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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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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Explainer: How can the US seize a “Hong Kong site” like Megaupload? — The Megaupload takedown, and the arrest of its key employees, might seem to vindicate late 1990s worries about the Internet and jurisdiction. Does putting a site on the 'Net, though it might be hosted anywhere in the world …
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Follow the traffic: What MegaUpload's downfall did to the web — MegaUpload, the file-sharing community, has had its physical offices raided by the FBI and its site shut down (although it may be back up) because the U.S. government says it has violated copyright.
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Better Broadband Blog, Ars Technica, Techie Buzz and BBC, Thanks:@ryanlawler
Jeremy Pelofsky / Reuters:
Megaupload site wants assets back, to fight charges — (Reuters) - The Internet website Megaupload.com, shut down by authorities over allegations that it illegally peddled copyrighted material, is trying to recover its servers and get back online, a lawyer for the company said on Friday.
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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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AllThingsD, Washington Post, Pastebin, Techdirt, The Atlantic Wire, Telegraph, eWeek, BuzzFeed, WebProNews, The Not-So Private Parts and UPROXX, more at Mediagazer »
Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Megaupload assembles worldwide criminal defense
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GigaOM, Guardian, CNN, Hit & Run, New York Times, Betabeat, Digits, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, Gawker and TechCrunch, more at Mediagazer »
Zack O'Malley Greenburg / Forbes:
Swizz Beatz Does Not Own Megaupload, Says Court Filing
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
SOPA, PIPA votes to be delayed in House and Senate — Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), author of the Stop Online Privacy Act, said on Friday that he is postponing consideration of the bill in response to concerns from critics who said the bill could lead to censorship.
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Y Combinator:
RFS 9: Kill Hollywood
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PandoDaily, SplatF, Hacker News and Business Insider, Thanks:@mattlynley
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
The next SOPA — Every few years, the MPAA's lobbying power …
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Clay Shirky, New York Times, parislemon, Techdirt, New York Times, benhuh! and Lifehacker, more at Mediagazer »
Carl Franzen / TPM Livewire:
Former Sen. Chris Dodd, MPAA CEO, Blasts Congress For Halting SOPA and PIPA
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MPAA Blog and @dannysullivan
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Investment Firm Y Combinator Goes on Offensive Against Hollywood
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VatorNews and VentureBeat
David Pierson / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. website blackout draws praise in China
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TPM, Letter from China, GigaOM, @senatorreid, Sydney Morning Herald and ReadWriteWeb
Dan Gillmor / Guardian:
The struggle against Sopa and Pipa is not over
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The ProPublica Nerd Blog, paidContent, Gothamist and digiphile, more at Mediagazer »
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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Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Engineering Windows 8 for mobile networks … People want similar mobility on their PCs as they get on their smartphones. — It is unlikely that your end goal is just to get connected to the Internet. Instead, connecting to the Internet is a step (or a hurdle) towards what you really want to do …
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All about Microsoft Blog, Ars Technica, Computerworld, Electronista, AnandTech and WinBeta
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Google to Shut Down Picnik, Social Graph API and Urchin, Open-Sourcing Sky Map — Google's spring cleaning campaign continues, the the company just announced the closure of a number of products, including the popular Picnik online photo editor which, until recently, was integrated into Yahoo's Flickr, for example.
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google+ — If you try to create a Google account from Google's homepage, you'll notice that Google redesigned the page, but that's not all. You'll now have to create a Gmail account, a Google Profile and you'll automatically join Google+.
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Digital Trends, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Lifehacker, Marketing Land, Business Insider, Webmonkey, Search Engine Watch, VentureBeat, msnbc.com, CNET, Techland, SlashGear, Electronista, the Econsultancy blog, Geek.com, Softpedia News, ReadWriteWeb, PC Magazine and 9to5Google, Thanks:@sidharthdassani
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Publisher Terry McGraw on Steve Jobs and Digital Textbooks: “This Was His Vision” — After Apple's big education presentation yesterday, McGraw-Hill CEO Terry McGraw chatted with a gaggle of reporters, and explained things like the logic behind $15 digital textbooks.
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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Zynga Confirms It Is Seeking Partners for Online Gambling Initiatives — Zynga is getting ready to try its hand at online gambling. — The company has confirmed to All Things D that it is actively investigating several opportunities, and is in talks with several partners about gambling on the Internet.
Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online:
Microsoft Calls for Gay Marriage in Washington State — The company argues that it's hard to hire the best people in the world when the state where it's based discriminates against them. — In a week of tech industry protests about censorship, one company — Microsoft …
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Daniel Frankel / paidContent:
Longtime Netflix Marketing Chief Leslie Kilgore Bumped To The Board — In a move that seems designed to shore up confidence in its communications skills following the Qwikster and price-hike debacle, longtime Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) marketing chief Leslie Kilgore is moving to the board.
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Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat:
Layoffs Underway at Gilt Groupe Right Now: ‘General Atmosphere Is Terrifying’ — Last Wednesday, Betabeat broke the news of impending layoffs at Gilt Groupe. Later that morning, CEO Kevin Ryan downgraded the estimates we had heard, telling AllThingsD that the company intended to …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
‘Absinthe A5’ Brings First Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 — Noted iOS jailbreak author pod2g has teamed up with the Chronic Dev Team to release “Absinthe A5”, an enhancement to the popular Greenpois0n jailbreaking tool which adds the ability to perform an untethered jailbreak …
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VentureBeat, Examiner, Engadget, TechCrunch, iPhone, Computerworld, Gotta Be Mobile, Neowin.net, pod2g's iOS blog and NBC Bay Area
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 …
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Apple says Galaxy Nexus infringes slide-to-unlock utility model in Germany
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PhoneArena and Electronista
