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SOPA: Has It Returned?

In what's being called a "SOPA-style blackout," an Indian court has demanded that the subcontinent's internet service providers ban 104 websites said to feature "unauthorized" media -- bolstering similar efforts in the U.S. and the rest of the world. Chris Dodd, chair and CEO of the Motion Pictur ... More >>

Megaupload's Kim Dotcom Blasts U.S. for Supporting 'Monopolies'

Kim Dotcom faces extradition to the U.S. for piracy charges relating to his file-sharing mammoth Megaupload, but that doesn't mean that he's backing down -- he's actually going on the offensive. Not only has Dotcom successfully beaten American demands that he be thrown back in jail. Dotcom is now t ... More >>

BitTorrent Behemoth BTjunkie Bites the Dust

TorrentFreak.com​File-sharing fave BTjunkie has signed off the web forever today, after its owners decided to pull the plug amid legal action against similar sites MegaUpload and The Pirate Bay, TorrentFreak reports.

Blue Valentine's Got Lady Problems

TorrentFreak.com​File-sharing fave BTjunkie has signed off the web forever today, after its owners decided to pull the plug amid legal action against similar sites MegaUpload and The Pirate Bay, TorrentFreak reports.

New York's Independent Film Community Goes From Boom to Bust

My Big Fat Greek Collapse

'Crash' Director Paul Haggis Ditches Scientology

"I am only ashamed that I waited this many months to act. I hereby resign my membership in the Church of Scientology." ​Over the past few days, a remarkable letter was published in four parts at the blog of Marty Rathbun, a former high-level Scientology official who has left the church and no ... More >>

Oscar Times 10? Pros and Cons of the Expanded Best Picture Race

The MPAA have announced they'll nominate 10 rather than five Best Picture nominees next year, and the commentary has flown thick and fast. Each side has a point: Pro: Fans point out that in early years the Oscars frequently named ten or more nominees at a time. The fabled 1939 crop, for example, i ... More >>

Kirby Dick's Outrage Outs Closeted Pols and the Media that Protect Them

The MPAA have announced they'll nominate 10 rather than five Best Picture nominees next year, and the commentary has flown thick and fast. Each side has a point: Pro: Fans point out that in early years the Oscars frequently named ten or more nominees at a time. The fabled 1939 crop, for example, i ... More >>

Tribeca Film Festival 2009 Guide

The MPAA have announced they'll nominate 10 rather than five Best Picture nominees next year, and the commentary has flown thick and fast. Each side has a point: Pro: Fans point out that in early years the Oscars frequently named ten or more nominees at a time. The fabled 1939 crop, for example, i ... More >>

The Unborn Raids the Modern Horror Memory Bank

From The Exorcist to Auschwitz, remembrance of demons past

Hillary's Top Lobbyist

Gotham power Suri Kasirer puts the peddle to the meddle for Clinton

Otto Focus

Preminger gets his day at Film Forum

Greetings from Toronto . . .

Where old masters, drunk teenagers, and Asia Argento make the fest's first week a blast

Evil Dead

Hostel: Part II: Lame, tame, and not worth moralizing

The Science of Bleep

Snappy doc exposes rating-board secrets

Thank You for Sponsoring

Snappy doc exposes rating-board secrets

Lucky King Kong Is Digital

Activists say all Hollywood apes should be

'Saw II'

Activists say all Hollywood apes should be

Thornton Wilder

Play ballsy: Billy Bob and the fine art of cursing

Untold Story of Mondo Kim's Raid

Play ballsy: Billy Bob and the fine art of cursing

Torrent Rain

Fat content's equivalent of the South Beach Diet provides healthy alternative to paying buttplugs

Screen for Help

Independents' day: a big victory over some bigger studios

No Trust

Congress and movie star dance the anti-download bolero

Letters

Congress and movie star dance the anti-download bolero

Wired to Wired

Dean Finds That Courting Blogocrats Means Answering Tough Questions

Press Pause

Dean Finds That Courting Blogocrats Means Answering Tough Questions

The Blessed Version

Let One Hundred Edits Bloom

Flesh + Blood

Let One Hundred Edits Bloom

Other People's Property

Academics Square Off Against Hollywood on Internet Content

Executive Bitch Slapping

The Widening Wage Gap Between Male and Female Managers Is a Corporate Equivalent of the Cultural Backlash

Sticker Shock

The FTC Markets Censorship as Consumer Protection

All the Girls of Their Age

The FTC Markets Censorship as Consumer Protection

Cara Seymour Looks for Trouble

Paths Less Traveled

Triumph of the Ill

Trash Talking With Mad Scientist Paul Verhoeven

He Who Waits

Fate of Hackers’ Hero Now in Judge’s Hands

Anti-Essential Viewing

Fate of Hackers’ Hero Now in Judge’s Hands

Firing Blanks

Valenti Bumbles Through Deposition on DVD Piracy

The Quiet Man

Hollywood Fights to Seal Jack Valenti’s Testimony

Letters

Hollywood Fights to Seal Jack Valenti’s Testimony

Down By Law

When Movie Moguls Wage War to Protect Copyright, the First Amendment Ends Up on the Cutting Room Floor

Knockouts

Docs and Female Jocks in the Ring at Sundance

DVD Desperadoes

Are the Hackers Unfairly Prosecuted?

Fade to Black

The Motion Picture Association Shuts Down Crypto Research

Back in the Ring

The Motion Picture Association Shuts Down Crypto Research

The Pusan Film festival gains ground

Korea Moves

Defining Deviancy Down

By treating audiences with kid gloves, the MPAA delivers a lethal blow to grown-up fare

The Pleasure Police

The MPAA and its antiquated view of what girls are made of

Web Sucks TV's Blood

Buffy Fans Bite Back— and Bring a Larger Issue to Light

Looking for Lolita

On the nature of nymph mania