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'Spider-Man' allowed to alter Times Square
News Upholding the rights of filmmakers to superimpose digital images on real-life buildings in their movies, a federal judge in New York has thrown out a suit filed by billboard and building owners against the creators of the "Spider-Man" movie.
[August 6, 2002, 8:36]
Film-swappers face three years' jail
News A forthcoming copyright bill backed by key US senators would place file swappers in prison for up to three years if they have a copy of even one prerelease movie in their shared folders. The threat of a three-year prison term kicks in when anyone...
[November 13, 2003, 7:55]
Free speech victory for DVD crackers
News A California court has dealt a potentially serious setback to the movie industry's attempt to rid the online world of software that can help break through copy protections on DVDs. The decision, while not a final one on the legality of the software...
[November 2, 2001, 10:12]
Cyber thriller to debut online
News The Quantum Project", however, is "the first movie where all global (distribution) rights are equal on day one", Sander said. A cyber thriller devoted to the "life-changing experiences of a theoretical physicist" will debut online next year, in...
[August 26, 1999, 9:03]
Think Napster -- only for movies
News If people like what they see and really want to experience it, they still have to rent or buy the movie," said one. Despite their shrunken size, even in the best of circumstances, downloading a DivX movie is still cumbersome.
[May 12, 2000, 15:27]
New PCs restrict copying
News That strategy might make sense as Microsoft attempts to attract Hollywood movie studios with its digital rights management and anti-copying technologies. Besides digital photo, music and movie features already available with Windows XP, the new PCs...
[September 4, 2002, 8:55]
GPL 3 to take hard line on DRM
News At a two-day event in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to launch the GPL version three, which governs use of countless free and open source programs, Moglen said the license includes anti-DRM provisions that could put it in conflict with movie studios...
[January 19, 2006, 9:00]
Will Linux get its own 'Palladium'?
News Others fear that the authentication tools will simply allow big content companies such as movie studios or record labels far more control over how computer owners use their content. DRM tools are technological locks or identification measures that...
[April 25, 2003, 7:33]
Iron Man™
Downloads In the vertically scrolling shoot-em'-up Iron Mantm mobile game, players take control of the invincible Iron Man while fighting through four levels of non-stop action based on blockbuster movie starring Robert Downey Jr.and Gwyneth Paltrow...
[April 30, 2008, 8:00]
Microsoft files lawsuit over source code theft
News That has long been part of the technology's draw for record labels and movie studios, which are fearful that content-protection flaws will lead to films and music being swapped freely online. One service provider, the British network BSkyB, even...
[September 27, 2006, 8:40]
Matsushita to test pirate-proof DVDs
News Japan-based electronics maker Matsushita Electric Industrial is to test a movie rental system that combines DVD discs with file downloads. As part of the trial, InterPia will give out free teaser DVDs containing movie clips and other kinds of...
[June 9, 2003, 8:25]
Norton AV flaw may put PCs at risk of virus attack
News To further demonstrate the flaw, Milisic created a small 'movie' of his script in action. In the movie, which has been seen by ZDNet Australia , Milisic demonstrates how running his scripts can infect an apparently protected computer with a virus.
[November 9, 2004, 9:28]
IBM technology to star in Internet movie venture
News Entertainment site MovieLink on Monday announced that IBM will provide the technology behind its coming on-demand movie service. Under its three-year deal with IBM, MovieLink will store its collection of films, trailers and movie clips at the...
[September 9, 2002, 8:23]
Apple left out of the spotlight
News The immediate lack of support for the Mac in the movie industry's first Internet video-on-demand service cuts against the widely held view within Apple that Hollywood is an "Apple town. But the affair doesn't always extend onto the Internet, where...
[November 18, 2002, 11:41]
Presidential parody draws millions of viewers
News The political movie did manage to attract the attention of music publisher Ludlow Music, however, which owns the rights to Guthrie's original song. The animated Flash video drove an additional 8 million hits to the AtomFilms site, which also hosted...
[August 17, 2004, 9:55]
THE MOVIE COLLECTION (ARM)
Downloads THE MOVIE COLLECTIONis a program which allows you to look over a handy database of the movies and includes basic details, like director's name, actresses, actors, screen aspects and sounds effects.
[October 8, 2009, 23:17]
THE MOVIE COLLECTION (SH3)
Downloads THE MOVIE COLLECTIONis a program which allows you to look over a handy database of the movies and includes basic details, like director's name, actresses, actors, screen aspects and sounds effects.
[September 15, 2001, 8:00]
Treaty casts shadow on public domain
News Say there's a film that's out of copyright and in the public domain, but it's in the vault of some movie studio," Love said. In other words, anyone viewing a Webcast of material that falls outside of copyright -- such as a government-created...
[November 7, 2003, 14:50]
Malaysian minister warns that high CD prices fuel piracy
News Music and movie companies were forcing consumers to opt for pirated versions, he said. The minister pointed out that some genuine movie video CDs (VCD) -- a popular format in Asia -- cost as little as $2.60, indicating that some profit is possible...
[June 3, 2003, 9:23]
Copyright truce excludes key voices
News And the music industry was hardly as enthusiastic about Hollings' Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act as the movie studios were. The movie industry, CEA and consumer groups, on the other hand, are willing to risk that...
[January 15, 2003, 15:45]
