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...Asked to describe how digital printing has affected their work Spiegelman described his process as increasingly virtual. "I have two tables, one of which has my computer on it and the other of which has my 19th century equipment. I find myself moving back and forth all the time now. ... Rather than correct a drawing I'll end up scanning it in and fixing it on screen." Where he once had multiple sketches and drafts, it's now easier to keep re-manipulating and changing the work. "I actually end up writing the comix by making notes in a notebook...
...Ironically, Sharon's political decline has coincided with a political renaissance for the Palestinian leader he declared "irrelevant" and placed under virtual house arrest last December. By turning him into an embattled symbol of Palestinian national aspirations with Israeli tanks outside his front door and missiles being fired into his yard, Sharon appears to have done Arafat a huge political favor. Pollsters are finding Arafat more popular than he has been in months, and the fact that most of the current wave of Palestinian armed attacks are being carried out by militants of his own Fatah movement have, if anything...
Though the picture quality was beyond awful?unwatchable might be a better description?Movie88.com seemed to be the best indication yet of how close Tinseltown is to getting truly burned by the Internet. The rogue website was a virtual video rental store where visitors could screen some 3,600 films, including Hollywood blockbusters such as Gladiator, for just $1 per viewing. Operating out of Taiwan, Movie88 had no licensing or distribution agreements with the studios. Site founder S.E. Tan says he was doing film moguls a favor. "These Internet movies do not compare with the quality...
...What moviemakers fear most is how lucrative and easy video trafficking could become on the Net. Movie88's Tan, who TIME tracked down through a Malaysian cell phone number, says he is the chief technology officer of Eternity Italy Ltd., a virtual company registered in the British Virgin Islands that is the holding firm for Movie88. Tan?identified by Taiwanese police as Tan Soo Leong?says he created a vast film library by copying DVDs to his computers. "I can get great movies in L.A.," he says, "Hollywood Video, Blockbuster. 20/20 has a very good, very complete collection...
...Even without the examples offered by the INCB, it's not hard to imagine that for professional drug dealers, the Internet is a virtual playground. It's incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to control and censor; it has no borders, and, unlike in the physical world, criminals can change identities and locations in the time it takes to switch on a new computer...