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On Oct. 14, 2003, I found myself upstairs at the Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Toronto to witness history. Or so I was told. Music piracy was out of control. Napster started it in June 1999, and while it had been sued out of existence by the fall of 2003, dozens of peer-to-peer programs popped up: Gnutella, Audiogalaxy, Satellite, Scout, Kazaa, Morpheus, BitTorrent, eDonkey, eMule, Bearshare, Grokster, LimeWire, and several dozen other file-sharing programs were in the wild. The music industry was in a panic.Sony tried to get into the game of selling digital music, but the hardware division was at odds with the music division, which made its download store clunky and unusable. They then partnered with Universal to create a digital storefront called Duet, which was soon rebranded Pressplay (st...

Matka King’s trailer teased a story fronted by Vijay Varma, Sai Tamhankar, Kritika Kamra, and Gulshan Grover. But as director Nagraj Manjule’s maiden web series drops on Prime Video today, we’ll see another actor in the cast. Towards the end of the series, Viineet Kumar Siingh is seeded as a character, who goes on to become important in the already planned second season.  Source link

Authorities in New Mexico released an audio recording of director Timothy Busfield denying sexually abusing two child actors on the set of TV series The Cleaning Lady. Police released body camera footage from a detectives’ call with Busfield in New York in November 2025, after he was accused of inappropriately touching a minor on the set of a TV series, which he was directing in New Mexico between November 2022 and early 2024.In the audio, obtained by NBC affiliate KOB, Busfield, who faces four counts of criminal sexual contact with a child, claimed that he was never alone with the child actors accusing him of inappropriately touching them and said, “never anything of any sexual, any weird, ever with them. That’s disgusting.” ...

The power-packed trailer of Glory, a riveting series about revenge and ambition, was unveiled on Friday. With a murder mystery at its core, the series is set in the high-stakes world of Indian boxing, where the ring becomes a battleground for personal conflicts, buried secrets, and emotional reckoning. The Netflix series has been created by Karan Anshuman and Karmanya Ahuja. Glory trailer released Marking a first-of-its-kind launch, Netflix brought the world of Glory to life by hosting a LIVE boxing face-off between Pulkit Samrat and professional boxer Neeraj Goyat, which blurred the lines between fiction and reality to create an immersive experience. Source link

The Toronto Raptors are back in the playoffs, and their hype videos are doing things a little differently this time. There’s no thumping bass or blaring beats in the promotional reels on social media. Instead, a more emotional, piano-driven score accompanies Scottie Barnes and RJ Barrett dunking and hitting fadeaways.The man behind that sound is Toronto composer Tony Ann, whose pop-leaning neoclassical style is quickly winning over the city’s sports teams.“I tell so many people my biggest inspirations and heroes are athletes. I grew up watching Vince Carter with the Raptors and Michael Jordan with the Wizards — I know that wasn’t his prime anymore, but it was still pretty cool,” says the 32-year-old, speaking from Antwerp, Belgium.He’s midway through a European tour that’s taken him from s...

The power-packed trailer of Glory, a riveting series about revenge and ambition, was unveiled on Friday. With a murder mystery at its core, the series is set in the high-stakes world of Indian boxing, where the ring becomes a battleground for personal conflicts, buried secrets, and emotional reckoning. The Netflix series has been created by Karan Anshuman and Karmanya Ahuja. Glory trailer released Marking a first-of-its-kind launch, Netflix brought the world of Glory to life by hosting a LIVE boxing face-off between Pulkit Samrat and professional boxer Neeraj Goyat, which blurred the lines between fiction and reality to create an immersive experience. The trailer of Glory shows the dynamics beyond the family open into a world where every character has a stake. Sikandar Kher’s Kookie Gul...

Natalie Portman is expecting her third child and her first baby with boyfriend Tanguy Destable. In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Portman, 44, confirmed the news, saying, “Tanguy and I are very excited. I’m just very grateful. I know it’s such a privilege and a miracle.”“I grew up hearing about how hard it is to get pregnant,” the Black Swan actor, whose father is a fertility doctor, continued. “I have so many people I love who’ve had such a hard time with it that I want to be respectful around that as well.” 4:25 Natalie Portman & Moses Ingram star in new series “Lady In The Lake” “It’s such a beautiful, joyous thing, and it’s also no...

Actress Kritika Kamra, who is gearing up for the release of her upcoming streaming show Matka King, has shared her experience of witnessing and working in Mumbai of the 1960s and the 70s. Matka King follows the story of a gambling lord, played by Vijay Varma, who undergoes a meteoric rise in the 1960s and 1970s in Mumbai. The cotton mills of Mumbai play an important part in the show and its narrative. Kritika essays the role of Gulrukh, a Parsi woman, who acts as a catalyst to the evolution of the game of Matka. The actress spoke with IANS during the promotions of the show and shed light on making her way around a story set back in time. She told IANS, “See, the world was already created through the story. So, you are already inhabiting that world as an actor. As soon as you go on the s...

During a keynote speech at a mental health conference in Australia, Prince Harry said there were points in his life when he did not want to be royal or to fulfil the duties his title entails, particularly after the death of his mother, Princess Diana, when he was 12 years old. “I was like, ‘I don’t want this job. I don’t want this role — wherever this is headed, I don’t like it,’ he told the audience at the InterEdge Summit — a leadership summit on workplace mental health — in Melbourne on Thursday, where his wife, Meghan Markle, was also present.During his 20-minute address, Harry spoke about his experience with mental health and how grief has impacted his life. 0:45 Prince H...

Kannada Zee5 unveiled the trailer of the original series ‘Jerax’, a six‑episode fantasy comedy thriller that has been attracting attention ever since its title and lead cast were announced. Produced by actor Dhananjaya of Daali Pictures and written and directed by Srinidhi Bengaluru, Jerax brings together a strong set of veteran actors, led by Nagabhushana, Payal Chengappa, Manju Pavagada, Om Prakash Rao, Srivatsa, Yashwanth Shetty, Vijaya Prasad, Thukali Santhu, Jagappa, Siddu Mandya, and Sudhakar Gowda among others. What is Jerax about? In the town of Rayadurga, Prakasha (Nagabhushana) is the kind of young man no one really notices, a xerox shop worker who hopes life might one day acknowledge him. His world changes the moment a curious piece of Thayitha merges with his old copying ma...