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To: Stoctrash who wrote (31670)	3/31/1998 1:36:00 PM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

Best Buy sells 1 million DVD movies in one year. newsalert.com <<In 1997, Best Buy launched DVD in 74 of its stores with five hardware models and a modest assortment of 23 movie titles from Warner Home Video. Two months after the launch, Best Buy rolled the hardware to all 272 locations nationwide. The Company continued to add software titles, with more than 500 DVD movie titles currently available. Today box office movies, such as Air Force One, are released simultaneously in DVD and VHS formats. Warner Home Video President Warren Lieberfarb said, "A million DVDs sold by Best Buy alone shows DVD is here to stay. Studios are adopting it and retailers, like Best Buy, are selling it because consumer demand for DVD is strong." This summer, Best Buy will expand its DVD software area in preparation for the more than 1,500 movie titles available from nearly all major studios.>>

To: Stoctrash who wrote (31670)	3/31/1998 2:48:00 PM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

<off-topic> It's O.K. to call to call someone a liar on the internet. Maybe. news.com <<Last summer, Stacy McCahan called Ken McCarthy a liar in a public online forum and was subsequently slapped with a $5,000 lawsuit. McCarthy won his case in small-claims court in February but lost to McCahan's appeal yesterday. McCarthy, a Web consultant and freelance journalist, argued that the posting was a personal attack that could damage his reputation because it was archived on the Net. But in court earlier this month, McCahan's attorney countered that "flame wars" were customary on the Net, where people regularly exchange insults during heated discussions. The San Francisco Superior Court, which doesn't write detailed opinions in such cases, ruled in favor of McCahan and ordered McCarthy to pay her $221 in attorney's fees and other legal costs. >>