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January 19, 2013, 12:15 PM

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Senator John Cornyn Asks Eric Holder To Explain DOJ Prosecution Of Aaron Swartz — While we've seen some politicians in Congress speak out about the prosecution against Aaron Swartz, for the most part, it had been the “usual crew” of folks who had formed the core of the anti-SOPA alliance — Reps. Lofgren, Issa and Polis.

More: United States Senator …, emptywheel, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, Texas on the Potomac, Washington Times and The Hill

Joshua Kopstein / The Verge:

After Aaron: how an antiquated law enables the government's war on hackers, activists, and you — At the center of Aaron Swartz's controversial case is a 1986 anti-hacking law gone horribly wrong — One day back in the early 1970s, two young computer miscreants named Steve Jobs …

More: BuzzFeed, LiveScience and The Huffington Post

Lawrence Lessig / Lessig Blog, v2:

A time for silence — A week ago today, Aaron gave up.

More: CNET, Doc Searls Weblog and Mashable!

Tweets: @mcandrew, @ggreenwald and @glennf

Chris Keall / Ars Technica:

Building Mega: Ars' pre-launch interview with Kim Dotcom — Kim Dotcom shares a lighthearted moment with colleague Finn Batato. — Chris Keall — It's a busy weekend, but Kim Dotcom is feeling relaxed. — He was in boyish good spirits as around 150 contractors buzzed around his mansion …

More: Forbes and Guardian. Tweets: @kimdotcom and @chriskeall

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Mega Launches: Brilliantly Secure, But Not Anonymous — Mortal souls have to wait another day, but today members of the “press” were given an early look Megaupload's successor, Mega. — TorrentFreak was lucky enough to be one of the early-birds and here we report our findings.

More: Engadget, PC World, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Guardian, SocialTimes, digitaltrends.com and Ars Technica

The Register:

Orange boasts: We made Google PAY US for traffic — Some packets are more neutral than others ... France Telecom-Orange is making a wad of cash from Google, the company's CEO boasted in an interview with French media yesterday. — Talking to BFM Business TV, CEO Stephane Richard didn't give …

More: Agence France Presse

David Meyer / GigaOM:

Google should be ashamed for paying carriers to handle its traffic — The concept of net neutrality means different things to different people. Some see tiered access pricing for connectivity as the key debate point, while others are more concerned with the idea of content providers having …

Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:

Opera Ice: New browser for Android and iPhone coming February uses WebKit (video) — EXCLUSIVE: Mobile and tablet versions set for MWC — Opera Software, the company behind the popular browser of the same name, will launch a new smartphone and tablet browser called Opera Ice in February, Pocket-lint can exclusively reveal.

More: VentureBeat, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, App Advice, The Verge, SlashGear, TUAW, Android Community, MobileSyrup.com, Pocketnow, Geek.com, Engadget, Macgasm, The Droid Guy and PhoneArena

Nick Heath / ZDNet:

'We thought we'd sell 1,000': The inside story of the Raspberry Pi — Summary: The $35 Linux Raspberry Pi computer has sparked a coding revolution. Here's the inside story of the Pi, from its inspiration and development to its plans for the future. — Nick Heath

More: BGR

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

YouTube halts funding for WSJ and Reuters channels; Reuters cuts positions — YouTube has cut off funding to the Wall Street Journal and Reuters that formed part of its $150 million dollar plan to help launch more than 100 premium channels. The termination of the one-year deals …

Tweets: @zenjournalist

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

How Steve Jobs Buys a Company and Why Apple Bought Lala — Aubrey Johnson, a former Color employee, shares two stories behind the scenes at Apple's acquisitions of both Color and Lala — both firms were founded by Bill Nguyen before being acquired by Apple for two very different reasons.

More: Aubrey Johnson, Softpedia News, MacNN, TUAW, Business Insider, App Advice, iClarified, iPhone Hacks and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @panzer

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

US Government Still Leaning On Europe To Dilute Data Protection Reform Proposals — The U.S. government is continuing to lobby Brussels to water down plans to reform privacy legislation. The European Union's executive and legislative bodies are in the process of reforming …

Chris Morran / The Consumerist:

Dish Gives Itself The Award That CBS Stopped CNET From Giving — A week after CBS execs told the editors of CNET they could not give its Best Of Show award to Dish's Hopper DVR because the broadcaster is suing Dish over the device, their decision has backfired, with the satellite TV provider using …

More: Rami Alkarmi, DailyFinance.com, Business Insider and The Verge

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Facebook Cuts Off Access to Voxer Over Competition Concerns — Facebook is facing allegations from a small rival that the service is acting decidedly antisocial. — Mobile communications service Voxer tells AllThingsD that Facebook has cut off access to the company's social graph over competitive concerns.

More: Inside Facebook, GigaOM, VentureBeat and ValueWalk

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Is Cutting Off Find Friends Data To “Competing” Apps That Don't Share Much Back, Starting With Voxer

More: AllFacebook. Tweets: @joshconstine

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