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Consider the electronic book, long heralded as an Information Age replacement for the antiquated stack of paper. Earlier this year, the New York University College of Dentistry announced that members of the Class of 2005 would be required to purchase a VitalBook, a DVD containing the textbooks for a full four-year dental program. Unlike books made of bound paper, though, you don't actually buy the VitalBook; you only purchase a license to it, and if you don't renew the license after the first year, the software stops working. In addition, giving the DVD to a friend...
...license agreements wouldn't be limited only to books. Purchasing and using a DVD player already involves assent to a license agreement, and DVDs already contain "country codes" to prevent you from listening to a cheaper foreign DVD on an American player. Similarly, the recording industry is furiously pursuing the "Secure Digital Music Initiative," which would enable them to control the conditions under which music is transferred after the first sale. Such moves make perfect sense to the industries: they make more money from books you need a license to read, movies you need a license to watch, or music...
...Neil Feineman (Abrams; $39.95) Music videos are not songs with pictures attached; they are short films that revolutionized movie technique. Some of the best, and their makers, are analyzed here. But the visual thrill of videos is in their movement. What's really needed is a Greatest Hits DVD...
MEDIA MIXER Souped-up cement mixer with 12 TV monitors, DVD and PlayStation 2 $70,000 at Neiman Marcus
...Arnold Cultural Society (ACS), which operates out of the Sigma Chi basement, is a case in point. When the ACS receives $450 of our termbill money to buy a DVD player, Schwarzenegger films and refreshments, it is obvious that the council is a little too free with its funds. It's not that these groups don't have a place on our campus, they just shouldn't be guaranteed our dollars...