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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Why the feds smashed Megaupload — The US government dropped a nuclear bomb on “cyberlocker” site Megaupload today, seizing its domain names, grabbing $50 million in assets, and getting New Zealand police to arrest four of the site's key employees, including enigmatic founder Kim Dotcom.
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Molly Wood / CNET:
Anonymous goes nuclear; everybody loses? — #OpMegaUpload: like watching “War Games” play out, but with cyber-bombs. — In the aftermath of the Jan. 18 SOPA/PIPA blackout protests, the Internet community had amassed quite a bit of goodwill, flexed its muscles in a friendly, humorous …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload! — The feds shut down MegaUpload a few hours ago. Eight people we charged with criminal copyright infringement charges, and all files hosted on the site were pulled offline. However, do the feds realize that hundreds of thousands …
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Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:
Inside Anonymous' “Largest Attack Ever” — Yesterday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, working with police in New Zealand, arrested the leaders of the popular file sharing service MegaUpload.com and scrubbed the site from the internet, alleging that it supports widespread copyright infringement.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Megaupload assembles worldwide criminal defense — The FBI has begun extradition proceedings in New Zealand to bring Kim Dotcom, aka Kim Schmitz, to the United States to face racketeering, money laundering and Internet piracy charges. — Kim DotCom, aka Kim Schmitz, appears in a New Zealand court …
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
The Evil New Tactic Behind Anonymous' Massive Megaupload Revenge Attack — The hacktivist collective Anonymous is in the middle of a huge revenge spree after the Feds shut down popular filesharing site Megaupload today. But they're using an evil new tactic that tricks people into helping their attack if they click an innocuous link.
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Before shutdown, Megaupload ate up more corporate bandwidth than Dropbox
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Zack O'Malley Greenburg / Forbes:
Swizz Beatz Does Not Own Megaupload, Says Court Filing
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Justice Department calls MegaUpload an 'international organized criminal enterprise …
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
The Mega empire: Details of the MegaUpload indictment
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Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
Anonymous claims DOJ and record label site takedowns in response to MegaUpload suit
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Thomas Lane / TPM:
Full Reid Statement On PIPA — Sen. Harry Reid's office has just distributed the following email: Washington, D.C. - Nevada Senator Harry Reid released the following statement today on the Senate's PROTECT I.P. Act: “In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone Tuesday's vote on the PROTECT I.P. Act. ”
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David Pierson / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. website blackout draws praise in China
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Dodd Calls for Hollywood and Silicon Valley to Meet
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Nate Cochrane / Sydney Morning Herald:
Father of the web backs SOPA protests
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
SOPA Protests Sway Congress: 31 Opponents Yesterday, 122 Now
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Larry Kramer / C-Scape:
SOPA: We Can Fix This — The problem with the fight over SOPA …
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Dan Wineman / venomous porridge:
The Unprecedented Audacity of the iBooks Author EULA — Apple just released iBooks Author, a free Mac app for creating digital books for the new version of iBooks. I haven't played with it much, but so far it looks like a very good tool. However, a curious thing happens when you go to export your work in iBooks format:
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Paul Carr / PandoDaily:
iBooks Author Is Not Going To Hurt Publishers. It Might Even Help Them
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Do we want textbooks to live in Apple's walled garden?
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Kno CEO Osman Rashid To Apple: “Now We Will Fight On Who Has The Better Product”
Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:
A Brief History of Textbooks, or, Why Apple's ‘New Textbook Experience’ Is Actually Revolutionary
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Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Facebook in talks to replace YouTube as Vevo's host — Facebook has held talks with Vevo about moving the music-video service away from YouTube and over to the social network's platform, sources with knowledge of the talks told CNET. — While the sources said the discussions are very preliminary …
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Google Investor Relations:
Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2011 Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter and the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011. — “Google had a really strong quarter ending a great year. Full year revenue was up 29% …
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Mannheim court rejects the first one of Samsung's German lawsuits against Apple — Judge Andreas Voss of the Mannheim Regional Court just pronounced his ruling on the first one of Samsung's seven patent infringement claims against Apple in Germany. Samsung's complaint over a patent declared essential …
Geoff Duncan / Digital Trends:
Is ‘5G’ mobile broadband just around the corner? IMT-Advanced explained — Can't wait to get on the 4G LTE bandwagon? Think bigger. A new standard called IMT-Advanced promises speeds up to 10 times faster, and it's just been approved. — With Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint racing …
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Damning Evidence Emerges In Google-Apple “No Poach” Antitrust Lawsuit — Next week a class-action civil lawsuit will be heard in San Jose to determine if Google, Apple, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Adobe, Intel, and Intuit conspired to eliminate competition for skilled labor.
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Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Don't call it an ultrabook — Every year at CES, the tech-watching masses engage in a bit of trendspotting — an attempt to identify the one or two big themes of the show that may or may not come to define the year in technology. Some years those are easy to spot (tablets and 3D TV …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
The Valley Girl Takes On Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg (Video) — Double snaps to Jesse Draper, whose kookified online interview show, “The Valley Girl Show,” managed to get a very decent interview with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. — And by decent, I mean that Draper actually elicits …
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David Goldman / CNN Money:
At $400 billion, Apple is worth more than Greece — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Apple's value on the stock market briefly rose to $400 billion on Thursday, a record high for what was already the world's most valuable technology company. — The company's market cap slipped below the $400 billion mark …
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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Who Says Intel Is Weak? Just Look at Those Crazy Numbers! — Chipmaker Intel has grown its annual revenue by nearly $20 billion in two years. Let that thought sink in for a minute. — In 2011, it crossed the threshold of $50 billion in annual sales for the first time, having hit the $40 billion mark only last year.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Kodak's bankruptcy should scare Nokia — Yesterday, a friend of mine, someone who is quite savvy about technology and the startup landscape stopped by for a chat. Our conversation veered towards the state of the web, media and of course Silicon Valley.
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