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...Land, the swapping comes on top of another, potentially bigger threat. While college kids and geeks are swapping comedies and cartoons online via PCs, a controversial new device called ReplayTV 4000--think of a supersmart VCR--lets regular nontechie folks save television shows in pristine digital format directly from their TV, then watch them commercial free and send them over the Net to other Replay users. Hackers have even figured out ways to copy Replay files to their personal computers, where the files can be uploaded by users of Morpheus and similar programs for wider dissemination...
...softball committee proposed a format of eight teams at eight different sites, costing $350,000. Ultimately, the hope is to use baseball’s four teams at 16 sites format, with an estimated cost of $618,200. Softball presently uses an eight team at six site format...
Under the current format in men’s hockey, five of twelve teams (the five conference winners) get automatic berths. That number will expand to six next year, with or without expansion, as the winner of the College Hockey Alliance will receive an automatic bid as well. With the expansion, 10 teams would receive at-large berths...
...softball expansion, however, according to the baseball format, would potentially move the championship two weeks later...
...Olympic tournament format has a new look this year. The field has been expanded from six teams to eight. The preliminary round splits the competitors into two four-team round-robin pools, with the top two teams in each pool advancing to the semifinals...