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Kazaa used by film company



LA Times, October 11, 2002

Lions Gate Puts Kazaa Net to Use
Media: Other studios hate the file-sharing service; the independent distributes trailers on it.

By JON HEALEY, TIMES STAFF WRITER

To the world's largest entertainment companies, the controversial Kazaa file-sharing network is Public Enemy No. 1?a wildly popular source of free, downloadable music and movies.

But to Lions Gate Entertainment, an independent film studio based in Marina del Rey, Kazaa is the means to a more profitable end. Breaking ranks with mainstream Hollywood, the company is using Kazaa to promote its big fall film through the Internet?with the financial help of Microsoft Corp.

full: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-kazaa11oct11,0,2625946.story?coll=la%2Dhome%2Dtodays%2Dtimes


Louis Proyect
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