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Hollywood has good reason to be worried. BitTorrent downloads account for one-third of Internet traffic, according to CacheLogic. So-called tracker sites post links to movies, video games and episodes of TV shows, the content of which is then traded at turbocharged speeds. With more folks logging onto the Internet via broadband connections, online trading of movies, TV shows and porn is surging. Downloads of feature films alone are up 175% in the past year, says BigChampagne, another Web-tracking firm. In response, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) recently filed dozens of civil suits against tracker sites...
Zeta-Jones is also a Oscar winner for her supporting role in “Chicago” in 2002. Her other feature films include “The Mask of Zorro,” “Traffic,” and “Ocean?...
...trading among Iraq's new political class, while those who overcame their fears to express their hopes at the ballot box anxiously await results. And the wildcard elements outside the Assembly - from the insurgency whose planners are no doubt simply waiting for the election-weekend ban on all vehicle traffic to be lifted in order to launch a new wave of car bombings, to the radical Shiite populist Moqtada Sadr who kept a low profile over the election period but retains substantial support among restive Shiite urban youth - will no doubt be looking for opportunities to pursue their own agendas...
...officials complained that Guangdong authorities had left them in the dark; mainland farmers blamed Taiwan for foisting the little terrors on them in the first place, likely stowed away in shipments of recyclable trash. For Hong Kong, news of a fire ant invasion on the eve of the high-traffic Lunar New Year holiday was received with dismay, especially since it meant canceling shipments of traditional holiday plants from the mainland. The city's Health Minister, Dr. York Chow, announced a 300-person search-and-destroy mission and advised the public not to panic, saying the fire ants were quite...
...feel protected." One man who's tried to fight back is Antonio Bassolino, Governor of the Campania region. When he was mayor of Naples in the 1990s, Bassolino led a campaign cracking down on small-time contraband cigarette vendors. Recalling a similar outbreak of bloodshed over contraband traffic in 1997, he says, "We broke a taboo back then by insisting that the guy selling cigarettes on the street corner wasn't some poor soul, but a sentry for the Camorra." The current violence, he thinks, is a call to strengthen Italy's justice system. Drug dealers "should know they risk...