As if that didn't make life hard enough for the smaller filmmakers, Manwin owns lots of the free sites, too, sites on which the independents' paid-for porn scenes are illegally uploaded by viewers, making paying for them seem ever more pointless.
So if you have wondered how the current government can blithely engage in the wholesale transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich, how its frontbench can rock with laughter as it truncates the livelihoods of the poorest people of this country, why it commits troops to ever more pointless post-colonial wars, here, I think, is part of the answer.
But as one gets older, and parents and peers begin to die, and the obituaries in the newspaper are no longer missives from a faraway place but local letters, and one's own projects seem ever more pointless and ephemeral, such moments of terror and incomprehension seem more frequent and more piercing, and, I find, as likely to arise in the middle of the day as the night.
Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock was a sweet, nostalgic and ever-so-slightly pointless movie based on the true story of an ordinary Jewish guy, Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin), whose parents owned a motel in New York state's Catskill mountains in 1969.
Most pointless episode ever?
His two-match ban must be just about the most pointless punishment ever.
"If I don't say something now then it's pointless to ever say it".
"If I don't say something now, then it's going to be pointless to ever say it," Landis claimed to ESPN.com.
Cambodia's wars have finally sputtered to an end in the past two years, their tangled enmities blurring, alliances shifting, casualties seeming more pointless than ever.
When we once lived on our gut feelings, and on vitally important, slow-to-move metrics to shape our activity, now we chase the daily meanderings in "likes", "shares", click-through rates, and ever more immediate but pointless metrics.
