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Evan Blass / Engadget:
BitTorrent Entertainment Network to be unveiled tomorrow — We're still reeling over the fact that BitTorrent — the same company that invented every pirate's favorite "sharing technology" — has signed deals with numerous content providers to offer for-pay movie, TV show, and video game downloads …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Software Exploited by Pirates Goes to Work for Hollywood — Hollywood studios are going into business with one of their biggest tormentors: the peer-to-peer pioneer BitTorrent. — On Monday, the company, whose technology unleashed a wave of illegal file-sharing on the Internet …
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:BitTorrent Entertainment Network Debuts Monday
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Robert Young / GigaOM:
Hollywood Disrupted — Reading through the LA Times, as I do before The Oscars every year, I came across a fantastic Op-Ed written by a respected Hollywood author by the name of Neal Gabler. The opinion piece, titled "The Movie Magic is Gone", explains how Hollywood is losing its place …
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Jason Pontin / New York Times:
Millions of Videos, and Now a Way to Search Inside Them — THE World Wide Web is awash in digital video, but too often we can't find the videos we want or browse for what we might like. — That's a loss, because if we could search for Internet videos, they might become the content …
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
The Great Media Industry Schism — The once monolithic media industry is undergoing a radical schism, dividing itself into content creation, on the one hand, and content aggregation and distribution on the other. — The nature of this transformation suddenly crystallized …
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Oscar Nominations - Wordtracker Predictions — The movie and gossip columns today are awash with speculation on the Oscar nominations. Asking who will walk away with the prizes is great fun not only in the US but throughout the world. But is there anyway to really get an inside track?
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Six cool things you can build with OpenID — I've posted the slides from my Future of Web Apps talk on OpenID, minus the demo videos. I'm planning to put together a video that combines the slides, demos and audio once the official podcasts have been published.
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Video Plusbox — While searching Google for nightwish videos, Razvan Antonescu spotted this video plusbox* (ignore the blue link bars in the screenshot, they're from a Firefox extension). Alongside a snippet from Google Video, a plus icon appeared with a link reading "show video" …
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Steve Poland / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Publisher Network's Trojan Horse — Google has a hefty lead in getting small publishers to put Google-powered ads on their websites. There is no negotiated deal - advertisers agree to take whatever Google decides to give them. Revenue share terms are not disclosed to these small publishers.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Windows-based ATM machine hacked, gets Painted — Although we wouldn't expect to find the latest release of Photoshop on your neighborhood ATM, it's not so far fetched to think that Paint would be left on a Windows-based ATM. We've seen a recent boost in cash machine hacking of late …
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Jeannie Choe / Engadget:
Gamer busted for "borrowing" library WiFi after hours — We're well aware of WiFi bogarting from unsuspecting neighbors or coffee shops, but who knew there'd be a crackdown at the local house o' books? Cops couldn't leave well enough alone when they rolled up on 21 year-old Brian Tanner jammin …
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Spencer Kelly / BBC:
Mobile talk moves to Web 2.0 — With a growing demand for a better browsing experience on our mobiles, there is, according to the industry, demand for Web 2.0 on the go. — While text blogging on a mobile is still seen as a minority sport, the explosion of camera and videophones now allows us …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Apple To Get Into Ringtone Business — This video presents a fairly compelling case that Apple will be getting into the Ringtone business with the release of the iPhone. Ringtone sales are big business, accounting for 10% of so of the global music market, and well over $1 billion per year in sales …
New York Times:
In Big Buyout, Utility to Limit New Coal Plants — Under a proposed $45 billion buyout by a team of private equity firms, the TXU Corporation, a Texas utility that has long been the bane of environmental groups, will abandon plans to build 8 of 11 coal plants and commit to a broad menu …
