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The anti-circumvention section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act threatens to make archivists felons if they try to preserve our society's artifacts for future generations.
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The entertainment's industry new piracy warnings to computer users started flowing Monday as the industry and internet service providers finally launched their long-promised Copyright Alert System.
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Directed by Julien Duvivier. With Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Hugh Dempster. Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a little spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift...
Anton Vickerman, whose surfthechannel.com had 400,000 users a day, sentenced on two counts of conspiracy to defraud.
The new big exhibition at Baltic features work by a man drawn to artistic tat. David Whetstone reports on the wild and wonderful world of Jim Shaw.
Two members of an Internet piracy group were sentenced to prison Friday on charges stemming from unauthorized online distribution of first-run films, officials said.
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With Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Fadi Abi Samra, Ahmad Kaabour. The story of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the 1975 OPEC meeting.
Directed by Roman Polanski. With Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner. A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones.
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Last week the content-creating industry launched a new effort aimed at preventing copyright infringement: the Copyright Alert System—CAS, also called "six strikes." It's a warning system intended to curb illegal downloads of music, movies, and other content by consumers over peer-to-peer networks. Instead of imposing heavy fines or arresting egregious downloaders, ISPs will warn them (up to six times), attempt to educate them, and then take corrective measures. Read the basics
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A week ago Minami Minegishi was a silken-haired jewel in one of Japan’s pop music crowns, the all-girl group AKB48.
Astronomer, broadcaster and author Sir Patrick Moore has died at his home at the age of 89, his friends say.
Sheffield student who created TVShack website will have to travel to US and pay a small sum of compensation, court told...
In one sense, there's not a lot in Hebburn that you haven't seen before.
Created by Dennis Spooner. With Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope, Annette Andre, Ivor Dean. Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk are private detectives who specialize in divorce cases.
Kate Winslet's chances of Oscar glory are being hit by an orchestrated campaign to dismiss her film The Reader as an apologia for Nazi Germany.
Robert McCrum: The bicentenaries of three great Victorian writers underline the capricious nature of literary afterlives...
One-liner specialists Stewart Francis and Tim Vine each make two appearances in Dave award's top ten list...
Directed by Jonathan Mostow. With Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Ving Rhames, Rosamund Pike. "
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