InternetMovies.com Newsletter

IM NewsLetter | ISSN 1546-2110 | Volume # 30 | January 9, 2004

The InternetMovies.com Weekly Newsletter keeps you up to date with anything and everything there is to know about movies on the internet with special investigative reports, new movies/DVD release dates and news. Plus winners of our weekly Movie Giveaway.

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Special/Investigative Report
1.ES5
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INTERNET MOVIE NEWS
How Hollywood can avoid the fate of the music industry

According to the article:

"The notorious Digital Millennium Copyright Act is Hollywood's fault. And extending copyright protection year after year so that the film and television archives stay shut isn't just bad law, it's depriving Americans of their cultural history."
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QTFairUse, VideoLAN, iTunes, DeCSS, and Fair Use

According to the article:

"The code in QTFairUse strips songs users have purchased of their copy protections and stores them in AAC format. In true open-source style, the code in QTFairUse has been added to the VideoLAN project, allowing downloaded music to be played on several different operating systems."
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Belgian watchdog to sue record companies

According to the article:

"The watchdog has said that it is taking the music giants EMI, Sony, BMG Music and Universal Music to court for installing anti-piracy systems on their audio CDs.

In a press release, Test-Achats says it has received lots of consumer complaints in recent months about CDs equipped with anti-piracy systems, in particular "Laundry Service" by Shakira, "1 Giant Leap" by Faithless and Bjork's "Greatest Hits." Often, these CDs cannot be read by PCs and car stereos, preventing users from making legal private copies, according to Test-Achats."
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5 technology giants unite against piracy

According to the article:

"Now, five of the world's most powerful computer, cellphone and electronics companies, industry executives say, are planning a program for protecting digital music, video and software from illicit file sharing that they hope will bridge at least part of that gap."
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