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Hollywood Tries To Block DVD Decoder
News The major Hollywood studios filed a motion in New York federal court seeking to block a controversial Web site from posting links to other Web sites where users can download a program that decodes encrypted material on digital video disks.
[April 6, 2000, 15:59]
Hollywood's New Enemy - Linux Fans
News Spooked by Hollywood-backed legislation that seeks to regulate technology, Linux geeks plan to launch a political-action committee that fights back. The bill, a Hollywood-sponsored attempt to thwart piracy, has alarmed many technology companies and...
[April 15, 2002, 9:30]
Comdex '99: Hollywood Auteurs See Glamour In Biometrics
News The Compulink team were understandably excited and are now preparing themselves for another Hollywood inspection. According to star struck witnesses, Francis Ford Coppola was checking out a range of fingerprint scanning mice and pads Tuesday.
[November 16, 1999, 15:54]
Hollywood Shuts Down Video-on-demand Site
News Hollywood dodged a second bullet in a burgeoning battle over online film distribution Thursday, quickly shutting down an Iran-based Web site that had sold access to copyrighted films over the Internet for $1 (70 pence) apiece.
[June 7, 2002, 8:44]
Hollywood's Lead Lobbyist Steps Back From Limelight
News Jack Valenti, whose soaring flights of rhetoric have defined Hollywood's voice in Washington, D.C.for two generations, is nearing the end of his post as the film industry's chief lobbyist. How do you see the evolving relationship between Silicon...
[June 23, 2004, 10:40]
Hollywood Net Horror Gets Sequel
News A video-on-demand site that was shut down earlier this year with the help of Hollywood has seemingly sprouted a new head in Iran, underscoring vexing problems of Internet copyright enforcement for movie studios.
[June 6, 2002, 11:32]
Hollywood Heads Up Anti-piracy Charge
News Hollywood's lobbyists are readying a new legislative push on Capitol Hill. But it will highlight Hollywood's legal attempts to permit the intentional disruption of peer-to-peer networks and limit the unauthorised copying and conversion of digital...
[July 23, 2002, 8:14]
A Year Ago: Hollywood Tries To Block DVD Decoder
News The major Hollywood studios filed a motion in New York federal court seeking to block a controversial Web site from posting links to other Web sites where users can download a program that decodes encrypted material on digital video disks.
[April 6, 2001, 6:07]
Hollywood Named In On-demand Conspiracy Suit
News Digital on-demand movie service Intertainer Tuesday said it filed an antitrust lawsuit against three major Hollywood studios alleging conspiracy and price-fixing. Both Hollywood and the technology industry have embraced the idea of selling movies...
[September 25, 2002, 6:27]
Hollywood Homes In On Student Swappers
News Hollywood is poised to up the ante in its war against file swappers, with new technology that could make it easier to remove suspected pirates from campus networks, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned.
[April 19, 2004, 14:45]
Hollywood Chip Will Bring Digital TV To Mobiles
News Codenamed 'Hollywood', the chip will support two emerging digital TV standards --Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld (DVB-H), a European specification that should also be deployed in the US; and Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting...
[October 21, 2004, 17:30]
US Report: Hollywood Sees Net Payoff
News This is the only medium where a movie fan can find out where a movie is playing, what time, and get the trailer instantly," said Stuart Halperin, executive vice president of Hollywood Online. Still, in earlier comments at the Herring on Hollywood...
[July 30, 1998, 6:57]
Hollywood's War On Open Source: Linux In The Cross Hairs
News See also Hollywood's war on open source. See also Hollywood's war on open source: Don't fence me in. "Why is the Motion Picture Association and the DVD CCA going after us, the Linux users, instead of the massive infringers?
[February 28, 2000, 9:23]
Hollywood's War On Open Source: Don't Fence Me In
News See also Hollywood's war on open source. See also Hollywood's war on open source: Linux in the cross hairs. The current situation, according to critics of the DMCA, is like allowing someone to build a fence around a public pavement in front of a...
[February 28, 2000, 9:17]
Hollywood's War On Open Source
News Historically, Hollywood has fought against any new technology, from radio to television to VHS, that it feared would dent its core business -- the movies, worth $6.9bn (£4.2bn) at the US box office alone in 1998.
[February 28, 2000, 9:05]
IBM Takes Linux To Hollywood
News As Hollywood goes ever more digital, IBM is gearing up to grab some of its business by introducing souped-up technology for production and editing of video and audio. The move comes as many technology companies are rushing to be the next star in...
[September 17, 2002, 7:58]
Tesco Vs Hollywood In DVD Battle
News Supermarket chain Tesco is petitioning Hollywood to end regional zoning on DVDs to ensure prices drop to US levels, which are reckoned to be around 30 percent cheaper than here. In its letter, Tesco accuses Hollywood's use of regional zoning of...
[February 21, 2000, 14:59]
Technology: Levelling Hollywood's Playing Field
News When Hollywood producer John Williams finished Dreamworks Animation's "Shrek" in 2001, he set himself a goal: He wanted to make another animated feature, butn on his own, and for far less money. This week, the product of that resolution will hit US...
[August 16, 2005, 13:45]
DVD Chipmakers Sued By Hollywood
News The lawsuit is the second to target DVD hardware makers and is part of a new campaign by the trade association to crack down on the spread of disc players that deviate from a Hollywood-approved system of copy control features.
[August 24, 2004, 8:30]
Yahoo!'s Chief Reaches Out To Hollywood
News Filling the chief executive slot with Semel, a former Hollywood movie mogul, has raised a cloud of speculation over the company's possible direction -- ranging from an outright sale to the development of new premium services focusing on the...
[June 27, 2001, 12:27]
