Tag: WARNERBROS

Share Warner Bros. is notorious for its attempts to squash piracy, which have included suing popular music search sites and hiring interns whose sole purpose is to find pirated content and issue takedown notices. The company also began embedding each film distributed to theaters and critics with a unique identifier, so that Warner could trace leaked and pirated movies back to their source. But, ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... CERN will be forced to shut down the Large Hadron Collider at some point in 2011 for maintenance reasons, but the issues aren't currently stopping scientists from conducting innovative collision studies. The CERN researchers have successfully performed 7-trillion electron volt (TeV) proton collisions, which they hope will lead to the ...

Want to be hated by every kid in your dorm, forever and ever? Well, Warner Bros. is offering the internship of your dreams. For the not-unreasonable-for-an-undergrad sum of $26,000 per annum, the Bros. want "IT literate" interns to double-cross their crimethinking media pirate roomies by issuing takedown requests for WB and NBC/Universal properties. You're sure to be the apple of Big Brother's ...

Do you know that guy who loves to quote, over and over again, his favorite line from his favorite movie? Of course you do, most of us roomed with him freshman year in college. Here's a suggestion: direct this poor guy to Movieclips.com -- a new, online video service that launched in beta Wednesday. Better he add a few more lines to his arsenal, rather relentlessly quoting Will Ferrell in 'Old ...

If you ended up on the losing side of the great HD media wars, then you may have a few obsolete HD-DVD titles sitting on your shelf as a depressing reminder of the perils of being an early adopter. If some of those happen to be Warner Bros. titles, though, you are in luck. For $4.95 per title (up to 25 for a $6.95 shipping fee), you can rip out the cover art of your HD-DVD and turn it in for a ...

Grown men love their toys. One man might have taken that love to new heights, though. Not only does he own a smaller version of a Tumbler, the armored vehicle that Batman drives in 'The Dark Knight,' but he built it himself, too. Now, he's put the plans up for auction on eBay so that all you amateur engineers and professional nerds can have your own Tumbler. According to OhGizmo, the winning ...

Being the digital aficionados that we are, we still prefer Criterion's Online Cinematheque over this approach, but those not quite ready to give up physical media will absolutely (and understandably) disagree. At any rate, the studio has just fired up its Warner Archive, a nice little web portal where film fanatics can surf over and locate niche titles to be placed on a DVD and shipped out. Most ...

So, you and hundreds of thousands of others picked up your Blu-ray copy of 'The Dark Knight' today, huh? We know you haven't had time to fiddle with the BD-Live extras just yet, but one Joe Lynch from G4 TV has. One of the most intriguing aspects of the flick's interactive feature set is the fan commentary; put simply, users hook up a USB Web cam to their player (PS3 included) and then ...

Normally we here at Switched like to interview celebs that, you know, exist. In this case, however, we thought it might be fun to interview Daffy Duck, as he is a major purveyor of all things Acme. If you remember, Acme is the (fictional) company that makes all the cool gadgets from our favorite cartoons. And, yes, this was our idea, not theirs. We sat down with Daffy in the wake of the release of ...