MOVIE PIRATE SENTENCED TO PRISON "A Maryland man was sentenced Tuesday to 21 months behind bars for using a camcorder to pirate movies at a theater. Michael Dwayne Logan pleaded guilty in July to two felony counts of filming 28 Weeks Later and Enchanted in a District of Columbia theater last year. Logan was sentenced … under the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, Title 18, United States Code, Section 2319B. The 2005 law makes it a federal felony to record movies at the theater without the copyright owners' consent. Scofflaws face a maximum three-year prison term and $250,000 fine."
RISE OF THE MACHINES TO KILL H'WOOD FOR GOOD? "'While Hollywood films have traditionally fared well during economic downturns, this time around may be quite different,' said Bobby Tulsiani, an analyst at Forrester Research, which recently examined consumer spending on media. Blame the Internet. With faster processors, improved technology to compress video and more than 60 million homes in the U.S. with high-speed connections, the computer seamlessly delivers full-length episodes of television shows and movies. As a result, the computer now vies with the TV and cinema as the go-to screen for entertainment."
Ashley Todd and her woeful tale of an attack at the hands of a violent black mutilator are famous! Unfortunately, it seems as if most of Todd's new fans, like the police, are having a hard time believing the young lady. Here's a screen cap from her YouTube channel page.
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Um, we think Barack Obama's black, Muslin, terrorist friends are ruining this site with Internet ACORN bombs sent from their Arab Gmail accounts. While we attempt to fix this UTTER CHAOS by typing "WTF?" back and forth to one another, accept our apologies for things being so screwy.
This is what happens when black generals embolden the whole black race and they take over the Internet!!!!!
YOUTUBE'S PRODUCTION DESTROYS H'WOOD'S "Each day, there are 13 hours of content uploaded to YouTube per minute. That … is the equivalent of Hollywood releasing 57,000 movies per week."
One year after distributing its latest album, In Rainbows, via a pay-what-you-want system on the Internet, Radiohead has released information about how well its revolutionary sales method was received.
If you'll remember, whether a person should pay for the album was once a point of contention for myself and a former Jossip editor—I said one should, she said one shouldn't necessarily. Turns out that the millions who downloaded the album were similarly divided.
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WEB GOSSIP LINKED TO CELEB SUICIDES IN S KOREA "Choi Jin Sil, a movie star … was the closest thing South Korea had to a national sweetheart. So when the actress was found dead in her apartment on Oct. 2 in what the police later concluded was a suicide, her grief-stricken homeland sought an answer to what drove its 'national actress' to suicide. The police, the media and Parliament immediately pointed fingers at the Internet … Choi, 39, apparently succumbed to a suicidal impulse provoked by malicious online rumors, the police said after studying memos found at her home and interviewing friends and relatives. … Choi's death followed a string of high-profile suicides attributed to cyberspace harassment. Two young female celebrities, one a singer and the other an actress, killed themselves last year after insulting comments about their alleged plastic surgery flooded the Web."
YEP, TV'S STILL DYING "More than half of the viewers for 'Saturday Night Live's' recent skits featuring Tina Fey as Sarah Palin watched the sketches on the web as of Sept. 29, according to a survey conducted by Solutions Research Group. About 51% of viewers who have seen at least one of the skits are watching on the internet, indicating that viewing preferences for this type of content are shifting toward the computer. About 23% of all views came from YouTube, including video of other talk shows that showed clips of the skit, with 17% of views attributed to NBC.com and 4% to Hulu.com."
YOUTUBE CONTINUES DESTROYING TELEVISION "John McCain's snub of David Letterman last week may have deprived the 'Late Show' host of some needed star power last week, but it's given him a hit on the web. So far, video of Mr. Letterman's tirade against Mr. McCain, who bowed out the day of the telecast, has generated more than 3.5 million views on YouTube. One problem: CBS is barely making a dime from the clip. That's because the vast majority of the views — 3.2 million — are attributed to pirated versions of the 'Late Show,' according to tracking firm TubeMogul."
Hoverboards, colonization on Mars, cars that run on love — out of all the promises late 80s/early 90s films made to its children, how come the only thing technology reaped is better CGI to portray things that we still don't have?
Well, wonder no more, as the future is officially here, albeit in a crappy, analog form. Esquire's digital cover, y'all:
NOT AGAIN! "The Apple invitation is being analyzed and deciphered — a fuchsia-colored man jumping with white iPod headphones. One point to anyone who guessed it would be music-related. Most likely, the Cupertino, Calif., company will unveil a refreshed line of iPods at the Sept. 9 gathering. Maybe a few bands or musicians will perform, since the event will be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts theater in San Francisco. Some speculate Apple could announce that the Beatles catalog will join iTunes."
THE BATTLE FOR IDIOT BOX SUPREMACY "Fewer Americans are reading newspapers and are instead getting their news online, but television remains the leading source of news in the country, according to a survey released Sunday. Not surprisingly, younger people tend to get more of their news on the Internet, while older folks use traditional media such as television and newspapers, the Pew Research Center's biannual survey on news consumption habits said. … Pew found that the largest group of news consumers — 46 percent of those polled — have a 'heavy reliance' on television for their news at all times of the day. This group is the oldest, with a median age of 52, and least affluent, with 43 percent unemployed. They are unlikely to own a computer or go online for news."
How long until "Barack" and "Obama" are no longer flagged by spell-check? Will the Democratic nominee have to win for that to happen?
WANNA BE UNGOOGLEABLE? "'UnGoogleable? I don’t think it’s possible,' Nilhan Jayasinghe, the head of natural search for iCrossing, an online marketing firm … 'The problem is you simply have no control over all the outlets that publish something about you.' … There’s virtually no way to get all the references taken down unless you track down each person responsible for publishing the details and plead your case to them. … You may succeed in getting your university friends to pull those late-night, drink-filled photo shoots before a prospective employer sees them, but otherwise, your reputation is in the hands of many. You have less control than you think. Sounding a bit like an overprotective parent, Mr Jayasinghe’s best advice is to avoid doing anything stupid in the first place. As for being unGoogleable, forget about it. The majority of us all will show up on Google (or worse, a wanton namesake will) at some point in our lives. If you don’t like the look of it, then fill your life with good online deeds and hope they float to the top of the rankings."
Finally, a newer new cell phone!
Owners of the new Google-powered mobile phone will be able to unlock the handset by drawing a secret shape on the screen.
The new 'signature unlocking' tool was among the features revealed during a sneak preview in California yesterday.
Other highlights include a built-in compass that will allow people to orientate maps as they use their phone to scout out a restaurant or venue, and a customisable homepage that lets people bookmark their favourite web pages.
The device - which is unlocked by drawing a shape only the owner knows on a nine-square grid - will also include a magnifying tool, to make zooming in on web content easier on a small screen, and a mobile version of the game Pac Man.
A magnifying tool? Pac Man!? What am I doing dicking around with BrickBreaker? And how long must I continue to wait for a cell phone that will pay my bills and have sex with me?
Sunday's 60 Minutes profile of FaceSpace wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg drew a season-low number of viewers, about five million less than average. Jossip's take on the downturn: "Young people don’t watch old people TV."
And that may be, but don't the numbers also indicate that old people don't like to watch young people on TV? Regardless of whether or not said young people are partially responsible for the phenomenon of cutely-named, oddly-hyped social-networking sites? And doesn't this in some way augur an eventual inverse relationship between the year and the membership of current social-networking sites; with aging twentysomethings finding them too juvenile and the young and technologically savvy finding them too passé?
Perhaps the billionaire investors staking claims on these sites should take their noses out of the Journal and spend some time with the idiot box.
Why do people like Lauren Conrad who don't really do shit have BlackBerrys? Does she "hafta" get to that one e-mail about the shoe sale? I bet this girl sends out so many ultra-positive forwards it's worse than when your grandma learned how to work her Gmail.
Radar has the scoop:
The consensus seems to be that the device failed. TMZ asks "Is the SCRAM a Sham?" and the LAT sarcastically declares "Yeah hey, that SCRAM bracelet worked really well, didn't it."
But Radar has learned that the device registered Lindsay's drinking exactly as it was supposed to. "We're very confident that it was working properly," says SCRAM spokesperson Kathleen Brown. "In fact there are a number of diagnostics that ensure it." But even though the bracelet registered the actress's drinking, it isn't designed to transmit that information on the spot. Instead it works in tandem with a modem, which is placed in Lohan's home. Meaning Linds could have attend the binge drinking party of the century, but as long as she stayed far enough away from the modem, the proper authorities would be none the wiser until (and if) she stumbled home.
Who are these proper authorities? They're whoever Lindsay and her representatives wanted them to be
Ahhhh, technology: So amazingly intricate on the inside and yet so vulnerable to simple human fraud on the outside.
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