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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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