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No, not the remake -- although I am getting a little more excited about the flick than I thought I would, plus it's kinda silly to promote discussion on a film that isn't out yet. I'm talking about the original 1951 science fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still. (And "original" would really qualify, as this is one of the few genre greats that was based on an original screenplay and not adapted from an outside source.)

So it was next week's remake that first got me thinking, but what inspired me to bang out a few words was the brand-new two-disc special edition of TDTESS. (Standard or Blu-Ray!) More specifically, the awesomeness of this new edition. (Oh, and the Blu-Ray comes with a "Make Your Own Theremin Score" and a "Gort Command! Game." Nifty!) Those who own the older DVD will be pleased to note that most of the extras (including an excellent audio commentary between Robert Wise and Nicholas Meyer) have been ported over, but here's the important part: NEW supplements! An isolated score track (cooool), a new commentary with music and film historians (very cooool), and about eight NEW featurettes! Frankly if Fox can find something else to put on their next edition, I'll be pretty impressed.

Plus the disc opens with a 7.5-minute promo for the remake ... and I really think those guys might have come up with something cool. Like, a remake that takes a classic movie and fuses it with a few NEW ideas. No, the movie didn't NEED to be remade, but that doesn't mean a remake can't rock. I could be wrong, of course, but that's the vibe I'm getting right now. Plus <ahem> Jennifer Connelly is in it. Enough said.

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pThe bloodbath in media continues, and this time, at the West coast entertainment trades. We have learned that a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/index.jsp" title="Hollywood Reporter"Hollywood Reporter/a has done a new round of major layoffs, and about 17 people in total were laid off. It includes people in editorial, art and production, and no senior business executives were affected, as far as we know. Also, no changes yet in the print frequency, though I would expect them to be looking hard at the print product as it exists now. The news was first a href="http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/layoffs-at-hollywood-reporter-12-the-staff/" title="reported by DHD"reported by DHD/a, and no, the layoffs don't constitute half of THR, but less than that. /p p Also, at iVariety/i, which is in the process of being sold (or not) as part of Reed Business, some more cuts as well, as the publication has closed its DC bureau. And, as Nikki notes, it also a href="http://www.thestylephile.com/blog/330000033/post/580036858.html?category_id=30686" title="has closed"has closed/a its Stylephile blog. There are likely more cuts happening or coming ... more as we find out. /p piSocial Media Deals Report: This 199-page report, filled with charts and data, examines the categories, number and size of VC and MA deal in social media from 2007 through 2008. stronga href="http://www.paidcontent.org/reports/"Visit the ContentNext Reports page/a/strongi/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=LjMbfx"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=LjMbfx" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=j9n6O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=j9n6O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=0qpbO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=0qpbO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=ikrxo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=ikrxo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=MIciO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=MIciO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=Ubc4O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=Ubc4O" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/475191195" height="1" width="1"/

Scott Cleland is a "telecom analyst" who, in reality, is actually paid a large sum of money by the telcos to slam Google. He's become sort of a joke in DC circles. In the past, we noted his a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080404/180724761.shtml"ridiculously bad math/a in claiming that Google fleeced taxpayers out of $7 billion, as well as his claims that "open spectrum" is somehow a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080131/003825134.shtml"anti-American/a. His main issue, of course, is trying to dispense a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20061022/220402.shtml"bogus arguments/a for why net neutrality is really a big scam by Google to keep its broadband bills cheap. To give Cleland credit, at least he's not as bad as Mike McCurry, who once claimed that Google a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060801/0219252.shtml"doesn't pay a dime/a for broadband. McCurry, of course, has moved on from spinning for the telcos to spinning for a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080925/0216422370.shtml"the entertainment industry/a, so Cleland needed to up his game. br /br / He's now released a "study" claiming that a href="http://precursorblog.com/content/google-uses-21-times-more-bandwidth-it-pays-first-ever-research-study" target="_new"Google uses 21 times as much bandwidth as it pays for/a. First of all, this is simply incorrect. Cleland doesn't know how much Google actually pays for broadband, so he comes up with a small number, which is wrong a href="http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2008/12/response-to-phone-companies-google.html" target="_new"for a variety of reasons/a. br /br / He seems to conflate consumer broadband and Google's broadband. This is based, in part, on the old telco argument that when you buy internet access, you're only buying access a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060131/0923209.shtml"to the middle/a of the internet, and you should have to pay a second time to actually ireach/i any endpoint or other user. So, even though consumers pay for the bandwidth they use to reach Google, Cleland appears to calculate that as being Google's responsibility, ignoring that consumers are paying plenty for the right to reach Google (and the rest of the internet). As Cord Blomquist points out, this is like a href="http://techliberation.com/2008/12/04/google-bandwidth-study-proves-very-little/" target="_new"pointing out that Best Buy should pay for the gas it takes/a for people to drive to Best Buy. Broadband Reports also does a a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Scott-Cleland-Google-Using-21x-The-Bandwidth-They-Pay-For-99475" target="_new"nice job deconstructing this/a. br /br / However, even if we ignore all the basic facts and information that Cleland gets wrong, if we grant his premise, his argument still doesn't make any sense. If anything, rather than being an argument in favor of the telcos' position, Clelands report (if true) suggests that telco execs all deserve to be fired. After all, they're the ones who set up the business model and the billing relationship, and if they're undercharging Google by so much, then shouldn't they raise their prices? Of course, there's a good reason why this doesn't happen: because Google is paying fair market value for its bandwidth, and if anyone tried to charge them 21 times more, Google would quickly take its business elsewhere. So, based on this report, either Cleland is dead wrong in his report, or the telcos who funded it are run by morons who don't know how to set pricing correctly. Which one is more likely?br /br /a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081204/1453233022.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081204/1453233022.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081204/1453233022op=sharethis"Email This Story/abr / br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a97c18babe8ff3fe9b5f638da5a08d87p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a97c18babe8ff3fe9b5f638da5a08d87p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=a97c18babe8ff3fe9b5f638da5a08d87" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=RfDCo"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=RfDCo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/475210547" height="1" width="1"/

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/69467?ns=guardianpageName=Education%3A+Betraying+the+student+body%3Fch=Educationc3=The+Guardianc4=Students%2CGender+%28News%29%2CWomen+and+women%27s+interests%2CEducation%2CLife+and+style%2CWorld+newsc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CEducation+Weekly+Education%2CWomen%2CStudents+Educationc6=Emine+Sanerc7=2008_12_05c8=1129229c9=articlec10=GUc11=Educationc12=Studentsc13=c14=h2=GU%2FEducation%2FStudents" width="1" height="1" //divpOver the past few months, a series of beauty contests has been held in London. So far, so sexist. But what distinguishes this particular competition is that all the women taking part are students at some of London's best universities. Last week, for instance, Lile He, a politics and economics student, was named Miss School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas), at a pageant staged at a nightclub. And at the final in February she will compete against female students from five other universities - including the London School of Economics, King's College and University College London. /ppAround 400 students have entered the competition; some were "spotted" at nightclubs and encouraged to apply, while others filled out an online application form, giving information about their age and height, and answering searching questions such as "Which Sex and the City character would you most relate to?" The winner will receive prizes from the event's sponsors, which include the cosmetics company Clinique and a jewellery firm. /ppWhile some women have clearly embraced the pageant concept with open arms, the contest is a source of consternation and protest for others. At the "Miss Soas" event there was a rally, with around 40 students carrying banners and signs, and shouting slogans such as "Soas is for education, not for your ejaculation!" Eleanor James, women's officer at the Soas Student Union, helped to organise the protest and says that she sees the beauty contest "as part of the backlash against the fragile gains that feminism has won. I think it's really sad this is happening, but it doesn't surprise me because, at the moment in universities, you find pole dancing societies; because of top-up fees, there are students who work in lap-dancing clubs. So having a beauty pageant is a natural progression."/ppThe Miss University London contest was started in 2006 by Christian Emile. A former student at LSE, Emile was organising student events for nightclubs when a friend from Italy - where beauty pageants are relatively common - suggested they try to launch one here. Emile's company, 121 Entertainment, br /organises other events for nightclubs, including the supply of belly dancers. He describes the university beauty pageant as "a bit of fun" and says that, contrary to some reports, the women involved have not been asked to give waist and breast measurements. "I can understand the apprehension, but it's due largely to a misconception of the event," he says. "We don't have a bikini contest, the girls wear evening dresses of their own choosing and there are a series of questions to demonstrate their personality and charisma." But the competition is, basically, about their physical appearance? "Yes, I'm not denying that. But I want to emphasise that a lot of it has to do with personality." Fair enough, although it's arguable how much you can deduce by asking questions such as "What three items would you take to a desert island?"./pp"I don't think it objectifies women," he says. "If you talk to any of the contestants, they will tell you it is actually empowering. They get their moment in the spotlight, it's a bit of fun." Keelin Gavaghan, an accountancy undergraduate who was named as Miss London School of Economics at that university's heat last month, has said that she fails "to see what is wrong with feeling glamorous for one night. We hardly sold our souls. Nowadays I believe that we are post-feminism." /ppLooking into the set-up of the event - the venues where it is held, the audiences it attracts - I started to wonder just who it is aimed at. Most of the preliminary rounds are being held at the Crystal Club in London, which markets itself as an exclusive venue that has "hosted some of the world's most celebrated elite society". There is a pound;15 fee to get in, with tables then costing up to pound;1,000. To have a bottle of vodka or champagne delivered to your table costs at least pound;150, while drinks at the bar average around pound;8. It seems very expensive for students. "You do get students who can afford that," says Emile. "If you want to come and have a drink at the bar, that's fine. But if you want a pound;1,000 table, that's also fine." The tickets are available by guestlist and Emile admits that the contest isn't only open to a student audience. According to some reports, around a third of the 300 people at one event were not students, but older men. Emile disagrees, saying about "five non-students go to the events", including, he says, a professional footballer or two, "though I can't say who". At last year's pageant, the London Student newspaper approached the Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner, who told a reporter, "I came here for the pretty girls." Much has been made of the idea that the contest benefits the charity Cancer Research, but Emile says that while his company "tries" to give 20% of the event's profits to them, "it depends on how much we make"./ppMiss University London isn't the only beauty pageant for students. Earlier this year, a beauty contest called Miss Student Body was launched in Edinburgh, with contestants from five colleges in the city. It was forced to close when the organisers ran out of money. /ppEmile plans to launch his beauty contests in university cities around the country over the next few years, and there is already a popular national competition, Miss Student UK, which advertises at freshers' fairs and in nightclubs popular among students: the first prize is pound;10,000. The website for Miss Student UK includes pictures and videos uploaded by women, in which they are often wearing nothing more than a bikini or underwear, or are dressed as Playboy bunnies. In 2006, Loughborough University student union hosted the FHM "High Street Honeys Tour", where female students were "spotted" to appear in shoots for the men's magazine. Loughborough has also held a "Playboy mansion party" with performances from pole dancers. York University has a pole dancing club, and other universities, including Warwick and Bath, have sold calendars of female students posing in their underwear./ppAll of this may be indicative of a new sexism in student life. But many women are fighting back. Katie Curtis, the National Union of Students' women's officer, says that "it is unacceptable for events which objectify women to take place in our educational institutions. Universities should be about expanding people's minds, not judging them on their appearance." /ppRuby Buckley, women's officer at LSE, and part of the group that has been protesting against these events, agrees. I ask her why she thinks educated young women are choosing to get involved in a contest that seems, at best, like a sad throwback to a more sexist age. She says some of the contestants are finding ways to justify taking part "but it's an illusion, a con from society telling women that this is emancipation. I think what summed it up for me was when one contestant was asked, 'Would you rather have brains or beauty?' and she said beauty, because if she wasn't beautiful, nobody would want to listen to her anyway. This isn't fulfilling, to be ogled at and judged and it's such a shame that these are educated women, who could be the future leaders of the world, who are not standing up and questioning what they are doing. They are worth more than this competition and they need to realise that."/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/students"Students/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gender"Gender/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/women"Women/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/v4-bKfr1w2w2jsWlE7yx_lJG5Ac/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/v4-bKfr1w2w2jsWlE7yx_lJG5Ac/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

Eva Longoria Parker is reportedly a closet smoker. The Desperate Housewives babe got caught by papparazzi lighting up while on a trip to Puerto Rico. The resulting photos get rid of the pregnancy rumors that were circulating the star. Akon's assault trial has been put on hold for 2-more weeks. The singer got in trouble for tossing a 15-year-old fan from the stage at one of his concerts. Akon previously pled guilty to the charges on endangerment of a minor. Now Miley Cyrus is practically eating her words from earlier this year when her pseudo-nude photo graced the cover of Vanity Fair. The Disney star recently got quoted as saying that she'd love to work with photographer Annie Liebovitz again and that foreign countries liked the controversial photo much more than the states because America is conservative. That's it for now. I'm Dana Ward and we'll see you right here at GetTheDaily.com for more entertainment news. Distributed by Tubemogul.

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pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=47a93a314b543772005e743cmaxX=125maxY=125" border="0" alt="barrydiller.jpg" title="barrydiller.jpg" width="125" height="125" /Earlier this week, MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe said he thought the economic downturn would give his company a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/myspace-ceo-acquisition-targets-dirt-cheap-and-getting-cheaper"the chance to acquire companies -- and cheap/a. Today it was IAC (IACI) CEO Barry Diller's turn to say a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/Media08/idUSTRE4B374E20081204"the same thing/a./p pDiller told Reuters Media Summit attendees that IAC would have $2.2 billion in cash by March, and it's a good chance to add new properties to his empire./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/Media08/idUSTRE4B374E20081204"Reuters/a: "This downturn is going to present opportunities if you're in the position that we're in," he said, citing entertainment, media and search as areas of interest.br /br /"In entertainment and media, I think there's going to be a 'cascade' of acquisition opportunities," he said, referring to his expectation that the downturn would worsen.br /br /Diller said he would be interested in acquisitions in search, but not to acquire technology.br /br /"The interest would be on audience, we would acquire audience absolutely. We would acquire vertical audiences as we acquired with Dictionary.com, Thesauraus.com," he said./p pstrongSee Also:/strongbr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/myspace-ceo-acquisition-targets-dirt-cheap-and-getting-cheaper"MySpace CEO: Acquisition Targets Dirt Cheap And Getting Cheaper/abr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/diller-why-iac-was-a-disaster"Diller: Why IAC Was a Disaster/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/S41fsbRGYwoSF062_Jqd_b6SLRU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/S41fsbRGYwoSF062_Jqd_b6SLRU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=BGudOML7"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=BGudOML7" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Y4ATbNsY"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=YZC2JBSW"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=xNdcgQAh"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=xNdcgQAh" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=YNApyLHJ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=jSKMGGOa"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=00Y6LhOB"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=vXu7dZtd"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/ZbKf8knhKGw" height="1" width="1"/

pAs expected, studios and producers aren't backing down in the face of strike threats from the actors' guild. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reiterated that their final offer of June 30 still stands and are urging the Screen Actors Guild to reverse course and throw its support behind the proposed contract. It's the latest development in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse that's placed yet another gray cloud over the entertainment industry. In a a href="http://www.amptp.org/" title="release this afternoon"release this afternoon/a, AMPTP wrote: "it offers more gains for SAG members than any other labor agreement in the guild's history. On the economic side alone, the offer is the richest ever by historical standards... These are clearly revolutionary times, and the final offer reflects that as well." /p p AMPTP also publicized the a href="http://www.amptp.org/files/AMPTP_SAG_final_offer_063008.pdf" title="final offer in its entirety"final offer in its entirety/a (PDF) and highlighted some a href="http://www.amptp.org/files/AMPTP_SAG_final_offer_summary.pdf" title="key points of its proposal"key points of its proposal/a (PDF). /p p bTop-line financial terms:/b The contract reflects an increase in minimums by 3.5 percent in the first and third years and 3 percent in the second year. Pension and health rates would increase from 14.5 percent to 15 percent. Guest star premiums would jump from 7.5 percent to 10 percent. The number of background actors covered would increase in TV from 19 to 20 and from 50 to 52 in film. /p p bNew media terms:/b Much to SAG's chagrin; the deal includes an exception to jurisdiction in most cases that involve original content made for online or mobile. Actors would not gain consent rights or compensation for clips used in new media. The proposal does include first-ever residuals for ad-supported streaming of films, TV and new media programs and increases the residual rate for permanent downloads. br / /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-actors-union-seeks-strike-vote-after-federal-mediation-fails" title="Actors Union Seeks Strike Vote After Federal Mediation Fails"Actors Union Seeks Strike Vote After Federal Mediation Fails/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-actors-union-board-holds-off-on-strike-authorization-requests-mediation" title="Actors Union Board Holds Off On Strike Authorization; Requests Mediation"Actors Union Board Holds Off On Strike Authorization; Requests Mediation/a/li /ul piCheck out the best business jobs in digital media. a href="http://jobs.paidcontent.org/"Go here/a for paidContent.org Job Board./i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=R3RCUL"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=R3RCUL" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=WYH5O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=WYH5O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=GgR1O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=GgR1O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=B2edo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=B2edo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=oM8gO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=oM8gO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=XDk3O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=XDk3O" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/475125218" height="1" width="1"/

NEW YORK, December 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Qtrax, le service de musique numérique financé par de la publicité, a annoncé aujourd'hui un partenariat mondial avec SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT qui rendra le premier catalogue de musique ...

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The bit-blissful sights and sounds get going tonight and continue through Sunday @ The Tank, NYC - Archaic game and home computer hardware is recast into the unlikely role of musical instrument and motion graphics workstation in the BLIP FESTIVAL 2008, a four-day event showcasing nearly 40 musicians and visual artists occupying the international low-res cutting edge. The Blip Festival takes place DECEMBER 4—7, 2008 at The Bell House, and is presented by Manhattan art organization THE TANK and NYC artist collective 8BITPEOPLES.

Highlighting the chipmusic phenomenon and its related disciplines, the festival aims to showcase emerging creative niches involving the use of legacy video game & home computer hardware as modern artistic instrumentation. Devices such as the Nintendo Entertainment System, Commodore 64, Atari ST, Nintendo Game Boy and others are repurposed into the service of original, low-res, high-impact electronic music and visuals — sidestepping game culture and instead exploring the technology's untapped potential and distinctive intrinsic character. When: Friday, December 5, 6-8p
Where: 149 7th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215
2008 Blip Festival

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p iSan Francisco/i - GoFish, a San Francisco-based online youth entertainment and media network that draws about 69 million unique visitors a month, said on Thursday that it has secured $22.5 million through a private placement co-led by Panorama Capital, Rustic Canyon Partners and Rembrandt Venture Partners.pa href="http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2008/12/04/youth-entertainment-network-gofish-secures-%2422.5-million"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?a=BDbFO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?i=BDbFO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?a=6wTno"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?i=6wTno" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?a=WCL2o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?i=WCL2o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?a=JEBbO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?i=JEBbO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?a=hhCjo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?i=hhCjo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dmwmedia/~4/475073373" height="1" width="1"/

Whither BitTorrent? The company is picking itself up and putting itself back together after recent exec departures and layoffs. And it has finally shed its consumer business, the download store that had helped kicked off Hollywood’s last few years of digital dealmaking, but never did much after that.

We just got off the phone with BitTorrent VP of Marketing Simon Morris, who filled us in on the company’s changing strategy, as well as the recent hubbub about it moving away from the P2P protocol to one that would interfere with VoIP and other activity. Morris said that following the company’s multiple rounds of layoffs, BitTorrent is now “in safe shape” to move forward. A lightly edited transcript follows.

NewTeeVee: So, I saw that the Torrent Entertainment Network is no longer up. When did that shut down?

Simon Morris: I think it was Nov. 17, a little over two weeks ago.

NewTeeVee: Was that due to lack of use?

Morris: It was due to two things. We found it very hard to make it a profitable business endeavor. If you look at the things we’re trying to do as we shrink down the company due to the economic environment, we’re experts in content delivery over the internet. With the Torrent Entertainment Network we were stepping into a new domain of merchandising of consumer entertainment products. In many ways, the retrenchment of the company has been really focusing on what we’re good at.

NewTeeVee: Can you give specific numbers on how many users or downloads you had?

Morris: No. It wasn’t sufficiently successful for us. We investigated all sorts of different approaches: try before you buy, download to own, download to rent, ad-supported streaming. Ultimately, I wouldn’t say us retrenching away from it is any indication it can’t be done, it’s just pure resources.

NewTeeVee: It seems from your shutdown FAQ that you’re doing a good job of taking care of obligations to former customers.

Morris: We have DRM servers; we’ll just leave them up. It seems from a PR point of view far more sensible to leave those things in place.

NewTeeVee: So, what’s happening with your remaining businesses? How is the P2P CDN business going?

Morris: We’re focusing both on our consumer BitTorrent client but also on our DNA content delivery service. The client is more popular than ever. Though I don’t know if you saw the article in The Register this week? We’re now talking to the guy about writing a followup. You will find his opinion may have changed.

NewTeeVee: That was about moving to the UTP protocol?

Morris: It was about moving from P2P to UTP. The tone of the article and the hysteria surrounding it was about creating a greedy protocol to bring the Internet to its knees, and in fact it’s the opposite, we’re working on a more polite, gentler protocol. We’ve briefed the ISPs, including Comcast, and we’re ultimately not trying to do something that would damage ourselves.

NewTeeVee: And as for the DNA product?

Morris: The DNA client also has the benefit of this polite protocol, which has actually already been implemented in the DNA client. The new protocol is UTP, based on UDP, but with a very important layer built on top that gives it particular congestion control.

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Hi all, it’s Rusty again from the Santa Monica Studio. We are getting ready to launch Everyday Shooter PSP and we are really thrilled about how it has turned out. Between Jon Mak, Backbone Entertainment and us, we have Jon’s thoughts about how everything went on getting this made. Hope you all like what we’ve done.
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First things first: the seaweed is gone, but the hashbrowns are still in the freezer.
So Rusty wanted me to write a little blog post about Everyday Shooter for PSP. I don’t really know what to talk about so I guess I’ll start chronological and see where that goes.
I actually tried porting Everyday Shooter to PSP way back around December 20th, 2007, and stopped around December 27th, 2007. Here’s an old video I found from back then:

WHAT!!??!? WHY DIDN’T YOU RELEASE IT!?!?? WHY DID YOU SIT ON IT FOR 239846921487 MONTHS YOU SON OF SO MANY UNMENTIONABLE THINGS!!!!!!!
I thought the same thing until I remembered that it crashed every eight seconds, had a ridiculously low frame rate, was missing graphics and effects, and generally blew.
Yeah, Everyday Shooter PSP really worried me at the time. I was convinced to get the game running properly it needed to be hacked to shreds - reducing the number of enemies, changing all the
backgrounds, changing the enemy graphics - ugh, this is going to SUCK.
So I dropped the idea until Rusty contacted my agent, Warren, and I, saying Sony was interested in putting Everyday Shooter on PSP. Immediately, the floodgates opened to the stress of so many potential problems sweeping my soul to the faraway depths of darkness where it was then beaten repeatedly at three frames per second before crashing…
But Rusty said (paraphrased): “Jon, this is how it’s going to go down. We’re going to hire this developer [Backbone], and I know this guy, he is one of the best programmers I know. And the deal is going to be this: if they even hint at a suggestion of messing with your vision, we are going to fire them and find a new developer. This is going to be a straight port, we are not going to mess with your vision.”
Skeptically, I replied “and the boobies?” To which he answered “no boobies.”
Honestly, I was still skeptical.
I was also told that the original QA team for ES-PS3 was brought in to test the PSP version too, so I’m quite confident that it was left in good hands.
I’m amazed at the job Backbone did:

They actually ported it without altering any of the graphics, effects, or gameplay! How!?? No seriously, how did you do that!? Like, even the backgrounds? I was expecting to have to do this whole back and forth about what graphics needed to be changed and redesigned, what enemies needed to be reduced, gimping the game just for the sake of performance… NO! Not at all! They just somehow made it work. What is this sweet juice of hexadecimal that you drink from and where do I get it?

Then again, I’m not technically a great programmer, so maybe there’s some simple secret I’m not aware of. I generally just multiply things by negative one if they don’t work because in math, to get the opposite of something you just multiply it by negative one. Since the opposite of “doesn’t work” is “it works,” multiplying numbers by negative one should yield a correct result. Unfortunately, when
applying this strategy to Everyday Shooter PSP it still didn’t work.
Thus, and clearly thus, there was no solution.
Of course Backbone proved me wrong.
I think this is a pretty accurate port of the game. I mean, I played it till my hands cramped, jotting down every subtle problem, some bordering on imaginary, but yet still fixed. For example, the first
few builds I played, everything looked great and seemed to be in working order but something was weird. I kept getting beaned by the game! I mean, I couldn’t even get to level 4! Suspecting my own
skill level, I busted out the PS3 version just to make sure and to my surprise, I was still able reach the final stage with just three starting lives. It’s got to be the port.
Okay, so how do you convince someone that this is actually a bug and not because of some lack of skill on my part? I mean, otherwise, the game felt exactly like the PS3 version, so there was no factual information to draw from except for “well, Jon thinks it’s too hard now.” For weeks, I kept thinking they were going to ignore it, and it’ll get released, and the internet will swallow me whole, and then it will hurt a lot.
But amazingly, the bug was found. Apparently (and from what I recall — I might be wrong), it had something to do with timing issues since Everyday Shooter PSP runs at a much lower simulation rate given that the PSP isn’t as powerful as the PS3.
To this day, I’m still not sure if anyone believed me on this, and I’m not even sure if I believed myself (I’m quite positive it was way harder, though), and I totally see that the whole thing just sounded nuts and imaginary, but either way, Backbone was gracious enough to give me the benefit of the doubt and make this change. I know some people who paid a silver dollar only to have their ports birched by shoddy developers, so I’m very grateful for the amount of effort and attention Backbone gave to the project.
Anyway, we tried to make this as accurate as possible. Warren called me a few weeks before the final build asking whether I played the PSP port yet and what I thought of it. I replied, “I don’t know what to say. I mean, it’s basically Everyday Shooter PS3, except it’s running on a PSP.”
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