Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theory anyway, is the answer to the distribution dilemma that vexes every small filmmaker. Bain estimates that there are some 35 million people in the U.S. with access to Windows Media--a free software program that not only allows you to see videos but also permits the makers to protect their movies from piracy. If Bain is able to reach 5% of that potential audience, he could easily recover his costs and turn a handsome profit. From there, the film could travel the traditional distribution route: video, pay-per-view, hbo and finally free TV. Says Bain: "This reverses...
Security for the event was extremely tight.Tickets were required for admission and the secretservice was present to protect President Aristide...
LaMacchia's could be a test case that could help decide the debate between network users who want more publicly available software--including some who want it to be universally available--and computer companies trying to protect their products...
...smutty talk, drug use and gun love onscreen. The moguls hide behind a rickety rating system that stokes more fury than it slakes. Church groups attack it as a sham; critics on the left complain that it eviscerates mature films. "The censors have spent all their time protecting children against adult movies," says The Nation. "They might better protect adults against childish movies...
...Atlanta and at Columbine High School in Colorado provide useful lessons. No gun-control law can prevent criminals from obtaining deadly weapons. If not a gun, a homemade bomb, hammer or ax will suffice. And new antiterrorist police, who seldom intervene before a bloody rampage is over, cannot protect people. Had a single would-be target or bystander been carrying a "cheap" concealed handgun, these attackers might have been stopped sooner. Legitimate gun owners see beyond the thinly veiled attempt to first demonize, then criminalize all gun ownership. God help us when only the police have the right to keep...