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Ted Bridis / Associated Press:
Grokster Downloading Service to Shut Down — WASHINGTON - Grokster Ltd., which lost a Supreme Court fight over file-sharing software used for stealing songs and movies online, agreed Monday to shut down and pay $50 million to settle piracy complaints by Hollywood and the music industry.
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riaa.com:
Music Industry Announces Grokster Settlement — WASHINGTON, DC - The owners and operators of the Grokster peer-to-peer (P2P) network - the lead and most well-known defendants in one of the Supreme Court's seminal decisions this year and the most profound case affecting copyright laws in two decades …
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Bag and Baggage, PaidContent.org, Silicon Valley Media Law Blog and A Copyfighter's Musings
John Borland / CNET News.com:
Last waltz for Grokster — update File-swapping company Grokster has agreed to stop distributing its peer-to-peer software, following a $50 million legal settlement announced Monday with Hollywood studios and record labels. — Along with co-defendant StreamCast Networks …
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dynamicobjects.com
tech-recipes.com:
Digg Effect: The Top 10 Things Webmasters Should Know — Over the weekend, we were on the front page of digg.com again. Getting honored in this way is always a thrill to us. As a tech-tutorial site we have been highlighted on the front page many times now.
Miss Rogue / HorsePigCow:
Miss Behavin' — Thanks Liz for your assessment of the Seattle Post's article. You have no idea what it means to me. — I swear, I felt sick when I read that article. All of the grand demos and in-depth conversations and contacts over the weekend were instantly twisted to "I'm a Bimbo" in that moment.
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Dave Winer / H Y P E R C A M P:
Camp as newsroom — I find the combination of blogging and news rooms very exciting. — The first time I experienced it was at a conference in Monterey in 2000. I was sitting in the conference computer room, a small hotel ballroom with about 100 workstations, updating my blog.
Dinesh C. Sharma / CNET News.com:
Study: CEOs find blogs useful — A growing number of American chief executives rate blogs high as employee communication tools, though a majority of them remain skeptical about starting their own, a new study shows. — About 59 percent of CEOs surveyed said they find Web logs, or blogs …
Financial Times:
CBS and NBC offer shows 'on demand' — Two US broadcasters, CBS and NBC Universal, have signed deals with cable and satellite operators to make top-rated television shows available for "on demand" viewing within hours of being aired. — The shows, which include CBS's CSI …
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Kasper Jade / appleinsider.com:
Over 1 million Windows to Mac converts so far in 2005? — The momentum generated by Apple's iPod digital music players and related products continues to translate into new Macintosh sales according to one Wall Street analyst who estimates that over one million Windows users have purchased a Mac in the first three quarters of 2005.
bastion.co.uk:
PHILIPS ANNOUNCES AMBX - A REVOLUTION IN AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE - TO THE GAMES INDUSTRY — Let There Be Light! — Redhill, Surrey, United Kingdom - Philips today introduced amBX - a light year leap in ambient experience - to the world of computer gaming, spotlighting a technology …
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
What do you call things like Flickr, Microsoft Gadgets, Google Maps, Amazon Affiliate parts? — I've been struggling to communicate with others what the new Internet ecosystem is made up of and it hit me a few minutes ago. — They are Internet Connected Components. — Hear me out.
wiredblogs.tripod.com:
Hideki Konno tells Game| Life what's cooking on Revolution — On Hideki Konno's business card, it says "Producer, Entertainment Analysis and Development." That's significant because it's the position that once appeared on the business card of Shigeru Miyamoto. — Hideki Konno is, therefore, a man to watch out for.
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Joystiq
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
The Online Travel Landscape Is Getting Crowded — TRAVEL sites like Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz already have their hands full with airlines and hoteliers - their "valued partners" - luring consumers away with sites that look more like full-service travel agencies every day.
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Richard MacManus / Read/Write Web:
Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 31 Oct - 6 Nov 2005 — This week: Microsoft Live, Flash Maps and the Mechanical Turk, Web 2.0 meet-ups all over the world, 2.0 Blog of the Week - Supr.c.ilio.us. — sponsored by: — Microsoft Live wrap-up — The big news of the week was Microsoft's announcement of Windows Live and Office Live.
Presentation Zen:
Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic — As a follow up to yesterday's post on Bill Gates' presentation style, I thought it would be useful to examine briefly the two contrasting visual approaches employed by Gates and Jobs in their presentations while keeping key aesthetic concepts found in Zen in mind.
Ingrid Marson / CNET News.com:
EMI: We don't use rootkits — The EMI Group, one of the world's largest recording companies, has distanced itself from the controversy surrounding digital rights management (DRM) software used by Sony BMG by stating that it does not use rootkits on its own products.
