Forget MTV - Apple’s iPod ads are the new music-star makers  —  Nick Haley took just 30 minutes to pluck the Brazilian band CSS from obscurity and hurl it into the national spotlight.  —  In September, Haley paired the band’s dance-pop song “Music is My Hot, Hot Sex” with his 30-second amateur video …

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France set to cut Web access for music, film pirates  —  PARIS (Reuters) - Internet users in France who frequently download music or films illegally risk losing Web access under a new anti-piracy system unveiled on Friday.  —  The three-way pact between Internet service providers …

Source:   Reuters
Author:   Francois Murphy
Link:   http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews…

Despite filters, tidal wave of spam bears down on e-mailers  —  “Two years from now, spam will be solved.”  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Why, in 2007, is spam worse than ever?  Let exasperated consumers count the ways: PDF spam.  MP3 spam.  Pump-and-dump spam.  E-card spam.

Source:   USA Today
Link:   http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity…

Digg Refugees May Be Heading To Mixx  —  New startup Mixx, which went in to private beta just two months ago, may be finding itself with the right product at the right time.  Digg users, including top contributors, are showing an increasing amount of frustration with the Digg community, and many are leaving.

Source:   TechCrunch
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