cinema minima: LIGHT and POWER

Commerce Dept. to EFF: Get Out!

Interested in Digital Rights Management (DRM)? BigCos, take one step forward. EFF, not you! Excellent coverage in The Register of the debacle at the Commerce Department's Digital Rights Management workshop. Robin Gross, intellectual property lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF, said her organization was told by the Commerce Department not to show up to the Digital Rights Management Workshop.

The Commerce department stacked the panel with corporations and got a bloody nose as a result. [Ernie the Attorney]

| | Nº559 Posted: Friday, July 19, 2002 7:32:09 PM. Words: 98.

New York Video Festival

New Videos Resonate Darkly. The centerpiece of this year's New York Video Festival is not a collage of digital imagery or information-age self-reflection, but a silent, black-and-white adaptation of Dracula. By A. O. Scott. [New York Times: Arts]

| | Nº553 Posted: Friday, July 19, 2002 7:01:25 PM. Words: 53.

Time Warner to offer digital recording option

Time Warner Cable will start letting some of its customers pause live television and digitally record programs through a new set-top box that is similar to those sold by TiVo and ReplayTV. They're bowing to satellite operators with this move. [Chris Van Buskirk's ITV Weblog]

Slashdot commentary on Time Warner's Personal Video Recorder (PVR)

| | Nº552 Posted: Friday, July 19, 2002 6:47:13 PM. Words: 74.

Movie star detained in New York as suspected terrorist

Actress's Detainment Upsets Indians in U.S. and Abroad. For Jose Panachi, the editor of the popular daily newspaper Malayala Manorama in southern India, there was no question about the appropriate size for the headline on an article about one of the region's biggest movie stars being detained in New York as a suspected terrorist. By Lydia Polgreen. [New York Times: International]

| | Nº551 Posted: Friday, July 19, 2002 6:39:42 PM. Words: 80.