Be the first on your block to drive a Star Wars Land Speeder. This used to be a 1988 Ford Escort and only has 880 miles since built
A charred guitar, once owned by Jimi Hendrix and now owned by Dweezil Zappa could become the most expensive guitar ever sold when it goes under the hammer in London next month
MGM has begun shutting down James Bond fan sites after a fan got a hold of the script for the forthcoming ‘Die Another Day’ and posted parts of it in the users’ forum
US lawmakers have asked Attorney General John Ashcroft to go after Internet users who download unauthorised songs and other copyrighted material, raising the possibility of jail time for digital-music fans
American movie, recording and software executives could be arrested if they travel to Australia, could be prohibited from entering Australia, or could be extradited to face criminal charges if Californian Democrat congressman Howard Berman’s copyright protection bill, which allows cracking of computers, passes into law
In a scene somewhat reminiscent of the DVD format’s tumultuous adoption by content providers in the mid-90s, top executives at the major studios met quietly last week in Los Angeles to discuss the opportunities and challenges for a high-definition version of DVD
The Recording Industry Association of America’s web site was unreachable over the weekend due to a denial-of-service attack. The apparently deliberate overload rendered the RIAA.org site unavailable for portions of four days and came after the group endorsed legislation to allow copyright holders to disrupt peer-to-peer networks
Rephah Berg, a California woman who spends her spare time crafting slogans for lapel buttons has won the 2002 Bulwer-Lytton bad writing award for a piece which compared a faltering relationship to a balky roll of toilet paper
With last week’s resignation of Chief Operating Officer Robert Pittman, the installation of new top-tier management with deep Time Warner ties, and a restructured corporate hierarchy that reduces a humbled AOL to a unit within a division, AOL Time Warner Inc is being genetically reverse-engineered to bear Time Warner markers
Steven Spielberg has disclosed that Star Wars helmsman George Lucas will not allow him make one of his hit sci-fi series
Chinese Harry Potter fans have been blessed with the fifth book early — only it’s not the real one. The title translates to Harry Potter And Leopard Walk Up To Dragon
. The story has Harry getting turned into a fat hairy dwarf and being void of his powers
Record labels hell-bent on strangling unauthorised music copying on the Internet are considering widening their legal efforts to include lawsuits against individuals. Perhaps they should consider a revolutionary new recording format in a bid to help win the war on illegal file sharing
People across the Bay Area are committing random acts of literary kindness, leaving books in public places for strangers to find and then tracking the book’s fate online at BookCrossing
Providing more proof that the record industry is indeed a oligopoly, two major record companies, Vivendi Universal and Warner Communications, have been convicted of price fixing by the FTC over a recording from 1998 of the Three Tenors
The Who bassist John Entwistle, whose impassive onstage demeanour stood in counterpoint to the manic antics of fellow band members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, died Wednesday night in Las Vegas
Being a Star Wars fan has made Jeff Parks a millionaire, he makes customised light sabres — via Slashdot
Technonerds go to movies strictly for entertainment, and of course, the most entertaining part comes after the movie when they can dissect, criticise, and argue the merits of every detail
Warner Home Video has chosen not to copy-protect the home versions of its blockbuster movie Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in major markets, including the US and UK. This means people can go out and buy a DVD or VHS, connect the analogue output of their player to a recorder — either analogue or digital — and make free copies for friends
In just a few years, the Internet has transformed the world into a huge marketplace for used books, utterly transforming a business that had gone pretty much unobserved for centuries
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