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Viacom and YouTube have reached a licensing deal. After Viacom asked the popular video-sharing site YouTube to remove much of their popular content, including clips of The Daily Show, Colbert Report, and Sponge Bob Square Pants. YouTube swiftly replied by taking down all of the clips pertaining to Viacom’s request. But now the companies have reached a mutually beneficial agreement that will grant YouTube the license to play the Comedy Central, etc. content again. Read more

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Make Way For The Music Detectives A few years ago the music industry was worried about Napster and the other peer-to-peer file-sharing services that allowed people to illegally post and share copyrighted music. The name Napster is now used by a legitimate service but there remain plenty of ways for people to share copyrighted music, video, software and other content. The latest battle zone of the copyright war is not so much those shady peer-to-peer networks but social network services like MySpace and YouTube that also allow people to upload video and audio. MySpace is owned by News Corp and YouTube was recently purchased by Google to the tune of $1.65 billion. As subsidiaries of publicly traded companies with very deep pockets, these social networking services have an incentive to keep pirates at bay. At MySpace the incentive is especially strong. The service got its start as a platform for independent artists to (legally) expose their music to their fans. Also, MySpace's parent company News Corp owns Fox TV, 20th Century Fox. Read more

Barbra Streisand's politics didn't find a wholly agreeable crowd during her Monday concert at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise. As Babs traded political barbs with a George W. Bush imitator, a fan of the songstress who apparently disagreed with her politics pelted her with a beverage. And as her anti-GOP riff ended, another man in the crowd found himself being escorted out of the center as he shouted at Streisand. Read more

Willie Nelson teams up with Ryan Adams and the Cardinals in this country-rock offering, with renditions of "Amazing Grace," the Grateful Dead's "Stella Blue", Gram Parson's "$1000 Wedding", Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah", a title cut featuring Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie & three Nelson originals, two old, one new--see the full list below. Get this here

TOKYO (AP) - Sony said Tuesday the U.S. Department of Justice is probing its electronics unit as part of an industrywide investigation into sales of a particular type of memory chip. The news could spell more trouble for a company already stung by sinking profits, a global battery recall and product delays. The Japanese company received a subpoena from the Justice Department's antitrust division seeking information about Sony's static random access memory, or SRAM, business, company spokesman Atsuo Omagari said. Read more at MyWay

The readers at Ask Metafilter cover alot of ground today from costumes to other esoteric questions about Halloween, some 44 in all... and you can read up about it right here BTW, Happy Halloweeen, everyone

Bent, a UK electronic-rock band composed of Simon Mills & Neil Tollidayout, have a new album entitled "Intercept" and they are previewing a number of cuts at MySpace including my selection - "Stay Out All Night". You can listen to it right here

Somewhere between Atlanta and Norfolk, Va., a band from Chicago named Bound Stems was in its van, barreling along a rainy highway on the way to the 26th annual CMJ Music Marathon, which starts today. Bound Stems are one of more than 1,000 bands appearing over the next five nights in more than 60 clubs around Manhattan and Brooklyn, hoping that half an hour onstage could change their lives. “Every band in the world is coming,” said Bound Stems’ main songwriter, Bobby Gallivan, through a faltering cellphone. “I’ve heard of bands that made their big splash at CMJ. Obviously that would be awesome if it happened to us.” The CMJ Music Marathon, the music-business convention devoted to independent musicians, was started by the magazine that monitors college radio and was initially called College Media Journal. As the big-time music business struggles to hold on, the small-time music business — self-made bands, independent labels, college radio stations, music Web sites — is more active than ever. Read more at the NYTimes

Oprah Inspired by Sick Puppies Whatever Oprah Winfrey touches seems to turn to gold. That's good news for Aussie rockers the Sick Puppies, who made a video inspired by Juan Mann, a regular Joe whose act of kindness is free hugs. Mann caught the eye of the talk-show queen and makes an appearance on Monday's show, while the Puppies' clip, 'All the Same (Free Hugs),' is abuzz on the Internet. For both the benevolent Winfrey and the Sick Puppies, it doesn't matter if the story is told verbally or visually, so long as it's told. "The concept for the video came about while I was working in the Pitt Street Mall," Sick Puppies singer Shimon Moore says. "Juan Mann appeared one day out of nowhere holding a 'Free Hugs' sign. I gave him a hug and we became friends. I borrowed my father's camera and started filming him giving out free hugs all around the city, as a social experiment. We wanted to catch people's reactions." Read More

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon and ''Flags of Our Fathers'' star Ryan Phillippe are separating after more than seven years of marriage, their representatives said on Monday. Witherspoon, whose marriage reportedly had been on the rocks for some time, is the latest best-actress Academy Award winner to suffer marital woes. In January, two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank split from husband Chad Lowe. Read more at the NY Times

Circulation at the nation’s largest newspapers plunged over the last six months, according to figures released today. The decline, one of the steepest on record, adds to the woes of a mature industry beset by layoffs and the possible sale of some of its flagships. Overall, average daily circulation for 770 newspapers was 2.8 percent lower in the six-month period ending Sept. 30 than in the comparable period last year, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported. Circulation for 619 Sunday papers fell by 3.4 percent. Read more at the NYTimes

Google has begun sharing advertising revenue with the makers of a popular video clip in a groundbreaking deal that could drive up the costs of competing in the fledgling video-sharing sector. The search company has agreed to turn over most advertising revenue generated by the latest video from Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz, creators of "The Diet Coke & Mentos Experiment," according to Peter Chane, a senior product manager for Google Video. In exchange, Grobe and Voltz, who saw their original offering--which shows a version of Vegas' Bellagio Fountains made of 101 2-liter bottles of Diet Coke and 523 Mentos--catch fire with video-sharing fans last summer, have agreed to let Google host their latest video, "The Diet Coke & Mentos Experiment II." Read more at CNet

Calorie Restriction May Extend Life Read more at the NYTimes

British scientists have grown the world's first artificial liver from stem cells in a breakthrough that will one day provide entire organs for transplant. The technique that created the 'mini-liver', currently the size of a one pence piece, will be developed to create a full-size functioning liver. Source

MySpace.com will use "audio fingerprinting" technology to block users from uploading copyright music to the social networking site, the company said Monday. MySpace, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., said it will review all music files uploaded by community members to their online profiles. The files will be run through a music database from Gracenote Inc. "MySpace is staunchly committed to protecting artists' rights, whether those artists are on major labels or are independent acts," said Chris DeWolfe, MySpace chief executive and co-founder. Source Great! Take down the music fan's favorite music - that will make them go out and buy more crap!

The Tennant is one of the most scariest movies I've ever seen

This month Microsoft and Mozilla released new versions of their Internet Explorer and Firefox internet browsers. Surprisingly, Firefox seems to be leading early on in the download race, and it's been more of a hit with the critics. "Within 24 hours of the official launch on Tuesday, there were over 2 million people using Firefox 2, and we were seeing a peak rate of more than 30 downloads per second from our website," said Firefox developer Mike Beltzner in a post to his personal blog. Read more at The Age

Looking for some clip art to dress up your emails or web posts? Find it here - courtesy of Microsoft...

Lifehacker has really gone all out this evening and scoured the web for the best Halloween treats. Wanna learn how to make your own tombstone - this video at Youtube tells you how:

Lifehacker is thankfully still on a Halloween kick and notes that RetroCrush has just listed what they think are the top 100 scary movie scenes of all time. How does this compare with your favorites?