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DVDs Now Come With Computer Video Files for PC's and Video Players

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Oct 17th 2007 at 1:54PM

DVD's Start Shipping with Video Files for PC's and PMP's
Looks like the movie studios are finally joining the 21st century while looking to preempt illegal ripping and sharing of movies via peer to peer networks. The proliferation of video-capable personal media players has made carrying your movie collection with you not only reasonable but popular.

Until now the only way to bring your movies with you legally was to rip your movies yourself, which can be a difficult and convoluted process. Or, as many have chosen, you could let someone else do the work and download movies via BitTorrent or some other file-sharing network.

With the release 'Live Free or Die Hard,' studios have begun including Windows media-encoded versions of movies that can be copied from the DVD to your computer or media player. Reportedly, the files have no DRM copy protection. However, a 16-digit code will be needed to download and unlock the file.

This feature doesn't end with 'Die Hard' thankfully. The 'Digital Copy' will be extended to future Fox releases, and Warner Home Video plans to introduce a similar program beginning with 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' in December.

From BetaNews

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How To Embed Book Snippets in Your Site

by Tim Stevens, posted Sep 7th 2007 at 2:15PM

Google Lets Scholarly Bloggers Embed Book SnippetsSure, you can embed YouTube Videos in your Web site or blog, but now you'll be able to embed images of scanned books, thanks to Google.

Since 2004, Google Book Search has allowed users to search through thousands of books, many of which can be downloaded in the commonly-used PDF format. Now you can draw a box around a region of text and stick it right into a blog post or Web site, just like we did here with a bit from Hugo's classic 'Toilers of the Sea' (which was down-sized to fit, but you can click here to see the full thing).

Unfortunately, you can only do this with those books that are fully in the public domain, which tend to be those old classics. If you want to spoil the ending of 'Harry Potter' for your readers, you're going to have to wait a few years.

From TechCrunch

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Harry Potter Levitates Amazon Revenue

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Jul 25th 2007 at 12:03PM

Harry Potter Boosts Amazon RevenueWho knew Harry Potter could exert control over the stock market? Amazon posted an increase in revenue of 35 percent this quarter, based heavily on traffic driven to the site by the impending release of 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.' Visitors who pre-ordered the book also purchased other products, helping to increase the online retailer's net income.

What's more, the 2.2 million copies of the new Potter book that Amazon sold will not be counted in the company's revenue until next quarter, which raises the possibility of even higher profits next quarter. Amazon's stock price hit $84.09 in after-hours trading, a level not seen since the days of the dot-com boom back in February 2000.

From The New York Times

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Celebrity Nerd or Not?

by Evan Shamoon, posted May 25th 2007 at 1:02PM




There's really nothing worse than celebrities pretending to be nerds. They already have their "real lives" in the "real world" full of "pretty people" and "gift bags" and "flying quotations" -- but do they still need a slice of nerd-cool to extend their appeal to those of us with Mario tattoos and Domino's on speed dial?

Anyway, if you're really bored or interested in feeling bad about yourself, GameDaily has put together a "Nerd or Not?" compilation of this summer's biggest stars, ranging from Pirates of the Carribean 3's Orlando Bloom to Transformers' Shia LeBeouf. Did you know that Kirsten Dunst was the only Spider-Man 3 star who skipped out on doing voiceover for the Spidey videogame, or that the aforementioned LeBeouf started his own hip-hop record label?

Well now you do, and we're still nerds, and they're still not.

From GameDaily


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