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• Sony to sell e-books along with music and movies and apps in new store: New multimedia tablet coming? Just a GUESS

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 660
  The Sony eBookStore shown here has been around for a few years for Sony Reader owners. But now comes word from BusinessWeek that Sony will also sell e-books elsewhere—in the new Sony Online Store, the current name. This one will sell music, movies and downloadable apps, too. The feeling among Sony watchers ...
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• Sony to launch online portal

  
  Gadget News and Reviews — Authority: 164
  An online store is a big thing thanks to the iTunes unprecedented success on a global scale, and Sony doesnt want to lose out on that potentially lucrative market whether executed rightly, having announced plans to roll out an online portal for music, movies , books and other subject matter including applications. ...
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• DRM-free top-flight horror novels

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 885
  Brett from small-press horror publisher Chizine sez, "ChiZine Publications (CZP) is an independent publisher of weird, surreal, subtle, and disturbing dark literary fiction hand-picked by Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi, Bram Stoker Award-winning editors of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words. ...
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• More on Fart Apps, and Soundboards Generally

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 582
  My colleague (and boss) Adam Thierer had a great post last week about how “fart apps” are a great example of the generative nature of the mobile phone application marketplace. But Fart apps are just one type of “soundboard” application. A typical soundboard app has a bunch of buttons, and each time you press ...
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• Ex-HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman may back off from DRM: Way to increase profits on her Open Road e-books?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 660
  Is ex-HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman about to change her mind on Digital Rights Management —and avoid it? Or maybe play it down in her new Open Read e-publishing operation ? “Do I really have to answer? I’m not sure,” Friedman told New York University publishing students after someone asked about ...
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• UPDATED: Stardock Takes Care Of Gamer Who Downloaded Messed-Up game [This Is What It Sounds Like When Warlords Battle-cry]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 777
  Tim downloaded a computer game from Stardock but found that its been crippled by DRM issues that treat him like hes a common pirate. At first he found customer service unresponsive and thought he would be out $10 (Stardock ended up refunding his money). He goes through his travails in great detail: Im hoping ...
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• Stardock Selling Broken Downloadable Game [This Is What It Sounds Like When Warlords Battle-cry]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 777
  Tim downloaded a computer game from Stardock but found that its been crippled by DRM issues that treat him like hes a common pirate. He finds customer service unresponsive and thinks he may be out the $10 he spent. He goes through his travails in great detail: Im hoping this story has enough of a "man bites ...
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• Amazon Emulates The Kindle For Microsoft Users

  
  KnowProSE.com — Authority: 110
  Its true. One of the things that has always bothered me about the Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6 has been that it requires special hardware to run, as I noted in eReader Extravaganza? . While it would be nice to think someone at Amazon read that and thought it would be a grand idea to get past the hardware ...
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• Thanks to Newsweek for Having Me at News/Geek

  
  shouting loudly — Authority: 113
  Just a quick, 24-hours-overdue thanks to the folks at the Newsweek Dev Team for hosting me last night at their third News/Geek event. I had a rollicking good time, the questions were awesome, and the post-talk celebration was even better. If you want the Powerpoint, it’s here in all its 12.2 MB glory . ...
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• Piracy is Good, Says Trials Developer Redlynx

  
  Negative Gamer — Authority: 590
  Many larger publishers are currently attempting to stop pirates with awful, almost malware-like Digital Rights Management tools being implemented in their games on the PC. Modern Warfare 2 , for example, has a gimped PC version with no dedicated servers and no mod support. Starcraft 2 is another large PC game that ...
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• Nitpicking the Google Books Settlement 2.0

  
  Gavin Baker — Authority: 388
  I previously posted on the Google Books Settlement , avoiding the well-trod ground and focusing on points that were salient but hadn’t received much discussion. Now that there’s a new draft of the proposed settlement, I’ll do the same: The revised settlement cuts out a huge swath of international works. ...
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• The Pirate Bay Shuts Torrent Tracker Forever | Decentralized DHT System Evolves Instead

  
  Web TV Wire — Authority: 422
  If an entity is being threatened with extinction it has two options: evolve, or die. The Pirate Bay has chosen the former, shutting down its BitTorrent tracker and moving instead to a decentralized DHT system. The Pirate Bay The Pirate Bay is refusing to die. It’s been the largest and one of the most popular ...
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• Good By iTunes Store (for now)

  
  JT's Blog — Authority: 100
  For many years Apple had held the upper hand over the Music Industry regarding the pricing of individual song sales.  A  few years back Amazon came along and began selling MP3 digital downloads for 99 cents or less, while also being free of Digital Rights Management.  Apple and iTunes songs meanwhile remained full ...
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• Apple’s ‘Advertisement in OS’ Patent Shows Intent That Apple Wants a Captive Audience, Literally

  
  eHomeUpgrade — Authority: 517
  The phrase, “Truth is stranger than fiction,” I believe applies here. I don’t think anyone saw this coming. Apple has filed for a patent (USPTO: 20090265214), which Steve Jobs has signed off on, that will enable its operating system on a variety of devices to display ads which users must act on to signal ...
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• We need a new Nokia S60 Flash Lite packaging solution!

  
  biskero — Authority: 134
  It’s been about 4 years that Flash Lite content can be packaged into a sis installer.  I remember working on it and getting stuck on some issues, then Leonardo was working at the same time on this issue. We shared some ideas and figure out a solution “Launcher” . (I hope I remember correctly!!) After that ...
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• Banned Xbox 360s a hot item on Craigslist and eBay

  
  PlayNoEvil Game Security News & Analysis — Authority: 128
  FOR SALE: 1 used Xbox 360, banned, but with all the latest games (and I do mean ALL). Yep, Microsofts move to ban up to 1 million Xbox 360s is apparently flooding the market with used consoles. The banning program has turned into a marketing tool for pirates. Hooray!?!???? Potential customers are even requesting ...
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• Viacom lawyer says suing illegal downloaders “feels like bullying”

  
  Electricpig.co.uk - The UK's fastest-growing tech news site — Authority: 710
  Michael Fricklas, general counsel at entertainment mega-corp Viacom, has admitted that suing end users for online copyright infringement is “expensive, painful and feels like bullying.” Fricklas went even further, telling students at Yale Law School, that clamping down on university students with “expensive ...
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• Wireless Sony e-reader ready for preorder tomorrow—and meanwhile the Sony PRS-500 firmware update is out

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 660
  Beginning November 18, tomorrow, you can preorder the $399 Sony Reader Daily Edition , the one with a 7.1-inch E Ink screen and 3G wireless from AT&T in the U.S. So reports TechFlash in Eric Engleman’s Q&A with Steve Haber, president of the Sony digital reading division . The Daily Edition, last we ...
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• Free MP3 Downloads

  
  The Freebies Blog — Authority: 418
  Honda and Rhapsody are offering free MP3 downloads. There are no details required, tracks can be previewed and downloaded individually or you can download them all in a zip file. The artists include: The Raveonettes The Helio Sequence Foals Foreign Born Islands Headlights Pacha Massive Wolf Parade Band of ...
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• Remove DRM from Protected WMA Downloads from Napster and Rhapsody

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 561
  If you are having trouble trying to turn your protected wma files into mp3s then you know how frustrating it can be downloading music from Napster and Rhapsody. Although these services provide the most legal way to download music from the internet as well as providing the highest quality downloads you can find ...
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