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Another way is through a slightly longer video format, otherwise known as the short film--a form that the Oscars recognize but the public doesn't. That's already changing online. All the buying at the Sundance Film Festival this year was done not by the big studios but by websites that show short, downloadable films, hoping to be the online Miramax or, better yet, to be bought by Miramax. Throughout the weeklong event, AtomFilms.com drove a slow-moving RV equipped with a television for aspiring directors to use to screen their short films, in the hope of getting purchased...
...spending months hunting down pirates, working on SDMI (the Secure Digital Music Initiative) and investing millions in litigation, battling companies like MP3.com and Scour, the industry may have thought it had begun to stuff the digital genie back into its shrink-wrap. Despite the initial hype about MP3s, the format turned out to be downloadable music for geeks only. The rest of us couldn't be bothered spending hours wandering through dead-end links searching for a particular Phish bootleg. With Napster, however, all you have to do is type in the name of the song or artist...
...last spring a friend told Wasserman to "check out this MP3 thing"--referring to the digital-music format that allows people to swap their favorite tunes online. Wasserman went to the website MP3.com converted three songs he had written and recorded with Fisher into the format and uploaded them. Now, people could come to the site and download the songs for free. Fisher was about to become the biggest Internet-based band ever...
...minivan. In December King also participated in a fund-raising test of the same "digital rights management" technology that is supposed to copy-protect downloaded files. Last year he pushed the limits of other publishing outlets, releasing a three-story collection called "Blood and Smoke" exclusively in audio book format. In a statement about his new download, King said, "I'm curious to see what sort of response there is and whether or not this is the future." MORE...
...variations on a theme, not repetitions of one. With her modern-day version of Pride and Prejudice, on the other hand, Fielding got caught in the vise of a lucrative contract and a punishing deadline, and the new book has an air of desperation. With the same diary format, complete with alcohol and cigarette logs, and the same wacky circle of friends, Bridget seems to be living her own private Groundhog Day, unable to learn from her mistakes, move forward or pull herself together the tiniest bit. The plot--and is there ever a plot--is driven...