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3:25 PM ET, May 11, 2007

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Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
HBO Exec Wants to Rename DRM  —  People have had lots of objections to Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology — centering mainly on its clumsiness and the futility of its anti-infringement rationale — but until recently nobody had complained that the term "Digital Rights Management" was insufficiently Orwellian.
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Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
Latest Idea To Fix DRM: Give It A New Name
Discussion: Epicenter
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Out of Chaos, Order.  Or So Google Says.  —  Over the years, Google has carefully cultivated the image of a zany company in which innovation and new products — lots of new products — emerge from a bit of chaos.  —  Now Google is trying to put some order into that chaos — or at least appear to do so.
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Business Wire:
MySpace Launches Take Down Stay Down Copyright Protection  —  Leading Lifestyle Portal Launches Ground-breaking Tool to Prevent Users from Reposting Unauthorized Copyrighted Content  —  LOS ANGELES—(BUSINESS WIRE)—MySpace, the world's leading lifestyle portal, today announced the launch …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:   MySpace fights copyright woes with 'Take Down' tech
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Facebook Classified Ad Offering Deals Another Blow To Newspapers  —  It's sure rough trying to charge for a service that other businesses are offering for free.  Just ask any newspaper exec. With 20/20 hindsight, it seems inevitable that the web would be the perfect platform for free classified ads …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Facebook to Offer Free Classifieds
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Vonage Says It May Have Way Around Disputed Patents (Update5)  —  Vonage Holdings Corp. said it may have technology that could rescue its Internet-phone service, after a jury found the company infringed patents that allow customers to call standard telephones.
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Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
At Vonage, Sales Increase as Litigation Clouds Future
Discussion: BloggingStocks and GigaOM
Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
Jobs addresses backdating, environment at shareholder meeting  —  At Apple's annual shareholders meeting in Cupertino on Thursday, Steve Jobs and other company executives heard criticism about the company's stock-options scandal and the recently announced delay of of the forthcoming Leopard version …
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Roughly Drafted:
Answers from Steve Jobs at Apple's Shareholder Meeting
Discussion: MacDailyNews, Apple 2.0 and Slashdot
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Apple, others draw legal threat over media players  —  update A California company that makes technology designed to prevent ripping of digital audio streams has accused Apple, Microsoft, RealNetworks and Adobe Systems of violating federal copyright law by "actively avoiding" use of its products.
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Gmail Users are Younger, Richer, Good in Bed  —  Unsurprisingly, perhaps, the latest stats show that Gmail users skew younger and richer than those on Yahoo Mail and Hotmail.  —  Gmail opened up to all comers in February, with Gmail's market share of US visits climbing 17% from February 2007 to April 2007.
Discussion: Search Engine Journal and Digg
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LeeAnn Prescott / Hitwise US:
Gmail Traffic Up 17% Since Opening Up, Still Early Adopter Appeal
BBC:
Google searches web's dark side  —  One in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user's PC.  —  Researchers from the firm surveyed billions of sites, subjecting 4.5 million pages to "in-depth analysis".
Discussion: JD on EP and Slashdot
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch20 Conference: Caterina Fake, MC Hammer & Rajeev Motwani Join Expert Panel  —  I'm excited to announce the next three experts for the TechCrunch20 Conference in San Francisco this September.  Caterina Fake, MC Hammer and Rajeev Motwani join the previously announced experts.
Bkp / The Pirate Bay:
User data stolen but not unsecured  —  Hi, we have some sad news, but don't be alarmed...  Some people (and yes, we know who) found a security hole on our web site (in fact, actually in this blog).  —  They have got a copy of the user database.  That is, your username and passwords.
Discussion: digg
Kevin Kelleher / GigaOM:
Orbitz, the worst IPO of 2007?  —  We're not even halfway through 2007 and I'm ready to make a nomination for worst IPO candidate of the year: Orbitz.  —  You may recall that Orbitz - the online travel site founded by five major airlines in 2000 - went public at $26 a share in 2003.
Valleywag:
Exclusive: The unmasking of Fake Steve Jobs  —  Soon after Valleywag began digging into the identity of Silicon Valley's most mysterious author — the anonymous satirist behind Fake Steve Jobs, a spoof diary of the narcissistic Apple founder — a plaintive email arrived.
Discussion: Apple 2.0
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
From My Inbox: More Defense Of SEO  —  I spent about a half-hour today defending SEO privately in an email to someone questioning it.  Upon reflection, I thought those responses should go into a public post.  After all, the discussion involved Stephen Colbert, the great Jason Calacanis mystery project …
 
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Week in review: Controversy from Cupertino to Capitol Hill
Microsoft:
Microsoft and SanDisk Join Forces to Create New Experience …
Michael Calore / Wired News:
Big Guns Jump on Open-Source Bandwagon for New Web Apps
Discussion: O'Reilly Radar
Nicole Lee / CNET News.com:
Helio Ocean launches today
Michelle Thatcher / CNET News.com:
Sony VAIO TZ photos leaked
Nicole Lee / CNET News.com:
Alltel launches Jump Music
Market Wire:
Tesla Motors Secures $45 Million Series D Investment Round Led …
Discussion: alarm:clock and VentureBeat
BetaNews:
Microsoft: Silverlight Demo Was in Jscript, Not C
Discussion: John Carroll and JD on EP
 Earlier Items: 
Carol Wilson / TELEPHONY Magazine:
IPTV lessons from China
Discussion: broadband help
eMarketer:
Online Ad Spending Up in UK
Discussion: MarketingVOX and BizReport
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Politicos take on YouTube, video's future
Business Week:
Municipal Wi-Fi: A Failure To Communicate
Discussion: IP Democracy
Joe Leo / PBCentral.com:
Apple Store mini: Now Open at a Best Buy Store Near You
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Slide largest widget maker on the Web?
Erik Larkin / PC World:
Google Shareholders Vote Against Anti-Censorship Proposal
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
See Who's Reading Your LinkedIn Profile