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Though the picture quality was beyond awful?unwatchable might be a better description?Movie88.com seemed to be the best indication yet of how close Tinseltown is to getting truly burned by the Internet. The rogue website was a virtual video rental store where visitors could screen some 3,600 films, including Hollywood blockbusters such as Gladiator, for just $1 per viewing. Operating out of Taiwan, Movie88 had no licensing or distribution agreements with the studios. Site founder S.E. Tan says he was doing film moguls a favor. "These Internet movies do not compare with the quality...
...attempt to draw viewers to Premiere, his pay-TV service, Kirch has in the past two years paid more than $2.5 billion for a slice of Formula One racing and the rights to screen live German football matches from Berlin to Munich. But the audiences have failed to appear - big time. The service is currently losing up to $2 million a day. Now, as his empire founders, Kirch has put his Formula One stake up for sale, with pundits predicting he will be lucky to get half his original outlay. Although the rights for soccer World Cups...
...that Murdoch could be the last man standing in the current sports-broadcasting dilemma. He was, after all, present at the creation. Before the 1990s, Europe's airwaves were ruled mainly by public terrestrial television stations, which paid, by today's standards, mere pocket money for the rights to screen football and other sports. But with the advent of private and pay-TV networks came the search for content that would not only attract viewers, but also build the kind of loyal subscriber bases and demographics that advertisers love. The answer? Sport, once famously described by Murdoch...
...delivered gentle electric shocks, just enough to nudge the muscles into involuntary contractions. The electrodes were connected to a computer, which was in turn linked via the Internet to computers in Paris, Helsinki and Amsterdam. By pressing various parts of a rendering of a human body on a touch screen, participants at all three sites could make Stelarc do whatever they wished...
...travel to a small room at the University of Louvain and don what looks like a badly damaged 1960s bathing cap. The cap is made of plastic and has a standard video camera affixed to its front. To use the MIVIP, Marie sits in front of a large white screen on which an alphabet of about 50 different line configurations is projected...