FANS OUTRAGED AT ADDITION OF NEW CHARACTER TO THE RETURN OF THE KING
A recently leaked trailer for The Return of the King has Tolkien fans outraged over the apparent addition of a new character – Jar-Jaromir, the half-brother of Boromir and Faramir. Here’s an article with a photo of the new character – well worth a look if you’re...NEW WALLACE & GROMIT
Great news for W&G fans: A new two-minute Wallace & Gromit short can be downloaded for free from Atom Films, and on October 22, nine more Wallace & Gromit shorts will be available from the same site for $9.95. The next project from Ardman Films will be a...RIAA SUES RADIO STATIONS FOR GIVING AWAY FREE MUSIC
Count on The Onion to give you the news that really matters. Here’s an article from this week’s issue that nicely catches the flavor of the recording industry’s wrongheaded attempts to shut down all the services that allow us to listen to music. LOS ANGELES—The...NEW COPY PROTECTION SCHEME
The recording industry has developed a new recording format that is piracy-proof. Here’s an article with more details. Nicknamed the ‘Record’, the new format takes the form of a black, vinyl disc measuring 12 inches in diameter, which must be played on a...CHINA BELIEVES EVERYTHING IT READS
In case you missed this in the paper a couple of days ago, here’s a story that’s absolutely priceless. The Beijing Evening News (circulation: 1.25 million) printed a word-for-word translation of an American news item in its June 3 edition. The article concerned the...