New resource for movie-swappers

The release of "RatDVD" file file-sharing software out on the Net is just the latest example (for parents as well as corporations) of how workarounds keep bobbing up whenever there are efforts to control online activity. "A group of anonymous programmers has released a new software tool online that threatens to raise the stakes for Hollywood studios fighting Internet movie-swapping," CNET reports. It's impossible to tell how popular RatDVD will be because it has just been released, but CNET says it offers something extra: the little extras that come with movie DVDs you buy which don't come with movies swapped on the Net (alternate endings, outtakes, directors' comments, etc.). Here's Media Week on recent legal activity by the Motion Picture Associatio of America against file-sharers.