Music site features videos made for $99 or less Vancouver Sun

Online TV firm Next New Networks and fiber-optic service Verizon FiOS are launching an online network http://www.99dollarmusicvideos.com/ Thursday called $99 Music Videos to showcase the talents of emerging musicians and filmmakers. The companies say they aim to create an MTV for the digital and iTunes age against the backdrop of strong consumer interest in online music videos. The network pairs musicians and filmmakers to produce original music videos for no more than $99, potentially giving them exposure to new fans.

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Dexter teen admits to criminal charge for texting naked photos of herself on cell phone Mlive

A 14-year-old Dexter High School student is in a juvenile court diversion program for youthful offenders after she admitted sending naked images of herself on a cell phone, officials said. The girl admitted responsibility on Feb. 6 to one count of displaying a human form indecently, said Steve Hiller, Washtenaw County chief deputy assistant prosecutor. The misdemeanor charge carries a 90-day jail sentence in adult court, but her punishment remains undetermined until a hearing on March 12 in juvenile court.

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Recording Industry Says Irish ISPs Shouldn’t Protest If It Demands Pirate Bay Block Tech Dirt

Irish ISP Eircom recently settled a lawsuit with the recording industry. The lawsuit itself was an oddity — as it was the first time we could recall the industry actually suing an ISP over charges related to file sharing. The settlement, though, was quite troubling, as Eircom agreed to kick file sharers off the internet via a “three strikes” plan, despite the fact that many countries in Europe have said that it doesn’t make sense to kick users off the internet — and may actually be a violation of their civil rights. However, much more troubling news is now coming out about the settlement. Reader eoinmonty alerts us to the news that IRMA, the Irish Recorded Music Association, has been sending letters to other ISPs throughout Ireland about the Eircom settlement, telling them that they should implement the same plan as Eircom, noting that it’s “in accordance with Irish and European law.” That’s highly misleading. But, the really troubling part is the claim that the Eircom settlement includes an agreement by Eircom not to protest should IRMA demand that certain sites, such as The Pirate Bay, be blocked completely. Other Irish ISPs are up in arms about this, noting that it’s somewhat ridiculous to simply grant the recording industry free reign in deciding what can and cannot be blocked, without allowing ISPs to speak up against such egregious blocking. And, as some of those ISPs point out, it’s particularly ridiculous to highlight The Pirate Bay, as it still hasn’t been found to be illegal — and certainly not in Ireland.

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Forget Free, Indie Band Offers To Pay People $1 To Download Album Tech Dirt

For all the talk about the benefits of giving away music for free as opposed to charging for it, it appears that one indie bands is going even further: it will pay you $1 to download its songs http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/02/indie-band-pays-fans-to-download-album.html . The band, Officer Roseland, has set up a website called MyStimulusPackage.org, where it offers to pay people $1 to download its new album.

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Sick mom won’t quit CNet News

Woman expected support when she got breast cancer. Instead, she got unemployed. It was just a few weeks ago when Elsa Torrejon received the most devastating news of her life. “It’s breast cancer,” the surgeon said. “We have to operate.” In her darkest moment of need, her heartless employers decided to yank away her job as well.

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/19/wisconsin_passes_download_tax/ The Register

With many US states scrambling to fix major budget shortfalls, legislators are taking an added interest in taxes on digital music, videos, and software. Wisconsin today followed in the footsteps of New York State by passing a stimulus bill that includes a measure for adding sales tax to digital downloads starting October 1.

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Judge approves AP’s online news copying suit The Register

The Associated Press can proceed with a copyright infringement lawsuit against an online news aggregation service after a federal judge ruled a century-old US Supreme Court ruling applies to the internet. In a ruling issued Tuesday, US District Judge Kevin Castel shot down arguments that the so-called “hot news doctrine” did not apply. The US Supreme Court established the principle in 1918 in another case brought by the AP. While facts generally can’t be copyrighted, companies can sue for misappropriation when their time-sensitive “hot news” is copied by others, the doctrine holds. Also see, http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090218/ap_on_hi_te/ap_copyright_suit_1 [Comment: err this thing is copyright AP or The Register or both. I'm confused.]

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US feds pull travel site offline after hacker break-in The Register

A travel reservations website used by US government agencies remains offline more than a week after it was infected with malware that tried to install malicious code on the PCs of those who visited the site. Agencies including the Federal Aviation Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of Transportation all reportedly directed employees not to use the website until further notice. (Those advisories presumably were sent prior to the the site being taken down).

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Google might have paid off bullied boy The Inquirer

The father of a disabled boy who was filmed being insulted and tormented by four Italian youths has mysteriously withdrawn his lawsuit against Google. Film of the incident which took place in Turin was was distributed around the World Wide Wibble using a Google service. Google pulled the video the moment it heard about it but it still got caught up in an Italian defamation suit. Five executives of Google were accused of aggravated defamation and invasion of privacy and held responsible for the flick. The boy’s father, lawyer Michela Malerba, said that the decision to pull the case was because suing the Google Five would not provide any useful remedy. The case will continue without the involvement of the boy and his father. However, the Italian press seem to think that money has changed hands between Google and the boy’s family, although this has been denied by the company.

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Bloggers take cash for lies The Inquirer

Top bloggers have been taking cash to take part in guerilla marketing schemes in the Land Down Under. Amateur video maker Hugh Thomas, 26, from Bondi, has admitted he was asked by a mystery third party to create a video blog on the Tim Roth movie Lie To Me and publish it on his popular Youtube channel, in return for payment from 20th Century Fox. Thomas’s ‘hughsnews’ Youtube channel has 20,000 subscribers and the six-minute satirical video on Lie to Me attracted 10,800 views but it was joined by scores of other clips created by Youtube users around the world which were also sponsored by Fox. More here: http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/whisper-campaigns-exposed-pay-per-lie-on-youtube/2009/02/19/1234632880291.html

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I am nobody: Anonymity on the Internet Rabble ca

AnonTalk.com: From the inane to the insane. The website is a free, anonymous, text-only bulletin board that allows users to pose questions, answer questions, or make comments about almost anything. There are posts about grammar woes, sex advice, baking tips and where to find child pornography. AnonTalk was created about 10 months ago. The system operator declined in an e-mail interview to reveal his or her name, age, gender or place of residence. So let’s call this person Sysop, and let’s choose a gender for Sysop: male. On the site’s FAQ page, Sysop wrote that he started the website because other bulletin boards were fraught with technical problems and censorship. He described himself as “just a guy fed up with all the bullshit and the suffocating censorship going on around the Internet.” He said he “wanted a place where you can actually have serious discussions about controversial topics in an anonymous environment.” The site is a petri dish for the study of anonymity and free speech. AnonTalk’s anonymity gives users the freedom to discuss potentially embarrassing quandaries like loneliness and STDs. While it’s not always a comfortable reading experience, AnonTalk is a fascinating insight into the recesses of human thought that are usually left inside the cranium. [Comment: and maybe best left inside the cranium]

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Xbox killer given life sentence BBC

Shane Boyd, 16, will serve at least 11 years for murdering Conor Black in an argument over a games console. The court heard Boyd confronted Conor outside a house party in the early hours of 16 August over the alleged theft of an Xbox console. Boyd came out of the house and smashed his victim over the head with a can of lager, before stabbing him in the back as he turned to escape, the jury heard. Conor ran a short distance to a grassy area where he collapsed and died. The court heard Boyd then stood in the road shouting that he “was the best”, he “was the man” – before threatening to kill anyone who mentioned his name to police.

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Norwegian Communist party voices support for Pirate Bay Beta News

Capitalizing on the furor surrounding the Pirate Bay trial in Sweden, Norway’s Red political party has opened a site called Filesharer.org where people who illegally share media files can de-anonymize themselves in support of the Pirate Bay. “It is almost sad to witness how a desperate industry clings to it’s millions, trying to blame its troubles on a handful of Swedes who have enabled file sharing for people,” says the Red Party’s parliamentary candidate Elin Volder Rutle, “If you are going to punish all who share files, you need to start at ‘A’ in the phone book.” The site carries a banner of “This is what a criminal looks like,” under which users post their photograph, name, and location. They are then assigned a number and made publicly browsable. As of 3:30pm EST, there were 1300 signatories.

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Website changes link text to settle trade mark fight The Register

A property website has settled a lawsuit by agreeing to display the full URL of any hyperlinks that take its users to the website of US law firm Jones Day. It has undertaken not to embed any links to the law firm within words or names on its site. The case against Chicago-based Blockshopper had worried free speech and digital rights advocacy groups which tried to participate in the trial but were blocked. The Electronic Freedom Foundation called Jones Day’s trade mark claims “baseless” and said its demands violated the US constitution’s first amendment, which enshrines the right to free speech. “These routine references to Jones Day are well-established fair uses of a trademark and clearly protected by the First Amendment,” it said. It was barred by the Chicago court from filing papers in support of property website Blockshopper. Blockshopper has now agreed to change the way that it publishes links to Jones Day’s website.

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Internet traffic report: P2P, porn down; games and Flash up Ars Technica

A European company that sells deep packet inspection hardware has released its final numbers on 2008’s Internet trends. Although some structural changes make the numbers a bit difficult to interpret, it looks like P2P traffic is losing share to web use. For the last several years, German hardware maker ipoque has worked with the ISPs and institutions that have installed its deep packet inspection equipment to track the Internet traffic that flows through it. With the data in hand, the company is in an excellent position to detect trends in usage habits, such as the recent slow-down in the rate of P2P growth. The company is back with its annual report for 2008, which it was kind enough to provide to us. They’ve made some changes in their analysis that make direct comparisons a bit challenging, but the data shows a bit of a shift away from P2P use, although that shouldn’t necessarily comfort content owners. [Comment: Refer to the graphical analysis on the above URL thats shows P2P is down. Prepare for other protocals to be throttled soon.]

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A Flowchart That Describes 90% of All Porno Movies Holy Taco

Every guy at some point has wished they were a pornstar.  So, if that dream ever comes true, we’ve decided to help you out by showing you how to maneuver your way through 90% of the porno movies made.

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Criminalizing dissent? RNC protesters face felony terrorism charges Raw Story

Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman talked to Luce Guillen-Givins who is one of the first people ever to be charged under the 2002 Minnesota version of the federal PATRIOT Act. Guillen-Givins and 7 other members of the group RNC Welcoming Committee — also known as the “RNC 8″ — were formally charged with conspiracy to riot in furtherance of terrorism. However, criminal complaints filed reportedly do not allege that members of the RNC 8 personally engaged in any act of violence or damage to property. “Instead, authorities are seeking to hold the eight defendants responsible for acts committed by other individuals during the opening days of the Republican National Convention,” reports Democracy Now. “I think the significance is that this is one more step in the process of criminalizing dissent,” Guillen-Givins. “It’s the fact that we do have a right to protest. Any prosecution under a PATRIOT Act or any similar legislation infringes on those rights.” [Comment: Protesters beware, you're the new terrorists in the "free" world.]

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