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Y Combinator:
RFS 9: Kill Hollywood — Hollywood appears to have peaked. If it were an ordinary industry (film cameras, say, or typewriters), it could look forward to a couple decades of peaceful decline. But this is not an ordinary industry. The people who run it are so mean and so politically connected …
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Social Markets, Hacker News, SplatF, Business Insider, @jason, @dannysullivan and Ben Parr's Entrepreneurial …, Thanks:@mattlynley
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Investment Firm Y Combinator Goes on Offensive Against Hollywood — After the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect Intellectual Property Act were shelved on Friday, some Web sites and venture capitalists went on the offensive against the people and companies behind the controversial piracy bills.
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VatorNews and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
The next SOPA — Every few years, the MPAA's lobbying power …
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Clay Shirky, New York Times, Techdirt, parislemon, benhuh! and Lifehacker, more at Mediagazer »
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
SOPA, PIPA votes to be delayed in House and Senate
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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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TeleRead, Mashable!, The ProPublica Nerd Blog and Gothamist
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Europe Says It Won't Adopt ‘Bad’ Digital Policy Like SOPA
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Wall Street Journal, TPM, GigaOM, @senatorreid, eWeek, The Verge, Forbes, PE Hub Blog, NBC Bay Area, PandoDaily, The Next Web, Tech Europe, Sydney Morning Herald, AllThingsD, Mashable! and Inquirer, more at Mediagazer »
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 VatorNews, Thanks:@ryanlawler
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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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Technologizer
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 …
Jeremy Pelofsky / Reuters:
Megaupload site wants assets back, to fight charges
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USA Today, PC Magazine, Neowin.net, WebProNews, ITProPortal and Rolling Stone
Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Megaupload assembles worldwide criminal defense
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GigaOM, Guardian, Hit & Run, 3 News, Betabeat, Gawker, CNN, PC Magazine, New York Times, Ars Technica and Digits
Molly Wood / CNET:
Anonymous goes nuclear; everybody loses?
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Washington Post, AllThingsD, Gawker, Forbes, Pastebin, The Atlantic Wire, Techdirt, BuzzFeed, WebProNews, Telegraph, eWeek, The Not-So Private Parts and UPROXX, more at Mediagazer »
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, PC World, All about Microsoft Blog, Technologizer, 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.
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ReadWriteWeb, PC World, Gizmodo, BetaNews, CNET, Technologizer, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, Marketing Land, Picnik Blog, The Official Google Blog, The Next Web and silicontap.com
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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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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The Next Web, Digital Trends, Lifehacker, Marketing Land, Business Insider, TechCrunch, msnbc.com, Webmonkey, Techland, CNET, SlashGear, Search Engine Watch, VentureBeat, Electronista, Geek.com, ReadWriteWeb, the Econsultancy blog and Softpedia News, 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.
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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ZDNet, The Register, GeekWire, BuzzFeed, Slashdot, WebProNews, WinBeta, Gizmodo and TechNet Blogs
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
Foxconn Responds To CEO's “Employees Are Animals” Comment — Foxconn responded to yesterday's kerfuffle about the CEO of Foxconn, Terry Gou, commenting that he cared for “a million animals” - namely his employees. They said it was an off-the-cuff remark, similar to saying that managing is like …
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Business Insider and PandoDaily
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.
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Bing's New Ad Campaign: Bing Is For #Doing — Bing is set to launch a new ad campaign this weekend that includes a subtle change from its previous messaging. — Rather than promoting the idea of making decisions, the new campaign is about people doing interesting things and uses the slogan, Bing is for #Doing.
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Seattle Times, Bing, All about Microsoft Blog, Softpedia News, GeekWire, SiliconFilter, Neowin.net and WebProNews
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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PR Newswire, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, GigaOM, AllThingsD, Between the Lines Blog, Tech Trader Daily, Electronista and Epicenter
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 …
