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MP3 Download Stores Compared

Source: HypeBot
April 27, 2009

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Yahoo Shutting Down Geocities

Source: PC Magazine
April 27, 2009

Carol Bartz does not mess around. Ever since taking the helm from the company's long-demonized Jerry Yang, the new Yahoo CEO has made it very clear that her primary objective is streamlining the struggling search giant. The latest casualty of the company's cuts is Geocities. Yes, Geocities is still around--or it was, until now. Yahoo, which purchased the site building operation back in 1999, quietly closed it down this week--barring new users from signing up with the service. People visiting ...

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Yahoo's Cuts Fall on Geocities; Service Will Shut Down

Source: PC Magazine
April 27, 2009

It's the end of an era. Yahoo announced Thursday (April 23) that it will shut down GeoCities, the Web site building business it acquired a decade ago. “We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways," Yahoo said in a statement. “We will be closing GeoCities later this year." The closure is part of an effort ...

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Pirate Bay Defendants Demand Retrial

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2009

Swedish judge denies conflict of interest

BERLIN A defense lawyer in Sweden's Pirate Bay copyright case has called for a retrial following reports that the judge in the case is a member of the same copyright protection organizations as several of the main entertainment industry reps.

Earlier this month Judge Tomas Norstroem convicted the four operators of the file-sharing site, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom, of accessory to copyright infringement, and sentenced each to one ...

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Swedish Pirate Party Doubles in Size After Bay Verdict

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2009

Membership in the Swedish Pirate Party has more than doubled in the wake of last Friday's verdict against The Pirate Bay, dramatically increasing the copyright-reform party's chances of winning a seat in the European Parliament.

Over 22,000 new party members have joined the Pirate Party since a panel of judges sentenced a financier and three administrators of the torrent-tracking site to a year in prison. The explosion of support has swelled the party's membership from 15,000 on Friday morning to ...

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Pirate Bay Judge Exposed as Member of Pro-Copyright Groups

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2009

WALK THE PLANK JUDGE! Deer caught in the Headlight.

One of the four men convicted in The Pirate Bay trial is seeking to have his guilty verdict thrown out after learning that the judge in the trial is a member of two pro-copyright groups, including one whose membership includes entertainment industry representatives who argued in the case.

Stockholm district court judge, Tomas Norstrm told a Swedish newspaper that his previously-undisclosed entanglements with the copyright groups did not constitute ...

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MySpace vs. Facebook User Gap Narrows

Source: HypeBot
April 21, 2009

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Susan Boyle YouTube Video: 100 Million Hits and Cash Windfall

Source: All About Jazz
April 20, 2009

Susan Boyle's Britain's Got Talent video is on track to become the most popular video in the history of YouTube

Amassing nearly 100 million views in its first nine days and earning the producers of the program a serendipitous windfall that could already be in the millions.

The YouTube clip got massive play on U.S. cable television and made the 48-year-old Boyle whose performance was a mere first-round audition, after all into an international star whose career in an instant ...

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