And you know what, I really hate that.

I’m peeved enough when all of my special features are hidden on some other disc, but at least when that happens I feel confident that I’m getting a good amount of extra stuff in high quality. But this Web feature nonsense almost guarantees I’m getting crap content at crap quality.

So, in order to see the special features that I paid for I have to put my disc in a different machine and hope that my internet connection is up to snuff for whatever they’re going to show me. Not only that, I have to hope that the provider of the content is still paying for me to be able to see their content. What kind of nonsense is that? From either end Web content is a losing situation. The consumer has added steps to get to it and the provider has fluctuating overhead for an undetermined amount of time. Just put the fan films on the damn disc and be done with it.

Tune in next time when I hope to not be scraping the bottom of the barrel for interesting ideas.

Aaron and Christine Boring bought the home in Franklin Park, a Pittsburgh suburb, in October 2006 for a “considerable sum of money,” according to their 10-page lawsuit filed Wednesday in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court.

The suit targets the Mountain View, Calif., company over images on its Web site, which allows users to find street-level photos by clicking on a map. To gather the photos, Google uses vehicles with mounted digital cameras to take pictures up and down the streets of major metropolitan areas.

The Borings say the images of their home on the Google site had to be taken from their long driveway, labeled “Private Road,” and that violated their privacy.

Amanda submitted this article, found at WCCO.com