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This move follows the recent decision by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to start suing users of pirated online movies as the music industry has already done. But this new law focuses on the source of the counterfeit movie rather than the end user...
...baby in it cries for 30 sec. If the baby doesn't stop after about 5 min., a signal is sent to the parents via remote. A sensor goes off if the room gets too hot or cold. And for parents fearful of studden infant death syndrome, a motion detector indicates if the baby has stopped moving for too long...
...just a bit further on in the paper, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)—now led by former Institute of Politics Director Dan Glickman—had taken out a full page ad displaying, under the ominous question “Is this you?,” a long list of the Internet addresses of peer-to-peer filesharing users who had been caught infringing on motion picture copyrights. “If you think you can get away with illegally trafficking movies, think again,” the ad cleverly challenged: “Lawsuits...
...despite a few studies that have suggested trends one way or another in recording industry and motion picture profits, it doesn’t appear that anything particularly horrible has happened as a result. Mainstream artists—the kind that used to make a lot of money—still make a lot of money, and the independent ones have a listening base that cares enough about them to pay for their recordings, for the most part...
...motion-capture animation, which turns real actors into the virtual variety, is less likable. They are as wooden as Snow White's prince. And just because it is now possible to count every hair on their heads doesn't mean we want to. But look, it's not art. It's a head trip. You could argue, in fact, that the IMAX Polar Express returns movies to their most primitive beginnings, when the simple act of realistically capturing motion on a screen--narrative subtlety be damned--was sufficient to thrill, enchant and totally involve an audience. By that crude standard...