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...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...
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...
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...
...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...