16-Year-Old Pirate Site Prosecution Resurrected Despite Four Acquittals
In 2007, Netflix shifted from distributing optical media via the mail to streaming content online. Apple released the first iPhone in the same year, but neither were quite ready to start squeezing the modern equivalent of the silver screen onto a 320×480 LCD panel. From a standing start alongside these innovative products in 2007, within a year SeriesYonkis would establish itself as one of Spain’s most-visited sites. Soon after, as...
New York Times: Microsoft’s AI Tools Are Nothing Like The VCR
“The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.” The quote above comes from the late Jack Valenti, who was the Motion Picture Association’s boss in 1982, when he warned the House of Representatives of the looming video recorder threat. With the benefit of hindsight, the VCR wasn’t all that scary for Hollywood. The movie industry continued to flourish in the decades...
