A company spokesperson says that the registration agreement allows any contract to be revoked within 30 days. The plaintiffs contend that DotTV is just being greedy. But that's for a court to decide. In the meantime, broadband.tv is still available. In 2000, Americans spent on average 1,599 hours watching TV and 135 hours surfing the Web.
Casting can be one of the biggest headaches in Hollywood.
Created by talent manager Roy Lee, the site provides a database of Hollywood's top stars. Movie producers and studio execs can specify their casting needs by such criteria as ethnicity, age and film genre, and call up a list of matches including vital stats such as box-office draw, history and any projects the actor is currently involved in. For instance, when Nicole Kidman recently injured her knee and had to pull out of The Panic Room, the filmmakers could have used castmaker to search for another star with a profile similar to Kidman's. By day a partner at talent management firm Bender-Spink, Lee's penchant for the Net has produced four sites in less than two years. He says he does it for fun, but that doesn't mean he doesn't profit from it.