Word: dvds
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...busy watching DVDs. Hi, I’m Suzanne Pomey...
JUST LOOKING Lots of people watch DVDs on their computers. Microsoft's free media player for Windows XP, on 17 million PCs, is a popular way to do it. It turns out, though, that Microsoft has been logging what people are watching, and even what songs they're listening to, according to the Associated Press, which got Redmond to fess up. Microsoft says it's updating the player's privacy disclaimer to warn users. But it won't rule out selling the information to advertisers down the line. Talk about paying the peeper...
...Malaysian cell phone number, says he is the chief technology officer of Eternity Italy Ltd., a virtual company registered in the British Virgin Islands that is the holding firm for Movie88. Tan?identified by Taiwanese police as Tan Soo Leong?says he created a vast film library by copying DVDs to his computers. "I can get great movies in L.A.," he says, "Hollywood Video, Blockbuster. 20/20 has a very good, very complete collection...
...office and an address," he says. "As long as we have people and computers, we can do it." Reached via a Malaysian cell-phone number, Tan says he's an ethnic Chinese in his early 30s who travels a lot and created his vast movie collection by copying DVDs. "I can get great movies in L.A.," he says. "Hollywood Video, Blockbuster. 20/20 has a very good, very complete collection." His site loses money, he claims, though as many as 3,000 films a day are sold on it. The problem is the cost of his Internet connection and his employees...
...YEARS Time it took DVDs to fall below that price...