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Submission + - Full "Evan Almighty" posted to Google Vide (google.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25, 2007 @11:03PM

An anonymous reader writes: Apparently someone has posted the entire "Evan Almighty" to Google Video (albeit a bootleg). This has been up on their website all day, and the link has been gaining steam across IRC chat rooms and instant messenging programs. Should Google be prepping itself for a lawsuit?

Submission + - Internet Radio prepares for Nation-wide shutdown (x1fmradio.com)

Submitted by

Javier Leyva

on Monday June 25, 2007 @10:58PM

Javier Leyva writes: "EMERGING INTERNET RADIO INDUSTRY PREPARES FOR NATION-WIDE SHUTDOWN.

Thousands of broadcasters will shutdown operations in this country's Internet radio industry.

SAN DIEGO. CA — Jun. 25, 2007 — A who's who of Internet Radio Broadcasters will go silent on June 26, 2007 in protest of the increase in royalty rates paid by on-line radio stations. In an effort led by Yahoo!, Apple, MTV and San Diego's own X1FMRadio.com thousands of U.S. Broadcasters plan to go silent in protest of an increase that they consider not only unfair but as intended to shut-down independent web-casters and prolong the crumbling control of Major Corporations over media-outlets.

"What we are seeing is a clear example of how Independent broadcasters are faced with dim prospects for survival if these royalty fees become law. The result will be a creative vacuum in which only traditional, well-funded companies will be able to utilize new media. This is not only unfair to independent broadcasters like X1FM, but would be extremely detrimental to emerging artists who can not get their music exposed through more traditional mediums" said Kevin Stapleford, Program contributor and Music consultant for X1FM Radio. X1FM is a part of BBCI a San Diego based company established since 1995 that has pioneered the Internet Radio Industry and leads the 'Movement for Freedom of Music' a user supported initiative based right here in San Diego with the intention to promote what Mr. Stapleford calls "fair treatment for independent web-casters" through the Internet Radio Equality Act, a bill that would equal the fees paid by web-casters to those paid by Satellite Radio Broadcasters a fee already higher than those paid by Terrestrial Radio. "The music industry is already being eaten alive by on-line piracy, so it only makes sense that legitimate Web broadcasters are given a fair chance to thrive and help introduce artists to the millions of music fans who no longer listen to terrestrial radio." concluded Mr. Stapleford.

X1FMRadio.com plans to limit the music programming during what others are already calling the 'Day of Silence' and serve as an outlet for information regarding this initiative through its own 'Movement for Freedom of Music.'

X1FM Radio is the first fully interactive Radio Station broadcasting and is a part of Binational Broadcasting Company, Inc and can be reached at (619) 336-4900.

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Contacts:

Press: Music: Business:

Javier Leyva Raudel Enrique Raul Sanchez

javierleyva@x1fmradio.com raudelenrique@x1fmradio.com raul@x1fmradio.com

Word /PDFVersion: http:///www.x1fmradio.com/press.html"

Google Calls For More Limits On Microsoft 270

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 25, 2007 @09:47PM from the keeping-watch-a-while-longer dept.

teh_commodore writes "Scientific American is reporting that Google is now asking a Federal judge to extend the government's anti-trust oversight of Microsoft, specifically with regard to desktop search software. Microsoft had already agreed to modify Vista to allow rival desktop search engines, but Google says that this remedy will come too late — specifically, after (most of) the anti-trust agreement expires in November. What makes this political maneuver interesting is that Google went over the heads of the Department of Justice and US state regulators, who had found Microsoft's compromise acceptable, to appeal directly to the Federal judge overseeing the anti-trust settlement." Update: 06/26 17:20 GMT by KD : The judge is unwilling to play along with Google; she said she will likely defer to an agreement on desktop search forged between Microsoft and the plaintiffs in the case: i.e. Justice and the states.

RIAA, Safenet Sued For Malicious Prosecution 337

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 25, 2007 @08:34PM from the what-goes-around dept.

DaveAtFraud writes "Tanya Anderson, the single mother from Oregon previously sued by the RIAA — which dropped the case just before losing a summary judgement — is now suing the RIAA and their hired snoop Safenet for malicious prosecution. (Safenet was formerly known as MediaSentry.) Anderson is asserting claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act. A reader at Groklaw has already picked up that she is seeking to have the RIAA forfeit the copyrights in question as part of the settlement (search the page for '18.6-7')."

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