'GUINEVERE' COMES INTO YOUR HOME.Byline: - Sandra Barrera Watching a feature film from your personal computer is virtually a mouse-click away. You can thank Miramax for that. On Monday, the studio begins showing the 1999 release ``Guinevere'' over the Internet (www.guineverethemovie.com) to see whether consumers would be willing to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. movies for a fee. In this case it's $3.49. ``Guinevere'' is one of those May-December romances. It stars Sarah Polley as a college freshman, who falls in love with a photographer played by the much older Stephen Rea. He becomes her mentor Mentor, in Greek mythology Mentor (mĕn`tər, –tôr'), in Greek mythology, friend of Odysseus and tutor of Telemachus. . They shack up shack n. A small, crudely built cabin; a shanty. intr.v. shacked, shack·ing, shacks To live or dwell: farm hands shacking in bunkhouses. together, and the rest of the story plays out over art, literature and l'amour. To see the film, all you need is a high-speed Internet See broadband. connection. Thirty minutes later, you can have ``Guinevere'' playing on your computer screen in near-DVD quality. Just so you know, the download includes an automatic encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. program that gives you 24 hours to see the film and prevents it from being copied or forwarded. ``Guinevere'' is part of Miramax's recent partnership with SightSound.com, a Web site where short films are made available for free. |
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