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Here's a shocking stat, courtesy of a UK research firm called Futuresource Consulting: Everyone you know is spending all of their time illegally copying DVDs. Futuresource's "white paper", released yesterday and now being widely cited around the Web, says that one-third of all UK and US residents have copied pre-recorded DVDs in the last six months.

Analyst initiations: MVL, MVSN, KSP, SB, LTM, CLUB Posted Jul 8th 2008 12:12PM by Eric Buscemi Filed under: Analyst initiations, Marvel Entertainment (MVL)MOST NOTEWORTHY: Marvel Entertainment, Macrovision and K-Sea Trans were today's noteworthy initiations: Thomas Weisel initiated Marvel Entertainment

Early analyst calls (MMC) (NCR) Posted Jul 8th 2008 8:05AM by Douglas McIntyre Citigroup upgraded Marsh & McClennan (NYSE:MMC) to "buy" from "hold" according to Briefing.com. The news service also reports that Baird upgraded NCR (NYSE:NCR) to "outperform" from "neutral." Macrovision Solutions (NASDAQ:MVSN) was started as a "buy" at Kaufman Brothers, according to the AP.

By Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's Macrovision Solutions (MVSN) announced that News Corp. (NWS) has sold its 19% stake in the company to a group of new and existing institutional investors. The News Corp. position resulted from its 41% stake in Gemstar-TV Guide, which recently merged with Macrovision.

Macrovision Solutions (MVSN) announced that News Corp. (NWS) has sold its 19% stake in the company to a group of new and existing institutional investors. The News Corp. position resulted from its 41% stake in Gemstar-TV Guide, which recently merged with Macrovision.

Monday, May 5 IAB Leadership Forum: Digital Video Symphic Technology 5-day Workshop: SQL Server Business Intelligence with Data Mining Before the bell: Marvel (MVL) earnings call, 9:00 a.m. After the bell: Divx (DIVX) earnings call, 4:30 p.m., Virgin Mobile USA (VM) earnings call, 5:00 p.m., LookSmart (LOOK) earnings call, 5:00 p.m.

Gemstar-TV Guide (GMST) shares are down sharply this morning ahead of the company’s shareholder meeting tomorrow to vote on the company’s proposed merger into Macrovision (MVSN). Back in December, the two companies agreed to a deal in which Macrovision will acquire GMST for $6.35 a share in cash, or 0.2548 of a share of Macrovision.

Real to carve out games business? February 23rd, 2008 Sean Ryan (CEO of Meez) writes, “a hedge fund manager this week … insisted that RNWK might even consider spinning out RealGames since it would be worth far more as an independent entity than it is stuck inside Real, but I don’t take that concept too seriously, even if it’s a logical step” [1].

Real picks up TryMedia for $4M (Macrovision paid $34M in 2005) February 23rd, 2008 Santa Clara, California-based Macrovision is selling (formerly San Francisco-based) games DRM middleware provider TryMedia for $4M to RealNetworks, a Seattle-based company that’s increasingly focused on its fast-growing games business revenues.

Digital entertainment services company RealNetworks Inc. said Friday it acquired "substantially all" the assets of casual games syndication Trymedia from Macrovision Corp. (RNWK) (MVSN)