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12:35 AM ET, March 14, 2007

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Viacom:
Viacom Files Federal Copyright Infringement Complaint Against YouTube And Google  —  Suit Seeks Court Ruling To Require YouTube And Google To Comply With Copyright Laws And Pay $1 Billion In Damages  —  Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) today announced that it has sued YouTube and Google …
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Reuters:
Viacom in $1 bln copyright suit vs Google, YouTube  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. said on Tuesday it filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Google Inc. and its Internet video sharing site YouTube over unauthorized use of its copyrighted entertainment.
Google Watch:
18 Reasons why Google and YouTube are Guilty of Copyright Infringement  —  Why are you still sitting at your desk?  Viacom sued YouTube and you should be running around like Mark Cuban with his head cut off.  —  Below, Viacom's argument as presented in their official complaint, filed in New York federal district court.
Discussion: NewTeeVee and Between the Lines
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Are You Kidding? A Billion Dollars?
Discussion: Reel Pop
Om Malik / GigaOM:   Viacom sues YouTube for $1 billion
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:   OK, we ask for a billion; just don't do that Dr. Evil thing in court
Josh / Redeye VC:
Failing Cheaper  —  Ask most successful entrepreneurs how they came up with the idea for their business, and you'd likely learn that what they initially set out to do is very different from the company that you're familiar with.  PayPal started out as a service to beam money through Palm Pilots …
Chris Williams / The Register:
Last.fm puts video through the scrobbler  —  Last.fm, the popular music website, is to apply its social recommendation technology to video, as it prepares to do battle with Pandora for the internet radio station market.  —  Last.fm is working on a music video equivalent to its Audioscrobbler software …
Discussion: Gearlog
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / splashcastmedia.com:
Report: Last.fm to Offer Related Music Videos
Discussion: VentureBeat and Fast Company Now
Michael Calore / Wired News:
Exclusive: MySpace News Pics  —  MySpace News is for real.  —  A leaked document from MySpace's parent company, Fox Interactive Media, confirms the existence of its rumored Digg-style news aggregation portal.  —  The leaked sales document outlines the structure and taxonomy of the forthcoming site …
Andrew Wallenstein / Hollywood Reporter:
Bud.TV going flat as visits decline  —  Bud.TV may be leaving a sour aftertaste for Anheuser-Busch.  —  The beermaker's new 24/7 branded digital entertainment network has seen the fizz from its Super Bowl kickoff evaporate quickly, averaging just 253,000 visitors in February, its first month online …
Kim Tae-gyu / KoreaTimes:
Acoustic Wave Prevents Game Addiction  —  A Korean venture start-up has developed an inaudible sound sequence, which it claims can prevent obsessive use of online games, thus giving hope to game addicts.  —  Xtive on Monday said the sound sequence is based on subliminal effects.
Drew Clark / GigaOM:
Is Google Changing Its Position on Net Neutrality?  —  Is Google, the foremost corporate advocate of net neutrality, doing a big fake?  Have they succeeded in making everyone believe they will stand up to the Bell companies, even as the company cuts deals to become the preferred provider on a carrier's network?
Skrentablog:
Kafka-esque!  —  I'm in the Wall Street Journal today, with a story about our purchase of Topix.com for $1M and the SEO issues related to moving the domain.  —  The story has caused a bit of blog buzz, given the quoted price for the domain and the open acknowledgement of the SEO concern for us.
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Apple megapatch plugs 45 security holes  —  Apple on Tuesday issued a security update for its Mac OS X to plug 45 security holes, including several zero-day vulnerabilities.  —  The megapatch is the seventh Apple security patch release in three months.  It deals with vulnerabilities …
Business Wire:
Nintendo's Wii to Leverage Multiplayer Technology from IGN Entertainment's GameSpy  —  Leader in Multiplayer Technology Enables Exclusive Community Functionality for Nintendo's Hit Console  —  LOS ANGELES—(BUSINESS WIRE)—GameSpy, a unit of Fox Interactive Media, announced today …
Alice / Wonderland:
SXSW: Will Wright Keynote  —  Will Wright is an incredible speaker.  He's lighting fast, but not so fast you can't follow, even when he tosses words like paradoxical, procedural and philosophical into the mix, and often in the same sentence.  He pulls stories and analogies from all sorts …
Discussion: Kotaku and Boing Boing
MediaShift:
STATE OF THE NEWS MEDIA 2007  —  Project for Excellence in Journalism Dissects 38 Sites; Blogger Index Coming  —  BY MARK GLASER, 10:50AM  —  Each year since 2004 the Project for Excellence in Journalism has dropped the bomb of knowledge on the media world in the form of the State of the News Media report.
Discussion: The Media Age and The Praized Blog
 
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
A MODEST PROPOSAL TO YHOO AND MSFT: SPIN OUT A SEARCH COMPANY
Discussion: WebMetricsGuru
David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Spanning Sync for iCal and Google Calendar goes 1.0, announces pricing
Sumner Lemon / InfoWorld:
Intel gets approval to build $2.5B plant in China
Low End Mac:
11 Ways to Optimize Your Mac's Performance
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Site maps 'Universe' through constellation of news
Discussion: Webware.com
1UP.com:
God of War 2 launch event/PSP coming out party? Liveblog!
Marjolein Hoekstra / CleverClogs:
OnePipe : the Single-Button Generic Feed Filtering Bookmarklet
Benjamin Heckendorn / Engadget:
How-To: Make a solid-state A/V switcher
Discussion: digg
 Earlier Items: 
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Interview with Google's Matt Cutts about Next-Generation Search
David Kaplan / PaidContent:
For 2007, Portals Are Back, Pageviews Are Dead: Report
Discussion: Micro Persuasion
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
If You're Going To Steal Software, Steal From Us: Microsoft Exec
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Journalism Through Computer Programming
Discussion: Global Nerdy
PR Newswire:
Vonage Drops Select International Call Rates to a Penny-Per-Minute …
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Microsoft Suffers Latest Blow As NIST Bans Windows Vista
Johnny Minkley / GamesIndustry.biz:
Sony UK boss confirms PSP redesign
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Disney board members are exploring fresh candidates in their search for a successor to Bob Iger, including EA CEO Andrew Wilson

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Nicholas Carlson unveils Dynamo, a video-focused company that aims to make “cinematic” stories, and raised $3.4M from Henry Blodget, Jessica Lessin, and others

Lily Ford / The Hollywood Reporter:
Gary Lineker plans to step down from soccer show Match of the Day after 26 years, but extends his BBC Sport contract; he is the BBC's highest-paid presenter

 
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