Porn king calls for PS3 support MCVUK
The kingpin of the world`s largest pornography producer has called on Sony to make downloadable HD adult movies available worldwide through PSN. The Vivid Entertainment founder and co-chairman, Steven Hirsch, told MCV that he believed the distribution of porn films on PS3 had real potential for the adult entertainment industry. [Shouldn't be a problem.  After all, this is Sony we're talking about - Jon.]

Google To Offer Micropayments To News Sites Slashdot
Google is promoting a payment system to the newspaper industry that would let Web surfers pay a small amount for individual news stories, an idea that could help publishers struggling with the impact of the Internet . [Comment: Seems like someone is ripping off 1P2U]

Adobe Flash in a race against Silverlight for the most DRM BetaNews
Largely by virtue of its support from YouTube, which some say supplies four-fifths of the Web`s streaming video, Adobe Flash is the de facto delivery standard for video through Web pages. While content creators have been urging Google and other video hosts to implement better controls over how unauthorized content can become so freely distributed, Adobe is now working on a way to enable those creators to post or host their own Flash video, in a way that they and only they are in control of the distribution process — including, who gets to see those videos and for how much.

Dictator Wars: social game where you get to be a despot BoingBoing
In Dictator Wars you can arrest dissident bloggers, move the national treasury into your home, and subsidize the price of oil to create religious policemen. Players can ban threatening religions, develop domestic drug production, and ride around on aircraft carriers threatening larger nations.

Twitter expands rules to allow advertising Reuters
openTwitter, the fast-growing microblogging site now seeking ways to make money, expanded its terms for users on Thursday to allow advertisers to reach the Internet site`s more than 45 million monthly visitors.

[AU gov rhetoric sez: Think of the children!] Teenagers watch online porn `by accident` Government study News AU
Most 16 to 17-year-old boys admit to viewing online pornography but they claim it`s an accident. [Comment: Of course it's by accident. Now we must filter it to prevent these accidents! Keep in mind this is a "Gov study". The same gov that wants to censor AU's internet!]

[TechCrunch gets punked by fa$ebook] Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk`d Us Tech Crunch
[Comment: see: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/facebook-now-lets-you-fax-your-photos-i-have-no-idea-why-anyone-would-want-to-do-this/ then see http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/yeah-ok-so-facebook-punkd-us/ heh]

Telus says unfair advantage claim based on `half-truths and innuendo` IT Business
A group of more than two dozen Web companies led by MTS Allstream is protesting a CRTC decision made late last year. They say it gives incumbents Telus and Bell carte blanche to dominate the future broadband Internet market. But Telus says it has the right to profit from its investment in a fibre-based network. A campaign claiming the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has given incumbent telephone carriers an unfair advantage in offering broadband Internet services is nothing but a collection of half-truths and innuendo, according to Telus Corp. [Comment: See p2pnet story here: http://www.p2pnet.net/story/28195 This is no half-truths as the telco mafia wants you to believe. It's reality.]

Manitoba Tel gets green light for alliance with Rogers Wireless Canoe
Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. has received regulatory approval for an agreement with Rogers Wireless Partnership that will allow them to share the cost of deploying a new high-speed network, Manitoba Tel announced Friday Its MTS Allstream division will also get access to the national Rogers network as a roaming partner and will have the opportunity to launch a national wireless business offering under the Allstream brand through a wholesale arrangement. Rogers Communications Inc., through Rogers Wireless and Fido, has Canada`s largest wireless network in terms of subscribers.

DRM Company: If You Think Patents Are Bad, You’re Un-American TechDirt
In our recent discussion about another bad idea for a new type of DRM that will surely fail, Steve R. pointed us to an article in Forbes about Intertrust, the DRM company, who apparently is cooking up yet another DRM scheme. But, unlike the system we talked about in the original post — where the guy noted that the concept had to be widely adopted as a standard, and not protected, Intertrust goes on and on and on about how it’s got a ton of DRM patents to protect this new DRM scheme. This isn’t a surprise. Intertrust’s entire business model was based on suing Microsoft for patent infringement.

Probe new rivals` ownership, Rogers urges Globe & Mail
Rogers Communications Inc., Canada`s biggest wireless company, has asked the federal regulator to conduct intensive public reviews of two new entrants to the marketplace. The request asks the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to put the foreign ownership and control structure of Data & Audio-Visual Enterprises Wireless Inc., known as DAVE Wireless, and Public Mobile Holdings Inc. under the same scrutiny that a third new entrant, Globalive Holdings, is already undergoing. [Comment: Seems someone is scared of competition that it can't control in a wholesale agreement. Ahem.]

Rogers sues Shaw Cable in order to keep their monopoly MediaCaster
Rogers Communications is suing its largest rival, Shaw Communications, and is trying to prevent that company from expanding into eastern Canada with the purchase of Mountain Cablevision, in Hamilton, ON Shaw and Rogers have been operating under an agreement reached nearly ten years ago, one that basically divided the country in half, giving Rogers the east and restricting Shaw to western Canada. [Comment: Sounds like collusion to prevent competition and competitive pricing]

Bell Mobility`s paper fee raises hackles CBC
A new $2 fee has at least one Newfoundland customer angry with Bell Mobility. Margaret Kearney of St. John`s says she`s never had a problem paying a monthly access fee, but when she opened her last phone bill she was shocked by what she saw. When I looked at it, it said: Paper invoice fee $2, said Kearney, incredulously. Bell Mobility says the fee aims to encourage customers to go paperless . Bell Mobility explains it like this: Customers used to pay a $8.95 system access fee each month per cellphone. The company reduced that fee to $6.95 for customers who pay over the internet. Other customers pay the old $8.95, and the additional $2 is now called a paper invoice fee . Halifax Bell Mobility spokesperson Isabelle Robinson told CBC that Bell won`t remove the $2 fee for people who don`t have a computer

Cell phone providers getting rich with exorbitant text message charges Gadgetell
Recent scrutiny has come on cell phone providers as questions arise on how they can justify the rate that they charge their customers to use their SMS messaging service. According to Time Magazine, it only costs 0.3 of a cent to provide SMS messaging to consumers. So, why are paying as much as 25 cents per message? Cell phone providers contend that instead of focusing on per message charges, consumers should look at affordable pricing packages that allow you to access bundled or unlimited messaging at a low rate. Just make sure you don`t go over the set amount or you could be responsible for a pricey cell phone bill. [Comment: In other words, sign on to a contract that locks you in with termination fees.]

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