Hollywood execs will be taking a keen interest in this week’s court battle
between the music industry and Napster—whose software makes it easy to
locate and download MP3 music files. That’s because studio bosses know similar
problems are headed their way. Movies can now be stripped from DVDs (the subject
of a court case last week—see www. opendvd.com and www.mpaa.org) and
compressed. The files are compact enough to be transmitted over a broadband
Internet connection—or squashed onto a single CD. There’s a website
detailing how this technology works at www.mydivx.com.
The US Senate’s Judiciary Committee has…
