We bought a movie from iTunes last night, just to see what the experience was like. The movie starts as soon as the first bits are down, but it stalled frequently as playback overtook download. We watched an hour of Enemy of the State, quite the topical flick given the current US government’s penchant for overiding citizen’s rights, in about 90 minutes.

In Enemy of the State (a Disney flick starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman), government zealots subvert government machinery (the NSA) to kill a congressman they see as ‘obstructionist’ and then, serially, an environmentalist whose government-grant-funded video camera captures the murder, and a private investigator, just to intimidate a lawyer who has been passed information about the murder. The film ends with thirteen people slaughtered, the denouement of a ‘black ops’ mission. It’s Hollywood, but if you haven’t been rethinking the Patriot Act et al., start now… very scary…

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