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...anything for pecuniary reasons." Whatever his motives, the Motion Picture Association - which notified ?kokrim about DECSS - has highly pecuniary reasons to fight such activity. The studios contend that DECSS could spawn a filmic Napster if users decode DVDs into reproducible - and distributable - format. Losses could be huge: research firm Screen Digest estimates that in 2002 Europeans will spend more than ?5.2 billion on DVDs. Programs like DECSS, says MPA chairman Jack Valenti, "destroy crucial protection and expose industry to the real risk of further massive losses due to piracy." Big business feels the same way about the work of other...
When Tyson first appeared on the big screen before entering the ring , a ripple of boos started that were quickly drowned out by a prolonged chorus of cheers from the predominantly Tyson crowd. As State Representative Joe Towns, who had lobbied to land the fight back in January when it was chased out of Nevada, said, "I'm with Mike. He's bad! And he's American...
After seeing the box-office receipts for Spider-Man and reading about superheroes who have made the leap from the pages of comic books to the big screen [BLOCKBUSTER SUMMER, May 20], I wonder if comic-book readers will finally get some respect. Will the public thank us comic-book fans for keeping these characters in print and alive for decades? What would the film world be like if George Lucas and young directors like Kevin Smith hadn't been inspired by comics growing up? I am grateful to anyone who has ever written or drawn a comic book...
...Daniel Pearl?s murder? On it, the terrorists who abducted the Wall Street Journal reporter in Pakistan force him to declare his Jewish heritage and condemn the U.S. government; they then saw the head off his limp body and brandish it while a list of demands scrolls up the screen. It is awful, evil, dehumanizing. But does that mean it?s not also a part of history? Last week a weekly newspaper declared that it was. The Boston Phoenix provided a link to the footage from its Web page and showed Pearl?s decapitated head in its print edition...
HUPD later recovered drug paraphernalia, a large flat-screen TV, two CD players, a portable DVD player, DJ equipment and 91 DVDs from his room...