Entertainment Stories for 2011

France Bans Facebook and Twitter From Radio and TV 278
Lack of Technology Puts Star Wars Series On Hold 309
AC/DC Music Attracts Great White Sharks 89
Embed a Video, Go To Jail? 314
School Super Asks Governor To Make His School District a Prison 505
Fetus Don't Fail Me Now: How Scientists Raise Children 233
DC Reboots Universe 292
Daleks To Be Given 'A Rest' From Dr. Who 332
Canadian Music Industry Copyright Class Action Settled 99
Jonathan Coulton Answers Your Questions 55
The Next Phase of Intelligent TVs Will Observe You 294
CmdrTaco Visits Pixar 128
New Book Reports Soviets Behind Roswell UFO Scare 135
FSF On How To Choose a License 210
Finnish Record Labels Want To Block Pirate Bay 144
Happy Towel Day! 72
Major Release of Miro Aims to Compete With iTunes 201
Amazon Gags On Gaga 180
Poor Picture At Your Local Cinema? 178
Ask Jonathan Coulton About the Transformation From Code Monkey to Internet Star 122
Warner Bros. Forced To Fight For Fair Use 222
Ask Slashdot: What To Do When the Rapture Comes? 673
Neuromancer Movie Deal Moving Forward 334
Netflix Isn't Swamping the Internet 208
XBMC4XBOX 3.0.1 Stable Released 57
Google Builds Biometric Models of Celebrity Faces 56
Netflix Dominates North American Internet 301
Celebrating the Sci-fi Ray Gun 158
The Arduino Project Gets a Core Memory Accessory 46
Invent the Medical Tricorder, Win $10,000,000 167
Zediva Fights Back Against MPAA 112
Netflix Available For Android 162
LimeWire Settles For $105 Million 167
German Newscast Confuses Star Trek Terrorists With Navy SEALs 1
Glove Emulates Musical Instruments 82
Consumer Device With Open CPU Out of Beta Soon 99
Google Launching Music Service Without Labels 406
Ask Slashdot: Is It Time For SyFy To Go Premium? 607
23,000 File Sharers Targeted In Latest Lawsuit 386
Project Icarus: an Interstellar Mission Timeline 265
Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable 366
The Dirtiest Jobs in IT 116
Gitionary: the Git Party Game 50
A New Human-Seeking Drone, Much Cheaper Than a Predator 178
CNET Sued Over LimeWire Client Downloads 206
Star Wars MMO Estimated To Cost $100M 133
Tech That Failed To Fail 428
Spotify Challenges iTunes With iPod Support, Playlist Synching 95
Ubisoft Launches Movie Studio To Make Movies of Its Games 114
Playstation To Restore Services This Week 174
Forging a Head: The Upside of Scientific Hoaxes 201
YouTube, Gaming and Social Networking Busting TV's Chops 118
The Chemical-Free Chemistry Kit 296
Nintendo Chief: Consumers Don't Understand 3DS Yet 215
DirecTV Plans Netflix Competitor 85
Is YouTube Launching a Netflix Competitor? 162
Netflix Subscriber Base Eclipses Comcast's 333
Microsoft's Xbox To Have Streaming TV Service? 131
Father of the CD, Norio Ohga, Dead At 81 180
What Kinect Could Be, But Probably Won't 143
Why People Should Stop Being Duped By the 3D Scam 394
Revolution of the Science Fiction Authors 292
Licensing Problem Silences Internet Radio Stations 100
Apple To Beat Google On Cloud Music 160
Amazon Denies Skynet's Involvement In AWS Outage 99
IMSLP Taken Down By UK Publishers Group 117
Ask Slashdot: Are You Streaming-Only For Home Entertainment? 697
Working Model Factory Made With Lego Robots 63
British ISPs Fail To Defeat Digital Economy Act 184
Purdue Claims World Record Goldberg Machine 79
Doctor Who's Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane) Dies at 63 132
An RC Car That Runs On Soda Can Rings 135
Skynet Becomes Aware, Launches Nuclear Attack 274
Gadget Tracks Brainwaves As You Watch TV 49
Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? 1162
Are We Suffering Origin Story Fatigue? 242
What Monty Python Teaches Us About Computing 102
Today Is Record Store Day 2011 108
Why Google Should Buy the Music Industry 472
Rivals Mock Microsoft's 'Native HTML5' Claims 211
Who Killed Spotify? 257
Couple Sends Record Player Wedding Invitations 64
NZ MP Enjoys Copyright Infringement, Votes For 3 Strikes 220
Next-Gen Low-Latency Open Codec Beats HE-AAC 166
Microsoft Adds Kinect Support For Netflix 69
Chinese Censors Crack Down on Time Travel 154
The Hobbit Filming at 48fps 423
The Decreasing Impact of Death In Sci-fi 373
Grammy Awards Finally Giving Games Some Respect 70
Apple AirPlay Private Key Exposed 306
Old Media Says Google Will Destroy Film & Music 336
FBI Releases Document Confirming Roswell UFO 481
All Star Trek TV Coming To Netflix 272
The Dying DVR Box and Woz Wisdom 207
Magical Chinese Hard Drive 347
Pandora App Sends Private Data To Advertisers 198
Using Fusion To Propel an Interstellar Probe 155
Key Music Industry Lawyer Named EU Copyright Chief 74
Britain's Oldest Working Television For Sale 108
Creating the Software Art In Tron Legacy 124
Pandora Subpoenaed In Probe of Mobile-App Privacy 50
Schwarzenegger Launches Animated TV Series 2
RIAA/MPAA: the Greatest Threat To Tech Innovation 278
Leaked Docs Show UK ISP BT Plans Music Service 84
CD Ripper 'Incites Law Breaking,' Says British Regulator 204
Glasses Purge 3rd D From Films 123
'Zodiac Island' Makers Say ISP Worker Wiped an Entire Season 228
Tesla Sues BBC's Top Gear For Libel 547
Amazon's Cloud Player: We Don't Need a License 539
Amazon Releases Cloud-Based Music Service 222
The Simpsons Reviewed For Unsuitable Nuclear Jokes 374
McAfee's Website Full of Security Holes 114
Can You Really Be Traced From an IP Address? 246
SABAM Wants Truckers To Pay For Listening To Radio 337
Leonard Nimoy Turns 80 165
Google Starts Testing Google Music Internally 119
Internet Abbreviations Added To Oxford Dictionary 101
Cable Channels Panic Over iPad Streaming App 346
Ask Slashdot: How/Where To Start Watching Dr. Who? 655
Gadgets For the Ghosthunter 345
P2P Music Downloads At All-Time Low 369
Steve Jobs Questioned In iTunes Monopoly Suit 370
Limewire Being Sued For 75 Trillion 545
Futurama Renewed For 7th Season 173
Happy 80th Birthday, William Shatner! 226
Iran Unveils Flying Saucer Using Old B-Movie Stock Photo 174
The Hobbit Finally Starts Shooting 233
New Film 'Zenith' Now Available For Free BitTorrent Download 123
Open-Source Bach; Copyright-Free Goldbergs 106
CCIA Calls Copyright Wiretaps 'Hollywood's PATRIOT Act' 150
Potentially Great Sci-fi Films Still Due In 2011 342
Paramount Pictures To Release Film On Bittorrent 178
Ubisoft Announces Music Game For Real Guitars 172
Time Warner Cable Cuts iPad Live TV Access 50% 225
Netflix To Start Creating Original Content 169
Facebook Kills Mark Zuckerberg Action Figure 123
Time Warner Cable Launches iPad App With Live TV 141
Jeff & Rob Visit Lucasfilm 198
Microsoft Reportedly Ends Zune Hardware Development 276
Why We Should Buy Music In FLAC 550
Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies? 1200
US Lawyers Target Swedish Pirate, and His Unicorn 181
LimeWire Settles Copyright Infringement Case 47
What Pi Sounds Like 178
Crew Builds a Flying House Modeled After UP! 56
William Shatner Wakes Up Crew for Final Discovery Mission 185
Piracy In Developing Countries Driven By High Prices 235
Canadian Songwriters Propose $10/mo Internet Fee 407
Apple Negotiates For Unlimited iTunes Downloads 133
Episode I 3D Release Date Announced 313
Blade Runner Sequels and Prequels Happening 334
Boxee Scores $16.5M Investment 77
Betty Boop and Indefinite Copyright 249
Linus Goes Hollywood At Pre-Oscars Party 131
Comcast-NBC Deal Accidentally Protects Internet? 99
Apple Deemed Top of Movie Product Placement Charts 321
Boxee Box Matures; Another Look At the Platform 56
Music Execs Stressed Over Free Streaming 375
Does Syfy Really Love Sci-Fi? 742
Army Psy Ops Units Targeted American Senators 391
Apple in Talks to Improve Sound Quality of Music Downloads 450
Chess Games Translated To Music 87
The Psychology of Horror In Video Games and Movies 126
Watch Out Netflix, Amazon Streaming Video to Prime Users 218
Nautilus-X: the Space Station With Rockets 121
Former Senator Chris Dodd Set To Head MPAA 181
Tolkien Estate Says No Historical Fiction For JRR 337
LotR Rewritten From a Mordor Perspective 583
Science Channel Buys Rights To Firefly 380
Musician Jailed Over Prank YouTube Video 538
Goodbye, HD Component Video 469
Last.Fm Founder Criticizes Apple Over Music Subscription Fees 218
Music Using Floppy Drives 6
How Watchmen Killed 'R'-rated Fantasy Movies 771
Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest 674
TiVo To Brick All Remaining UK PVRs On June 1 286
R-Rating Sunk BioShock Movie Plans 140
Toy Converted Into an Enigma Machine 39
Motorola Adopting 3 Laws of Robotics For Android? 178
E-Book Lending Stands Up To Corporate Mongering 259
Civ IV's Baba Yetu Wins First Grammy For Video Game 88
How Major Film Studios Manipulate YouTube Users 120
Thrifty, Anonymous Benefactor Backs Up BBC Websites Before They Go Dark 159
Activision Axes Guitar Hero 160
MPAA Sues Hotfile for 'Staggering' Copyright Infringement 213
Last.FM To Require Subscription For Mobiles and Home Devices 173
Viacom Closes MTV Games 27
Geek Culture Will Never Die...or Be Popular 320
Mark Zuckerberg Makes Surprise SNL Cameo 96
A Kinect Princess Leia Hologram In Realtime 112
A Lego Replica of the Antikythera Mechanism 74
Peter Jackson Hospitalized w/ Stomach Ulcer 84
Aerospace Engineer Named Lego Czar 132
Sizing Up the Daedalus Interstellar Spacecraft 191
3D Cinema Doesn't Work and Never Will 436
Reeves Rumors Reversed 156
Inception, The Social Network, TS3 Get Oscar Noms 201
BBC To Dispose of Douglas Adams Website 189
Japanese Supreme Court Rules TV Forwarding Illegal 177
The Matrix Re-Reloaded 640
The Fall of Traditional Entertainment Conglomerates 204
Wikileaks Movie Coming To the Big Screen 181
RIAA Threatens ICANN Over Music-Themed gTLD Standards 174
J.J. Abrams Promises 'Fringe' Will Die Fighting 392
Mail Service Costs Netflix 20x More Than Streaming 473
Sony, Universal Hope To Beat Piracy With 'Instant Pop' 369
Music Really Is Intoxicating, After All 174
Stars Remain In Their Usual Places; People Panic 468
Ridley Scott Abandons Alien Prequel 170
iPad + Macintosh Plus = Crazy Visualizer Helmet 113
Bastardi's Wager 672
Jeopardy-Playing Supercomputer Beats Humans 220
Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness 663
Record Labels To Pay For Copyright Infringement 235
Major Security Flaws Discovered In Internet HDTVs 128
LotR Online's Free-To-Play Switch Tripled Revenue 91
Intel Insider DRM Risks Monopoly Investigations 217
Star Wars Coming To Blu-ray In September 419
Atari Loses Copyright Suit Against RapidShare 198
BBC Astronomer Misses Meteor During Live Show 116
Man Arrested For Exploiting Error In Slot Machines 611
Doctor Marries Doctor's Daughter, TARDIS Explodes 326
Spoofed White House Card Dupes Many Gov't Employees, Steals Data 173
Why BioWare's Star Wars MMO May Already Be Too Late 328
Reverse Engineering Doctor Who Into Color 171
Microsoft Ready To "Take On'' Google and Apple TV 182
Pink Floyd Give In To Digital Downloads 409
NASA Names Best & Worst Sci-Fi Movies of All Time 610

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