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Digital Music and the Free Market

Max Keiser | Posted April 24, 2008 | Business

Read More: Adam Smith, Amiestreet.Com, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, Bernanke, Cartel, Copyright, Digital Music, Eliot Spitzer, George Soros, Marketing, Mpaa, Record Companies, Riaa, Swedish PIrate Party

One of the most fascinating New Economy consequences to emerge from the Eliot Spitzer sex sting is the apparent multi-hundred thousand dollar score bagged by Emperor's Club VIP escort and budding recording artist Ashley Alexandra Dupre. She had a couple of tracks listed on Dragon Slayer upstart and...

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Movie Spies Are Fun; Movies' Spying On The Internet Is Not

Art Brodsky | Posted March 16, 2008 | Media

Read More: Internet, Mpaa, Net Neutrality

Hollywood for years has had a fascination with spies. Some are action spies, like the various incarnations of Bond, James Bond, or cerebral spies like Alec Guinness' masterfully subtle George Smiley. All sorts of people have played TV spies, from Robert Culp and Bill Cosby to Patrick McGoohan, Robert Goulet...

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Net Neutrality Naughty?

Jonathan Handel | Posted March 13, 2008 | Media

Read More: Breaking Entertainment News, Breaking Media News, Dan Glickman, Hollywood, Mpaa, Net Neutrality, Piracy, Showest

Hollywood studios are taking a position on net neutrality -- the principle that ISPs should not discriminate against small users when providing network bandwidth -- and they're against it. In reported remarks at the annual movie exhibitors conference ShoWest, MPAA chief Dan Glickman claimed that net neutrality would...

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Movie Ticket Sales Hit Record

Los Angeles Times | Josh Friedman | March 6, 2008 08:40 AM

Read More: Box-Office Revenue, Dan Glickman, Motion Picture Association Of America, Movie Budgets, Movie Ticket Sales, Movie Tickets, Mpaa

In Hollywood, the math is never simple. Worldwide box-office revenue rose to record levels last year, the studios' main trade group said Wednesday -- but a closer look at the numbers suggests a murkier picture of movie industry strength. Movie...

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Funny Numbers in Hollywood? We Are Shocked! Shocked!

Art Brodsky | Posted January 24, 2008 | Media

Read More: Congress, Copyright, LEK Study, Movie Piracy, Mpaa, Piracy, Pro-IP Act

For years, the concept of "Hollywood accounting" had the same level respect as that old oxymoron "military intelligence." It didn't take an Art Buchwald or James Garner years ago, or even the writer's strike now, to show that playing with numbers in Hollywood is less a science than an exercise...

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Ang Lee Defends Every Frame Of NC-17 Film

New York Magazine | Logan Hill | September 17, 2007 11:37 AM

Read More: Ang Lee, Caution, Lust, MPAA, NC-17 Movies, Tang Wei, Tony Leung

When the MPAA slapped Ang Lee's Lust, Caution (which opens next week) with an NC-17 rating for "explicit sexuality," the director and his writer-producer James Schamus said they wouldn't "change a single frame." We asked Lee to explain himself: Why...