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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Music Industry's New Extortion Scheme — Musicians themselves may just be crazy, but the music labels are dangerously stupid, and need to be stopped before they can do any further damage to the music industry. Case in point: Warner Music, fully aware that the days of charging …
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Mark Evans, Los Angeles Times, Don Dodge on The Next …, p2pnet, Silicon Alley Insider, hypebot, broadstuff and MediaFuturist
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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
US students, alumni to get legal P2P — The beginning of the end of the file-sharing wars? — Exclusive US colleges and their alumni may be offered the right to P2P file-sharing under one of the most radical copyright reforms in a hundred years, The Register has learned.
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Fee for All — Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s Warner Music Group has tapped industry veteran Jim Griffin to spearhead a controversial plan to bundle a monthly fee into consumers' internet-service bills for unlimited access to music. — The plan—the boldest move yet to keep the wounded entertainment …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Report: Music downloads on your Net access tab? — Hotels tack extra charges onto your bill when you raid the minibar—or if they're really mean, when you steal towels. If a new Warner Music Group executive gets his way, your Internet service provider will be billing you each month for music downloads.
InfoWorld:
Gone in 2 minutes: Mac gets hacked first in contest — It may be the quickest $10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned. — He took the first of three laptop computers — and a $10,000 cash prize — Thursday after breaking into a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conference's PWN 2 OWN hacking contest.
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Zero Day Initiative / DVLabs:PWN to OWN Day Two: First Winner Emerges! (updated)
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Infinite Loop, Slashdot, Digital Trends, Security Bytes, Business Technology, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Errata Security and Salon
Jonathan Skillings / CNET News.com:
Dell offers sub-$1,000 Blu-ray laptop — The end of the next-generation DVD format battle may not mean a long victory lap for inflated Blu-ray prices after all. — Dell, which has more than a little clout in the PC market, on Friday announced that consumers can now spend less than $1,000 to get a Blu-ray-equipped laptop.
Jemima Kiss / PDA:
The quiet boom of paidContent, and its new chief executive — Rafat Ali's digital media empire has grown, again. I'll disclaim right away - I used to work for him and am in awe of what he has created since ditching the life of a staff journalist all those years ago.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:The Next Phase Of Our Company: Scaling From The Inside Out
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Money Out Blog, Beet.TV, HipMojo.com, Behind The Money Blog, Blogcosm, BuzzMachine and Valleywag
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
What's Yahoo worth to Microsoft without Alibaba? — One of Yahoo's best arguments for getting Microsoft to raise its offer to acquire the company-the portal's stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba-is in jeopardy courtesy of antitrust regulations in China.
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Seeking Alpha
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
NVIDIA drivers responsible for nearly 30% of Vista crashes in 2007 — That huge bundle of damning emails and documents Microsoft produced as part of the Vista-capable lawsuit is full of fascinating information about how the company developed, planned, and launched Vista …
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Download Squad, InformationWeek Weblog, TGDaily.com, Dan's Tech-n-Stuff Weblog and TechSpot
Charles Cooper / Coop's Corner:
Here's a throwback idea that might offer a way out for Microsoft — Ray Ozzie is one of the most well-respected computer scientists around. He pioneered innovations in groupware software during previous stints at Lotus and Groove and now is working to bring Microsoft's technology strategy …
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Antone Gonsalves / InformationWeek:
Gartner Clarifies 3G iPhone Reports — The technology research firm says it doesn't know whether Apple has actually ordered 10 million iPhones that support 3G networks, as was reported on the Web. — Technology research firm Gartner on Thursday tried to clear up reports that it had said Apple might …
WritersWeekly.com:
Amazon.com Telling POD Publishers - Let BookSurge Print Your Books, or Else... BREAKING DEVELOPMENT: We were notified by a PublishAmerica author that her book was available for purchase through Amazon on Tuesday but today the “buy” button for her book on Amazon is gone.
Linux-Watch.com:
Red Hat posts great 2008 fiscal year earnings — Anyone under the delusion that you can't make money from open source and Linux should have been on Red Hat's 2008 fiscal year earnings call on March 27. — If they had been, they would have heard Red Hat executives report …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
MPAA to broadband providers: Pull the plug on pirates — HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—The Motion Picture Association of America is calling on broadband providers to pull the plug on copyright-infringing users. — Jim Williams, the MPAA's chief technology officer and senior vice president …
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Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Announcing the Windows Search 4.0 Preview — To search for files on my PCs, I use Windows Search - Windows Vista's desktop search feature. I use Windows Search specifically to find photos that I've tagged in Windows Live Photo Gallery or important emails and Word documents.
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Alan Boyle / MSNBC:
DOOMSDAY FEARS SPARK LAWSUIT — A hardhat worker is dwarfed by the inner workings of the Large Hadron — Collider's ATLAS detector. Click on the image for a larger version. — The builders of the world's biggest particle collider are being sued in federal court over fears …
