Word: opening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...video store. Simply mouse on over to SightSound.com and download a copy. You can rent the 211-megabyte film for $2.95 a day (before it digitally disappears), or buy it for $59.98. In fact, you can buy or rent it anytime, day or night--the Internet is always open...
...theaters, or even rent videos from stores? What will happen to the big studios and distributors, especially given the success of The Blair Witch Proj-ect, which formed its core audience on the Net before catapulting its way--through theatrical release--to a box-office bonanza? Will the Net open new markets for independents...
...expect to see a box-office smash online soon. Since movie files are so big, downloading is an option only for people on high-speed connections. Also, publicity is expensive--and even more necessary if the doors are thrown open to budding auteurs. Indeed, Scott Sander, president of SightSound.com says that in the month or so Cannibal has been up, fewer than 100 people have paid to see it. It seems that on the Net as well as off, there's just no accounting for taste...
...There is not enough contact between the student body and the U.C.," Barbaro said. "The newsgroup will be an open forum, a twenty-four hour open U.C. meeting...
What You Didn't Know: The soda machine in the dining hall was the only one on campus open 24 hours a day until the management closed it down in a vile show of force...