Techmeme: What the ebook settlement means for publishers, Apple and you (Jeff John Roberts/paidContent)

September 3, 2012, 12:30 AM

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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

What the ebook settlement means for publishers, Apple and you — The states unveiled a deal this week that, if approved, would see consumers collect a refund of $0.25 to $1.32 for each ebook they bought from big publishers. It's splashy news, but the reality is more complicated.

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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:

Video Shows Completely Redesigned Headphones for iPhone 5 — Vietnamese site Tinhte.vn has posted a video of what it claims to be redesigned headphones for the new iPhone which is expected in September. — Update: Video was replaced. This one has no audio.

Somini Sengupta / New York Times:

Twitter's Chief Lawyer as Defender of Free Speech — SAN FRANCISCO — Alexander Macgillivray, Twitter's chief lawyer, says that fighting for free speech is more than a good idea. He thinks it is a competitive advantage for his company. — That conviction explains why he spends …

More: GigaOM. Tweets: @hunterwalk and @ggreenwald

Jamie Doward / Guardian:

How online reviews are crucial to a restaurant's takings — US economists find that when a restaurant rating improved by just half a star it was very much more likely to be full at peak dining times — It is something every restaurateur and hotel owner knows: good reviews boost takings while terrible ones can close you down.

More: TechCrunch

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Pirate Bay Founder Arrested in Cambodia — Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm was arrested by Cambodian police on Thursday in Phnom Penh, the city that he made his home several years ago. — According to local sources he was arrested in an apartment above the Cadillac Bar on the riverfront …

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Amar Toor / The Verge:

Updated services agreement allows Microsoft to integrate content across cloud properties — Microsoft this week updated its services agreement with subtle, yet potentially significant changes to its policy on privacy and dispute settlement. The company notified users of the changes …

More: VentureBeat, Gizmodo, LiveSide.net, Neowin and TechNet Blogs. Tweets: @akovacs

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Oops: After Seizing & Censoring Rojadirecta For 18 Months, Feds Give Up & Drop Case — Looks like we've got something of a repeat of the Dajaz1 insanity, in which the US government seized and censored a website for over a year before giving up and handing the domain back — though this time it's with Rojadirecta.

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Trevor Timm / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

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