Mediagazer: The secretive business of fighting content piracy (Sarah Laskow/Columbia Journalism Review)

1:20 AM ET, June 22, 2014

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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 …

Vindu Goel / New York Times:

Marissa Mayer tries to make Yahoo a “daily habit” with Tumblr-inspired digital magazines — Yahoo Wants You to Linger (on the Ads, Too) — Four editors were deep in debate at Yahoo Food's offices in Manhattan: Would Yahoo visitors click on a feature about foods of the ancient Silk Road …

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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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Sarah Laskow / Columbia Journalism Review:

The secretive business of fighting content piracy — Private automated systems are sweeping the internet for illegal content—but they sometimes catch legitimate media coverage, too — Nate Glass fell into the takedown business almost by accident. Back in 2008, as a sales and marketing guy in the …

Brian Latham / Bloomberg:

Zimbabwe Arrests State Editor After Mugabe Attacks Minister — Zimbabwean police arrested the editor of a government-controlled newspaper two weeks after President Robert Mugabe accused the country's information minister of using state media to sow division in the ruling party.

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Joel Mathis / Philadelphia Magazine:

Even if Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News became nonprofits, they still would need revenue — Should Philly's Newspapers Operate as Charity Cases? — Gerry Lenfest has spent much of the last decade giving his fortune away for worthy causes. So maybe it's no surprise that when he finally sealed …

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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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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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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

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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Tom Rosenstiel / American Press Institute:

How niche reporting leads to higher quality information for everyone: 12 good questions with Lara Setrakian — Syria's civil war is a story that goes in and out of the mainstream news media, but at Syria Deeply, it's the only story. — Lara Setrakian — Founder of Syria Deeply

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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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