Mediagazer: Police Arrest Streaming Site Admin, Several Domains Suspended (Andy/TorrentFreak)

3:35 AM ET, April 11, 2014

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

YouTube, Once TV's Enemy, Tries to Show How It Drives Viewers to TV Shows — In its early days, YouTube was met with hostility from TV networks. Viacom, for one, alleged in its $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit that the video-sharing site was making money by stealing their best content.

Discussion: multichannel.com

Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Colbert Doesn't Arrive at CBS With Huge Viral Video Prowess

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CBS:
Stephen Colbert To Succeed Letterman On ‘Late Night’

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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:

CNN Chief Jeff Zucker: The Interview Show Is Not a Viable Genre — “There are just too many outlets with not enough big gets for a pure talk show to thrive any longer,” said the CNN Worldwide president in introducing a slate of original series and films for the 9 p.m. slot previously occupied by Larry King and Piers Morgan.

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Associated Press:
CNN replacing Piers Morgan with a rotating schedule of documentary-style programs

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Michael Calderone / Huffington Post:

Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras Returning To U.S. For First Time Since Snowden Revelations — NEW YORK — Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, two American journalists who have been at the forefront of reporting on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Daily Dot, New York Times, The Week and Pressing Issues

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

CNNx lets you watch only the news you care about — Since you're here, we figure you're pretty comfortable in using the internet to get your news. CNN has noticed that trend as well, and is making the jump to the next generation with CNNx. Initially available as an update for CNN's iPad app …

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Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk:

Crowdfunding is underway for a press regulation body aimed at supporting smaller publishers and hyperlocal sites as well as larger news outlets — Crowdfunding is underway for a press regulation body aimed at supporting smaller publishers and hyperlocal sites as well as larger news outlets

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

DreamWorks submitted a bid to Vevo's owners this week to buy part of the company — DreamWorks Animation Wants a Piece of Vevo, the Music Video Giant — DreamWorks Animation, which has been looking to expand its business beyond animated movies, is looking at Vevo, the online music video service.

Vindu Goel / New York Times:

Twitter and Facebook Wield Little Influence on TV Watching — Listen to executives at Twitter and Facebook talk about how we watch television and you might walk away thinking that Americans are chattering nonstop on the social networks while watching their favorite shows.

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Andy / TorrentFreak:

Police Arrest Streaming Site Admin, Several Domains Suspended — Speaking with TorrentFreak late last week, the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) clarified the stages behind Operation Creative, an ongoing campaign aimed at disrupting the activities of unauthorized content sites.

Discussion: Complete Music Update and Plagiarism Today

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Amazon Acquires Digital Comic Book Service Comixology — Amazon has just announced that they will acquire comiXology, a service that offers digital versions of comics from Marvel, DC, and many others. — If you've never used it, it's probably easiest to think of comiXology as a sort of iTunes for comic books.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Aereo available to Google Chromecast users on Android starting May 29 — Aereo Coming to Google Chromecast — Aereo, facing a showdown with broadcasters at the U.S. Supreme Court over its TV-streaming service, will be adding support for Google's Chromecast adapter as another option …

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

News of the World boss denies trying to keep Mulcaire ‘sweet’ with payments — Kuttner tells Old Bailey he was advised to continue paying after investigator was charged with phone hacking related offences — The former managing editor of the News of the World, Stuart Kuttner …

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Stuart Kuttner tells court he knew Milly Dowler's voicemail had been hacked

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Lucia Moses / Digiday:

Why Business Insider lets its reporters fly on sources' dimes — Henry Blodget isn't one to be a slave to convention. After his crash as a financial analyst, he built Business Insider into a site topping 25 million uniques on a mix of click-bait and in-depth executive profiles.

Discussion: Talking Biz News and @ryanchittum

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Maker Studios' Ex-CEO Danny Zappin Aims to Delay Disney's $500 Million Acquisition — A California judge is asked to enjoin a merger vote, scheduled for next week at the digital media company. — Danny Zappin — Disney's proposed acquisition of digital video studio Maker Studios isn't going off without a hitch.

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

Following Spotify, Deezer Goes Freemium On Mobile — Music streaming startup Deezer just revamped its free offering across the board in order to become more competitive with Spotify, Rdio and others. Mobile users will now be able to listen to smart radios for free.

Discussion: DEEZER, Gigaom and The Next Web

Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:

Video evidence used against al-Jazeera journalists filmed by other networks — Peter Breste and two other journalists still denied bail in Egypt after evidence shown in trial includes video of trotting horse — Three al-Jazeera journalists detained in Egypt said they are being held arbitrarily …

Discussion: @spikefodder, @tomgara and Globe and Mail