The irony being that searching for “Pirate Bay” now brings up the infinitely shiftier piratebay.com. From the Google results: In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 4 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org. The DMCA complaint isn’t yet available at Chilling Effects. But plenty of real piratebay.org pages still show up; presumably the DMCA claim wasn’t well-formed enough to actually accomplish its objective.

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AT&T claims that because Google blocks certain numbers from association with its Google Voice service, it violates net neutrality principles . [NYT] It’s all about fees at the back end: poky local telcos scam the big carriers on connection charges. But whereas big carriers are forced to allow the connections, Google Voice is not. The flaw in the argument is, of course, that Google Voice isn’t a telco. It’s a new application of existing technology that supercedes the business model that telcos rely on. Among other things, Google Voice makes it obvious that the services carriers charge for are worthless, and that bandwidth is their only real product.

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Apple’s set to show off its latest iPod on September 9th @ 10am PST/1PM Eastern. So what’s up Jobs’ sleeve? [via Gizmodo ]

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Even the Wall Street Journal can’t get a straight answer from the company, whose deletion policy remains a secret. Peter Kafka writes: I’ve repeatedly asked Amazon PR folks to mollify me, or at least spell out the circumstances in which they would delete a book again, and I haven’t gotten any response. So I’m fearing the worst: Amazon reserves the right to yank books out of your Kindle, but won’t tell you why or when until it happens. This month, Wired magazine ran an article telling people to pirate stuff, as a transgressive act to destroy the content cartel. This morning, The Consumerist offered nudge-nudge-wink-wink advice on “doing something illegal” should Amazon screw you again. Perhaps you’re the sort of person who despairs at what seems to be the normalization of theft. If so, you have to look no further than Amazon’s destruction of its own customers’ property to see why the public doesn’t give a damn about your opinion. What Book Will Amazon Delete Next? [WSJ]

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Appmodo says a source tells it that rumors of a high price on AT&T’s forthcoming iPhone tethering plans are true. The controversy over tethering pricing remains the same. Tethering for iPhone will cost $55 on top of the current iPhone data plans. MMS will be included with the current text messaging plans. There you have it folks. If it pans out, hats off to Appmodo. But AT&T specifically denies this: ” rumors of $55 tethering plan on top of an unlimited data plan are false .” I know what you’re thinking: that AT&T might be stupid enough to do it, but not stupid enough to lie about it. Apple iPhone MMS Delayed, Coming Sept, Tethering $55 Extra [Appmodo]

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The manufacturers included software at the the Chinese government’s behest , but the software in question was plagiarized. And now the pain begins, as the swiped software’s creator, Solid Oak, now files suit here in the U.S. The clone software even tries to access Solid Oak’s server for updates.

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From the Wall Street Journal: Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple Inc. since January to treat an undisclosed medical condition, received a liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago. The chief executive has been recovering well and is expected to return to work on schedule later this month, though he may work part-time initially. Jobs Had Liver Transplant [WSJ]

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Sony’s talked a lot about abandoning its proprietary ways, but the company’s DRM shenanigans and format wars always sprung to mind. This is something of a surprise ! [CrunchGear] Photo: Moff

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Fortune : So is SanDisk sitting pretty? Not really. While Harari’s flash evangelism has yielded some impressive results, it hasn’t addressed his main challenge: SanDisk’s core flash memory business is dizzyingly volatile. Because so many companies manufacture flash storage chips, and because the fast-evolving technology has a brief shelf life, the flash market lately has suffered gut-wrenching price swings and whipsawed SanDisk’s stock price in its wake.

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Number-two MP3 player maker declares, "You can’t out-iPod the iPod"

In a PDF press release (PDF Warning: PDF) posted to the MobileRead forums by user HarryT, iRex lays out plans to issue color e-Readers within the next couple of years. “The ultimate goal of an electronic paper display is to mimic the appearance of pigment on paper. This means more than just bright color, the reflection also has to be diffuse,” explained Henzen. “iRex’s subtractive color mixing technology will allow us to produce a wide range of colors in high resolution to deliver magazine?quality color to our e?reader customers. Holy grail of digital publishing ahoy! But will it fold? Or, for that matter, stop the vinegar leaking out? [via Slashgear ]

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iRex: "Magazine Quality" color e-readers by 2011