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...Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Charlie Chaplin continued to make pictures. Jerry Lewis, Doris Day and Elvis were starring in their two anodyne movies a year. Virtually all income came from box office receipts and showings on broadcast TV stations. There were no home computers, cable networks, videocassettes or DVDs. No four-letter word had been spoken, no adult body fully exposed, in a Hollywood film. Many films were still shot in black-and-white...
...head to Quiapo, where I wade through a sea of stalls selling bootleg DVDs and used electronics, pirated porn and secondhand bridal gowns. Exotic fare abounds, but I opt for a simple treat from childhood: a bananacue, or banana speared with a skewer, caramelized in deep-fried sugar. As I savor the sweet, sticky snack, I listen to a sermon blasted from a loudspeaker by a church decorated like a pastel Easter egg; in front of me is a row of old women selling religious figurines along with herbal potions that claim to do everything from curing coughs to terminating...
...need to finish the sentence. And then ... nothing. China is always promising to crack down on intellectual-property abuse. In fact, the government recently declared March 15 to be Antipiracy Day, and there are still big billboards downtown urging everyone to combat the scourge of illegally copied software, DVDs and other products. Not surprisingly, Chinese officials threw a rhetorical fit on hearing of the WTO complaint, brought by U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab on behalf of the American music and film industries. Commerce Ministry spokesman Wang Xinpei said it would "seriously undermine the cooperative relations the two nations have established...
...have made some progress. That's why companies like Microsoft and Merck want no part of the WTO complaint. But for the film and music business, the claim that there has been headway is simply a joke. "Competition has never been tougher," Li Haihua tells me as he peddles DVDs of new Hollywood films for 60? apiece on Shanghai's Huaihai Street, just blocks from a big antipiracy billboard. "There are more [sellers] than ever before, and the price has come down." Zhou says he earns less than 13? per disc. "It's definitely a volume business," he adds wearily...
...communication studies at Northeastern University. Inside access to products and the feeling that companies care about what you and your friends think are such strong motivating forces that other forms of compensation pale in comparison. BzzAgent's members earn reward points, which they can cash in for prizes like DVDs and books--yet 87% of them never...