Word: tans
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...with years of empty promises about WebTV and the like, Tan and his colleagues started their site to jumpstart Internet broadcasting. "The main reason this content is held back is because of profit," explains Tan. "Someone has to do something; we're not going to wait. We had to start the ball rolling. I believe (movie88.com) is a good stepping-stone. We can force Hollywood and the movies studios and TV stations to do something (about putting more content...
...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...
...Tan says he is the chief technology officer of Eternity Italy Ltd., a "virtual company" registered in the British Virgin Islands ("because it is tax free"), which is the holding company for Movie88. "We don't have an office and an address," he says. "As long as we have people and computers, we can do it." Reached via a Malaysian cell-phone number, Tan says he's an ethnic Chinese in his early 30s who travels a lot and created his vast movie collection by copying DVDs. "I can get great movies in L.A.," he says. "Hollywood Video, Blockbuster. 20/20...
...Tan sees it, Movie88.com is doing Hollywood a favor. "These Internet movies do not compare with the quality you see in the cinema," he says. "You watch it online, and if the movie is good, you go to the theater or go buy the DVD. We are promoting these Hollywood movies and not getting a single cent from the companies. They are just yelling at us." The ingrates...
...detour down Lorong Love?reputedly the former hangout of prostitutes?0leads to the very respectable premises of the Lim Tan Tin shop, where Lim Meng Hooi and her three brothers carry on the family business: selling and repairing mah-jongg sets. The Chinese love of gambling has been subdued in Islamic Malaysia, but it hasn't been stamped out. Says Lim: "One group of four people or just a family playing is O.K. More than that, the police come and take everyone to court...