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The owners of the X-rated YouTube clone PornoTube.com won’t have to bare it all in court, after all: Porn powerhouse Vivid dropped its copyright infringement lawsuit against PornoTube owner Data Conversions Inc., also known as the Adult Entertainment Broadcasting Network (AEBN), earlier this week.
Vivid sued AEBN back in December of 2007, alleging that PornoTube distributed at least 50 scenes from Vivid’s porn movies without any license to do so. One of the movies mentioned in the original complaint was the sex tape of network TV starlet and B-list personality Kim Kardashian. These movies have all disappeared from the site since then. In fact, users have reported that PornoTube has been removing countless clips in recent days, hinting at an out-of-court agreement. Vivid told us that it has “no comment at this time” on any arrangement between the two companies Recommend this article... |
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Apparently Microsoft wants to make some dough off its rival's
success: The company is developing an iPhone application.
YahooNews reports that Microsoft's acquired company Tellme has
plans to release a speech-recognition application by June. In the
past, Tellme has developed
similar services for other handsets, including BlackBerry.
A complaint some have expressed about iPhone is its lack of
speech-recognition capabilities. Despite the handset's
versatility, the iPhone can't recognize voice commands to call a
contact, for example. Tellme would solve part of the problem by
enabling voice-activated search for local businesses, among other
queries.
Other than Apple, Microsoft will also be competing with
DialDirections, a smaller company that recently unveiled a very
similar application
called Say Where at the DEMOfall 2008 tech convention.
DialDirections did not specify a release date but said the
application would appear in the App Store soon.
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Yahoo Music Unlimited is reminding its users this week that it is
shutting its doors by the end of the month. The company will also
turn off its DRM licensing servers, which means that users won't
be able to acquire any new licenses for the Windows Media DRMed
downloads they "bought" for 99 cents each. From the email sent to
customers:
"Purchased music that you downloaded to authorized computers or
devices will continue to play on those devices, unless you upgrade
your operating system. If you attempt to transfer purchased
downloads to an additional or previously unauthorized computer or
device, your music will not play on those new computers or
devices."
So better don't get any funky ideas and buy yourself one of those
Sansa players, because your Yahoo music won't work on them, even
though the company previously promised it would. Yahoo's advice is
to back up your songs by burning audio CDs and ripping them in the
MP3 file format, thereby effectively circumventing the DRM.
This isn't the first time users of an online music store have to
find out the hard way that they don't actually own the music they
paid for it it is protected with DRM. Microsoft got a lot of grief when it turned
off its licensing servers for its discontinued MSN music store this
summer.
It seems like Yahoo has learned from this fiasco: The company is
offering free download gift certificates for Rhapsody's MP3 store for anyone having trouble
with the DRM after Setember 30th. The only downside: You have to
make your claim until the end of this year, or you'll be stuck
with a bunch of worthless DRM garbage.Recommend this article... |
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