Until now, only about four copies of William Richert’s dark 80s fairy tale, ‘American Success Company’, were known to exist (one owned by a television network, one by Steven Spielberg, and two VHS dubs, one owned by me). Richert has remastered the 1983 release of his picture, retitled ‘Success’, starring Jeff Bridges, Ned Beatty and Bianca Jagger. Not only is Richert selling DVDs of it directly, but has also put the entire movie on his website, in chunks hosted at Google Video. This movie was so obscure that it was never even released on VHS. Richert has also placed complete Google Video of his movies Aren’t You Even Going To Kiss Me Goodbye, The Man in the Iron Mask and Winter Kills (also starring Jeff Bridges). Richert is currently involved with The Vindicator, a mobster drama that will be released on the internet. Dailies of The Vindicator after the jump. [GT]

In response to images of the Tiananmen Square massacre being posted on Flickr, China has banned Flickr access. “I just want to look at some photos! What’s wrong with that?” said 24-year-old accountant Yang Zhou, who discovered the ban when he went to Flickr to browse his friend’s holiday snaps. “Of course, [privacy is] the first thing people seek when they have the economic resources,” said Nicholas Bequelin from Hong Kong-based Human Rights Watch. “We see this growing in China in the wake of ideas of ownership and property.” Reuters has video coverage of global privacy issues. [GT]

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