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Movie Studios Unveil New Anti-Piracy Lab
PaulusMagnus writes "According to the BBC Walt Disney, Sony, Paramount, Warner Bros, Universal and 20th Century Fox have formed a new organisation called the Motion Picture Laboratories. They've also given them a nice tidy sum of US$30m to play with to develop new technologies to combat piracy." From the article: "There are thousands of new concepts floating around the hi-tech community about how to develop tools to fight piracy ... Researching and developing these technologies now will help save the major studios and other motion picture producers and distributors money in the future."
Die MPAA!
here in Nyc it's 9.50-11.00 usually based on where you are in the city. If you are lucky, some theatres have discount days where if you go at an unpopular time (like late sunday night or during the workday) it'll be like 6-7 bucks
------- Oh damn.... the Sigfile escaped... -Great OM
two words: RCA out. Fancy encryption can always be trumped by an a/v signal out into a recording device. It's not the fastest, but it works everytime.
Chill, man, your ideology is showing.
.NET and Java Enterprise, and the worst decision I had to make was whether to cook at home or go to a restaurant. I also had a savings account. Then 26 months of unemployment followed by a 75% reduction in pay changed all that- and yes, I most certainly do blame the idiots-in-power.
I can't help the fact that before October 2001, I had made all the right choices: I was slowly getting raises, I had my degree in software engineering, I was studying
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
It's because you don't own the product. You are merely paying for the license and the priviledge of watching it. And that license is under their terms only. Well, that's what the **AA will tell you anyways.
MOD DOWN
This is entirely incorrect. The taxes in dividends were reduced, but that did not have the effect described above.
Previously, the tax on long term capital gains was less. This means, instead of dividends, companies paid out profits to share holders by either buying back stock, or holding onto the cash (thereby increasing stock value). The problem with this, is that it placed pressure on companies to increase stock price, instead of simply paying higher dividends. The problem is that a higher stock price can be created through manipulation, whereas higher dividends can not be faked. This led to Enron and others, which is why the law needed to be changed.
The point of the story is that before, a hypothetical company would go from $100 to $125 whereas no it is more likely to go from $100 to $100 with a $25 dividend payout. The main point is that all the tax break did was change the channel through which the same money traveled. It did not have the effect described in the parent post.
I am dead center middle class total family size of 5, and I got what would end up being a HUGE tax cut, relative to income. You keep forgetting that people who make more money will receive a higher cut because they PAID more taxes. We already disproportionally tax the rich with the graduated income tax. You forget that the rich people you seem to loathe are the ones creating the jobs, and thus creating wealth. I have never seen a pverty stricken person employ anyone.
I swear, everyone in Slashdot anymore is just out to Bush bash, no matter what the cause, no matter what the issue. I personally will thank him for a nice extra chunk of change in my wallet.
It does not matter what you do, it's wrong.
i saw LotR:Return of the King in the Philippines and saw exactly what you just described: a serial number in the upper right hand corner throughout the entire movie
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it