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The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, Public Citizen, and 14 law professors are warning that an emotive case against a mother who harassed a teenager on MySpace until the teen committed suicide may also threaten free speech online.

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It’s a sign of the times, with content becoming the only driver for internet access (after all, if there was nothing there, who’d bother visiting), the relationships grow interesting, latest news is WiFi internet service, The Cloud, plans to offer free wireless access to MySpace users.

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New music-related start-up, Twones is a new in-development service which monitors Last.FM, YouTube, MySpace, iTunes, Muxtape and others.

What it does: Twones is a one-stop management and access application that will store, organize, find and share your music, whether its songs you like and hear on web-based services or music you have stored within your iTunes collection.
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MySpace has joined forces with Warner Music Entertainment to launch its new online comedy channel, MySpace Comedy UK.

Launched today, 1 August, the MySpace Comedy channel will host Comedybox.tv, an online comedy platform developed by Warner. MySpace is hosting the site and keeping control of the ads, while Warner’s keeps an eye on the site’s video content.
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Apple, Real Networks and Amazon are all competing to provide the infrastructure for the soon to launch MySpace Music store, a report claims.

Amazon at present appears ahead of the pack, according to reports. This is potentially because its back-end systems are more efficient than its competitors, according to separate industry talk. A final decision hasn’t yet been made.
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MySpace will launch the long-expected MySpace Music store in September, company CEO Chris DeWolfe confirmed at a Fortune-sponsored technology conference in the US.

The music service is a joint venture with all the major labels, bar EMI. It will be a combined music store and subscription service, offering unlimited streaming play of tracks for free (hello, Last.fm). Users will be able to create playlists, and add widget music players to their MySpace profiles. They will also be able to purchase song downloads,  ringtones, T-shirts and concert tickets. The venture will be backed by advertising.
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