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Cory Doctorow / Guardian:
How Amazon is holding Hachette hostage — By allowing Amazon to put a lock on its products, Hachette has allowed Amazon to usurp its relationship with its customers — For some three weeks now, books from the Hachette publishing group - one of the “big five” publishers who dominate the globe …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
DRM is unfortunate, but it's not the problem in Hachette vs. Amazon — Let me start with the obligatory assurance that I'm no fan of DRM technologies. That's why I use (illegal) tools to break it if I want to buy an ebook from another retailer and read it on my Kindle.
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Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
World Cup Setting Ratings Records for ESPN and Univision — Univision Tops ESPN for Four of the Five Biggest Matches … The World Cup in Brazil has been ratings gold for TV networks, setting new audience records for ESPN and Univision — and giving victories to Univision for many top matches.
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Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal:
One Week In, World Cup's Opening Game Dominates Global Tweets — Twitter data from the first week of the month-long 2014 World Cup shows just how captivated fans worldwide were by the opening match. — That game, in which soccer superpower and host nation Brazil beat Croatia 3-1 on June 12 …
Reuters:
Deutsche Telekom in talks with Netflix over collaboration - report — (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom is in talks with U.S. video streaming company Netflix about a possible marketing alliance, a German magazine reported on Friday. — German monthly Magazine Manager cited people familiar …
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Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
Report: Netflix Plans To Order First Original Series for French Market
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Viacom loses bid to dismiss Cablevision bundling lawsuit — (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday rejected Viacom Inc's effort to dismiss Cablevision Systems Corp's antitrust lawsuit accusing it of forcing cable providers and subscribers to buy channels they don't want.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
16 media outlets ask court for access to Guantanamo force-feeding videos classified as secret — Media seeks Guantanamo force-feeding videos — A group of 16 news organizations is asking a federal judge to make public a batch of videos of a hunger-striking Guantanamo Bay prisoner being forcibly removed from his cell and force fed.
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Decision Time for Aereo! Supreme Decision Will (Probably) Come Next Week. — Public service announcement for people who like to spend time thinking about The Future Of TV and also The Future Of The Cloud: The Supreme Court's Aereo decision will likely come next Monday. Or next Wednesday.
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Ed Christman / Billboard:
Inside YouTube's Controversial Contract with Indies — Billboard has obtained a typical contract being offered by YouTube to its indie label partners for its new subscription service. The devil is in the numbers, but also in the overall strategy. — Even though YouTube …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
That Story You've Read About YouTube ‘Blocking’ Indie Artists... Yeah, That's Not Accurate
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Myles Tanzer / BuzzFeed:
New Inquiry co-founder Rachel Rosenfelt to join Gawker Media to focus on strategy, recruitment — New Inquiry Co-Founder Rachel Rosenfelt Headed To Gawker Media — Rosenfelt will be joining the media company as an Executive Producer. — Rachel Rosenfelt, the co-founder and former Editor …
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Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
House Republicans See No Need For New Broadband Regulations — The head of the House Judiciary Committee came out swinging today against new net neutrality regulations. — “It is my belief that the Internet has flourished precisely because it is a deregulated market,” Rep. Bob Goodlatte …
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Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
Forget Piracy, Here's a Movie You Can Share for Free Once It Opens in Theaters — Aaron Swartz's belief in the free spread of information landed him in jail. The people who want to watch a movie about his life will face no such legal problems. — Anyone who buys the movie via Vimeo …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Twitch Hooks Into YouTube for Live Broadcast Alerts — Partnership comes as Google is engaged in acquisition talks with Internet videogame broadcaster — Internet videogame-broadcasting company Twitch announced a new partnership with YouTube, under which the Google-owned site will issue alerts …
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