Peer-To-Peer News - The Week In Review – May 7th, '05

[theknife]

Originally Posted by theknife

this is a very good thing for our side, but watch for the full-court lobbying press by Big Media to shove this thing thru Congress now that it's been established that the FCC was out of it's element.

can i quote myself? sure i can

just in time to bolster the case for the broadcast flag via Congress, we have this:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The lucrative summer movie season suffered its worst start in years Sunday, as the costly Crusades epic "Kingdom of Heaven" crawled into the No. 1 slot at the North American weekend box office with meager ticket sales of just $20 million.

Industry hopes that "Kingdom" would pull the business out of a lengthy slump were dashed: the box office has now endured 11 "down" weekends when compared with the year-ago periods. According to tracking firm Exhibitor Relations, this ties the longest losing streak, which ran from July to October in 2000.

how timely - you know what the MPAA is gonna blame this on. coincidence? we think not.