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How ‘The Matrix’ helped build—and break—beleaguered production company Village Roadhouse

Fast Company Tech

But last week, following a years-long decline in box office performance, the company filed for bankruptcy. on 91 of 108 total movies over the decades that followed, according to its bankruptcy filing. As the filing details, Village Roadshow spent approximately $47.5 Neither Village Roadshow nor Warner Bros.

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The Verge

They were all getting the same error message: The program couldn’t find their files. Not only did they not know where their files were saved — they didn’t understand the question. Not only did they not know where their files were saved — they didn’t understand the question. Garland thought it would be an easy fix.

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Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects

The Verge

A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “ faker.js ” and “ colors.js ” — that thousands of users depend on, rendering any project that contains these libraries useless, as reported by Bleeping Computer. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Publishers sue Internet Archive over Open Library ebook lending

The Verge

Four major book publishers have filed suit against the Internet Archive for copyright violations relating to the Open Library project , setting the stage for a major legal fight over one of the internet’s longest-running ebook archives. Reached for comment, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle called the lawsuit “disappointing.”. “As

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The Internet Archive has ended its ‘emergency library’ early

The Verge

After four commercial publishers filed a lawsuit earlier this month, the Internet Archive ended its National Emergency Library program earlier than planned, the organization said in a blog post (via ArsTechnica ). million books for people unable to get to classrooms or libraries during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) is a partnership of academic and research institutions that had created (with help from Google ) a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. You can read more about our position in the Amicus Brief , which we filed jointly with our peer organization, Learning Ally.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. Or file a DMCA notice. Now, apparently, we can file a counter-notice. No need to send us a letter.

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