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...Disney is pricing diamond rings too, mulling a group effort with cable little-guys Cox Communications and Charter Communications to put it back in the front lines of the content-and-cable combination sweepstakes...
...salivating over a combination (minority-owned for tax purposes but effectively controlled by the Dulles boys) that would create a cable behemoth with some 25 million subscribers, 3 million high-speed Internet-access customers, and a hell of a lot of train tracks for all that content (yours truly included). How big a behemoth? Comcast?s 8.5 million subs would be a very distant second...
...books, but electronic content like E-Books, that has publishers worried. Libraries, like the rest of us, have long been governed under the "First Sale" doctrine, which basically allows the purchaser of a book free rein - you can sell it, loan it out, or use it as kindling. But you can't make multiple copies for distribution. And as digital publishing becomes more common, the duplication of content keeps getting easier and more practical. Instead of standing at the photocopier for hours to make an illicit copy of a John Grisham novel, you can in theory now just copy...
...issues that concerns the publishers is a technological byproduct of transferring digital files - even with the best of intentions, Adler says, digital transmission creates temporary copies that the library will retain while the user has the content. One solution would be a ?simultaneous transmission and deletion? system, where the library deletes its copy while the borrower has it, and the borrower deletes it upon "returning" it to the library...
...Tiger, so far, has been an anomaly, and Jackie Chan or Jet Li films are essentially star vehicles in an established genre. Chinese directors Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige have succeeded on the international art-house circuit, but their movies are either banned in China because of sensitive political content (the fate of To Live) or they've failed with domestic audiences because of their musty themes (The Emperor and the Assassin). Feng makes the light-hearted comedies that draw the big Chinese crowds. Unlike Zhang and Chen, Feng eschews sweeping epic dramas with brocaded courtesans or peasants tilling unforgiving...