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• Sony Unveils Its Answer to Apple’s iTunes
  Answer to iTunes? Shouldn’t this have been launched five years ago? This war is already lost.
• ATT Loses First Legal Battle, Makes Things Worse With Luke Wilson Ad
  Also suffers snide (but probably true) remark from Verizon.
• Sony Unveils Its Answer to Apple’s iTunes
  Can Sony compete in this market this time?
• Music: Too Expensive to Be Free, Too Free to Be Expensive
  The comments about payments to music labels killing ad-supported/legitimate free services — and how that will impact consumer behavior — should strike fear in the hearts of music execs (you know, the ones who demanded outrageous fees).

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• NBC Launches All-In-One Video Player, VoIP And Texting Tool—And It’s Ad-Supported
  Not feeling it. A) Why not use the Hulu platform since it’s already caught fire with consumers? B) Really? You think consumers want to float from site to site rather than have information in a single place? C) Hmm, no C right now. TK.
• Confirmed: MySpace Looking to Buy Imeem
  Ah, MySpace, you keep on giving. No seriously, this might very be a good acquisition, but you’ve got bigger problems than this.
• Times editor James Harding outlines plans for online charging
  Not sure this is the way forward, but there you have it: a plan to save newspapers.
• Esquire’s Cover of the Future Stumbles Over Piece of Paper
  Oops.
• Can the law keep up with technology?
  We’re gonna go with no.
• Couple arrested after reporting stolen marijuana
  This is why my faith in humanity may be misplaced.

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• L.A. Wants Its Jackson Memorial Money Back—All $3.2 Million
  In addition to reimbursing the city, we wouldn’t mind some compensation for pain and suffering.

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• One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Consumers Want Choice On Pricing, Delivery Of Content
  Yep.
• The Price of Free
  Nicholas Carr examines the consequences of free; doesn’t much consider possibility of alternatives.
• Pre-Release Music Piracy: Further Arrests, Exec Loses Job
  Well, uh, yeah. It’s not the consumers were are leaking stuff prior to release.
• The War For the Web
  As dominant players emerge and flex market power in the web, will it change our fundamental understanding and usage. Or will we continue with freedom as we know it.
• CNN gave reporter Lou Dobbs $8 million in severance pay to leave network
  Not sure this counts as solving one of life’s greatest mysteries (or even a minor question), but there you have it. He was paid to leave.
• Growing Pains at Hulu
  Wow — the motion picture business found a serious way to compete with free models, and they are managing to frack it up. Well done. Well. Done.
• Copyright Time Bomb Set to Disrupt Music, Publishing Industries
  This could get very interesting, very fast.
• Oxford Word of the Year 2009: Unfriend
  We are totally linking to this. Because it’s an annual tradition. Because we love the logic that goes into the choice of Word of the Year. And because we live in fear of Rebecca unfriending us!

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• Meep
  Double MEEP.
• Hollywood Invents Celebrity Twittering for Dollars
  Probably this would be more annoying to us if we actually followed these people.

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• Apple patents improved digital ink recognition techniques for pen-aware tablet
  Let the rumors expand!
• ATT Responds to Verizon’s “Blatantly False and Misleading” Ads
  Dear ATT, would you also respond to the fact that your maps mislead consumers about coverage, especially the maps that show excellent coverage where *none* exists?
• A Look At All The Sites Owned By Rupert Murdoch That ‘Steal’ Content
  Not necessarily a clip ‘n save guide, but useful.
• The Death of the Man Who Gave Us the Death of Chuckles
  David Lloyd has passed away.

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• We Know Hollywood Is This Dumb. Et Tu, Netflix?
  This hurts. On so many levels.
• Zucker to head new NBCU-Comcast venture: sources
  Nobody puts Jeff in the corner!
• The Last Nail
  Electronic Arts lays off staff, stumbles toward future.

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• Sometimes Twitter Accounts About Sh*t Your Dad Says Get You TV Deals
  And there you have it: the secret to success.
• Murdoch to Google: Search This
  Douglas Rushkoff tries to explore Rupert Murdoch’s search temper tantrum and comes up short by confusing search with access. Please, Mr. Murdoch, block Google and other search engines from your sites. You’ve had the power to do this all along; it’s really not hard. Your challenge really comes in finding new readers — that’s a lot of marketing dollars with possibly limited benefits.
• Checking accounts: A new source of fees?
  Banks know that the customers are loaning them money, right? They get that, right?

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• Gawker Destroyed Nikki Finke. So Why Doesn’t It Matter?
  We wondered if anyone else caught this. Turns out someone was paying attention.
• Edwyn Collins stopped from sharing his music online
  This is sad and scary. Especially the part about Warner Brothers claiming to own something they don’t and not fixing it right away.
• Visually-Impaired-Gamer-Sues-Sony
  Hmm, could have interesting implications.
• For ‘Avatar,’ a Huge Budget Supported by Many Players
  Projected at $500 million, this could be one experiment that hurts. A lot.
• Murdoch: We’re Going To Get The Definition Of Fair Use Changed
  Because, apparently, the BBC is stealing content. Like everyone else.

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• Software cos. eye key patent case in Supreme Court
  Somehow missed this story. While it won’t eliminate stupid patent lawsuits (TM), it’s an interesting test of what is patentable.

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