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iMovieFest.com, an "exclusive film community for Mac filmmakers," has just gone live. You'll find a number of tips from my book there (added on a regular basis), along with advice, movies, and community discussions of iMovie and related topics.... [iMovie Visual QuickStart Guide] .< 12:51:24 AM  >The New York Times > Opinion > The Senate Report In a season when candor and leadership are in short supply, the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the prewar assessment of Iraqi weapons is a welcome demonstration of both. It is also disturbing, and not just because of what it says about the atrocious state of American intelligence. The report is a condemnation of how this administration has squandered the public trust it may sorely need for a real threat to national security. .< 12:42:11 AM >Rampant Piracy Threatens to Silence Latin Music Industry Piracy is so rife in Mexico that the vast majority of the band's album sales are illegal CDs peddled on the street. So although most anyone over the age of 13 knows the words to "Que Viva El Rock and Roll," El Tri and its label, a division of Warner Music Group, rarely see a peso from those recordings.
"If we play somewhere on a Friday night [sigma] by Monday it will be [for sale] in the subway," said Alex Lora, the gravel-voiced front man for El Tri. "It is becoming a way of life."
El Tri may be among the first big Mexican acts to lose a contract to piracy, but it may not be the last. |
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