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When Suthichai Yoon, editor-in-chief of Thailand's Nation Multimedia Group, picked up the phone last Wednesday, the caller wouldn't give his name, but said he was a banker with interesting news. He had received an order to investigate a list of people for possible violations of Thailand's money-laundering laws. According to the mystery banker, Yoon had been named, along with members of his family, editors and columnists of the Nation group and other journalists...
...number of court decisions support Griffin's argument. In the famous Sony Betamax case in 1984, the Supreme Court refused to block the sale of vcrs even though they might be used in some instances to make illegal copies of shows. And in the 1999 Rio lawsuit, Diamond Multimedia (whose corporate name, perhaps not coincidentally, happens to be Sonicblue) won the right to continue marketing the first portable MP3 music player, the Rio, even though many people used it to play pirated copies of copyrighted music. As long as Sonicblue and Morpheus can demonstrate just two legitimate uses of their...
...function is not musical or cinematic but educational: to instruct girls in the complex lessons of peer envy and to get 12-year-old boys on the fast track to concupiscence. Similarly, Crossroads, whose $10 million budget was put up by Spears' label, is less a movie than a multimedia branding, an extension of the Britney franchise--a marketing tool, exactly like the singer's Pepsi spots, though without their craft, verve or production values...
...president and head cheerleader Keiji Tachikawa hoped to maintain momentum by moving quickly into high-speed mobile data transmission, so-called 3G networks. The company became the first in the world to offer full-fledged commercial 3G service last fall when it unveiled its FOMA (Freedom of Mobile Multimedia Access) system, a network so advanced it allows phones to download data-intensive graphics, MP3 music files and even to transmit video. But consumer acceptance has failed to match launch-day hype. Third-generation handsets cost three to five times as much as conventional phones. They are clunky, glitch-prone...
...number of court decisions support Griffin's argument. In the famous Sony Betamax case in 1984, the Supreme Court refused to block the sale of vcrs even though they might be used in some instances to make illegal copies of shows. And in the 1999 Rio lawsuit, Diamond Multimedia (whose corporate name, perhaps not coincidentally, happens to be Sonicblue) won the right to continue marketing the first portable MP3 music player, the Rio, even though many people used it to play pirated copies of copyrighted music. As long as Sonicblue and Morpheus can demonstrate just two legitimate uses of their...