Movie Lobby Group in New Hands

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Microsoft ruling must stand, says lobby
group

Microsoft ruling must stand, says lobby
group 06/07/2004 10:04 PM
Daily Mail & Guardian Jun 8 2004 2:41AM GMT

Computer lobby group insists EU
Microsoft ruling must stand

Computer lobby group insists EU
Microsoft ruling must stand 06/06/2004 03:51 PM
Servihoo.com Jun 6 2004 8:28PM GMT

Computer lobby group insists EU
Microsoft ruling must stand (AFP)

Computer lobby group insists EU
Microsoft ruling must stand (AFP) 06/06/2004 02:26 PM
AFP - Lobbyists for the computer industry insisted Sunday that an EU decision finding Microsoft guilty of anti-competitive behaviour must stand, ahead of an expected appeal by the US software giant.

Lobby group seeks to join Microsoft
antitrust battle

Lobby group seeks to join Microsoft
antitrust battle 04/06/2005 08:34 PM
Irish Times Apr 7 2005 12:26AM GMT

Group plans to put $100 laptops in hands
of poor

Group plans to put $100 laptops in hands
of poor 04/04/2005 11:46 PM
globetechnology.com Apr 5 2005 4:13AM GMT

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports |
The US is now in the hands of a group of
extremists

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports |
The US is now in the hands of a group of
extremists 01/27/2004 08:57 AM
George Soros, writing in the Guardian, .. published over at the Guardian .. Al Guardian (U.K.) .. :

guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1131213,00.html
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Movie Industry Group Sues Over DVD
Copying

Movie Industry Group Sues Over DVD
Copying 02/13/2004 11:47 PM
San Jose Mercury News Feb 14 2004 4:05AM GMT

Movie Industry Group Sues Over DVD
Copying (AP)

Movie Industry Group Sues Over DVD
Copying (AP) 02/13/2004 09:10 PM
AP - A film industry group that oversees copy protection technology of movie DVDs filed a patent infringement lawsuit Friday against 321 Studios Inc., the maker of popular DVD-copying programs.

Movie industry group picks Glickman

Movie industry group picks Glickman 07/02/2004 04:45 AM
Boston Globe Jul 2 2004 8:35AM GMT

Movie industry group backs off DVD
encryption lawsuit

Movie industry group backs off DVD
encryption lawsuit 01/23/2004 08:44 PM
SiliconValley.com Jan 23 2004 11:29PM GMT

Linux group rebuffs MPAA's movie piracy
charge

Linux group rebuffs MPAA's movie piracy
charge 09/20/2004 12:54 PM
MPAA hits wrong target with "shoot-in-the-dark approach" in copyright fight, says Linux Australia.

Chinese Movie Industry Recognizes Movie
Watching Is A Social Experience

Chinese Movie Industry Recognizes Movie
Watching Is A Social Experience 03/22/2005 05:03 PM
Yesterday we noted that the MPAA and movie theater owners were whini ng about how much people coming in an taping movies was hurting their business. The obvious response, we pointed out, is to recognize that going to the movies is a social experience. It's not just about the content (though, that is important), but the overall experience. If they improved that, then people would want to go -- even if they could score the same movie off the internet or a cheap DVD bought off the street. While the folks in Hollywood refuse to entertain this idea, someone (anonymously) in the comments to that story pointed to an article in China noting that this is exactly what Chinese movie theaters have done. After years of declining attendance, they finally shaped up and made going to the movies cool again. They improved the overall experience, putting in better equipment and more comfortable seats. They improved the sound and the lighting as well. It sounds like they also made some theaters to be more like bars, to help attract young adults away from traditional bars. Yet the supposedly "creative" movie people in Hollywood insist "nothing can be done" to get people into the theater.

Regal Goes to the Lobby

Regal Goes to the Lobby 09/22/2004 09:59 AM
Regal has been generous with its money lately, and that may not make it a featured attraction.

Heard in the hotel lobby...

Heard in the hotel lobby... 01/24/2004 05:03 PM
SomeGuy walking in commenting on Vani and I sitting next to Big Fireplace with our 12" powerbooks: "You guys were sitting here when we went to bed last night, did you ever leave?!" faint reply: "Mmn, yeah..." whisper to Vani: "if nothing else then to get the batteries charged" Vani: "is there a table over there by the window in the sun?" Ask: "yes, but I don't think we can see the screens there." Some people need to get their...

UK to lobby US for Iraq contracts

UK to lobby US for Iraq contracts 02/13/2004 03:32 AM
Foreign trade minister Mike O'Brien will head to Washington to lobby for UK companies over Iraq rebuilding contracts.

UK brands lobby EU over labels

UK brands lobby EU over labels 01/18/2004 08:17 PM
Some of the highest-profile UK companies, including Burberry and Aston Martin, lobby against an EU labelling plan.

Ad groups lobby for antispam law

Ad groups lobby for antispam law 11/13/2003 03:57 PM
Three influential trade groups are pushing Congress to pass a federal spam law before the holidays, cautioning that without it, unwanted e-mail will hamper e-commerce.

The Tech Lobby, Calling Again

The Tech Lobby, Calling Again 07/24/2004 09:49 PM
As the political stock of technology may again be on the rise, Silicon Valley tries to find its mojo in Washington.

Buying the Disability Lobby, and More

Buying the Disability Lobby, and More 06/11/2004 07:05 PM

NY Times: The Disability Lobby and Voting. ome supporters of voter-verifiable paper trails question whether disability-rights groups have gotten too close to voting machine manufacturers. Besides the donation by Diebold to the National Federation of the Blind, there have been other gifts. According to Mr. Dickson, the American Association of People with Disabilities has received $26,000 from voting machine companies this year. The real issue, though, is that disability-rights groups have been clouding the voting machine debate by suggesting that the nation must choose between accessible voting and verifiable voting.

The voting-machine scandal just grows and grows. When the National Federation of the Blind accepts $1 million from Diebold, maker of the scandalously lousy machines that California recently banned, you have to shake your head in amazement at how putrid this entire situation is getting. The League of Women Voters' support of unverifiable voting machines is another astounding situation. Barbara Simons, a California woman who's an expert in computer technology, is running for president (AP) of the organization in a protest vote. I hope she wins and, with others who can't fathom the league's refusal to recognize reality, gets the organization to change its odd stance. The fact remains simple. There is no way anyone should trust to verify the validity of votes cast with some of these electronic voting machines unless we create a voter-verifiable paper trail and have frequent, random audits of precincts. Disabled people deserve a way to cast a fair vote, honestly counted. Some of the groups representing them -- taking money from the voting machine lobby -- would rather risk entire elections than make sure we do this right. It's a shame.

U.S. ad groups lobby for antispam law

U.S. ad groups lobby for antispam law 11/13/2003 07:39 PM
ZDNet Australia Nov 13 2003 6:33PM ET

Banking Lobby Feels the Heat

Banking Lobby Feels the Heat 10/31/2003 06:10 AM
California's devastating wildfires give privacy advocates a reprieve by delaying debate over a bill that would almost certainly have derailed California's pending financial privacy bill. By Ryan Singel.

IT Security Providers Lobby for
Incentives

IT Security Providers Lobby for
Incentives 04/19/2004 11:15 AM
They offer guidelines and say the U.S. government does not need to mandate IT security standards because corporate America will adopt best practices voluntarily.

Professor Coerces Students to Lobby

Professor Coerces Students to Lobby 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
A speech class professor, Rosalyn Kahn, told students they could get extra credit for writing an anti-war letter to President Bush. To receive credit, the letter had to protest the war, and the letter had to be mailed to President Bush. (I would find this just as worthy of mention if she had required students to write a pro-war letter.) Then, according to a press release, "One week later, Kahn again required students to write letters with a specific political viewpoint, this time to California State Senator Jack Scott. Professor Kahn collected the letters from the class and personally delivered them to Scott."

Tech Honchos Lobby Congress

Tech Honchos Lobby Congress 06/18/2004 12:05 AM
CBS News Jun 18 2004 4:21AM GMT

Friends and Foes of 'Fahrenheit' Lobby
Everyone

Friends and Foes of 'Fahrenheit' Lobby
Everyone 06/29/2004 08:41 PM
Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11" has already set a box-office record. On Monday night it set a few social agendas as well.

Big Vendors Lobby for CORBA With Their
Java

Big Vendors Lobby for CORBA With Their
Java 02/11/2004 07:13 PM
IBM, HP and BEA are concerned an interoperability specification isn't getting its due on Java's newest platform.

Tech lobby warns on policy gap

Tech lobby warns on policy gap 07/05/2004 08:43 PM
Irish Times Jul 6 2004 0:42AM GMT

US groups lobby over VoIP regulation

US groups lobby over VoIP regulation 06/03/2004 12:11 PM
Please don't get all telephonic on us

Nation's gun lobby creating news company

Nation's gun lobby creating news company 04/15/2004 06:28 PM

Readers pour water on pro-smoke lobby

Readers pour water on pro-smoke lobby 04/15/2005 12:14 PM
Stern response 'Also, you are dumb'

Justin sees his own work in the
Macromedia Lobby...

Justin sees his own work in the
Macromedia Lobby... 06/17/2005 04:33 PM
Justin, one of our Flash gurus at Yahoo, had a pleasant surprise at Macromedia: This past Thursday due to a small misscommunication I had an hour to really get to know the Macromedia lobby. ;) two things make this worth blogging. First, my NYC traffic viewer is featured on the plasma in the lobby. That was just pretty darn neat! After 45 minutes happily staring at that, I noticed the other fun feature of the lobby. Nice! It's always good...

Tech firms lobby to keep stock options

Tech firms lobby to keep stock options 09/21/2004 02:46 PM
Sun, Red Hat and others join forces in lobbying campaign to convince senators that stock options are vital.

Justice: Can't Share Foreign Lobby Data

Justice: Can't Share Foreign Lobby Data 06/30/2004 04:30 PM
The Bush administration is offering a novel reason for denying a request seeking the Justice Department's database on foreign lobbyists: Copying the information would bring down the computer system.

Nation's Gun Lobby Creating News Company
(AP)

Nation's Gun Lobby Creating News Company
(AP) 04/15/2004 05:07 PM
AP - The nation's gun lobby is creating an "NRA news" company that will produce a daily talk show for the Internet, buy a radio station and seek a television deal to spread its gun-rights message nationwide.

kuro5hin.org || Professor Coerces
Students to Lobby

kuro5hin.org || Professor Coerces
Students to Lobby 03/13/2003 08:46 PM
Professor Coerces Students to Lobby

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Cardinals Lobby for Swift Sainthood for
John Paul II

Cardinals Lobby for Swift Sainthood for
John Paul II 04/12/2005 08:31 PM
The cardinals electing a successor to Pope John Paul II are facing unusual popular pressure to declare him a saint.

Quazal - launches Rendez-vous - a lobby
service

Quazal - launches Rendez-vous - a lobby
service 02/10/2004 02:47 AM

I finally get to break somethign before Clay, Ross or jason C.

Quazal has launched a new service called Rendez-vous - a lobby service - for on-line gaming.

Welcome to the world of on-line gaming and social software.

These folks at Quazal offer an on-line gaming 'state' engine (called Net-Z), as well as MMOG (massively multi-player on-line game) infrastrcture technology (called Eterna.)  Now they've complemented their product line with a social networking kind of 'lobby service'. Totally coolio!

Provided Services

• Authenticat ion: manages player logins and ensures the integrity and confidentiality of data sent across the network.
• Secure Connection: establishes a secure connection between two stations. This connection may be made either directly or routed via a secure station, which is usually the server. In conjunction with the Authentication service this service creates a secure transport layer.
• Account Management: enables players to create lobby account(s) and allocates various access rights.
• Matchmaking : enables players to search for and locate various gatherings in order to participate in game, competition, tournament, chat, or forum sessions, for example.
• Competition : manages the organisation and outcomes of matches played between players as well as pertinent statistical values concerning any given competition.
• Friends : enables players to classify their relationship with other players and to create categorized player lists, e.g. Friend, BlackListed.
• Messaging: enables players to send messages to each other in much the same way as e-mail.
• Persistent Store: enables players to download content from and upload content to the lobby.
• Peer: this service is provided by one client to another and enables messages and station specific information to be shared between the two stations.
• Cluster Management: monitors and controls configuration of the ensemble of lobby services. This service is accessed by the lobby administrator via the Rendez-Vous management console. Players do not use this service.

I wonder if they know anything about Apple's Rendezvous Probably not.  What a great example of folks in the gaming world - nothaving a lcue on what's going on in the PC world.  Probably doesn't matter though.

As a coinkidink - this sort of matching, management, tournament stuff is.... (ooooops gotta shut up now.)

Phone Companies Join Digital Rights
Lobby

Phone Companies Join Digital Rights
Lobby 06/22/2004 10:48 AM

CNet: Tech heavies support challenge to copyright law. But members of the nascent coalition, including Intel, Sun Microsystems, Verizon Communications, SBC, Qwest, Gateway and BellSouth, are lending their support to a proposal by Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., to rewrite that part of the DMCA. Boucher's bill says that descrambling utilities can be distributed, and copy protection can be circumvented as long as no copyright infringement is taking place.

The headline is a little misleading, because Intel, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Apple are among the notably missing companies from this list. Then again, they've mostly signed on with Hollywood and the music industry to help control what customers of electronic gear are allowed to do with what they've purchased. But the presence of the big regional phone companies is a welcome one. They still have a lot of clout, and they could be a huge boost for legislation that might begin to restore some balance in the copyright debate. Boucher 's bill (H.R. 107) deserves your support, too. Please call your member of Congress.

Tech lobby calls for introduction of R&D
tax credit in next Budget

Tech lobby calls for introduction of R&D
tax credit in next Budget 10/31/2003 10:43 PM
Irish Times Oct 31 2003 9:26PM ET
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