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...formula for the DVD market and now they are trying to do the same thing with the next generation of technology," said the WGA declaration. "We support those advances but not without fair compensation for the hardworking men and women who write, perform, direct, and otherwise create the very content that makes their new revenue streams possible. Rest assured, our Guilds will take all affirmative legal action within our power to see that this inequity is resolved to our benefit...
...offering hundreds of vintage shows online, with upcoming plans for paid downloads as well as original webisodes from Punk'd creator Ashton Kutcher and Survivor producer Mark Burnett. CBS has been streaming NCAA basketball games, while also selling CSI and other shows on Google. NBC has become a major content provider to iTunes, and previewed The Office on MySpace before the show hit traditional airwaves...
After their massive protests had effectively killed France's controversial youth employment law and all but quashed Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's presidential hopes, you might think the country's students would be simply content to celebrate their triumph. But while unions and some student groups said President Jacques Chirac's disavowal of the law was enough reason for them to end repeated demonstrations, more hard-core university and political groups pledged to continue staging marches and protests until the wider package of measures the now-defunct law was part of are repealed, including a similar, nine-month...
Probably most painful to the college population is the total late-night city shutdown. All over America, students know the joy of sitting in a diner at 5 a.m., ruminating random ideas and runny eggs. Yet even though IHOP was content asking for a mere 4 a.m. closing, compared to its normal 24/7 schedule, HSDF objected and won. As the president of the HSDF, Ginny Nathans put it, “If there were going to be a 4 a.m. license in Harvard square, it wouldn’t be in IHOP.” The restaurateurs...
...could play them back through the camcorder - pushing files back and forth to the SD memory card shouldn?t be a problem. Soon enough, though, you might end up with a Blu-ray or even HD DVD burner - one that will let you record true high-definition content onto a shiny silver disc. Sure, it?s cool, but in the first couple of years, none of that stuff will come cheap...