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		<title>The Judge Was Wrong: RealNetworks's RealDVD Appeal Document</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RealNetworks just lobbed its appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals in the case revolving around its DVD-copying software, RealDVD.

A U.S. District judge issued a preliminary injunction against RealNetworks in August to stop sales, and renewed it in October.

In the appeal, which is embedded after the jump, RealNetworks said the judge was using the wrong legal standard and more.]]></description>
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<p>RealNetworks just lobbed its appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals in the case revolving around its DVD-copying software, RealDVD.</p>
<p>A U.S. District judge issued a preliminary injunction against RealNetworks (RNWK) in August to stop sales, and <a href="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20081008/realdvd-launch-buffering-buffering/">renewed it in October</a>.</p>
<p>In a typical Hollywood move, the Motion Picture Association of America said the software, which allows copying of DVDs, violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.</p>
<p>In the appeal, RealNetworks said the judge was using the wrong law, that the software was not causing damage to the studios and that the technology is in the public interest and constitutes fair use.</p>
<p>&#8220;The District Court committed multiple legal errors in granting Appellees&#8217; motions for preliminary injuction,&#8221; reads the appeal. </p>
<p>But, check out the whole appeal and below it, a <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080909/realnetworks-rob-glaser-talks-about-realdvd">video interview with RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser</a> that BoomTown did when RealDVD was launched a little over a year ago:</p>
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		<title>The Agony and Ecstasy of Paula &amp; Simon (Plus: When Abdul Did D6)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BoomTown is wearing all-black today, in profound mourning for the prospect of no Paula Abdul on "American Idol" next season.

"With sadness in my heart, I've decided not to return," tweeted Abdul yesterday, bidding goodbye, natch, on Twitter.

Here is a cool video look at her and co-judge Simon Cowell and one of her appearance at the D: All Things Digital conference. (I kid you not!)]]></description>
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<p>BoomTown is wearing all-black today, in profound mourning for the prospect of no Paula Abdul judging on &#8220;American Idol&#8221; next season.</p>
<p>&#8220;With sadness in my heart, I&#8217;ve decided not to return,&#8221; tweeted Abdul yesterday, bidding goodbye, <em>natch</em>, on Twitter.</p>
<p>Of course, her departure was over money&#8211;the boy talent, co-judge Simon Cowell and MC Ryan Seacrest, got a ton of it and Abdul got much less (although $2 million a year is a lot, it paled in comparison). </p>
<p>She is worth the scratch, though&#8211;especially considering how much the television singing juggernaut makes on Coke advertising placement alone&#8211;whether she was falling asleep in Carrie Underwood&#8217;s first audition or sleeping with contestants (<em>allegedly!</em>) or just doing that goofy seal clap and blathering out incomprehensible compliments to contestants. </p>
<p>Memo to News Corp. (NWS) TV unit Fox, which produces the TV show in the U.S.: <em>Hand over more dough and pronto!</em></p>
<p>Sigh, as it is probably not to be&#8211;even though her <a href="http://www.americanidol.com/bio/paula_abdul">bio is still on the &#8220;Idol&#8221; Web site</a>.</p>
<p>So, here is a very funny video mashup done about her odd relationship with the acerbic Cowell. </p>
<p>Plus, here is a video from when <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080917/the-entire-d6-interview-with-activisions-bobby-kotick-3-of-3/">Adbul also actually appeared</a>&#8211;stranger than fiction&#8211;at the sixth <strong>D: All Things Digital</strong> conference.</p>
<p>She was there to help Activision Blizzard (ATVI) CEO Bobby Kotick publicly demo &#8220;Guitar Hero IV&#8221; for the first time, with the help of skateboarding star Tony Hawk.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be honest&#8211;I was sure she&#8217;d do something crazy, like goose Bill Gates of Microsoft (MSFT) or maybe fall off the stage&#8211;but she turned out to be a pro and forever my girl (oh, I <em>had</em> to).</p>
<p>Check it out, since I am off draping crepe at the <strong>All Things Digital</strong> HQ:</p>
<p><strong>Paula &#038; Simon:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Paula at D6:</strong> </p>
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		<title>Good Luck Trying to Share the Angelic Voice of Susan Boyle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle is indeed all she is cracked up to be. 

But her virality on the Internet is not, even though she has--in fact--become an Internet sensation.

Though the performance of the unemployed 47-year-old woman--dressed in a dowdy frock, wowing the judges on the television show, "Britain's Got Talent" with an astonishing rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" from the musical "Les Miserables"--has been viewed many millions of times now and growing, it's not easy to move it around on the Web.

It should be.]]></description>
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<p>Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle is indeed all she is cracked up to be. </p>
<p>But her virality on the Internet is not, even though she has&#8211;in fact&#8211;become an Internet sensation.</p>
<p>Though the performance of the unemployed 47-year-old woman&#8211;dressed in a dowdy frock, wowing the judges on the television show, &#8220;Britain&#8217;s Got Talent,&#8221; with an astonishing rendition of &#8220;I Dreamed a Dream&#8221; from the musical &#8220;Les Miserables&#8221;&#8211;has been viewed many millions of times now and growing, it&#8217;s not easy to move it around on the Web.</p>
<p>It should be.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s too bad for those left slack-jawed by her obvious talent, including the notorious crab-apple judge, Simon Cowell, who also judges for the similar U.S. show &#8220;American Idol.&#8221;</p>
<p>Her performance got a huge boost from those who heard about it and watched it on the Internet, especially on the huge Google (GOOG) video service, YouTube. </p>
<p>But anyone who wants to do anything more than send a link to the video of Boyle singing on YouTube, most specifically, embedding it in posts, is out of luck. </p>
<p>That feature has been fully disabled on every YouTube version of the clip I looked at, with the note, &#8220;Embedding disabled by request.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s ironic that YouTube gets intense copyright religion right when the video of a singing human angel goes viral.</p>
<p>So most people are watching the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY">show&#8217;s seven-minute clip of Boyle on its official YouTube channel</a>, which has gotten 11.4 million views so far.</p>
<p>But, thankfully, YouTube is not the only choice out there.</p>
<p>I finally grabbed one from DailyMotion, which has a ton of embeddable ones, such as the one below:</p>
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		<title>Woz to DWTS Judges: "I'm Still Standing" (And Still Dancing as Bad as He Can!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak revved his damn-the-judges juggernaut into high gear this week with yet another low-scoring performance on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" and a full-bore mangle of the Argentine tango last night.

Interestingly, as the trio of judges dinged him for the fourth week in a row, they also tried to  compliment Wozniak at the same time, telling him they loved his spirit.

Oh, these judges know that a Silicon Valley mob riding Segways could run them down at any minute if they got too mean.

"The judges have forsaken me," said Woz, sounding more and more like a very appealing nerd cult leader. "But the geeks shall inherit the earth."]]></description>
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<p>Apple (AAPL) Co-founder Steve Wozniak revved his damn-the-judges juggernaut into high gear this week with yet another low-scoring performance on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Dancing With the Stars&#8221; and a full-bore mangle of the Argentine tango last night.</p>
<p>Interestingly, as the trio of judges dinged him for the fourth week in a row, they also tried to  compliment Wozniak at the same time, telling him they loved his spirit.</p>
<p>Oh, these judges know that a Silicon Valley mob riding Segways could run them down at any minute if they got too mean (and there was actually a video of just that possibility on the television show).</p>
<p>&#8220;The judges have forsaken me,&#8221; said Woz, sounding more and more like a very appealing nerd cult leader. &#8220;But the geeks shall inherit the earth.&#8221;</p>
<p>One judge, Bruno Tonioli, still had the temerity to speak the truth about Woz&#8217;s tango: &#8220;This really stunk.&#8221;</p>
<p>Retorted the cute-as-a-button-who-can&#8217;t-dance Woz: &#8220;I have three words for you: I&#8217;m still standing.&#8221;</p>
<p>That he is. So you better get out there and <a href="http://ll.abc.go.com/primetime/dancingwiththestars/index?pn=vote09&#038;v8&#038;cmp=09_DWS_Vote_CO3">vote early and often</a> (you can vote up to 10 times).</p>
<p>Results come tonight, but here is the video from last night:</p>
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		<title>Winklevosses AboutFacebooked!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the Winklevosses! 

They lost. 

In court, I mean, not in rowing! 

But I am sad to say BoomTown is deeply uninterested in the long-running legal struggle between Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the hot social-networking site and the group affiliated with ConnectU--heretofore referred to by BoomTown as NotFacebook.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ah, the Winklevosses! </p>
<p>They lost. </p>
<p>In court, I mean, not in rowing! </p>
<p>But I am sad to say BoomTown is deeply uninterested in the long-running legal struggle between Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the hot social-networking site and the group affiliated with ConnectU&#8211;heretofore referred to by BoomTown as <em>NotFacebook</em>.</p>
<p><a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2008/06/picture-50.jpg"><img src="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2008/06/picture-50.jpg" alt="" title="picture-50" width="71" height="100" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2228" /></a></p>
<p>Namely the Winklevoss brothers, Cameron and Tyler (and also another guy, not a Winklevoss), who are world-class rowers.</p>
<p>Without going into the gory details, they settled a lawsuit in February that centered on how Facebook was founded and whether or not Zuckerberg stole code to create it while an undergrad at Harvard University.</p>
<p>And then the Winklevosses claimed that that settlement in the endless legal battle should be voided because of fraud and reopened.</p>
<p>The ConnectU side claimed that it had found some &#8220;smoking&#8221; gun instant messages that proved their case. </p>
<p><em>Whatever.</em></p>
<p>The federal judge in San Jose decided to let Facebook enforce the settlement anyway (but, because there are lawyers involved, there will probably be yet another bite at the apple).</p>
<p>In any case, BoomTown fully enjoyed the take-no-prisoners PR stylings of Facebook, now under uber-PR guru Elliot Schrage and, thus, we render the statement about the win here in its entirety:</p>
<blockquote><p>We are happy that Judge Ware enforced the agreement settling our dispute with the ConnectU founders. ConnectU&#8217;s founders were represented by six lawyers and a professor at Wharton Business School when they signed the Settlement Agreement. The ConnectU founders understood the deal they made, and we are gratified that the Court rejected their false allegations of fraud. Their challenge was simply a case of &#8216;buyers remorse,&#8217; as described by the Boston Court earlier this month.</p>
<p>We were disappointed that we had to litigate the settlement, as we believed we were caught in the middle of a fee dispute between ConnectU&#8217;s founders and its former counsel. Nevertheless, we can now consider this chapter closed and wish the Winklevoss brothers the best of luck in their future endeavors.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>As in, don&#8217;t let the door hit your Winklevii on your way out!</p>
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