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...says, recalling the day when three officers - two from ?kokrim, Norway's economic-crime investigation unit, and one local policeman - visited his house in Steinsholt, a small town about an hour and a half southwest of Oslo. They went into his basement office and confiscated two computers, some data CDs, a cell phone and its charger. What had Johansen done? He'd just watched some movies. Later this year, Johansen, now 18, will stand trial for hacking. Prosecutors say that's what he did by co-authoring a program called DECSS, which decrypts DVDs so that he can watch...
...grunts; and Operations, a fast-paced online game that puts you behind the trigger--and teaches you teamwork--in a combat situation. Operations is built with the same software as the popular shooting game Unreal, but Army know-how has made the scenarios significantly more, er, real. Both game CDs will be available for free in computer-gaming magazines. And at Army recruiting stations...
Rahman, 36, may not be a household name to Westerners, but he is every bit as much a musical monarch as Lloyd Webber is, having sold well over 100 million CDs. A little perspective, folks: that's about the same as Madonna and Britney Spears combined. And he comes to a London seemingly besotted with Bollywood. In May Selfridges department store had a $1.69 million tribute to the genre, complete with visiting stars, movie-set replicas and Bollywood-inspired clothing. The British Film Institute meanwhile is running Imagine Asia, at eight months' duration England's largest Bollywood film festival ever...
...Japan may lose, its flagging economy should win: from 1954 to 1998, GDP growth for host nations averaged 3.3%. Low Blow For High Tech n Resourceful nerds and music lovers cracked Sony's much-vaunted - and more maligned - compact-disc copy protection. Users overrode the high-tech, anti-piracy CDs by coloring the discs' edges with a decidedly low-tech magic marker. Prodi Gets Direct n European Commission President Romano Prodi surprised friends and foes alike by calling for direct E.U. taxation. The proposal has already met resistance in France, Britain and Germany. Subcontinental Drift n Bombay's stock market...
...manufacturers of blank CDs, the rip-and-burn trend has proved a windfall. Americans stocked up on 1.4 billion blank CDs last year. Memorex, stuck with decaying sales of cassettes and VHS tapes, deftly moved into the market for CD-Rs and now owns the top share, with 30%. By the end of the year, Memorex says, it will be completely out of the tape business...