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Sony Pictures CTO: Interoperability for Downloaded Media is Essential for the Entertainment Industry

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Mitch describes one of the core issues holding back rapid growth of the digital media market.


Irregular Circles Illusion

Irene Román found this illusion, while looking for some in Google. She asked us if these two concentric circles below look irregular? “They obviously are”, some of you may say. I did as well! Well, since this is optical illusions website – they’re n…


Anonymous

“Efficiency is intelligent laziness.”


Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”


Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law

James Grimmelmann has an interesting new essay, “Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law,” on the challenges of ensuring that the public has effective knowledge of the laws. This might sound like an easy problem, but Grimmelmann combines his…


Leaked TV Episodes Popular on BitTorrent

This week, seven shows leaked on BitTorrent, before they actually aired on TV. Four of those made it into the top 10 of most downloaded TV-shows. Preair leaks are not uncommon, in fact, it is suggested that some shows are leaked on purpose.
The data of…


We need to embrace peer-to-peer, says VeriSign

Having once been brought to its knees by Napster, the entertainment industry
may have to look to the site for its future.


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