Word: movie88
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...Motion Picture Association of America wants Movie88 taken down. The problem is that no one knows exactly where it is. Most indicators point to Taiwan, though the Taiwanese police maintain it appears to be in Virginia...
...Through the website that handles Movie88's credit-card transactions, TIME was able to track down a man who calls himself S.E. Tan, who claims to have started the site to force Hollywood to distribute movies worldwide via the Net. "The main reason this content is held back is because of profit," says Tan. Hollywood's desire to protect movies from hackers is why Britney Spears' new opus, for example, isn't online today. Greed, he says, is standing in the way of progress. "Someone has to do something. We had to start the ball rolling...