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Star Wars Lawyers Get Tough - Part II
News At a conference on the convergence of the entertainment and technology industries, held in California last month, Hollywood executives fretted over how to maintain control over their works in the digital age.
[May 5, 1999, 11:16]
A Year Ago: Star Wars Fans Online In Line
News The ADSL line being used by Countingdown.com is supplied by sponsor Hollywood Souvenirs, located near the Chinese Theatre, which is also giving electrical power to the tents of the Star Wars encampment.
[April 12, 2000, 7:00]
Star Wars Fans Online In Line...
News The ADSL line being used by Countingdown.com is supplied by sponsor Hollywood Souvenirs, located near the Chinese Theatre, which is also giving electrical power to the tents of the Star Wars encampment.
[April 12, 1999, 14:34]
'Star Wars' Effects Studio Shifts To Intel
News RISC-Unix machines from companies such as SGI dominated Hollywood for years because they offered far superior computing power. ILM created the special effects in the "Star Wars" series of movies, among other blockbuster films.
[July 22, 2002, 8:02]
Menace Is No Star Wars
News As action adventure movies go, The Phantom Menace holds its own among your basic Hollywood blockbusters. That said, The Phantom Menace is no Star Wars. I will never in my life have another movie experience like the days and moments leading up to...
[May 21, 1999, 7:45]
Natalie Portman Sex-E Screensaver
Downloads This striking young actress, made famous by her role as Queen Amidala from the Star Wars prequels, is set to be the new Hollywood sex symbol. Natalie Portman so talented, yet sexy and beautiful to match.
[January 10, 2006, 17:46]
Another BitTorrent Hub Bites The Dust
News Federal investigators have been increasingly active during recent months in targeting organised groups of copyright infringers online, a process that has dovetailed with civil litigation launched by Hollywood studios and record labels.
[May 26, 2005, 16:40]
High-tech Morphing Indie Films
News A few years back, Miller might have been able to realise his vision only by working through the Hollywood studio system. Of course, as in Hollywood, cool computer effects don't necessarily make for a good film.
[May 20, 1999, 9:54]
Net Piracy Presents Paradox To Entertainers
News As the annual Herring on Hollywood conference kicks off today, the question of who has control over content is taking centre stage. Pointing to the Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace example, Sinnreich maintained that although its producer...
[August 2, 1999, 11:42]
James Bond Captured By Pirates
News It is the second time Hollywood has fallen foul of the Internet. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace was widely available on the Net during the summer. There is technology being developed to lock a digital copy of a film to a particular PC but with Star...
[November 8, 1999, 15:37]
Is Apple About To Take On The Video Market?
News Some Hollywood filmmakers agreed that, with help from Jobs, legal Internet sales of their movies could transform their business. Apple must strike a deal with Hollywood executives, who worry about copyright protection on the Internet and don't want...
[July 21, 2005, 17:35]
Movies Hit The Very Small Screen
News The company already supplies shorts to airlines, portal site GO Network and cable companies such as HBO, and plans to sell videotape and DVD compilations through a partnership with Hollywood Video's Reel.com.
[March 5, 1999, 9:46]
Hollywood Shuts Down Video-on-demand Site
News Tehran-based Film88.com registered its Web site in April, and the company had briefly operated a video-on-demand site renting a long list of Hollywood hits such as "Star Wars" for viewing on PCs. Hollywood dodged a second bullet in a burgeoning...
[June 7, 2002, 8:44]
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]
Google Readying Web-only Video Search
News Google is talking to several top-tier content providers, including Hollywood movie studios, to gain agreements for aggregating their video and selling premium or pay-per-view access. In a sign of Google's courtship of Hollywood, the company...
[June 14, 2005, 12:50]
Buyers Line Up For Dreamcast
News More than 400 stores stayed open nationwide to sell Dreamcast systems early Thursday morning, but Kuwitzky's store was one of four that had Sega representatives and Hollywood stars there to celebrate.
[September 10, 1999, 9:02]
New Technology To Block Camcorder Pirates
News Still, some three years after Circuit City pulled financial support for the limited-use DVD technology he helped build, Schumann and a group of former Divx engineers are hoping for a second act in Hollywood with the advent of digital cinema.
[October 10, 2002, 16:41]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Given Hollywood's habit of bunging the best bits in the trailer anyway, it's not that big a step -- and the quality of the effects on the computer screen just scream out to be seen on the big screen. It's a good thing I'm a law-abiding citizen and...
[June 11, 1999, 19:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Given Hollywood's habit of bunging the best bits in the trailer anyway, it's not that big a step -- and the quality of the effects on the computer screen just scream out to be seen on the big screen. It's a good thing I'm a law-abiding citizen and...
[June 11, 1999, 18:39]
Illegal 'Matrix' Sequel Available On P2P
News The prerelease online of big-budget movies has become a growing concern for Hollywood studios, even if to date the trend has shown little indication that it's undermining box office revenue. The last "Star Wars" movie trickled into file-swapping...
[May 15, 2003, 10:22]
