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Boom in live music and video clips gives PRS licence to print money - the Guardian

A ground-breaking deal with YouTube and a booming live music scene has seen composers and songwriters receive record royalty payouts from their songs being used online, in pubs and on stage. The Performing Right Society, which collects and pays royalties to composers, songwriters and music publishers, distributed £110m for the first quarter of 2008, up by more than a third on a year earlier.

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University of Central Florida students freak out when they go tech-free - Orlando Sentinel

For one week - five days, really - a class of college students was assigned to unplug and live a tech-free life. No cell phones. No iPods. No computers, TVs or video games. It was enough to make a "millennial" weep. What would they do? Read a book, suggested Mary Ann Murdoch, who teaches English composition at the University of Central Florida. "They were mortified at the thought of this," Murdoch said. "It’s not just something I’m doing to be trendy or funny or frivolous. It’s something I’m doing to get us in touch with where our humanity is. Are they really in charge of these devices, or are all these devices in charge of them?"

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Elvis Presley made a secret visit to England - Times Online

Elvis Presley spent a day in London in 1958 visiting tourist attractions. Elvis Presley may have long since left the building, but before he did so, he made a secret visit to England, it has emerged. The King toured London 50 years ago, taking in the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace with the onetime pop pin-up Tommy Steele. It has always been understood Presley once set foot on Scottish soil, but never English, however yesterday theatre producer Bill Kenwright let fans in on the clandestine visit.

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Court says search of laptop with porn is legal - Reuters

A U.S. Customs inspection of a laptop computer that found child pornography does not constitute an unreasonable search and seizure, a U.S. federal appeals court ruled on Monday. Michael Arnold argued the U.S. Constitution’s protections against searches without reasonable suspicion should have barred a 2005 search of his laptop at Los Angeles International Airport upon returning from the Philippines. He was later charged with child pornography and related crimes.

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Unreleased Atari 2600 Game Found At Flea Market - Slashdot

"I was at the flea market in Oakland yesterday when a pile of EPROMs caught my eye. When I got them home I found that they were prototypes for Colecovision games. A few were unpublished or saw limited runs, like Video Hustler (billiards). Others were fully released, like WarGames. But the crown jewel is what look to be a number of chips with various revisions of Cabbage Patch Kids Adventures in the Park for Atari 2600.

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Google sued over advertising program - CNET News

A lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court accuses Google of deceiving its customers into paying for ads they didn’t expressly request. The lawsuit, which seeks class action status, was filed by the firm of Kabateck Brown Kellner in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., on behalf of David Almeida, a Massachusetts-based private investigator who enrolled in Google AdWords in November 2006.

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[OT] Hawking: Unintelligent life is likely on other planets - Associated Press

Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has been thinking a lot about the cosmic question, "Are we alone?" The answer is probably not, he says. If there is life elsewhere in the universe, Hawking asks why haven’t we stumbled onto some alien broadcasts in space, maybe something like "alien quiz shows?" Hawking’s comments were part of a lecture at George Washington University on Monday in honor of NASA’s 50th anniversary. He theorized that there are possible answers to whether there is extraterrestrial life.

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