DVD stores upset by price war

IT IS either an offer too good to refuse or the death of the corner video store, or possibly even both.

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A HOST of new Australian acts is helping fuel a music industry recovery, the latest ARIA wholesale figures show. The 16-year-old singer-songwriter Gabriella Cilmi, along with the pop-rock groups Gyroscope, Cut Copy and the Presets, were among the local acts to reach No. 1 on the charts, joining established names such as Kasey Chambers and Pete Murray, with Australian music accounting for about a third of chart-making acts.

An Uneven Fight: Hollywood Versus The Pirates

The big movie houses are taking on China's pirate DVD industry. The problem is their measures may be a drop in the ocean.

No-sweat Deleting

THESE days, loading software onto a PC is the easy part. Mostly it's simply a matter of dropping in the CD and closing the drive. With AutoPlay CDs, the machine does the rest. Getting software off the machine can be a different ballgame. Wholesale slash-and-burn operations through the hard