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...Through the website that handles Movie88's credit-card transactions, TIME was able to track down a man who calls himself S.E. Tan, who claims to have started the site to force Hollywood to distribute movies worldwide via the Net. "The main reason this content is held back is because of profit," says Tan. Hollywood's desire to protect movies from hackers is why Britney Spears' new opus, for example, isn't online today. Greed, he says, is standing in the way of progress. "Someone has to do something. We had to start the ball rolling...
...Eternity Italy Ltd., a "virtual company" registered in the British Virgin Islands ("because it is tax free"), which is the holding company for Movie88. "We don't have an office and an address," he says. "As long as we have people and computers, we can do it." Reached via a Malaysian cell-phone number, Tan says he's an ethnic Chinese in his early 30s who travels a lot and created his vast movie collection by copying DVDs. "I can get great movies in L.A.," he says. "Hollywood Video, Blockbuster. 20/20 has a very good, very complete collection." His site...
...least his legal costs aren't an issue. "There is no way the U.S. is going to interfere with law in Taiwan," he predicts. Besides, Taiwan's Internet copyright laws are virtually nonexistent, experts there say. "Several articles under the criminal law lay down penalties for crimes via Internet such as money laundering and counterfeits," explains Chen Mei-ling, at Taiwan's Ministry of Justice. "Other than that, we have no laws...
...RELIEF? Millions of women who suffer from premenstrual syndrome may someday find relief just a spray away. Researchers at the University of Michigan and seven other institutions are testing a promising new drug delivered via a nasal spray. Trials are not yet complete, but early results are encouraging...
Their relationship has been the subject of numerous books and films, but the current exhibition is the first time the story has been presented in its most obvious form: via their paintings. There are 106 exhibits in the Amsterdam show, including many of the two artists' most famous masterpieces. The Van Gogh Museum has contributed 25 paintings; the rest come from museums and private collections in the U.S., Japan, Russia and elsewhere in Europe...