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A major sponsor backing the "Duck Dynasty" guys won't be pulling a Cracker Barrel -- they're standing firmly behind Phil Robertson.Realtree Outdoors -- which distributes all Duck Commander products -- says the company's values align with… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2013/12/23/duck-dynasty-phil-robertson-sponsor-support-duck-commander-gay-realtree-outdoors/]View the full article[/url]

A self-proclaimed member of Phil Robertson's church is literally making a federal case over Phil's suspension ... he's suing A&E and others because he feels the network is chilling his right to hate homosexuals.Chris Sevier, who claims to be a… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2013/12/23/phil-robertson-church-lawsuit-duck-dynasty-a-and-e-gay/]View the full article[/url]

After inking a new deal with Interscope Records for his Eardrumma imprint, Mike Will Made It continues his monster 2013 run by dropping the new 25-track Mike Will Been Trill mixtape with features from Jay Z, Miley Cyrus, Migos, 2 Chainz and more. Stream below or download at LiveMixtapes. [url=http://rapfix.mtv.com/2013/12/23/download-mike-will-made-its-been-trill-mixtape/]View the full article[/url]

By Sowmya Krishnamurthy Top Dawg Entertainment (T.D.E.) is planning a huge 2014 and promises us six, yes six, albums from the roster that includes Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul and SZA. The label's C.E.O., Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith, tweeted the news yesterday, writing, "WE RAN 2013 WITH OUT DROPPING 1 ALBUM. I WONDER WUTS GONE HAPPEN IN 2014 WHEN I DROP 6.. THEY NOT READY 4 THIS #TDE #HiiiPoWeR TAKE OVER." ScHoolboy Q will drop his Oxymoron album at the top of the year and there have been rumors that Black Hippy will release a crew album. As for the other releases? Perhaps newcomers SZA or Isaiah Rashad will release something and maybe we'll even get a sophomore LP from Kendrick Lamar. Despite not releasing one album in 2013, TDE enjoyed a stellar year. Kendrick Lamar was nominated for seven awards and was just recently announced as a performer at the annual awards show with Imagine Dragons. Black Hippy and TDE slayed the 2013 BET Awards cypher, making it one of the night's hottest moments. Rounding off the year, K. Dot was also dubbed 'Rapper Of The Year' by fashion bible GQ. Later, Top and T.D.E. would rescind support for the cover story for what they deemed were racial overtones. [url=http://rapfix.mtv.com/2013/12/23/will-kendrick-lamars-tde-family-drop-6-albums-in-2014/]View the full article[/url]

TMZ Sports knows why Rampage Jackson threatened to DESTROY a clubgoer in Hollywood this weekend ... and it all has to do with an alleged ass grab. Plus, an NHL star does one of the DUMBEST things ever recorded on video ... TALKING SMACK ABOUT THE… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2013/12/23/tmz-sports-rampages-bloody-threat-touch-my-gfs-ass-ill-beat-yours/]View the full article[/url]

By Sowmya Krishnamurthy with reporting by Debby Ryan What music inspires a gold medal winner? Gabby Douglas, who won two gold medals for gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics, shared with MTV News that she listens to Lil Wayne and Drake while working out. “A lot of rap music. Lil Wayne and Drake, the edited versions of course, but it gets me really hyped up,” the 17-year-old shared at the premiere of Justin Bieber’s "Believe." The Biebs is also a playlist staple for the teen athlete. “I love his music. I listen to it every day,” she revealed. Gabby is the first African American gymnast in history to win a gold medal in the individual all-around competition. In 2012, she wowed the country and the hip-hop community when she took home multiple gold medals. "Glad i lived to see what Gabby Douglas did in the Olympics. Icon" tweeted Lil' Wayne, while producer Timbaland added, "yessir bigups to @gabrielledoug u did ur thang." Singer Ciara shared, "Not only am I happy 4 U. I'm happy for your family 2! The sacrifices payed off! Keep inspiring Young Girls and Women like Me". [url=http://rapfix.mtv.com/2013/12/23/olympian-gabby-douglas-works-out-to-lil-wayne-and-drake/]View the full article[/url]

Reese Witherspoon is in the holiday spirit ... celebrating with her hubby with a little vino and then driving off into the sunset.Reese and Jim Toth hit up the outdoor patio at Gjelina in Venice over the weekend. A source connected to… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2013/12/23/reese-witherspoon-wine-driving-restaurant-jim-toth/]View the full article[/url]

The Kris Kringle photos have been narrowed down to five in our annual Santa Snapshots Contest -- and now it's up to you to choose which pic will score the awesome gifts... and who will get nothin' but a lump of coal!Which of these incredible… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2013/12/23/tmzs-annual-santa-snapshots-photo-contest-final-5-vote-winner-photos/]View the full article[/url]

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Every man lives, but not every man tries to hire a hitman to knock off his ex-wife ... but according to cops, some dumbass named William Wallace did exactly that. The Orange County District Attorney says the 33-year-old was more upset with his… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2013/12/23/william-wallace-attempted-murder-ex-wife-orange-county-braveheart/]View the full article[/url]

[url="http://torrentfreak.com/images/rapidgator1.png"][img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/rapidgator1.png[/img][/url]Every week copyright holders send millions of DMCA takedown notices to Google in the hope of making pirated content harder to find. Thus far this has resulted in more than [url="http://torrentfreak.com/google-deleted-200-million-pirate-search-results-in-2013-131112/"]200 million URLs[/url] being removed from Google’s search engine. While many of these takedown claims are legit, some are clearly false, censoring perfectly legitimate webpages from search results. File-hosting service RapidGator.net is one site that has fallen victim to such overbroad takedown requests. The file-hosting service has had nearly all its URLs de-listed, including its homepage, making the site hard to find through Google. Several other clearly non-infringing pages, including the FAQ, the news section, and even the copyright infringement policy, have also been wiped from Google by various takedown requests. [b]Removed URLs[/b] [img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/rapid-wiped.png[/img] People who now search for RapidGator on Google [url="http://i.imgur.com/325N7FV.png"]will no longer see[/url] the site’s domain listed on top of the search results. Instead, the first result now points to RapidGator.org, which appears to be a RapidGator affiliate. RapidGator is one of the most visited file-sharing portals on the Internet, and the site believes it misses out on thousands of visitors now they have become invisible through Google. “We’ll lose thousands of visitors because of this action. This is not right. If it happens to us, it can happen to MediaFire or Dropbox tomorrow,” RapidGator’s Dennis told TorrentFreak. “Most importantly, it opens the door for phishing sites, who will register similar site name and mislead our users,” he adds. At the time of writing, only two RapidGator URLs are indexed by Google. The file-hosting service has submitted counter-notices for several of the false takedown requests, but thus far they haven’t heard back from Google. [b]RapidGator’s indexed pages[/b] [img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/rapidgator2results.jpg[/img] Interestingly, Google has processed takedown requests for millions of RapidGator links over the past months, even though the site only allowed the search engine to crawl a dozen of its pages. In other words, most of the RapidGator pages copyright holders ask Google to remove were never indexed by Google to begin with. “Our robots.txt forbids search engines bots to index any file/* folder/ URLs. We only allow them to crawl our main page and the pages we have in a footer of the website. So most of the URLs for which Google gets DMCA notices are not listed in index by default,” RapidGator’s Dennis explains. RapidGator hopes that Google will eventually reinstate the homepage listing, as well as the other pages that have been removed without basis. This is not the first setback for the file-hosting site this year. Last month an Italian court [url="http://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-isps-to-block-russias-facebook-and-rapidgator-131119/"]ordered[/url] local ISPs to block RapidGator to protect the rights of a movie distribution company controlled by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Despite these troubles, the site remains one of the [url="http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-becomes-1-file-sharing-site-cyberlockers-collapse-130330/"]most visited file-sharing sites[/url] on the Internet, serving millions of users per day. Source: [url="http://torrentfreak.com"]TorrentFreak[/url], for the latest info on [url="http://torrentfreak.com/category/copyright-issues/"]copyright[/url], [url="http://torrentfreak.com/category/pirate-talk/"]file-sharing[/url] and [url="http://torrentfreak.com/vpn-services-that-take-your-anonymity-seriously-2013-edition-130302/"]VPN services[/url]. [url="http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?a=vC-rHtJBgX0:iSRWwoxdFug:yIl2AUoC8zA"][img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?d=yIl2AUoC8zA[/img]</img>[/url] [url="http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?a=vC-rHtJBgX0:iSRWwoxdFug:D7DqB2pKExk"][img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?i=vC-rHtJBgX0:iSRWwoxdFug:D7DqB2pKExk[/img]</img>[/url][img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~4/vC-rHtJBgX0[/img] [url=http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~3/vC-rHtJBgX0/]View the full article[/url]

The criminal investigation into the brutal beatdown of Paris' Hilton's brother is on ice ... because Barron Hilton is not cooperating ... TMZ has learned.TMZ broke the story ... Lindsay Lohan's buddy, Ray LeMoine, smashed in Barron's face at an… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2013/12/23/barron-hilton-criminal-investigation-closed-lindsay-lohan/]View the full article[/url]

By Sowmya Krishnamurthy Just in time for the holidays, "Saturday Night Live" remixes Kanye West's "Bound 2" music video into a funny spoof. Bringing back its 'The KimYe Show' segment, which features comedian Jay Pharaoh as Kanye and Nasim Pedrad as Kim Kardashian, the two flipped the romantic music video into a visual ode to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. "Uh huh, Rudolph," Kim nasally sings, as the two ride around the North Pole. The rest of the 'The KimYe Show' included laughs about weight loss (Kanye sings a Christmas carol to the tune of "Joy to the World" with the lyrics "Joy to the world. Kim's body's back") the Kardashian Kristmas Karolers with the rest of the Kardashian Klan and a gingerbread "nightclub" that Kim built in her free time. "I wanna eat the roof!" she whines. This isn't the first "Bound 2" spoof. Actors Seth Rogen and James Franco made a bro-mantic version of their own while Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia De Rossi used the famous topless visual to inspire their annual holiday card. [url=http://rapfix.mtv.com/2013/12/23/kanye-and-kims-bound-2-video-parodied-on-snl/]View the full article[/url]

By Sowmya Krishnamurthy Justin Bieber and Lil Wayne want that intergalactic love. On their new track "Backpack," from Biebs' just-released Journals album, the two woo a girl from a far off place. "They’re gonna try to take away the secrets of your planet's life / I know you must be upset, you lost your family in a wreck / But you gotta listen," Justin sings. Weezy, who once proclaimed, "We are not the same, I am a Martian," raps on the track about his "out of this world swag." "Greetings. I fell from the sky...Yeah. I'm an alien," he spits. "My swag is out of this world...When I die, they're gonna name this planet after me: Wayne's World." Journals features a slew of big names in addition to Wayne from Big Sean and Diplo on "Memphis" to R. Kelly on "PYD," Chance the Rapper on "Confident" and Future on "What's Hatnin.'" The project was initially set for a December 16 release but Biebs took to Twitter to share that he delayed it, so he could bang out another track. "BIG NEWS!!! Wrote another smash this week! Want you to have it! Making it a Christmas gift and moving #journals to the 23rd! So...." [url=http://rapfix.mtv.com/2013/12/23/lil-wayne-and-justin-bieber-want-alien-love-on-backpack/]View the full article[/url]

"Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson's homophobic rant couldn't have been handled worse -- from A&E on down to the Cracker Barrel's brief boycott. We'll tell you what they SHOULD have done to get through it.And, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton's… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2013/12/23/tmz-live-duck-dynasty-phil-robertson-linsday-lohan-paris-hilton-dwyane-wade-kanye-west-real-housewives/]View the full article[/url]

Is Justin Timberlake back?[img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PopHiss/~4/6RTYgbqLEDU[/img] [url=http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/PopHiss/~3/6RTYgbqLEDU/la-et-ms-watch-justin-timberlake-lifts-off-with-pair-of-wings-on-snl-20131223,0,4867864.story]View the full article[/url]

Charlie Sheen has declared nuclear war on his ex-wife Denise Richards ... blasting her as a "heartless" and "ugly" hag who's holding their children hostage. Sheen just blasted Richards ... again ... this time, he's furious that Denise won't let… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2013/12/23/charlie-sheen-denise-richards-kids-christmas/]View the full article[/url]

Paris Hilton says Lindsay Lohan is dead to her ... claiming the relationship is OVER FOR GOOD after the fight at Lindsay's party in Miami ... and the hatred is burning like a fiery ... crotch. Hilton was at LAX this weekend and with a smile on her… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2013/12/23/paris-hilton-lindsay-lohan-firecrotch-video/]View the full article[/url]

With his critically applauded, epic — and now, Grammy-nominated — good kid, m.A.A.d city, — Kendrick Lamar used rhymes to tell a chilling story of a boy becoming a man in the gang-driven streets of Compton, California. And while every track on the poetic album was almost disturbingly honest, it was the haunting — and, according to Lamar himself, "definitely true" — "Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst" that was the most haunting. A narration about the death of his partner's brother, "Sing About Me" is a sprawling 12 minutes long, which is why, when it came time to release the video on Friday (December 20), Kendrick decided to divide it into chapters. [url=http://rapfix.mtv.com/2013/12/23/kendrick-lamar-drops-sing-about-me-video-part-i/]View the full article[/url]

"Dancing" does a body good ... and Audrina Patridge and Cheryl Burke are the proof. The ladies are both in Hawaii (on separate vacations) ... flaunting their incredible "Dancing with the Stars" physiques on the beach ... and it's NICE! Still, we… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2013/12/23/audrina-patridge-cheryl-burke-dancing-bikini-hawaii/]View the full article[/url]

Phil Robertson says he is not without sexual sin, but has put it in check by getting hitched.Phil got up in front of his bible study group Sunday and said, "Sexual sins are numerous and many. I have a few myself." But his solution was… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2013/12/23/phil-robertson-bible-study-class-duck-dynasty-sin-sex/]View the full article[/url]

'SID: Superman Is Dead,' an exhibition from Shepard Fairey and Dennis Morris, is a vivid reminder of the radical, transformative nature of the Sex Pistols and their self-destructive bassist Sid Vicious. <br/><br/>The hotel room was destroyed. A television lay shattered on the ground, surrounded by a shredded pile of photographs and Bible pages, soda cans and broken furniture. On the mangled hotel bed, the sheets were coiled up in a corner, still holding the form of the human responsible for this mess. Just down the hall, Billy Idol and guys from the Sex Pistols, Blondie and Adam & the Ants banged out loud and sloppy Stooges covers late into the night.[img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PopHiss/~4/DRB9jQkPds0[/img] [url=http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/PopHiss/~3/DRB9jQkPds0/la-et-ms-sidvicious-20131223,0,4372677.story]View the full article[/url]

[img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/cammer1.jpg[/img]Presented by the industry as the most damaging form of piracy, camcording of movies in theaters has been going on for more than three decades. Instances of recording can be traced back to theaters all around the world due to the forensic marking employed by film companies. No longer the force it once was, occurrences in the United States have reduced in recent years due to tough local laws and increased security at theaters. Over in the UK, where movies are often released a little later than in the US, cinema workers are given cash incentives to keep an eye out for would-be cammers. In a scheme in operation since 2006, staff can earn up to £500 each if they manage to stop a potential pirate in his or her tracks. [img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/FACTReward.png[/img] As can be seen from the image above, there are strict rules governing whether an individual is awarded a few hundred pounds for stopping “millions” in movie piracy. Perhaps the most interesting one is calling the police, since simply recording a movie is not illegal in the UK. The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 can only be used against a suspected cammer when there is proof that the recording was part of a commercial operation or that there was intent to later upload it. Nevertheless, the police do get called and according to stats released today by FACT, since April 2013 police have attended a dozen suspected camming instances in the UK on movies including Gravity, Captain Phillips, Rush, One Direction: This Is Us, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa and Monsters University. A total of 15 vigilant staff will collect rewards of up to £500 each as a result. [b]Cambusters – The theater workers picking up cash rewards from FACT[/b] [img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/cambusters.jpg[/img] “Cinema staff are the frontline in protecting films from being pirated and I am always pleased to be able to recognize their work,” said Kieron Sharp, FACT Director General, announcing what could amount to a total reward handout of £7,500. “FACT’s strategy funded by the film distributors seeks to prevent the initial recording that seeds piracy globally. We continue to work together with UK cinema operators to support the success of the cinema experience and to allow continued investment by FACT’s members in exciting entertainment for all audiences.” There can be little doubt that stopping recording in theaters by any means will be FACT’s goal (and they will no doubt be pleased with the results this year), but the details underline the weakness in the law which isn’t likely to be changed anytime soon. Of a total 12 incidents (which by default must’ve included at least 12 people and probably many more) police arrested only five people and issued another nine with cautions. Just two are currently on police bail. Notably there is no mention of a single prosecution or conviction. But despite the law favoring would-be pirates, FACT are still able to get the police to take camming seriously, especially when the allegations go beyond simple recording and into distribution. Earlier this year, police responded in large numbers to detain the same alleged movie pirate not [url="http://torrentfreak.com/five-undercover-police-cars-sent-to-arrest-single-alleged-movie-pirate-130525/"]once[/url], but [url="http://torrentfreak.com/police-arrest-alleged-movie-pirate-again-along-with-his-brother-sister-130909/"]twice[/url]. Source: [url="http://torrentfreak.com"]TorrentFreak[/url], for the latest info on [url="http://torrentfreak.com/category/copyright-issues/"]copyright[/url], [url="http://torrentfreak.com/category/pirate-talk/"]file-sharing[/url] and [url="http://torrentfreak.com/vpn-services-that-take-your-anonymity-seriously-2013-edition-130302/"]VPN services[/url]. [url="http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?a=KU0oYys3YeU:B-Tfl9Q7z6Q:yIl2AUoC8zA"][img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?d=yIl2AUoC8zA[/img]</img>[/url] [url="http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?a=KU0oYys3YeU:B-Tfl9Q7z6Q:D7DqB2pKExk"][img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?i=KU0oYys3YeU:B-Tfl9Q7z6Q:D7DqB2pKExk[/img]</img>[/url][img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~4/KU0oYys3YeU[/img] [url=http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~3/KU0oYys3YeU/]View the full article[/url]

There's a war brewing over the street Paul Walker died on ... one group of fans are trying to pay tribute to the late actor by re-naming the road after him -- while many residents want no such thing.A petition with several thousand signatures has… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2013/12/23/paul-walker-fans-petition-for-death-street-name-change-but-residents-say-hell-no/]View the full article[/url]

Chris Brown was all smiles during his day away from lockdown anger management rehab ... pitching in at a charity toy drive for XMAS.Chris didn't misstep -- not even once -- during the event ... where people come with unwrapped toys for… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2013/12/23/chris-brown-field-trip-anger-management-rehab-melrose-toy-drive/]View the full article[/url]