Entertainment Stories for 2012

Big Media and Big Telcos Getting Nasty In Landmark Australian Law Case 77
Foxconn CEO Fuels iTV Rumors 153
Ridley Scott Loves Hugh Howey's Wool 98
Researcher Runs IP Network Over Xylophones 83
Online Music Storage Firm MP3tunes Files For Bankruptcy 41
How Would Driver-less Cars Change Motoring? 648
Dish Network Announces Prime Time TV With No Ads 283
U. Chicago's Epic Scavenger Hunt Is Back For 2012 56
Pirate Bay Criticizes Anonymous' Attack On Virgin 89
Google Patents Using iPhones To Kill 'Free Bird' 176
The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent a Box Office Record 663
What Various Studies Really Reveal About File-Sharing 285
How Romanian Fortune Tellers Used Google To Fleece Victims 140
Feds Seized Website For a Year Without Piracy Proof 172
Windows 8 Won't Play DVDs Unless You Pay For the Media Center Pack 734
Sony Put Video Service on Hold Due to Comcast Data Caps 348
Ask Slashdot: Overhauling an Amusement Park's Multi-Zone Audio Player? 120
Star Wars Exhibition Explores Human Identity 62
Hulu To Require Viewers To Have Cable Subscriptions 648
Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver a Step Closer To Reality 94
FCC To Require TV Stations To Post Rates For Campaign Ads 106
Optus Loses Second Battle In Aussie TV-Timeshifting Battle 38
Hobbit Film Underwhelms At 48 Frames Per Second 607
WW2 Vet Sent 300,000 Pirated DVDs To Troops In Iraq, Afghanistan 650
Cybercriminals Exploit Björk's Biophilia App To Compromise Androids 75
Sci-Fi Publisher Tor Ditches DRM For E-Books 280
Travelling Salesman, Thriller Set In a World Where P=NP 165
Video: Paul "Froggy" Schneider's Hard-Won Wisdom For Conference Organizers 35
Samsung TVs Can Be Hacked Into Endless Restart Loop 187
Company Accidentally Fires Entire Staff Via Email 333
Ph.D Webcomic Gets Adapted Into Feature Film 126
Elephants Dream Director Readies Blender-Animated Tube 40
Millions of Brits Lose Ceefax News Service 211
Man Protests TSA With Nudity 434
Spoiler Alert: Your TV Will Be Hacked 211
IKEA Announces Furniture With Integrated TV, Speakers, and Blu-ray 163
Aussie Case Unlikely To Solve Piracy Riddle In Fast Broadband World 219
Canadian Media Companies Target CBC's Free Music Site 215
Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality 272
Paramount Claims Louis CK "Didn't Monetize" 288
Ask Slashdot: Movie/Video Search Aggregation? 96
Major Networks Suing To Stop Free Streaming 250
Hanging Out at Sun Studio, Where Rock and Roll Was Born (Video) 102
The Dead Past: the Biggest Threat To Privacy Is Us 130
Matt Groening Reveals Springfield Is In His Home State of Oregon 148
MythTV 0.25 Released, New HW Acceleration and Audio Standards Support 144
IT Calls of Shame 256
How James Cameron Pumped Volume Into Titanic 289
How Las Vegas Missed Out on a Life-Sized Starship Enterprise 240
Ask Slashdot: How To Make My Own Hardware Multimedia Player? 140
Proposed Chinese Copyright Changes Would Encourage Re-Use 169
Bogus Takedown Notice Lands $150k Settlement In Australian Court 115
Canadian Telcos Lobby Against Pick-and-Pay TV 244
Pirate Bay Promotion Attracts Over 5000 Artists 124
RIP, Electric Amplifier Inventor Jim Marshall, 'Father of Loud' 166
Millions of Subscribers Leaving Cable TV for Streaming Services 380
Google Strikes Deal With Paramount 105
Despite Drop In Piracy, French Music Industry Still In Decline 272
Ashton Kutcher To Play Steve Jobs In Upcoming Film 215
Mike Smith (Bubbles) Leading the Race For Space 32
Samsung Says Their TVs Aren't Really Spying On You 171
Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? 516
CBS Uses Copyright To Scuttle Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II Episode 268
Two Florida Judges Quash Copyright Fishing Lawsuits 17
NYC Bans Mention of Dinosaurs, Dancing, Birthdays On Student Tests 470
What Book Publishers Should Learn From Harry Potter 196
Comcast Not Counting Their Video Service Against Bandwidth Cap 284
Kim Dotcom Alleges Studios Wanted to Work With Megaupload 139
Murdoch Faces Allegations of Sabotage 201
HDTV Expert Alfred Poor Tells You What to Buy and What Not to Buy (Video) 324
Magician Marco Tempest Talks 'Open Sorcery' 83
XBMC V11 Eden Has Been Released 195
Militarizing Your Backyard With Python and AI 112
Giant Paper Airplane Takes (Brief) Flight Over Arizona 54
With Cinavia DRM, Is Blu-ray On a Path To Self-Destruction? 429
Hobbit Pub Saved By Actors Stephen Fry and Sir Ian McKellen 169
Dutch Artist Admits Faking Viral 'Human Bird Wing' Video 125
Judge Rules Pi-Based Music Is Non-Copyrightable 183
When Social Media Meets TV, Are the Results Worth Watching? 106
New Doctor Who Companion Announced 255
New Samsung TV Watches You Watching It 320
3D Printer Models For Universal Construction Toy Connectors 76
The Numbers Behind the Copyright Math 311
Michael Bay To Remake TMNT As Aliens 481
Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students 1054
Patent Troll Targets Samsung and RIM With Emoticon Button Patent 44
Connecticut Considers Digital Download Tax 244
One Sci-Fi Author Wrote 29 of the Kindle's 100 Most-Highlighted Passages 239
Microsoft Patent Monetizes Your TV Remote 234
Netflix Terms of Service Invalidates Your Right To Sue 206
Mastering Engineer Explains Types of Compression, Effects On Today's Music 382
10 Ways To Celebrate Pi Day 196
Details of Initial "Disc to Digital" Program Emerge 201
Huge Triangle-shaped Spot Over the Sun 229
'The Hobbit' Pub Threatened With Lawsuit 388
Lego Mindstorms Used To Make Artificial Bones 42
Ruling Prohibits Kaleidescape From Selling, Supporting Movie Servers 136
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Artist Jean 'Moebius' Giraud Dies At 73 64
Profile of a Real-Life Jedi Academy 128
Third-Generation Apple TV Lands With a Thud 222
Topher Grace Screens Star Wars Prequel Re-edit 192
Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? 1244
Google Unifies Media, Apps Into Google Play 146
Why Distributing Music As 24-bit/192kHz Downloads Is Pointless 841
Spider Silk Spun Into Violin Strings 49
Hackers Nab Unreleased Michael Jackson Tracks From Sony 192
Star Wars Conceptual Artist Ralph McQuarrie Dies at 82 65
Iran's Cardboard Khomeini: Now Available As Malware 51
Remastered Star Trek: the Next Generation Blu-ray a Huge Leap Forward 470
Master Engineer: Apple's "Mastered For iTunes" No Better Than AAC-Encoded Music 312
Suggestions For Music Hosting? 225
2 Science Publishers Delve Into Science Fiction 67
Your Next TV Interface Will Be a Tablet 210
Is Hypertext Literature Dead? 208
The Best Streaming Media Player 217
Should There Be a Sci-Fi Category At the Oscars? 309
Submitting "Nuking the Fridge" To Scientific Peer Review 284
Almost a Million UK Homes Will Suffer 4G TV interference 166
Eternal Copyright: a Modest Proposal 184
Samsung Spins Off Its Display Business 60
James Randi's Latest Debunking Operation 498
Man Digs Out Basement Using Radio Controlled Toy Tractors 169
A Memory of Light To Be Released January 8, 2013 228
Sony Raises Price of Whitney Houston's Music 30 Minutes After Death 507
Steve Jobs Awarded Posthumous Grammy 176
UK Law Enforcement Starts Seizing Music Blogs 310
Television Next In Line For Industry-Wide Shakeup? 381
Stanford's Francis Fukuyama Builds Personal Surveillance Drone 92
Mozart and Bach Handel Subway Station Crime 353
From the Nuremberg Toy Fair, a New Linux System For RC Cars 81
Replacing the World's Largest IMAX Screen 89
Sale Or License? Sister Sledge Sues Over ITunes 257
Pink Floyd Engineer Alan Parsons Rips Audiophiles, YouTube and Jonas Brothers 468
The Science Fiction Effect 210
Jedi Master's Hand-Made Lightsaber Stolen 174
Selling Used MP3s Found Legal In America 281
Capitol Records Motion To Enjoin ReDigi Denied 103
Tapeheads and the Quiet Return of VHS 446
Google Asks Court Not To Enjoin ReDigi 185
DC Comics Announces "Before Watchmen" 130
Eye of Tiger Composer Sues Gingrich To Stop Campaign From Using Song 452
Inside the Museum of Nonsense 83
Sinclair ZX81 Made Out of Lego 97
Romney Invokes Fair Use In Dispute With NBC Over Campaign Ad 242
Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine Controls 421
Monty Python Crew To Reunite For Movie 136
Flaw In YouTube Takedown Process Exposed 181
ReDigi Defends Used Digital Music Market 111
WikiLeaks Cable: NASDAQ Folded To Chinese Pressure 269
High School Students Send Lego Man 24 Kilometers High 115
The Web's Worst Privacy Policy 107
Julian Assange To Host Talk Show 164
Psychics Say Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship 285
Ask Slashdot: Tips On 2D To Stereo 3D Conversion? 125
Star Wars Uncut Project Complete 175
Tales of IT Idiocy 181
Y Combinator Wants To Kill Hollywood 424
Downloads of DoS Attack Tool LOIC Spike 267
Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy 1005
Cloud Computing Democratizes Digital Animation 167
iTunes Match Expands To Latin America, Netherlands, Baltics 47
Ubuntu TV: Coming Soon To a Living Room Near You (Video) 183
The Coming Tech Battle Over 'Smart TVs' 314
Google Giving Google TV Another Shot 199
JRR Tolkien Denied Nobel Due To Low Quality Prose 505
Ubuntu TV Finally Gets a Close-Up 146
Lower Limit Found For Sudoku Puzzle Clues 121
Apple Threatens Steve Jobs Doll Maker With Lawsuit 314
Controlled Quantum Levitation Used To Build Wipeout Track 162
Makers Keep Flogging 3D TV, Viewers Keep Shrugging 457
Thumbdrive-Sized Streaming Media Players Coming Soon 112
China Cuts 'Excessive Entertainment' From TV 336
US Survey Shows Piracy Common and Accepted 528
Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? 464
China Trials Its First 3D TV Channel 48
Bob Anderson, the Man Behind Vader's Lightsaber, Dies at 89 99
The 'Cable Guy' Now a Network Specialist 235
What Could Have Been In the Public Domain Today, But Isn't 412

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