Amazon's the villain, not Apple, book sellers say
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The DOJ posted copies of the more than 800 comments on its Web site today. In April, the agency announced that it had filed an antitrust suit against Apple and five of the nation's largest book publishers. The government accuses Apple and of conspiring to raise prices and forcing Amazon and other retailers to follow suit.
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DOJ may lose e-book antitrust suit against Apple
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(CNET)The U.S. Justice Department's legal pursuit of Apple for alleged e-book price fixing stretches the boundaries of antitrust law and is likely to end in defeat.
Full coverage of Apple at Tech Talk
That's what happened in 1982, when an embarrassed Justice Department admitted its antitrust lawsuit against IBM was "without merit" and abandoned the case. And in 2001, a federal appeals court nixed the Justice Department's ambitious attempt to rewrite antitrust law by carving Microsoft into two separate companies.
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Viacom wins appeal in YouTube copyright case
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The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals sent the case back to a lower court to determine whether YouTube purposely ignored the infringing material that was posted to the site.
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New copyright center to target online piracy
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Last July, when some of the country's top Internet service providers, including AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon, agreed to begin implementing a series of measures designed to discourage illegal file-sharing, the ISPs said they and the entertainment companies would establish a Center for Copyright Information (CCI) to "assist in the effort to combat online infringement."
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Black Keys drummer: Musicians can't trust Sean Parker
The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach (left) and Patrick Carney don't trust Sean Parker.
/ theblackkeys.comThat's according to Patrick Carney, drummer of the rock band The Black Keys. Carney offered his opinion of Parker during an interview with radio station WGRD.
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Kim DotCom to get monthly living expenses of $48,000
According to reports, some of the $48,500 in monthly living expenses DotCom will receive will go to the upkeep of the Auckland mansion he leases.
/ France Komoroske(CNET) New Zealand has decided to return some of the assets it seized from MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom, according to reports.
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Controversial Apple play gets standing ovation
Performance artist Mike Daisey in his one-man show, "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs."
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"This American Life" retracts Apple Foxconn episode
"He was really, really good," said Jane Glucksman, 50, at the conclusion of today's matinee at The Public Theater. "I came here sort of skeptical after reading about what was going on, but his show made me want to re-examine everything I've heard about Apple."
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U.S. files to extradite MegaUpload's Kim DotCom
Kim DotCom (far right) was arrested in January but must now wait until August before an extradition hearing.
/ Credit: 3News.co.nz/Screenshot by Jonathan Skillings, CNET(CNET) As expected, the United States government has filed a request in New Zealand to extradite Kim DotCom, the founder of MegaUpload, and three associates who are also accused of criminal copyright violations.
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FBI releases Steve Jobs background report
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(CNET) - Turns out that the FBI did a background check on Steve Jobs in 1991, when he was considered for an appointment on George H. W. Bush's President's Export Council.
According to the report, there were concerns about Jobs' past drug use and his lack of support for his eldest child, who was born out of wed lock. Jobs died in October after a long fight with pancreatic cancer.
Continue »Netflix says outage not caused by hackers
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(CBS/CNET) - Netflix, the web's top video rental service but one with a history of suffering outages, saw another multihour blackout last night.
The site seems to have gone down for about three or four hours last night, according to reports from those posting to Twitter. Netflix is traditionally tight-lipped about the causes of its malfunctions and this time is no exception.
Continue »Google Music Beta coming to the cloud
Google's annual developer conference Google I/O kicks off Tuesday May 10, 2011 in San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center
/ CNET/James MartinGoogle is preparing to launch a test version of a new digital music service that will enable users to upload their music libraries to the company's servers. It is expected to be announced today at the company's I/O Developer Conference in San Francisco, according to Zahavah Levine, one of the executives in charge of getting the music service off the ground.
While Google and Levine have been negotiating to obtain licenses from the four largest record companies for more than a year, the test version of the service will launch without licensing.
This is the same strategy that Amazon employed when it launched its cloud-music service in March.
"We're launching a beta service called Music Beta by Google that lets' users upload their personal music libraries to their own account on Google's servers," said Levine. Users can "access those libraries anytime or anywhere from Web-connected devices," he said.
For more on this story, read Unlicensed Google Music arrives tomorrow on CNET News.
Senators to Biden: Push Russians on antipiracy
If Russia wants to prove the country is a good trade partner, then the country must be more aggressive in fighting online piracy. That's the message a group of U.S. senators wants Vice President Joe Biden to send during his visit to Moscow this week.
Amazon gives free movie streaming to "Prime" members
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
/ Getty ImagesAmazon said today that it is offering Amazon Prime members free, instant streaming of more than 5,000 movies and TV shows.
In a press release, the company said the feature will be offered at no additional cost than the $79, Prime members already pay annually. The movies and TV shows can be watched instantly on Macs, PCs and nearly 200 models of Internet-connected devices, Amazon said. Amazon Prime is a membership program that offers customers free Two-Day Shipping.
Day Rayburn, an analyst covering Web video for consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, gets the shout out for calling this one early. Three weeks ago, Rayburn told CNET that Amazon has the money and audience to stimulate interest in a video service by, say, streaming movies for free to Amazon Prime members.
Rayburn is a big believer that Amazon is one of the companies best positioned to take on Netflix.
"Millions of Amazon Prime members already enjoy the convenience of free Two-Day Shipping," Robbie Schwietzer, vice president of Amazon Prime, said in a statement. "Adding unlimited instant access to thousands of movies and TV shows at no additional cost is a great way to give members even more value."
It's also a great way to start compete with Netflix.
Some of the movies and TV shows that Amazon will stream include "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and "Syriana," "Doctor Who," and "Farscape."
Millions of items are eligible, including books, home and garden products, electronics, video games, clothing, accessories and beauty products. With the introduction of Prime instant videos, free trial and paid Amazon Prime members in the U.S. now also have unlimited instant access to more than 5,000 videos.
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Apple vs App Publishers: Does Confrontation Loom?
Newspaper and magazine publishers are mulling over the price that Apple requires to be part of The iPad and App Store
/ James Martin/CNETWhile there's no shortage of people criticizing Apple's new App Store subscription service, some executives at major media companies are still unsure what to think.
Some said Apple's plan to allow app publishers to sell subscriptions for the first time through the iTunes App Store was
Publishers can set the price and length of subscriptions. Payment processing will be handled by Apple, which will get 30 percent of the revenue for new subscribers.
. Others saw many of Apple's new requirements for app sales, which include a guarantee that publishers offer their best subscription price at the App Store, as the newest way for the company to grab more control of online media. Apple unveils subscription service in App Store
One possible reason for why reaction was so mixed was that Apple didn't prepare the media world for what it intended to offer. Apple was expected to roll out a subscription service, sure, but the company doesn't appear to have sought any early feedback from some of the nation's top media companies. An executive at a top newspaper said leaders there were huddling in the afternoon to try to understand the significance of Apple's announcement. A manager at a media conglomerate said most companies would have tested reaction by running the plan past top publishers before going public. Not Apple.
Daily IPad Newspaper Debuts
Apple exec Eddy Cue shares a laugh with News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch at the debut of iPad-pub The Daily.
/ Sarah Tew Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp.
The highly anticipated daily publication for the iPad launches this morning at a New York event hosted by News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch and Apple VP Eddy Cue.
The Daily today, a publication built for the iPad and--Murdoch hopes--the next generation of readers. News Corp.'s Daily makes its debut (live blog)
For a yearly subscription fee of $39.99, The Daily will deliver to iPad owners up to 100 pages of news and information each day, News Corp. Chairman Murdoch and his lieutenants told the gathering of media and supporters at New York's Guggenheim museum. The Daily is available immediately at Thedaily.com and News Corp. will offer the first two weeks free, thanks to Verizon, which is picking up the tab. Continue »
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