To prevent piracy, a content scrambling system, to keep consumers from copying DVD's and sending files around the Internet, is built into every DVD player.Tiller, who risk their lives every day in the name of their unwavering commitment toward their patients. "The rest of Hollywood stands back and lets the pornography industry work out all the bugs." Because Hollywood makes more money from films on DVD's than in theaters, it is hesitant to anger large retailers by selling DVD-ready downloads directly to consumers.
"Leave it to the porn industry once again to take the lead on this stuff," said Michael Greeson of the Diffusion Group, a consumer electronics think tank. Vivid Entertainment announced that beginning yesterday it would sell its films through the online movie service CinemaNow, owned in part by the film studio Lions Gate Entertainment, Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Blockbuster, The Associated Press reported. One little catch: the movie will be what some people call adult entertainment, others pornography. The day has arrived when couch potatoes can buy a movie online, burn it onto a DVD and watch it on the living room television screen instead of a computer. It added that an official said chances of distribution were "high," although some editing would be needed. The Beijing News said that the film, which opened in the United States on May 5, had yet to be approved by China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. "In the Shanghai scenes, all the roofs ands alleys have raggedy clothes hanging from bamboo sticks everywhere," noted The Beijing Times.
Will "Mission: Impossible III" find China impenetrable? Chinese news media are speculating that a release there of the latest in the series of adventures, starring Tom Cruise, might be jeopardized by images of underwear hanging out to dry and other sights deemed "inappropriate" and "harmful to China," in the words of Beijing newspapers, Reuters reported. 'Mission: Impossible III' Awaits China's O.K. Barrett from further action without the court's consent, said, "At this remove in time, his recollection of events was hazy and I also consider that, as often happens, he has reconstructed events in his mind according to how he would like them to have been." The Barretts and Marley recorded from 1969 until Marley's death in 1981. Barrett, 59, who sued on behalf of himself and his brother, Carlton, the band's drummer, who died in 1987, faces a legal bill estimated at nearly $3.8 million. Barrett had surrendered rights to royalties from recordings in a 1994 settlement in exchange for $500,000. In High Court in London, Justice Kim Lewison agreed with the Island-Universal label and the Marley family that Mr. He settled by accepting responsibility for using "threatening words or behavior." DMX served a 70-day sentence last year at Rikers Island after pleading guilty to a parole violation from a 2004 incident, when he crashed a vehicle through an airport security gate.Īston Barrett, the "Family Man" who played bass for Bob Marley & the Wailers, yesterday lost his bid for $115 million in royalties from Marley's estate, The Associated Press reported. In April Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, was jailed after a brawl at a British Airways lounge. He was given a caution, meaning that he accepted responsibility for the offense, which will be recorded.
DMX, left, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was arrested after refusing to fasten his seat belt and becoming abusive on an American Airlines flight from New York, The Associated Press reported. Another rapper has landed in hot water at Heathrow Airport outside London.