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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Japanese ISPs Agree to Ban Pirates from the Internet — Following a huge increase in complaints from the music, movie and software industries, the four major Japanese ISP organizations have agreed that they will work with copyright holders to track down copyright infringing file-sharers and disconnect them from the internet.
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Daily Yomiuri Online:
Winny copiers to be cut off from Internet — The nation's four Internet provider organizations have agreed to forcibly cut the Internet connection of users found to repeatedly use Winny and other file-sharing programs to illegally copy gaming software and music, it was learned Friday.
Agence France Presse:
Japan to strip Internet for illegal downloaders: report — TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese companies plan to cut off the Internet connection of anyone who illegally downloads files in one of the world's toughest measures against online piracy, a report said Saturday.
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Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Revisiting Apple's iPhone strategy — In the post I wrote about Rich Miner of Google saying that the Android mobile software stack will gain more users than the iPhone, several people commented. The general consensus is that Apple is the BMW of the personal computer industry and is the standard …
Duncan / duncanriley.com:
FriendFeed = More Hyped Yawn — So I started another bush fire, at least among the growing list of self important so-called A listers who would happily crucify anyone who dare question their favorite startup of the minute. — I say A-List somewhat lightly, because the guy who's come after me is someone who's called Louis Gray.
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Blake Robinson / ReadWriteWeb:FriendFeed vs SocialThing!
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple to 100,000 iPhone developers: don't call us, we'll call you — Three days ago it seemed as though the world had finally opened up for would-be iPhone developers. — After eight months of pent-up demand, the pieces were in place to begin exploiting the new platform in earnest.
Google Blogoscoped:
A Very Special Google Docs Feature (Potential Spoiler) — Unless something is going really, really wrong with Google, we have a suspicion this is just an upcoming April Fool's joke for Google. If that's the case, then note that spoilers follow below. — OK.
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Ustream.tv may turn down Microsoft's $50 million — Yahoo's move into live video could have kneecapped startups like Justin.tv and Ustream.tv. Instead, its botched launch just proved that serving up streams is a harder business than it looks — and got Yahoo rivals like YouTube interested.
louisgray.com:
I'm Not Reading and Engaging With Enough Female Bloggers — One of the more interesting byproducts out of Wednesday's post highlighting some of the more name-brand bloggers using FriendFeed was a number of responses saying that my subjective list of who was “elite” and who wasn't was overly weighted with male bloggers.
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Josh Wolf / Webware.com:
CNN tracks Ashley Dupre's social networking activity and provides full report — For most people, updating your MySpace or Facebook profile is not news. Sure, it might appear in your news feed on the site, but that's just about as far as the story is likely to travel.
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Roland Piquepaille / Emerging Technology Trends:
Six degrees of separation in instant messaging — According to Nature in ‘Six degrees of messaging,’ computer scientists at Microsoft Research Redmond lab have logged a full month of instant messengers using — logically — Microsoft Messenger. 'The compressed dataset occupies 4.5 terabytes …
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Brad Linder / Eee Site:
Asus EP20: First look at the Eee PC desktop — Apparently Asus had a bit more up its sleeve at CeBit than the Eee PC 900. The company also showed off the EP20, which appears to be the first desktop computer in the Eee PC lineup. Earlier this year Asus announced plans to expand the brand …
Matthew Buckland / E-Media Tidbits:
World's Publishers v. Google: The Fight Continues — Newspapers and online publishers appear to be heading back into battle against search engine behemoth Google. — Yesterday the powerful World Association of Newspapers (WAN) issued a rather terse statement, calling on Google …
