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WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: WFMU’s Live Streams Finally Come to the iPhone

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WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: WFMU’s Live Streams Finally Come to the iPhone:
We are pleased to announce that WFMU’s live streams are finally available on the iPhone. iPhone listeners can point their browsers at iphone.wfmu.org and listen to our live mp3 streams at either 128k or 32k and also choose from a selection of our archived content and podcasts.

‘Apple Has Destroyed the Music Business’

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‘Apple Has Destroyed the Music Business’–What Was Left of It, Anyway | Digital Daily | John Paczkowski | AllThingsD:
NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker accuse Apple of ruining the music business. Speaking at a breakfast organized by Syracuse University’s Newhouse School, Zucker said Apple “destroyed the music business in terms of pricing” and will invariably do the same to the online video business.

Assault With a Deadly Camera

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Reason Magazine – Hit & Run > Assault With a Deadly Camera:
Frank Waterhouse of Oregon is suing Portland police after he was tasered and shot with a beanbag gun. His offense? Videotaping a warrantless police search on a friend’s property. The police report helpfully explains that the force used on Waterhouse (who was standing far off on the edge of the property) was necessary because, “He had refused to drop the camera which could be used as a weapon.”

YouTube copyright protection system unveiled

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YouTube copyright protection system unveiled:
Yesterday YouTube unveiled YouTube Video Identification, a system designed to prevent copyrighted videos from making their way onto the site without the consent of the owner. Rather cunningly, YouTube requires that content owners send in a master copy of all their copyrighted content — y’know, so they can cross reference it against uploads (nothing to do with Google’s aim of indexing everything, ever … no.) Any data that matches the reference data can be deleted automatically, but only if the content owner says so. According to YouTube chief counsel Zahavah Levine, there will be a way for content owners to set it up so YouTube can scan content on other servers — removing the requirement for a master copy to be uploaded to YouTube — although Levine said that method “would be more difficult.” For who, Google, or the TV and movie studios?