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Title: owner of a lonely heart
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Berserk007
Title: Freelance Skull Grinder
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Wow nice save on that...makes you wonder what treasures are rotting away in someone's storage unit.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
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I'd buy that for a dollar!
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sidewaydriver
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I'll just wait for the remake.
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Tyop
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As far as I'm concerned the cinematic discovery of the last 100 years was when an original cut of Metropolis was found two years ago in Argentina. Still great news though. Can't wait to see it.
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Title: owner of a lonely heart
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Forget DVD Rentals for $1 a Day; How About 6 Cents an Hour?
If Redbox is set to destroy the Hollywood with $1-per-night DVD rentals, what’ll happen if Big Box DVD kiosks start appearing around the country, charging just 6 cents an hour? We could find out if Big Box parent Mosquito Productions is able to expand its kiosk DVD rental business.
A recent study posited that low-cost DVD rentals from Redbox and others cost the entertainment industry upwards of $1 billion per year, but John Buchmann, owner of Mosquito Productions, wrote in an email that his company is “not big enough for Hollywood to care about at this point.”
Even so, he argues that the opportunity for businesses like Big Box DVD and Redbox are a result of Hollywood not keeping tabs on retailers.
“Wal-Mart started selling DVDs at a loss to get their feet in the door well before Redbox had any sort of foothold. Since there was only a $7-$10 difference between renting and buying, it was inevitable that the rental prices would go down,” Buchmann wrote. “Hollywood simply hasn’t protected their product on the retail end for years now, and cheap rental services are an inevitable result of that.”
Unlike Redbox, which charges users $1 per day for DVD rentals from its kiosks, the Big Box DVD kiosks rent new releases for 6 cents an hour, catalog films for 4 cents an hour, and Blu-ray discs for 9 cents an hour. With prices so low, users could (theoretically) watch and return a movie for less than a quarter.
But it could actually end up being more costly to rent from a Big Box kiosk than from competitor Redbox. After all, a 24-hour rental at 6 cents an hour costs $1.44 — and rental kiosks and brick-and-mortar stores alike have historically made most of their money from late fees.
Mosquito Productions says its kiosks can hold up to 15 times the number of discs that are available in competing machines from Redbox, and the Big Box DVD web site lists more than 100,000 titles available from its kiosks, and even which kiosks each title is available at.
For now, the kiosks haven’t spread very far, and are focused primarily on serving college students. The company has three locations at University of Wisconsin campuses; its fourth, most recent kiosk is located outside the company’s offices in Blaine, Minn. But the company says it is looking for new locations, specifically in the Twin Cities and western Wisconsin areas. |
http://www.salon.com/technology/the_gigaom_network/online_video/2009/12/09/forget_dvd_rentals_for_1_a_day_how_about_6_cents_an_hour
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Palestinian man sues Sacha Baron Cohen and David Letterman for libel and slander
A shopkeeper from Bethlehem who was branded a terrorist in Sacha Baron Cohen's film Bruno is seeking $110m (£67.5m) in damages.
Ayman Abu Aita is suing Baron Cohen, US talk show host David Letterman and others for libel and slander according to a lawsuit filed in the District of Columbia federal court last week.
A caption labels Abu Aita as a member of the militant al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, the armed wing of the Fatah movement. He is a member of the board of the Holy Land trust, a non-profit organisation that works on Palestinian community-building. |
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/10/baron-cohen-sued-over-terrorism-claim
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