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...protect private property in cyberspace? A California judge will try to tackle that question next week when the latest potentially groundbreaking cyberspace case hits the chambers. This one's a class-action suit by electronics makers against web sites that enable Internet users to download pirated DVDs. It seems that a bunch of Norwegian hackers developed software that allows people to record DVDs from their ROM drives and transmit them over the Net to anyone with the same software - making it possible to produce an infinite number of copies from a single DVD, all at the original quality...
...Even with all these offerings, the women fear the proliferation of home videos and DVDs will thin theater draws. White wants the audience to remember cinema as a group experience, to enjoy the collective dynamics of a crowded theater. In this spirit, the Brattle Theatre offers delightful details, such as the traditional double feature format, membership t-shirts, and refreshments like real-butter popcorn popped in canola oil, organic coffee and "fancy" chocolate bars. --S. TAKADA
...Jobs thinks that same guy wants his iMac to play DVDs and edit digital videos. Jobs has a long history of divining the high-tech future, often recognizing it in technology other people invented: the mouse. The visual desktop. The laser printer. Rainbow-hued PCs. The wireless laptop. Now, years before most people have even heard of broadband Internet access, Jobs has bet the farm on the convergence of his two companies' products. Digital video, he proclaimed at the iMac launch last week, is "the next big thing...
...view cousin, called DVX. But don't get too attached yet. "Some of the concepts aren't bad," Kevin Hause, a senior analyst at market researcher IDC, says with faint praise. "In the end, the best thing about it may be that the player will still play DVDs after DVX dies...
While a Divx deck can run DVDs, it also plays its own disks. Divx decks plug into the TV, just like DVD drives. But they plug into the phone line too. When you first set up your deck, you must establish an account with Divx central--your machine calls a toll-free number, and you key in credit-card information. (The player automatically calls headquarters once or twice a month in the middle of the night, which I find creepy.) You see, rather than simply renting Divx disks, you buy them outright, for $4.50, and never return them...