Category: Culture
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HDCP/HDMI broken, or nearly broken
The technology supposed to protect the equipments aimed at digital TV with a semi-secret protocol using techniques borrowed from the military in order to ensure that only approved devices can see the previous digital data of our movies, seems to be on its way to be broken and is already the target of very serious…
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First legal movie downloads in the US
That’s just the beginning. Movielink and CinemaNow are now the first significant (and legal) source for movie downloads. The big question is still “will they succeed?” Two issues are key here. First, the movies are protected by a DRM solution that limits significantly the ways you can use the movies you just bought. Second, and…
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Free movie: Nosferatu
Download from Internet Archive Movie information from IMDB.org Yet another black and white German movie. F.W. Murnau created here a marvellous adaptation of the “Dracula” novel from Bram Stoker. On the screens in 1922, you could expect a merely dark movie. As a matter of fact, you will find here a true master piece of…
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Free Movie: The cabinet of Dr Caligari
Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari is a great classic movie from Robert Wiene (Germany, 1920) available from public domain.
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Free movies
The Internet Archive Movie information from IMDB.org Thanks to the efforts of a few half-mad half-genial men, The Internet Archive is attempting to archive all the contents of the world wide web. This led to the creation of an exceptional hardware/software combination (for example, there are hundreds of Terabytes of memory online). While they had…
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Star Wars
This is obviously not fresh news, but there are significant differences between the old Star Wars movies filmed by G.Lucas in the beginning of the 1980’s and the DVD versions currently distributed. The SciFi fans fight over these differences. More simply, I found a review of the DVD Trilogy of Star Wars including comparaisons supported…