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  Legal Battle For AACS Begins 2007-02-27 23:14 henrypijames

Submitted by henrypijames on Tuesday February 27 2007, @11:14PM
henrypijames writes "As widely expected, the MPAA has learned nothing from the debacle of its failed prosecution against DVD Jon (of DeCSS) and is now releasing its army of lawyers to fight against the circumvention of AACS (the successor of CSS): Upon the reception of a DMCA takedown notice, SourceForge has immediately terminated its hosting of BackupHDDVD (a tool to backup HD DVD movies, as its suggestes). The project leader is seeking advice on how to proceed."
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  Maldroid and YouTube redefine paying your dues 2007-02-18 15:03 Nate Seltenrich

Submitted by Nate Seltenrich on Sunday February 18 2007, @03:03PM
Nate Seltenrich writes "http://www.eastbayexpress.com/2007-02-14/news/vide o-made-the-radio-star

This is the story of perhaps the first ever indie band to be launched on music videos and to parlay that attention into mainstream success. Bands like Maldroid and OK Go have sparked a renaissance in music videos whereby, thanks to technological advances and user-generated sites like YouTube, an indie band can get its big break through music videos. But unlike OK Go, who were already signed to a major label by the time they acheived mainstream success through their two DIY videos, Maldroid had yet to play a single live show or release a single song for sale when it won YouTube's first-ever music video contest last November. As a result, the band was featured on Good Morning America and met with major labels, still before it had played a show. Another twist is that founder and lead singer Ryan Divine started working on his zero-budget winning video before Maldroid became a band and before YouTube even existed. The group continues to be successful, with their second video earning 700,000 views in less than five days of being featured at YouTube (it's now nearing 1 million). Last night they played only their fifth show at one of San Francisco's most well known venues. Theirs is an utterly unique and fascinating story with widespread appeal, all facilitated by a little creativity, lots of time (the first video took a year to hand-animate), powerful Mac software (Divine spoke at the MacWorld conference about using Apple Motion to make music videos), and the magic of YouTube. It's a technology story, a music story, and a culture story all rolled into one. Please consider posting it. Watch the video linked below or read the first section of the story if you're unsure. Check out the visuals for the story too; they're excellent.

Here's the link again:
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/2007-02-14/news/vide o-made-the-radio-star

And here's Maldroid's incredible Lite Brite video on YouTube, now with almost 1 million views: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxZJYbVd1hE

Check out the newspaper cover too. It's a pretty cool image:
http://www.nate-selt.com/cover.jpg

Many thanks for your consideration.
Nate"
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