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...last performance at Harvard was at Winthrop,” says Arthur. Kaling’s Boston roots and Morris’s former enrollment in Harvard Summer School were subsequently revealed, and they were sold. Through the standard approval process for campus shows, Arthur was able to rent out Winthrop’s JCR for two weeks to kick the production into gear...
Here one minute and gone the next, Zipcars — the cars you can rent for a few hours at a time — are gaining traction at Harvard...
...Yale did a trip where they rent out condos at Myrtle Beach. They all just hung out at the beach for the last few days. We do nothing like that,” Nong said...
...releases for the same reason book publishers don't go direct to paperback," says Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, the hugely successful online movie-rental company. Hastings has his own version of an iTunes-like solution to the movie-download problem. Right now his 2 million customers rent DVDs online and receive them through the mail, but he says he has always intended to make the transition to movie downloads. Nothing is likely to be launched in the next year, but Hastings has been brainstorming the idea with Michael Ramsay, a Netflix board member and the CEO of TiVo, whose...
...seem. "There were very beautiful copies of Shrek 2 available on the Internet when it was released," says Ted Sarandos, chief content officer for Netflix. "That didn't seem to hurt [Shrek's] ticket sales any." When DVDs are packed with special features and available to rent for $2 or to buy for $15, who wants to waste a day downloading a movie? "I've frequently suggested they give up on all this copy protection because it doesn't make a bit of difference," says Fred von Lohmann, a lawyer for the Electronic Freedom Foundation who defended Grokster against...