The Academy Awards were on TV last night, and the many retrospective montages showing 80 years of film made me want to write something about why few of those movies are available legally online today. Remember all those promises back in the late 1990s about how the Internet would soon allow people to watch […]

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Some of the things Japanese can do with their mobile phones:
watch live TV channels for free, and digitally record those channels, up to 30 minutes
remotely program their DVRs
read bar codes on movie and concert posters and purchase tickets
buy train tickets and other items from vending machines without using cash
photograph and sell items (a la craigslist) […]

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