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17 Apr 2009 18:00

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Tech, World: The Pirate Bay: Lose the Spectrial, gain political momentum

  • 3,000 new Swedish Pirate Party members today source
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17 Apr 2009 14:44

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Music, Tech: Egad! “Rickroll” anthem co-writer got paid £11 by YouTube

  • Panorama did a documentary on the exploitation of foreign workers in Dubai. I feel like one of those workers, because I earned less for a year’s work off Google or YouTube than they did off the Bahrain government.
  • Pete Waterman • The guy who co-wrote Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up,” the song behind the Rickrolling phenomenon. Despite 154 million plays of the song on YouTube, Waterman claims to have only made £11 off of it. Waterman was worth £47 million as of 2004. We feel the £47 million should have been taken away from him for writing “Never Gonna Give You Up.” • source
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17 Apr 2009 11:31

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Culture, Tech: YouTube has TV shows now, guys, but they’re mostly ancient

  • From cheeseball comedy (“The Beverly Hillbillies”) to westerns (“Bonanza”) and sci-fi (“Star Trek”), this decade is best represented. source
  • The lineup of ’70s shows clearly pulls from the action/crime wing of TV – “Charlie’s Angels,” “Starksky & Hutch” and “S.W.A.T.” source
  • “MacGyver” and “Married With Children” headline the selection of ’80s shows, unless you consider “T.J. Hooker” a highlight of ’80s television. source
  • Fox dramas “Party of Five” and “Beverly Hills 90210” lead the lineup, but Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert fans should hit up “The Dana Carvey Show.” source
  • The pickings are pretty slim here – recent episodes of “Guiding Light,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” “Jericho” and new show “Harper’s Island.” source
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17 Apr 2009 08:56

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Tech, World: The punishment that The Pirate Bay faces, post-spectrial

  • one
    year     of prison time for each of the defendants – Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström source
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17 Apr 2009 08:51

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Tech, World: The Pirate Bay lost their spectrial, but they’re not ready to give up

  • We see this as a film. This is the first set-back for the heroes. … In the end we know that the good guys will win, as in all movies.
  • Peter Sunde • One of the defendants in the spectrial in Sweden. A guilty verdict was brought down today, but there still seems to be plenty of swagger in the steps of The Pirate Bay’s owners, who plan to appeal. The site is still up, by the way. • source
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17 Apr 2009 08:37

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Culture, Tech: Today’s a really big day for Twitter’s popular consciousness

  • Kutcher’s role as celebrity ambassador for Twitter only starts there, as he’ll be on Oprah today talking about the feat. Will Oprah have a book club effect on Twitter? God, we hope not.
  • Ashton
  • Oprah
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16 Apr 2009 23:05

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Tech: Well, that’s spiffy: Google is still freakin’ profitable

  • 8.9% increase in 1st-quarter profits for the super-geniuses source
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15 Apr 2009 22:34

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Tech: Spam spam spam spam is killing our ecosystem spam spam

  • 62 trillion e-mails have been sent by spammers, at 0.3 grams of CO2 a piece; spam spam spam spam spam spam spam source
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15 Apr 2009 20:42

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Culture, Tech: Ashton Kutcher apparently spends all his time on Twitter

  • Breaking 900k feels like a marathon runner entering Olympic stadium. However my @replys are becoming difficult to track.
  • Ashton Kutcher • On breaking 900,000 freaking followers. He challenged CNN to a ego-waving contest to see who can get to a million followers first. We hope neither of them win. • source
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15 Apr 2009 09:44

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Tech, World: Fox News has assembled a list of pirate-stopping weapons. Yes!

The solutions are all non-lethal and some of them, such as this blinding rifle, sound incredibly high-tech and awesome. source
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