Archive for the ‘Movies’ Category
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Realnetworks new RealDVD program has been causing quite a stir which has now landed in the courtrooms. Hollywood in general, movie studios (can the MPAA be far away? I doubt it.) are all trying to stop the sale of this software that allows people to copy the contents of ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Recently I've decided that I was going to be changing the way I do the occasional website review. I decided that instead of settling with just writing about a site that I would also do a video review in which I could point out the positive and negative points ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
I just ran across an item on TorrentFreak that gives some hope for file sharing enthusiasts.
It seems that the German judicial system has been overrun by various anti-P2P efforts to prosecute anybody that shares a music track or movie with somebody else. As part of an effort that I ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
According to a news item on SFGate, George Lucas is not just considering the possibility of another in the series of successful movies, he's actually researching ideas looking for just the right thing for Jones to go looking for this time.
You don't however, need to rush off just yet to ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Here's a couple of freeware DVD apps that are definitely worth checking out.
First up is DVDShrink. It's a DVD backup utility. Used with your choice of DVD burning software, it can make a backup copy of any DVD. The problem with making a backup copy of a ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
The various messes with the RIAA continue getting worse. In one case for example Oklahoma State University ended up having to bow to an order to respond to an RIAA subpoena demanding a list of students names. Attorneys for the school emailed the list of names to the ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Big Content providers and the French music industry have managed to get the French government to go along with an insane plan that is going to require ISPs to monitor p2p file sharing and in effect become internet cops, cutting off people's access if the ISPs decide that they're illegally ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
If you're a fan of Marvel Comics then you already know who Iron Man is. Billionaire Industrialist Tony Stark builds a powered suit of armor to save his own live in a desperate situation. Later when he returns to normal life, he modifies the armor and goes into ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
I just read a slashdot item that reports Startrek.com is shutting down. It even quotes from what is apparently the "last" posting:
Goodbye from the STARTREK.COM Team. Sadly, we must report that CBS
Interactive organization is being restructured, and the production team
that brings you the STARTREK.COM site has been eliminated. Effective
immediately. ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
In an interesting move, a judge has ordered the RIAA to come up with expense information. Finally somebody is forcing them to justify the insane claims they've been making in their mad rush to sue anybody that's ever downloaded something without paying their blackmail.
Maybe now the truth will start ...
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