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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Trial: The Official Verdict - Guilty — While only a few weeks ago, it seems like an eternity since the trial of The Pirate Bay Four ended and the court retired to consider its verdict. The prosecution claimed that the four defendants were 'assisting in making copyright content available …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Pirate Bay Loses A Lawsuit; Entertainment Industry Loses An Opportunity — Well, the verdict has come down in the trial against The Pirate Bay in Sweden, and it appears The Pirate Bay has been found guilty and each of the defendants has been sentenced to a year in jail and told to pay $3.6 million in damages …
Darren Waters / dot.life blog:
Pirate Bay beached but not sunk — From Hollywood to Stockholm via London, the movie and music industries will be breathing a sigh of relief, albeit one which will only last a short while. — The Pirate Bay has been, as far as the professional creative industries are concerned …
CNN:
Four jailed in landmark Pirate Bay case — STOCKHOLM, Sweden (CNN) — Four men behind a Swedish file-sharing Web site used by millions to exchange movies and music have been jailed for a year for collaborating to violate copyright law in a landmark court verdict in Stockholm.
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Google Investor Relations:
GOOGLE ANNOUNCES FIRST QUARTER 2009 RESULTS — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2009. — “Google had a good quarter given the depth of the recession—while revenues were down quarter over quarter, they grew 6% year over year, thanks to continued strong query growth.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:Google Shows a 3% Sequential Dip In Revenues: First One Ever
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Kutcher Plays His Pied Piper Flute And Gets A Million Twitter Followers — The first man in space. The first man on the moon. The first man with a million Twitter followers. Yes, this is one of those great achievements in human history. Congratulations Ashton Kutcher.
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:Operation Basement Dad: How 4Chan Could Beat CNN & Ashton Kutcher
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:Oprah's First Tweet Will Be Tomorrow On Her Show. …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Snow Day, Employee Arrest At Fox/MySpace — Los Angeles tech companies may not be able to stand up to their northern California neighbors when it comes to technology clout, but they sure do seem to have a more interesting and varied work life. While Silicon Valley based Facebook …
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Steven Musil / CNET News:
Facebook opens up vote on new terms of service — Following Facebook's privacy debacle earlier this year, the social-networking site is encouraging users to vote on whether a proposed terms of service culled from user feedback should replace the existing terms of service.
Mark Zuckerberg Today / Facebook Blog:Voting Begins on Governing the Facebook Site
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
YouTube signs Sony, preps site for studio content — Move over Hotforwords, Lonelygirl15, and all the other YouTube stars. The video site is bringing in more professionally made content and plans to make it a marquee product. — The Internet's largest video site on Thursday announced …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:YouTube Preps Its (Sort of) Hulu Answer: Movies, TV Shows From Sony, Others
Gabriel Madway / Reuters:
U.S. video games sales fall 17 pct in March: NPD — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Overall U.S. video game sales fell 17 percent in March to $1.43 billion, research group NPD said on Thursday, a revealing figure for an industry that had so far shown resilience in the economic downturn.
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Hiroshi Suzuki / Bloomberg: Nintendo Shares Fall After U.S. Wii Sales Drop for First Time in 14 Months
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:So much for recession-proof: U.S. video game sales take a 17 percent dip in March
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Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
Sidekick LX 2009 is a Lean, Mean Twittering Machine (With a Better Screen) — T-Mobile's new Sidekick LX 2009 isn't a radical new departure from past models, but it brings a beautiful, 3.2-inch, 854x480 screen to the table along with Twitter integration. It's also the slimmest Sidekick to date.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
They're gone! After outcry, Time Warner uncaps the tubes — After a public outcry and the attention of several members of Congress, Time Warner Cable has stopped its trial of Internet data caps, but not before making “metered billing” a tough sell for all other American ISPs.
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Agence France Presse:
Sony Ericsson to cut 2,000 jobs after losses — Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson on Friday said it would cut 2,000 more jobs after it swung to a loss of 293 million euros (384 million dollars) in the first quarter of the year. — The group, which experienced losses in the third …
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Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider:
Take-Two's ‘Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars’ Bellyflops — Take-Two's (TTWO) Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is dying on the shelves. — We noted earlier this week that analysts were split on how well the game would do when the NPD Group reported US videogame sales for March.
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Domino's: How One YouTube Video Can Ruin a Brand — In terms of its social media presence, Domino's Pizza gets a lot of things right. It has a YouTube Channel, a Twitter account, and both a Facebook and MySpace profile. What Domino's could not plan for, however, was that two of its employees …
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Ilinca Nita / Unwired View:
HTC Touch Pro2 priced: it will retail for about $880 — You may already know that the new HTC Touch Pro2 will be available for purchase starting this summer - after all, HTC said so when it officially announced the smartphone (at the same time with the Touch Diamond2).
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
National Geographic's Infinite Photograph will mesmerize you — National Geographic has a fun new feature called the Infinite Photograph that takes over 300,000 photos collected from its archives and submitted by users, and turns them into a giant photo mosaic.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Should Twitter Remove Its Follower Count? — Over the past few days, actor Ashton Kutcher has been racing CNN to be the first Twitter user with a million followers. Kutcher and other parties like EA have been pulling out all the stops to help his account gain followers as quickly as possible to hit the number.
