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Viacom Files Federal Copyright Infringement Complaint Against YouTube And Google — Suit Seeks Court Ruling To Require YouTube And Google To Comply With Copyright Laws And Pay $1 Billion In Damages — Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) today announced that it has sued YouTube and Google …
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
You Go Viacom ! — Not a stretch where I would come out on this, but it never ceases to amaze and amuse me how liltle understanding of the content business, or the business world in general that many in the blogosphere have. — Let me provide a simple scenario for you. — HBO.
Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:
Viacom Sues Google for $1 Billion. Big Whoop. — So Viacom took the predictable next step in the GooTube pissing match and sued Google for $1 billion. Why is this irrelevant? — Because if Google takes the next logical step and goes through the motions of fighting the lawsuit, the companies will be in court for years.
Google Watch:18 Reasons why Google and YouTube are Guilty of Copyright Infringement
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Paul R. La Monica / CNNMoney.com:Viacom sues 'GooTube' for $1 billion
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Staci D. Kramer / PaidContent:Viacom Sues Google-YouTube: Wants More Than $1 Billion In Damages, Injunction
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Viacom Drops a $1 Billion Nuke on Google
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Chris Williams / The Register:
Last.fm puts video through the scrobbler — Last.fm, the popular music website, is to apply its social recommendation technology to video, as it prepares to do battle with Pandora for the internet radio station market. — Last.fm is working on a music video equivalent to its Audioscrobbler software …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / splashcastmedia.com:Report: Last.fm to Offer Related Music Videos
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Eliot Van Buskirk / Listening Post:
Broadband Instruments Slacker Offers Satellite, Wi-Fi Connectivity — I met with Broadband Instruments for some exclusive details on their Slacker music ecosystem, consisting of a service online service and a portable device that grabs new content from Wi-Fi networks and a different type of satellites than XM and Sirius use.
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Josh / Redeye VC:
Failing Cheaper — Ask most successful entrepreneurs how they came up with the idea for their business, and you'd likely learn that what they initially set out to do is very different from the company that you're familiar with. PayPal started out as a service to beam money through Palm Pilots …
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
A MODEST PROPOSAL TO YHOO AND MSFT: SPIN OUT A SEARCH COMPANY — One of the longer bomb predictions made by a number of analysts and pundits in the past 12 months has been the following: Microsoft will take its pile of cash and massive market valuation and buy Yahoo. Hell, I even suggested it.
Drew Clark / GigaOM:
Is Google Changing Its Position on Net Neutrality? — Is Google, the foremost corporate advocate of net neutrality, doing a big fake? Have they succeeded in making everyone believe they will stand up to the Bell companies, even as the company cuts deals to become the preferred provider on a carrier's network?
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Michael Calore / Wired News:
Exclusive: MySpace News Pics — MySpace News is for real. — A leaked document from MySpace's parent company, Fox Interactive Media, confirms the existence of its rumored Digg-style news aggregation portal. — The leaked sales document outlines the structure and taxonomy of the forthcoming site …
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Apple megapatch plugs 45 security holes — Apple on Tuesday issued a security update for its Mac OS X to plug 45 security holes, including several zero-day vulnerabilities. — The megapatch is the seventh Apple security patch release in three months. It deals with vulnerabilities …
Alice / Wonderland:
SXSW: Will Wright Keynote — Will Wright is an incredible speaker. He's lighting fast, but not so fast you can't follow, even when he tosses words like paradoxical, procedural and philosophical into the mix, and often in the same sentence. He pulls stories and analogies from all sorts …
Andrew Wallenstein / Hollywood Reporter:
Bud.TV going flat as visits decline — Bud.TV may be leaving a sour aftertaste for Anheuser-Busch. — The beermaker's new 24/7 branded digital entertainment network has seen the fizz from its Super Bowl kickoff evaporate quickly, averaging just 253,000 visitors in February, its first month online …
Kim Tae-gyu / KoreaTimes:
Acoustic Wave Prevents Game Addiction — A Korean venture start-up has developed an inaudible sound sequence, which it claims can prevent obsessive use of online games, thus giving hope to game addicts. — Xtive on Monday said the sound sequence is based on subliminal effects.
Renee Boucher Ferguson / eWEEK.com:
Project Green is Dead—for the Foreseeable Future, at Least — It's not a rumor. Project Green is dead or at least on life support. Converging Microsoft's Enterprise Resource Planning and Customer Relationship Management suites to a single code base is no longer the objective for the Dynamics development team.
gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine:
Bellperre exclusive mobile phones to be made of 0% plastic — A new brand of luxury mobile phone is set to hit the market with the promise its phones will be '0% Plastic.' mobile phones - made of leather, steel, gold, hardwood, sapphire and other fine material.
