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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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USA Today, Ars Technica and Techie Buzz, Thanks:@ryanlawler
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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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PC World, ExtremeTech, ReadWriteWeb, FACT magazine, TechCrunch, Dice Blog Network, Consumer Reports News and New York Times
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, The Not-So Private Parts, Techdirt, Telegraph, eWeek, BuzzFeed, WebProNews, UPROXX and Gizmodo, more at Mediagazer »
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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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.
Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Megaupload assembles worldwide criminal defense
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CNN, Digits, Ars Technica, PC World and PC Magazine
Zack O'Malley Greenburg / Forbes:
Swizz Beatz Does Not Own Megaupload, Says Court Filing
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VatorNews, newsfeed.time.com, Ben Parr's Entrepreneurial …, paidContent:UK, Associated Press, The Next Web and SlashGear
Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:
Inside Anonymous' “Largest Attack Ever”
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SlashGear, ITProPortal and Business Insider
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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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
The next SOPA — Every few years, the MPAA's lobbying power …
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parislemon, Clay Shirky, Techdirt 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
David Pierson / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. website blackout draws praise in China
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Letter from China and ReadWriteWeb
Dan Gillmor / Guardian:
The struggle against Sopa and Pipa is not over
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paidContent, The ProPublica Nerd Blog, Digital Trends and ITworld.com
Nate Cochrane / Sydney Morning Herald:
Father of the web backs SOPA protests
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GigaOM, @senatorreid, Business Insider and @timberners_lee
PR Newswire:
Netflix Announces Management Changes — LOS GATOS, Calif., Jan. 20 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) today announced Leslie Kilgore, its Chief Marketing Officer for the last 12 years, will join the Netflix board as a non-executive director and that it had appointed Jessie Becker …
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Between the Lines Blog, GigaOM, AllThingsD and Tech Trader Daily
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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paidContent, Inside Facebook, 9to5Google, SplatF, WebProNews, Friending Facebook Blog, Mobile Marketing Watch, Fortune, VatorNews, Softpedia News, Marketing Land, PC Magazine, The Next Web, The Tech Trade, All Facebook, Electronista, Gizmodo, Digiday, mocoNews, Business Insider and Mashable!, more at Mediagazer »
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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PandoDaily, MacRumors, O'Reilly Radar, CNET, paidContent, The Wirecutter, GigaOM, 9to5Mac, The Loop, Beyond Search, Techland, LAPTOP Magazine, I4U News and PhoneArena, more at Mediagazer »
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, TechCrunch, The Next Web, CNET, Search Engine Watch, VentureBeat, Lifehacker, Marketing Land, Business Insider, Webmonkey, Geek.com, SlashGear, Techland, PC Magazine, msnbc.com, Electronista, the Econsultancy blog, Softpedia News, ReadWriteWeb and 9to5Google, Thanks:@sidharthdassani
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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Ars Technica, Computerworld, AnandTech and WinBeta
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
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.
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, TechCrunch, Computerworld, Gotta Be Mobile, NBC Bay Area, Engadget and pod2g's iOS blog
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Home Depot Acquires Home Services Marketplace Redbeacon — Big-box retailer Home Depot has acquired home services marketplace and TechCrunch50 winner Redbeacon. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. — Redbeacon lets users search, browse and book local home service providers …
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