Word: serialization
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Universal unblocked the serial code and quickly traced the copy to Gonzalez. The studio pushed for the maximum sentence of one year in federal prison, claiming the piracy had cost it an estimated $66 million (a spokeswoman declined to explain how that figure was calculated). Gonzalez now has a job selling cars. He must wear an electronic-monitoring bracelet around his ankle to ensure he goes only to work and then home. "People will come by once in a while," he says, "but I find myself watching TV and playing video games a lot of the time." He says...
...online, the more-exclusive chat groups would let him pull down other, better films. "I don't like paying for movies," he says. So he digitized the VHS copy and then used basic editing software to block the "Property of Universal" crawl running across the screen, along with a serial number. Aware that what he was doing was wrong, he vacillated for three days before posting The Hulk to a server in the Netherlands. "So many people do it, you never think you're going to get caught...
DIED. HAROLD SHIPMAN, 57, British physician and serial killer known as "Dr. Death"; a suicide by hanging; in his London prison cell, where he was serving 15 life sentences, one for each person he was convicted of murdering. An investigation later revealed he had killed as many as 260 patients over 23 years, most of them women living alone whom he visited for checkups and injected with fatal doses of heroin...
...Good and evil were fighting in my heart, and at last, good defeated evil." Huang Yong, confessed Chinese serial killer, on why he let a potential 18th victim get away...
...every morning. But I think what will be hardest when my time at The Crimson expires on January 25 is that there won’t be a community of 300 people depending on me to teach the next generation of reporters about libel, rat out that last serial comma from FM or make a clean early morning get-away from Charles River Printing...