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...Like many other TV freaks, Necratog, 21, also downloads favorite programs and burns them onto CDs. His archives include 400 CDs that hold more than a thousand Buffy, Babylon 5, South Park and Star Trek shows. But Buffy is his favorite. "I'll watch the same episode three or four times in a row," he says. "I've watched some over 20 times altogether...
...people download movies because downloading takes up a higher amount of bandwidth," says Tan. "Also, we don't want people to download the movies and sell them on the street. That's what happened in Taiwan with Napster - all the college students started selling CDs on the street of songs they downloaded off the internet. We don't want people to do that with our movies. We want to broadcast them so people can watch them...
...Universal) from third place to the world?s largest music company between 1989 and ?98. But the rhythms of the music business have changed since then. EMI?s troubles are a microcosm of what?s ailing a $40 billion industry that can no longer rely on fans buying CDs by the armful to replace outmoded record collections. Too many expensive-to-maintain artists are selling too few CDs to an increasingly fragmented public. U.S. sales fell 3%, the first drop in a decade. Add huge losses from pirating and downloading free music on the Internet and it?s a drumbeat...
...there is only so much cost cutting can get you," warns Michael Nathanson, European media analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. EMI needs to sell more CDs. And that means finding global superstars. To accomplish that, EMI will have to improve its talent-spotting operations in America, where its market share is a puny 10%. The U.S. is the world?s biggest music market and it?s impossible to create world megastars with poor sales there. Deutsche Bank analyst Mark Beilby doubts if any of the five major music companies are willing to invest the time and money needed...
...speaking out more strongly in favor of affirmative action. West was also upset, though, because he felt personally insulted by Summers’ exhortations that he be a leader in combating grade inflation and that he embark on a work of serious scholarship rather than record rap CDs...