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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Four reasons why the RIAA won a jury verdict of $220,000 — The Recording Industry Association of American got a chance on Thursday to show everyone just how heavy and intimidating the legal club of copyright law can be. — As my colleague Greg Sandoval wrote a few hours ago …
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Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
Labels Win Suit Against Song Sharer — In a crucial legal victory for record labels and other copyright owners, a federal jury yesterday found a Minnesota woman liable for copyright infringement for sharing music online and imposed a penalty of $222,000 in damages.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:RIAA trial verdict is in: jury finds Thomas liable for infringement
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:Please support our dying business model
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David Kravets / Threat Level:RIAA Jury Finds Minnesota Woman Liable for Piracy, Awards $222,000
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Interactive Advertising Bureau:
INTERNET ADVERTISING REVENUES CONTINUE TO SOAR, REACH NEARLY $10 BILLION IN FIRST HALF OF '07 — Historic Second Quarter: Revenues Exceed $5 Billion for the First Time — The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) today released the IAB Internet Advertising …
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Mike Sachoff / WebProNews:
Internet Ad Revenues Set Record — Internet advertising revenues for the first half of 2007 reached nearly $10 billion, setting a new record representing an increase of nearly 27 percent over the same period last year, according to a new report from the Internet Advertising Bureau and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
Google's Shock and Awe: 40% of US Online Ad Revs in Q1 and Q2 — One thing stood out in the IAB's report that online ads clocked in over $10B in the US alone. — How much went to Google? — Google generated $3.66B in Q1 2007 revenues and $3.871B in Q2 2007, that's $7.531B.
24/7 Wall St.:
Details Of Yahoo! (YHOO) Break-Up From Bernstein Research — 24/7 Wall St. has obtained a copy of the Bernstein Research report on the break-up of Yahoo!. — The first model done by Bernstein assume that the company is broken into three parts. — The first piece is Display Advertising.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Bernstein's Yahoo (YHOO) Break-Up Plan: Ridiculous — The normally astute firm Sanford Bernstein appears to have developed brain rot this morning, at least with regard to a purported Yahoo break-up plan. According to Reuters and 24/7 Wall St, Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay posits …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iPod "nana" spews chest-high flames from trousers — lawsuit at 11 — Prepare to be amazed at what passes for investigative journalism on television these days. Atlanta's WSB-TV Action News team ran a sensational iPod "nana" piece last night under the title "Man's Pants Catch Fire At Airport."
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WSB-TV:
iPod Sets Man's Pants On Fire — ATLANTA — The new iPod Nano is hot. But one Douglasville man said his old Nano got even hotter — hot enough to burst into flames. — "So I look down and I see flames coming up to my chest," said Danny Williams. — Williams said the burn hole …
rentzsch.com:
apple's antiCAPSLOCK — About a month ago I picked up a new Apple keyboard. That's the new thin model, the wired variant. — I'm rather pleased with it: like all keyboards, the previous model had a propensity of collecting debris+cruft. Unlike most other keyboards …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
China Blocking RSS Feeds — The Chinese Government has added a blanket ban on all RSS feeds, according to a report at Ars Technica. — There have been reports previously that Feedburner feeds have been blocked, but to-date information delivered by RSS feeds has generally gone uncensored …
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Rich Brown / Crave: The gadget blog:
Mac Mini to be replaced by Mac Nano? — We approach all Apple-related rumors with skepticism, but sometimes we get a certain feeling about them, and today's from Mac OS Rumors gives us that tingle of plausibility. Word from one of that site's "oldest and most reliable sources in Cupertino" …
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Christopher Hogg / Digital Journal:
Exclusive: Holt Renfrew Insider Says iPhone Coming to Canada in Two Weeks — While we're still marking this as rumour alert, a Holt Renfrew insider has told DigitalJournal.com the luxury retailer will be carrying Apple's iPhone across Canada by mid-October 2007.
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Today's Web 3.0 Nonsense Blogstorm — If Web 2.0 was so hot, how about Web 3.0? This has been a recurrent theme of would-be meme-engineers who want to position their startup as the next big thing. Nova Spivack started it by describing the as-yet-to-be-revealed Radar Networks as Web 3.0 …
