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However, the finest business model, be it online or “bricks and mortar” cannot take root and flourish if it is expected to compete with somebody giving away the same product for free. It simply defies logic and the reality of basic economics. The average motion picture costs $102 million to make and market. If the illegal swapping of movies online is allowed to reach the levels that nearly devastated the music industry, who will invest such sums to create movies in the future...
It’s important as a first observation to note that Wirehog itself, like most such applications, is probably not an illegal piece of software. The basic standard for legality amongst peer-to-peer file sharing clients, according to the courts, has been that the software has “substantial non-infringing uses,” and wirehog.com proudly proclaims that you can use the software to “share pictures and other media with friends.” Pictures, presuming you took them yourself, are probably fine. “Other media” are what...
Ifglobalwarmingisreal,experts have been saying for decades, then basic climate science dictates that it should show up earliest and proceed most rapidly in the Arctic. But even the experts were stunned at the results of a study released last week. After four years of intensive research by more than 250 scientists, a prestigious multinational body called the Arctic Council reported that the region has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the globe over the past 50 years. Arctic Ocean ice has shrunk by as much as 20%, snow cover has diminished on land...
...moderate former Prime Minister and longtime No. 2 in the Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.), stepped into the top slot as chairman. He shares authority with another Old Guard moderate, current Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, 67, who will continue to run day-to-day government operations. And as Palestinian basic law dictates, Parliament speaker Rauhi Fattuh, 55, a largely powerless functionary, was named caretaker President until elections can be held...
...Mark Darcy. She's wriggling around under a gray comforter, looking from behind like a small elephant. He asks what in the world she is doing. Getting dressed, she says, but hiding the "wobbly bits." He firmly states his adoration of them, and her delighted grin seals a basic bargain with the audience. We all have our wobbly bits. And we all desperately hope our lovers and friends will accept them...