Second of all they are drumming up interest 6,7,8 months before they give a public release date in the form of teaser trailers along with on set images ect..

The movie gets the first screener / premiere in the US as it is a US movie but then it has a world wide release within 24h of each other.

Learn about release dates, 8th of may is the screener, 14th is the general release now for it to be a month you would need another 24 days. You need to go back and re evaluate your statements.

Let me break down the usual routine in simple steps for you:

1) Hollywood studio pushes giant marketing campaign hyping their latest offer everywhere. Internationally, on every web page they can reach, etc. For a month or two.

2) The movie is released for US audiences.

3) Spoilers show up for the next 14 days along with the reviews and the criticism.

4) one month after everyone not a US citizen’s been reading detailed spoilers and reviews about the movie, it hits theatres in the rest of the world…

Two or three days may be far too slow for the vast majority of the enthusiasts wanting the movie right then and there. It’ll be simultaneous release or bittorrent distribution.

The second the EU courts jettisoned the Data Retention directive that ISP notified the public they’d erased all stored data and were now on a rolling 7-day log erasure and working on dimishing the time.

They’ve also announced they’re working on a way for VoIP customers to opt-out on getting detailed invoices so the phone logs can be erased right after the call ends.

And have announced a willingness to go to court in order to ensure they aren’t forced to log what their customers do further.

Many pure ISP’s are well aware of the needs of their customers – that communication is a realm where personal privacy should be assumed.

To hell with the MAFIAA !

so i can pay $1.99 for a mobile movie and watch it on my home tv? I’m still not convinced they understand technology.

A digital download should be significantly cheaper than a blu ray