... -to-peer communities and electronics manufacturers later built compatible devices. Already about 3 million U.S. households swap files of movies and TV shows in file-sharing communities online such as Kazaa, according to research from the Yankee Group, which notes that a large amount of those files are encoded in DivX technology. About a third of those people downloading video files burn them onto a CD or ... DVD. Studio executives fear that the Internet will affect the video business just like it has the music business. The new technological advances in compression softwares have allowed...

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