It seems that things have progressed into the ridiculous in the YouTube vs Viacom spat:

For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately “roughed up” the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony email addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko’s to upload clips from computers that couldn’t be traced to Viacom. And in an effort to promote its own shows, as a matter of company policy Viacom routinely left up clips from shows that had been uploaded to YouTube by ordinary users. Executives as high up as the president of Comedy Central and the head of MTV Networks felt “very strongly” that clips from shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report should remain on YouTube.

Viacom’s efforts to disguise its promotional use of YouTube worked so well that even its own employees could not keep track of everything it was posting or leaving up on the site. As a result, on countless occasions Viacom demanded the removal of clips that it had uploaded to YouTube, only to return later to sheepishly ask for their reinstatement. In fact, some of the very clips that Viacom is suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself.

– Zahavah Levine, YouTube Chief Counsel, YouTube Blog

This sort of mess surely can’t look good for Viacom?

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Hold on tight, this one’s a wobbly electro treat with a bit of dubstep thrown in for good measure with sounds from the likes of Ellie Goulding, Joe And Will Ask?, Riton, and Hostage. Crank the volume way up, and get your weekend started with some serious oomph!

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1. Hostage – Valhalla
2. Joe And Will Ask? – Monster
3. Fake Blood – The Dozens
4. Mylo – Drop The Pressure (Rex The Dog Remix)
5. Kidda – Everything Bad Is Good For You (TLGB Remix)
6. Riton & Seiji – Computer Juice (TAI & D.I.M. Remix)
7. Project Bassline – Drop The Pressure (Jack Beats Rinsed Out Rave Remix)
8. Fake Blood – Mars (Jack Beats Remix)
9. Riton – Oh Super!
10. The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition (Doorly’s Dubstep Mix)
11. Ellie Goulding – Starry Eyed (Jakwob Remix)

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Bringing things way downbeat (around the 105bpm mark) and spanning a whole bunch of genres, here’s some nice music from the likes of Mr Scruff, Q-Tip, Boards Of Canada, Bis and Moonbootica. I’ve been wanting to play a whole bunch of this stuff for ages, but it’s a lot slower than the usual Unadopted Podcast fare, so haven’t been able to work it in.

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1. Mr Scruff – Fish
2. Bis – The End Starts Today
3. Linkin Park – Session
4. M.I.A. – Paper Planes (DFA Remix)
5. Q-Tip – Breathe And Stop
6. Mr Scruff – Ug
7. Bentley Rhythm Ace – Bentley’s Gonna Sort You Out
8. Röyksopp – Eple (Fatboy Slim Remix)
9. Moonbootica – Jump Around (Radio Mix)
10. Ian Brown – Just Like You (Prodigy Remix)
11. Boards Of Canada – Telephasic Workshop
12. Röyksopp – Happy Up Here
13. The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds

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Going to Soulwaxmas last weekend made me want to record another podcast session. Music this time around from Faithless, Sidney Samson, Delphic, Florence, Dizzee, Zombie Nation, Felix Da Housecat and more. Get stuck in!

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1. Hostage – I Get High
2. Calvin Harris – Ready For The Weekend (Fake Blood Remix)
3. Faithless – Insomnia (The Hump Day Project Remix)
4. Sidney Samson – Riverside (Extended Mix)
5. Bingo Players – Get Up (Diplo Remix)
6. Delphic – Doubt (Doc Daneekas VIP Remix)
7. Evil Nine – They Live (Rogerseventytwo Remix)
8. Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden – Bonkers (Soulwax Re-Edit)
9. Zombie Nation – Kernkraft 400 (DJ Gius Remix)
10. Shinichi Osawa – Rendezvous (Crookers Remix)
11. Felix Da Housecat – Like Something 4 Porno (Armand Van Helden Remix)
12. Florence And The Machine – You Got The Love (The XX Remix)

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It’s time for another funpacked session, with awesome sounds from the likes of Foamo, Boys Noize, Fake Blood and Armand Van Helden’s rather dirty remix of an early nineties anthem. Crank the volume up and let your neighbours party too!

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1. Riton & Primary 1 – Who’s There
2. Fake Blood – Fix Your Accent
3. Kid Cudi – Make Her Say (Afrojack Remix)
4. Calvin Harris – Not Alone (Doorly Remix)
5. Boys Noize – Jeffer
6. Dizzee Rascal – Dirtee Cash
7. Foamo – Movin’ It Over Here (Stupid Fresh Remix)
8. Unkle – Restless (Fake Blood Remix)
9. Snap! – Rhythm Is A Dancer (Armand Van Helden Remix)
10. The Bloody Beetroots – We Are From Venice (La Serenissima)
11. Fukkk Offf – Rave Is King
12. Rudenko – Everybody
13. Kraak & Smaak – Squeeze Me (Trevor Lovey’s Skeezer Pleezer Mix)
14. Basement Jaxx feat Lightspeed Champion – My Turn

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It might be Monday, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get up and party! New tracks from Simian Mobile Disco, Fake Blood and bunch of familiar sounding tracks to get your week off to a good start. Get stuck in, and help spread the word!

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1. Simian Mobile Disco – Audacity Of Huge
2. Felix Da Housecat – Radio (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
3. Fake Blood – I Think I Like It
4. Futurecop! – Ain’t That Fresh
5. Major Lazer feat VYBZ Cartel – Pon De Floor
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (Digiraatii Dance Til You’re Dead Remix)
7. Daft Punk – Around The World (Alive 2009 Re-Edit)
8. Bloc Party – One More Chance (Alex Metric Remix)
9. Ou Est Le Swimming Pool – Dance The Way I Feel (Armand Van Helden Remix)
10. Shinichi Osawa – Maximum Joy
11. Frankmusic – Better Off As Two (A1 Bassline Remix)
12. Florence And The Machine – Drumming Song (Jack Beats Remix)

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An absolutely pounding festival season party pack this time around, featuring a couple of delightful remixes of some classics by Orbital and Paul van Dyk, The Count & Sinden’s new track, Calvertron’s hoofin’ Friendly Fires remix, and Fake Blood’s happy-smiley mix of Miike Snow’s “Animal”. Get stuck in, and help spread the word!

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1. Orbital – Halcyon (Tom Middleton Re-Model)
2. Paul van Dyk – For An Angel 2009 (Spencer & Hill Remix)
3. The Count & Sinden – Mega (Club Mix)
4. Friendly Fires – Jump In The Pool (Calvertron Remix)
5. Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – Look For The Woman (Fake Blood Remix)
6. Surkin – White Knight Two (Laidback Luke Remix)
7. Mystery Jets – Half In Love (Foamo Remix)
8. Cicada – The Things You Say (Dirty South Remix)
9. Miike Snow – Animal (Fake Blood Remix)
10. Feist – 1234 (Van She Tech Remix)

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Shameless repost of BoingBoing and Reuters content here, but word should be spread on this because quite frankly it’s good that Thomson Reuters are taking the sensible approach on this, unlike the Associated Press (link1, link2)…

“Chris Ahearn, President of Media at Thomson Reuters, has an opinion piece out today which amounts to a response to recent hysterical, illogical, and counterproductive acts on the part of Associated Press management with regard to content-sharing online (and “journalism piracy”).”

– Xeni Jardin, BoingBoing.net

And here’s what he said (click the link to read the full story):

“To start, yes the global economy is fairly grim and the cyclical aspects of our business are biting extremely hard in the face of the structural changes. But the Internet isn’t killing the news business any more than TV killed radio or radio killed the newspaper. Incumbent business leaders in news haven’t been keeping up. Many leaders continue to help push the business into the ditch by wasting “resources” (management speak for talented people) on recycling commodity news. Reader habits are changing and vertically curated views need to be meshed with horizontal read-around ones.Blaming the new leaders or aggregators for disrupting the business of the old leaders, or saber-rattling and threatening to sue are not business strategies – they are personal therapy sessions. Go ask a music executive how well it works.

A better approach is to have a general agreement among community members to treat others’ content, business and ideas with the same respect you would want them to treat yours. If you are doing something that you would object to if others did it to you – stop. If you don’t want search engines linking to you, insert code to ban them.”

– Chris Ahearn, Thomson Reuters (blogs.reuters.com)

Disclaimer: In the interests of full disclosure, I should probably state that Thomson Reuters currently pay my wages.

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BoingBoing recently linked to a BBC Magazine article where they gave a 13-year-old an original Sony Walkman to review. My favourite quote:

“It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette.”

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