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...issue are two blue-laser technologies that will drive tomorrow's DVD players. Both formats enable far more information to be packed onto discs the same size as traditional DVDs (which are read by red lasers). The two new varieties also offer strong copyright protection and far greater picture clarity, making them well suited to high-definition television as well as to computer screens. Beyond that, there are differences in price, storage capacity and other technical details...
Internet service providers like Verizon and gadget stores like Radio Shack say the act's wording is too draconian and makes them liable if customers use their wares to break copyright law. "It will be hard for us to introduce any digital product or service that delivers entertainment content," argues Sarah Deutsch, general counsel for Verizon...
...share TV shows, movies and other TiVo recordings with as many as nine other TiVo boxes and computers via the Internet. (Not surprisingly, the MPAA bitterly opposed TiVoToGo.) "Downloading any movie ever made--that's possible on a TiVo box today," says Ramsay. "The problem is in the copyright management, not the technology." Hastings, meanwhile, takes pains to stress that any future downloading business would work out a profit-sharing framework with movie studios...
...copyright management has hamstrung the movie industry's attempts to make a business out of file-sharing technology. Two years ago, major studios launched a service called Movielink, which offers movies for downloading to your computer at about the same time they hit the pay-per-view window. Not only do the movies take hours to download, but they also disappear from Movielink's catalog altogether 90 days later, when they enter the premium-cable window. Because channels like HBO and Starz! offer lucrative licensing deals, Movielink has not been able to compete in the latter window...
Napster’s file-sharing service attracted legal troubles because it enabled users to trade copyrighted materials illegally. In 2001, Napster, Inc. offered the recording industry $1 billion to settle copyright infringement lawsuits, and a federal injunction requiring the company to block illegal downloads ultimately crippled the free song-swapping service...