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This movie should not be released in theatres. It should not even go straight to DVD or VHS. It should be overnight Fed-Ex’ed to Lifetime, where they can show it over and over again in their next “Girl Has a Troubled Childhood, and Her Life Is Filled with Rape, Drugs, Prostitution and Murder Movie Marathon.” It would fit right in with their nightly line...
...recent successful bid for MGM Studios (and its rich backlist of classic films) underscored just how crucial DVDs are in the entertainment and electronics businesses. The current scuffle might not be settled before two competing (and incompatible) standards reach stores, potentially blossoming into a confusing standards war like the VHS-vs.-Betamax videotape clash of the late 1970s and early...
...dustup that harks back to the VHS-vs.-Betamax standards showdown at the dawn of the VCR era, the industry has splintered into two warring camps over how best to implement blue-laser technology. Spearheading one group is Sony, which promotes a technology it calls Blu-ray. Sony senior vice president Kiyoshi Nishitani, a battle-tested engineer who heads up the Blu-ray initiative, says his company began work on the new technology four years ago and quickly enlisted Matsushita (best known for its Panasonic brand), Philips and Pioneer, among others, as allies in its cause. All was going well...
What are these judgments? Historically, copyright law has concerned itself, appropriately, with copying: the creator or copyright holder of a work had the exclusive right to control whenever a copy of their work was made. This is just about perfect with books or VHS tapes—we want creators to be able to control the distribution of their work such that they receive proper attribution and compensation, and yet we want to ensure that the people who buy it have the right to read, lend, sell, annotate, discuss or even burn their copy as they desire. This has been...
Harvard students dying for some late-night action have one more option: CVS Pharmacy now stays open 24 hours a day, making it that much easier to buy such essentials as VHS copies of The Blair Witch Project and Odwalla antioxidant smoothies, not to mention all the usual drugstore staples. Yet after spending six hours in the store, from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m., it doesn’t seem as though many have taken CVS up on its offer of permanently open doors...