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...Read Pseudo.com help section. Recommends that if I have RealPlayer (I do) and still can't play video, I download and reinstall the latest version...
...Download RealPlayer 8 over home modem connection. Meanwhile, pour glass of wine and turn on TV. Watch Doris Kearns Goodwin tell touching anecdote about the dejected Lyndon Baines Johnson being unable to attend the 1968 Democratic convention. Feel heretofore unfelt connection with LBJ. Decide that Doris Kearns Goodwin is one special lady...
Napster is, of course, the wildly popular file-sharing service whose 20 million users have downloaded some half a billion songs--most of them copyrighted, all of them free. To the music-industry plaintiffs in this week's suit--including Warner Records, which, like this magazine, is a unit of Time Warner--services like Napster are simply high-tech piracy. The industry is worried that in the future, only a few CDs will be sold; everyone else will download from the Net. In this suit, the Recording Industry Association of America and 18 record labels are asking Judge Marilyn Hall...
DivX movies are still too large to download with a 56K modem, which means that DivX won't become a serious threat until broadband becomes more popular, but the legal fur has already begun to fly. Last week the Motion Picture Association filed suit against Scour www.scour.com) a website that runs a file-exchange community popular with DivX fans and that counts among its investors Hollywood power Michael Ovitz. It's doubtful that a successful verdict will stem the tide. Most DivX movies are stashed away on private servers, hard to find but accessible to those in the know...
...those enterprising programmers, DivX squishes movies down to fewer than 700 megabytes, small enough to fit on a CD. To watch a movie in DivX format, all you need is the DivX codec program, which tells your computer how to decompress the file, and a DivX player. You can download both player and codec for free on DivX websites such as www.gdivx.com and divx.ctw.cc...