“We named the company Netflix and not “DVD By Mail” for a reason, which is we plan to lead the downloading market and over time we will offer both DVDs by mail and downloading.”

At this point the music and film industry diverge. Because watching a film is a significant investment of time, the issue of ‘all you can eat ‘ downloads is not such a problem if people rip DVDs. As a result the DVD sales market is less than the rental market. You pay to see movies or they can be supported by commercials both within the movie (product placement) or as interruptions during it.

With music it is the other way around - you can listen to music for free (without commercial interruption during the song) but the sales of CD’s are a big market. So in this way it is hard to imagine the RIAA putting up all you can eat vs. Apple style ‘a la carte’ payment for individual songs.

Fool.com: Netflix Battles Pirates [Special] October 30, 2003

Fox’s Simpsons show ran a joke banner at the bottom of the screen:

The cartoon ticker read: “Pointless news crawls up 37 per cent … Do Democrats cause cancer? Find out at foxnews.com … Rupert Murdoch: Terrific dancer … Dow down 5000 points … Study: 92 per cent of Democrats are gay … JFK posthumously joins Republican Party … Oil slicks found to keep seals young, supple …”

But Fox news didn’t get the joke and therefore Fox threatened to sue itself.

Doh! Murdoch’s Fox News in a spin over ‘The Simpsons’ lawsuit

My Diana conspiracy theory is that Dodi Fayed never existed because his father is too preposterous to be real. Even if he were, Siegfried and Roy’s stylists already have all their work cut out to have time to cultivate such an entity.

Today, the UK tabloids are all a flutter with the publication of a note written by Princess Diana that predicts someone would try and bump her off by tampering with the brakes on her car.

In this note, she names the person but the press are refusing to reveal who it is. Only a matter of time before someone blogs it - but until then, Conspiracy Planet have a large picture of Prince Phillip under the headline” Princess Diana Names Her Killer“.

Diana conspiracies are particularly entertaining due to the aforementioned weirdness of her partner, Dodi Fayed’s father, Al Fayed, who is often to be found fueling them.

The photo accompanying this post is actually endorsed by big Al. Check out this and other hysterical items on the utterly bizarre official Al Fayed website.