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...Perhaps the parallel to pornography is instructive. The ability to download and view dirty pictures in the privacy of your own home prompted the triple-X expansion of triple-X businesses. Cultural conservatives regularly bemoan the Internet's ability to "normalize" such previously hidden behaviors as polyamory - you may be the only bisexual group-love aficianado in Omaha, but thanks to AOL, you can find more of them in Kansas City...
...raved about his gizmo. "Once you have it, you'll wonder why everyone else doesn't," gushed msnbc in March. True, the setup can be tricky - users have to tie the device into an Internet router as well as into a TV set-top box, and they have to download software. And Slingbox makes the rights to programming trickier still. Paul Whitehead, head of business development for British commercial TV network Channel 4, notes that when the network acquires rights to air a program such as The Sopranos, the agreement often covers Britain only. So is a Channel 4 viewer...
...cable with bottle-shaped plugs. This isn't just the physical manifestation of the vodkamaker's latest hip ad campaign; it's also a display of advanced technology. At the bottom of the sign, Absolut invites passersby to send a text message or enable their Bluetooth cell phones to download a free 4-min. MP3 track where they're standing. "We always try to be edgy and different with our ads, but this time we wanted to go beyond the traditional," says Jeffrey Moran, a spokesman for Absolut, which has a similar sign up on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles...
...thing ABC (and other networks) can count on is a drawn-out brouhaha with the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild, and other Hollywood unions. Unions are already demanding a boost in residuals members earn for iTunes downloads, and they may ask for additional money coming from the new revenues generated by streaming video ad sales. SAG says all unions combined now get a piddling two cents for each $1.99 download, with actors receiving about half of that, and the Writers Guild of America, which represents scriptwriters, says their residual amounts to less than half a cent. For its part...
...biggest hassles was ensuring that students had access to fax machines or scanners to send in their hand-written math homework. For Lewis, a major problem for his online students was somewhat ironic. A handful of students had trouble accessing videos because of government restrictions on downloading. “That’s exactly the sort of stuff this class talks about,” Lewis says. “Here is this wonderful invention (the Internet) that can democratize information, and foreign governments have quickly figured out how to put various kinds of filters and blocks...