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Cyber self-defense can help U.S. security

Recently, we completed an intensive, bipartisan six-month study on cybersecurity and presented it to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

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YouTube Advertising Deals Turn Piracy Into Revenue

YouTube is expected to earn revenue of $450 million this year and to turn a profit.

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Apple Launches Apple TV, Lets NetFlix Play

Apple released a smaller, cheaper revision of its Apple TV that allows for streaming movie and TV programs over the Internet straight to your living room. While outright movie purchase itself has been done away with, consumers may purchase rentals as well as stream content from the Internet on the device. Realizing that complete control of the market was impossible, Apple made a somber bow to …

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It’s time to fight the copyright police state

Increasingly restrictive copyright and intellectual property laws, a secretive global trade agreement, and, it turns out, totally made-up facts and figures? Ok, Internet. It’s time to fight.

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Dueling Hollywood voices over Net neutrality

There’s nothing like an obscure regulatory issue to expose a rift in Hollywood’s ranks. The issue in question is Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski’s proposed “Third Way” — reclassifying broadband Internet access as a “communications service,” which would subject it to greater federal regulation. The point is to give the FCC authority to issue Net neutrality rules …

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DECE turns UltraViolet

The moniker chosen by the inter-industry Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem doesn’t reveal much about its purpose — to deliver movies and music to consumers through the Internet in a way that’s resistant to piracy yet compatible with a wide variety of devices. So it’s not surprising that the brand name the group is announcing today, UltraViolet, doesn’t tell consumers much about the …

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Barack Obama may be the country’s most tech-friendly president ever, as comfortable discussing Net neutrality as Swiss neutrality. But his administration is caught in at least three pitched battles over intellectual property that could leave tech advocates wondering why they were so optimistic about his presidency. One fight stems from the secretive negotiations over the Anti-Counterfeiting …

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Fighting intensifies over how to enforce intellectual property laws [UPDATED]

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Music industry raps ISPs over file-sharing

Internet service providers (ISPs) still need to do more to prevent the growthof illegal file sharing in the UK according to creative industry chiefsspeaking at the Britain’sDigital Future conference in London.

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Amazon.com plans subscription online TV

Amazon.com has approached media companies with a proposal for a subscription service that gives users unlimited access to some television shows and movies over the internet in a bid to rival Netflix, two people familiar with the talks said.

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Music piracy is a ‘growing threat’ and should be ‘dealt with accordingly’, says US Commerce Secretary

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Digital piracy is ‘unadulterated theft’, says Obama administration

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