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Anti-piracy laws and the dying DVD industry

Friday, May 15th, 2009

With its previous sue-the-thirteen-year-old era coming to the end, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) have become even more pathetically desperate.
The RIAA recently shifted from its failed lawsuit model, which was supposed to have “made examples out of people,” to an approach that works directly with internet [...]

New Tech Can Shrink Your DVD Collection

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

If G.E. is successful, get ready to have your media collection take up less physical space than your actual media players.
According to this article in the New York Times, Shinehart-General Electric has been successful in creating a disc that has the capacity of 100 DVDs.  Using holographic technology, scientists have been able to store images [...]