Intel's Sandy Bridge sucks up to Hollywood with DRM

CHIPMAKER Intel has cut a deal with Hollywood in its Sandy Bridge chips to put digital restrictions management (DRM) in them.Intel's sellout to the big media companies makes it 'safer' for Hollywood studios to offer premium movies to consumers on locked-down personal computers. No doubt the media content cartels and Intel are dreaming monopolistic visions of extracting big rents to stream everything online.

According to Reuters, Time Warner's digital distribution unit and other studios plan to offer high-definition movies to consumers who have PCs with Intel Sandy Bridge chips inside, simultaneous with releasing them on DVD.

Apparently the media cartels are dead keen to get their content on PCs that are locked-down even to the level of the chip.

Mooly Eden, Intel's VP and general manager of the PC client group said that Intel's embedded DRM allows content to be streamed to computers with Sandy Bridge chips and that Chipzilla is making deals with all the studios and content distributors to make it available.
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Hollywood Dispute Pits Parking Against Organic Food

LOS ANGELES — On weekdays, Ivar Street is a quiet strip of Hollywood with a theater, a sound recording studio, a Jack in the Box, a gay and lesbian elderly housing complex and a film school. Every Sunday morning, it becomes the Hollywood Farmers Market, four bustling blocks of farm and food stands offering everything from oyster mushrooms to California sea bass to a crowd of 8,000 people
But after 19 years in existence, the Hollywood Farmers Market is endangered, at the center of a fight that has put on display three of this city’s most powerful passions: Food, film and parking. The Los Angeles Film School, a relative newcomer to what was once a seedy pocket of Hollywood, has moved to prevent the Farmers Market from renewing its permit because farm stands obstruct the driveway to its most convenient parking lot.
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Hollywood Dispute Pits Parking Against Organic Food

Nancy Pelosi Turning to Hollywood for 'Rebranding' Advice?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is consulting with marketing experts, including famed Hollywood director Steven Spielberg, about re-branding the Democratic image in the U.S. House, according to the Washington Post. With Republicans set to take control next month and Pelosi facing a demotion to minority leader, the newspaper said the California Democrat is reaching out to private sector consultants just as she did in 2004, two years before Democrats took the majority away from the GOP.
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Nancy Pelosi Turning to Hollywood for 'Rebranding' Advice?

Murdered Hollywood publicist was gunned down by 'expert marksman', coroner reveals

Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen was shot dead by an expert marksman, it was revealed today.
n initial coroner's report showed the movie industry stalwart's injuries were consistent with a professional 'hit'.Miss Chasen, 64, was shot five times in the chest in the early hours of November 16th in Beverly Hills, shortly after leaving the premiere of Burlesque.The coroner said the nature of the famed publicist's injuries were consistent with being targeted by a professional gunman.The report said:'There were three apparent gunshot wounds to the right side breast/chest area. There were two apparent gunshot wounds to the right shoulder.

'There was an apparent gunshot wound to the right upper back and the left upper back.

'One bullet was recovered from her back while at the hospital and is possibly a 9mm hollow point.'

Detectives confirmed they are looking for a skilled marksman as part of their murder probe.

They believe the gunman fired from a SUV or truck that pulled up alongside Miss Chasen's BMW as she stopped on Sunset Boulevard.

The report added: 'After being struck by gunfire, she then made a left turn and drove for approximately a quarter mile before she crashed her car into a pole.'

Former LA detective Gill Carillo told ABC News: 'Normally they turn the gun sideways and this is something that was done with some skill.
I carried a gun for 38 years and had to fire it quarterly. I don't think I could shoot and hit that mass like that.'Police could find no shell casings and only the car's right-side passenger seats and windows were damaged.Miss Chasen's death has prompted a swirl of theories as to who might have wanted to kill the popular publicist.Footage of her driving a car that was not hers 19 days before she was gunned down has only added to the intrigue as conspiracy theories abound about her death.The film, snapped by a private investigator who was asked to record all the comings and going of the building where Miss Chasen was living, for an unrelated purpose, shows her driving an unidentified vehicle.

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