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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Apple, others draw legal threat over media players — update A California company that makes technology designed to prevent ripping of digital audio streams has accused Apple, Microsoft, RealNetworks and Adobe Systems of violating federal copyright law by "actively avoiding" use of its products.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Out of Chaos, Order. Or So Google Says. — Over the years, Google has carefully cultivated the image of a zany company in which innovation and new products — lots of new products — emerge from a bit of chaos. — Now Google is trying to put some order into that chaos — or at least appear to do so.
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BBC:
Google searches web's dark side — One in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user's PC. — Researchers from the firm surveyed billions of sites, subjecting 4.5 million pages to "in-depth analysis".
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
MySpace fights copyright woes with 'Take Down' tech — MySpace announced Friday that it's implementing new technology to combat members' unauthorized use of copyrighted content. — Aptly titled "Take Down Stay Down," the new feature is a content protection measure based on Audible Magic technology.
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Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine:
Congress Stares Down YouTube, HDNet — Members of Congress on Thursday tangled with leading video providers over how to preserve the open architecture of the Internet while improving its quality and protecting intellectual property rights. — Representatives from YouTube, Sling Media …
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:Online Video No Threat To TV, YouTube Tells Congress; Cuban …
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Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
HBO Exec Wants to Rename DRM — People have had lots of objections to Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology — centering mainly on its clumsiness and the futility of its anti-infringement rationale — but until recently nobody had complained that the term "Digital Rights Management" was insufficiently Orwellian.
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Fred / A VC:
The New Journalism? — I got this comment last night on my 15 million post from Kevin Farnham: … There's more to the comment, so click thru on the link to the post above to read the whole thing. Kevin makes an interesting distinction. Blogs are journalism. Twitter and MySpace are not.
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
YouTube's New Inline Ads: Screenshots — YouTube is experimenting with inline ads, showing a text ad at the bottom of its player as a video is playing. If a user clicks on the text, a video ad expands and appears layered on top of the player. The ads are also clickable from a static post-roll.
Bkp / The Pirate Bay:
User data stolen but not unsecured — Hi, we have some sad news, but don't be alarmed... Some people (and yes, we know who) found a security hole on our web site (in fact, actually in this blog). — They have got a copy of the user database. That is, your username and passwords.
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Facebook Classified Ad Offering Deals Another Blow To Newspapers — It's sure rough trying to charge for a service that other businesses are offering for free. Just ask any newspaper exec. With 20/20 hindsight, it seems inevitable that the web would be the perfect platform for free classified ads …
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Lifehacker:
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Mac utilities — It's not always the full-blown software applications that make the biggest difference on your computer; often it's the small do-one-thing-well utilities that enhance our computing experience that much more. — Today's top 10 covers the system utilities …
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LeeAnn Prescott / Hitwise US:
Gmail Traffic Up 17% Since Opening Up, Still Early Adopter Appeal — On February 14, 2007 Google's Gmail opened up access to anyone worldwide. Previously Gmail, which is still in beta, was only available by invitation from another Gmail user. The market share of US visits to Gmail increased …
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
GROKKING A NEW APPROACH TO SEARCH ADVERTISING EXPERIENCE: SEA DRAGON AND MORE — Gary Flake (I posted on my meeting with him earlier this week here) has sent me files from his demo at SAS. I missed that demo, but you can get the picture, literally, by checking out these images.
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Dylan Tweney / Epicenter:
Geeks and Suits Rub Shoulders at GigaOm Party — Om Malik and TheLadders.com CEO Mark Cenedella joined forces to throw a cocktail party at San Francisco's Pier 38 Thursday evening. Was this a turning point for the boomlet of optimism and hope that has been tagged with the lame moniker of "web 2.0"?
MarketingWeek:
T-MOBILE LOOKS SET TO WIN EURO DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS FOR THE IPHONE — T-Mobile has emerged as the frontrunner in the race to secure the exclusive European distribution rights for Apple's much-anticipated iPhone. The hotly contested contract will be worth millions of pounds to the winning operator.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Charles River Ventures' Angel Experiment: First Nine Investments — When Charles River Ventures announced its Quick Start program last year to provide a few hundred thousand dollars to startups on an expedited basis, it caused minor ripples in the Angel funding market.
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