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Through the website that handles Movie88's credit-card transactions, TIME was able to track down a man who calls himself S.E. Tan, who claims to have started the site to force Hollywood to distribute movies worldwide via the Net. "The main reason this content is held back is because of profit," says Tan. Hollywood's desire to protect movies from hackers is why Britney Spears' new opus, for example, isn't online today. Greed, he says, is standing in the way of progress. "Someone has to do something. We had to start the ball rolling...
...letter to pageant officials earlier this month complaining that their daughter was made to pay for clothing alterations and her own victory party. Furthermore, they claimed they themselves had been treated rudely. Their concerns drew only a fixed smile from Katie, who issued a statement saying she was perfectly content with her reign. So it seems Miss Americas are so real, they even have parent issues...
...video. But consumer acceptance has failed to match launch-day hype. Third-generation handsets cost three to five times as much as conventional phones. They are clunky, glitch-prone and have a relatively short battery life. Coverage is absent in all but three major cities and there is little content that takes full advantage of FOMA's capabilities...
...expensive as electronics firms hesitated. "Manufacturers were not ready to make the radios until they had proof of a huge market," says Quentin Howard, ceo of Digital One, the U.K.'s first commercial digital network. "It's been a classic catch-22 situation." But with cheaper receivers and growing content, the British market is set to explode. While the U.K. is digital radio's first big test, much of the rest of Europe isn't far behind. The Swiss consultancy Prognos forecast that once receivers are widely available the Western European retail market could eventually hit $4.1 billion a year...
...faces a similar threat from the current government: at least two of his songs have been banned from Zimbabwean radio for their political content (which unmistakeably critices the regime) and Mapfumo has relocated to the US. The oppressor may have changed, but in the minds of Zimbabweans and others, Mapfumo remains the quintessential musician of the people, articulating and narrating their struggle...