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Through the website that handles Movie88's credit-card transactions, TIME was able to track down a man who calls himself S.E. Tan, who claims to have started the site to force Hollywood to distribute movies worldwide via the Net. "The main reason this content is held back is because of profit," says Tan. Hollywood's desire to protect movies from hackers is why Britney Spears' new opus, for example, isn't online today. Greed, he says, is standing in the way of progress. "Someone has to do something. We had to start the ball rolling...
Bergman defeated Katarina Markovski 6-2, 6-3 in the first singles match. Lingman followed up her partners success in the fourth singles match, defeating Lynn-Yin Tan...
...exclusive interview with TIME last week, Movie88.com founder S.E. Tan said that while he was aware that the site violated U.S. copyright law, its operations were careful to remain within its reading of the copyright laws of Taiwan, where most of its servers are based. "We have spent three months studying the law in Taiwan, talking to all the authorities we can get," Tan said last week, before the latest action by the Taipei authority. "According to the law, if a movie is not released in Taiwan within 30 days of its release elsewhere, it is no longer protected...
...says "Tan" (or Chen, depending on pronunciation) is actually a 39-year-old Malaysian lawyer who visits Taiwan every month, and vows to arrest him - and a second suspect named Yeh - the next time he sets foot in Taipei. But since TIME's story, the policeman isn't expecting to see the Internet buccaneer any time soon...
...local copyright law all over the world. Officials from the American Institute in Taipei reportedly discussed the Movie88.com issue at meetings with officials from Taiwan's justice department. And the result appears to be that Taiwanense authorities are acting on an interpretation of the law somewhat different from S.E. Tan...