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Ron Cobb at CS Australia

It's not everyday that you share your evening with a living legend. A man whose vivid imagination is responsible for some of your earliest memories from the big screen. The pencils of Ron Cobb have designed and imagined craft, creatures and sets from iconic films such as Dark Star, The Last Starfighter, Aliens, Conan The Barbarian, Back To The Future, Abyss, and Star Wars to name but a few. In Sydney on 18th May 2010, on a particularly rainy evening, we had a standout turnout of Creative Socialites...
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Piracy better than the realthing

My first blogpost brings you the rather chunky UK 'Digital Entertainment Survey 2008'(249 page pdf) that I just found on Mashable. Piracy page in DES 2008
Quote from Mashable/DES 08 Report. 70% of users claim that “legal d/l sites don’t have the range of illegal ones;” 68% claim that with piracy they “can get what they want a lot faster compared to legal sites;” but (very important) they “would pay for legal d/ls if they had what they wanted.”
No surpirises with the fact that audiences resort to piracy to get the content they want, when...
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