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Documents show Project Veritas consulted lawyers to gauge how far beyond standard reporting it could go before breaking laws like the Espionage Act — Documents show how the conservative group worked with lawyers to gauge how far its deceptive reporting practices could go before running afoul of federal laws.
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Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Amazon will let Prime users on iOS share video clips up to 30 seconds long for some of its content — You can now help Amazon with its marketing if you have iOS — Amazon has announced that it'll let you easily share video clips showing up to 30 seconds of some of its Prime Video content, right from its iPhone app.
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Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Taylor Swift releases a new copy of 2012's Red, the second album she has re-recorded to reclaim songs from investors holding rights to her original masters — Campaign to re-record old songs undercuts deal that acquired US musician's hit catalogue — When tussling with his record company in the 1990s …
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Patreon CEO Jack Conte says the service is building native video hosting, which would reduce creators' reliance on YouTube — CEO Jack Conte: 'We're building a video product' — This story is part of a group of stories called — Patreon is building a video hosting solution and native player.
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Jason Guerrasio / Insider:
MoviePass is “exploring the possibility of relaunching soon” after a bankruptcy judge granted co-founder Stacy Spikes ownership of the company — - MoviePass cofounder Stacy Spikes has bought back the company. — His bid was approved by a Southern District of New York bankruptcy court judge on Monday.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify acquires audiobook distributor Findaway and says it expects the deal to close in Q4 2021 — In an effort to expand beyond music, Spotify has been investing hundreds of millions to build out its podcasts business. Now the company has set its sights on another form of audio …
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CNBC:
Myanmar military court sentences US journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison; he still faces two additional charges in a different court — - A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday sentenced detained U.S. journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison after finding him guilty …
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Lillian Rizzo / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Frndly TV, an online service that offers a skinny bundle with 30 family-focused live TV channels for $6.99/month and has 500,000+ subscribers — Started in 2019 by former Dish executives, Frndly TV has more than 500,000 subscribers — An internet-TV upstart catering …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Streamers are seeking out unscripted TV, including documentaries and reality TV, as a cheaper and popular alternative to the prestige shows they first produced — Netflix has grown into the world's biggest buyer of unscripted programming. Its competitors are following suit.
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Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
The history of torrent site The Pirate Bay will be made into a six-part TV drama for Swedish public broadcaster SVT, with production starting in fall 2022 — The inception and early years of The Pirate Bay are an intriguing chapter of the Internet's history.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Universal Music Group says it is creating a “band” called Kingship out of four Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs and plans to feature them in video games, VR, and more — Kingship, consisting of four virtual apes, reimagines the idea of a band — and a brand
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
CBS says viewers watched 166.7B minutes of its programming since September, using the metric associated with streamers to show broadcast TV's continued strength — CBS touts its strength in the metric most associated with streamers, so THR decided to check the network's claims.
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