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Warner Bros. to Sell Movies and TV Shows on Internet — Warner Brothers plans to announce today that it will make hundreds of movies and television shows available for purchase over the Internet using BitTorrent software, which is widely used to download movies and other copyrighted material illegally.
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Bob Tourtellotte / Reuters:
Warner Bros. to sell movies via BitTorrent — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Warner Bros.'s video unit on Tuesday unveiled plans to sell movies and television shows to BitTorrent Inc. for legal downloads from the Web site that was once blamed for aiding the swapping of illegally copied films and programs.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
BitTorrent inks studio distribution deal — BitTorrent, the creator of the file-sharing software that for some has become synonymous with piracy, has struck a landmark distribution deal with a Hollywood studio. — Warner Bros. Entertainment Group has agreed to use BitTorrent's peer …
Gary Gentile / Associated Press:
Warner Bros. to distribute films on Web — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Warner Bros. will become the first major studio to distribute its films and TV shows over the Internet using peer-to-peer technology developed by BitTorrent Inc., the home of a popular tool for trading pirated copies of movies.
Paul Miller / Engadget:Warner Bros. to team with BitTorrent for movie sales
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Staci / paidContent.org:
AOL Buddy List's Social Network Expands With AIM Pages, Phoneline [by Staci] — The way AOL execs pitch it, the AOL Connections strategy is all about giving users ways to communicate whether it's IM, file sharing, video or the upcoming launches of social networking service AIM Pages and free phone service Phoneline.
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Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter:
Back in the USSR — Nick Carr is truly the gift that keeps on giving. His latest can-opener concerns the alleged Google strategy of converting all reading interfaces to search and keyword (i.e. tagging) interfaces. Nick's genius (I think he is the leader in the post-dvorak world of meme-baiting) …
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Robert W. Anderson / Expert Texture:The Link Discussion — I've finally gotten around to listening …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Live Messenger Opens to Public — The Windows Live Messenger, previously available by invitation only (sort of), is open to the public starting at 9 pm PST tonight (Monday). It is available for Windows PCs only, must be downloaded with IE (no Firefox), and is available at ideas.live.com.
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mobilekorea.tv:
Samsung unveils 6.9mm slim phone — Samsung Electronics showcases 6.9mm slim SGH-X820, or Ultra Slim Phone from May 10-13 at Sviaz ExpoComm 2006 in Russia. — X820 is a bar type phone with a 2 megapixel camera, camcorder, MP3 player, Bluetooth connectivity, file viewer and TV out.
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Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
Peer Review of Patents — Those working in the wireless and hotspot space are well aware of what damage and benefit patents have wrought: For every hard-won, hard-science patent that represents the unique result of expensive research and development that produces a non-obvious outcome beneficial …
Adam Sherwin / Times of London:
Now a TV series only on your mobile — THE demise of traditional broadcasting will move a step closer when the man behind Big Brother introduces the first British interactive reality series made exclusively for mobile phones. — Get Close To . . . , which begins on Friday …
David Hambling / NewScientistTech:
Robotic tentacles get to grips with tricky objects — Robotic "tentacles" that can grasp and grapple with a wide variety of objects have been developed by US researchers. — Most robots rely on mechanical gripping jaws that have difficulty grabbing large or irregularly shaped objects.
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Lev Grossman / Time:
A Game For All Ages — Nintendo gave TIME the first look at its new gadget, which it hopes will turn girls and even granddads into video gamers — It is cherry-blossom time in Kyoto, Japan, and I am dancing the hula for Shigeru Miyamoto. It's not easy to get into the hula spirit …
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USA Today:
Newspaper sales dip, but websites gain — NEW YORK — Newspapers offered a mixed story Monday as new data showed a circulation decline industrywide — by alarming rates at some papers — while visits to their websites grew. — Average weekday circulation fell 2.5%, to 45.4 million …
Howard W. French / New York Times:
As Chinese Students Go Online, Little Sister Is Watching — SHANGHAI, May 8 — To her fellow students, Hu Yingying appears to be a typical undergraduate, plain of dress, quick with a smile and perhaps possessed with a little extra spring in her step, but otherwise decidedly ordinary.
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Séan Captain / Slate:
Forget YouTube — Your laptop will never replace your TV. — In the last few months, the quality and diversity of Internet video has soared. Sites like YouTube have made it easy to watch user-generated content and dubbed TV clips. The old-line media is going online, too.
Stowe Boyd / Message:
My New 30" Apple Monitor — I love my new 30 inch Apple monitor. It is going to take some time to get used to so much real estate, but I love it. Here's what it looks like: shriking 2560 x 1600 pixels down to 500 x 312 doesn't do it justice, however. — This is the first outcome …
Modculture / Tech Digest:
St George's iPod nano case and England earphones — Ok, so you've got your St George's mobile phone, but now it's making your iPod look a little unpatriotic with the World Cup rapidly approaching. Help is at hand from Ixos, which is joining the World Cup merchandising frenzy with a St George's iPod nano skin and England earphones.
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Beatles judge finds iTunes 'nothing to get hung about' — update Is your hard drive equivalent to a compact disc? The Beatles said yes, Steve Jobs said no. — And in the end, a judge ruled in favor of Apple Computer. The long and winding road to Apple Computer's victory Monday over Apple Corps …
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