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o RIAA May Have to Pay Damages in MP3Board Case
o Secret Service Busts CD Piracy Ring in New York
o Palm Acquires E-Book Publisher PeanutPress.com
o Content Delivery Firm Ipedo Raises $7 Million in First Round
o Streaming Software Provider Into Networks Lays Off 37% of Staff
o Microsoft, SightSound to Offer Digital Cinema Using Windows Media
o SurferNETWORK.com Invests in BroadcastURBAN.com
> Digital Media Wire: NYC & DC Interactive Games Panels
o Briefly Noted: Mirreentry.com, Electronics Boutique - Enron - Into
Networks, AltaVista - Moreover, GameSpy.net, Franklin Electronic
Publishers - Palm, Gemstar-TV Guide - Wink Communications, ARUSH
Entertainment - The Groove Alliance, American Movie Classics -
Ibidlive.tv, Digital Fortune Magazine
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> Job Postings: PR Director, Animation Manager

> Events/Services: "Jones Day: Pitch Like Pros / Intensive Professional
Coaching," "Digital Media Revolution in the Americas"

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o RIAA May Have to Pay Damages in MP3Board Case

San Rafael, Calif. -- MP3Board, operator of a website that provides a
search engine that returns hyperlinks to MP3 files on the Internet,
announced on Monday that a U.S. District Court has denied the RIAA's
(Recording Industry Association of America) motion to dismiss its claim
for damages when MP3Board's list of music files was taken down for ten
days in April 2000. The site was taken down when the RIAA sent a "takedown
notice" to MP3Board under the provisions of the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act. The ruling implies that the RIAA's notice was not valid
because it didn't comply with the rules set forth in the DMCA for such
takedown notices. "MP3 Board has alleged sufficient activities by the RIAA
which, if proven, would make out a prima facie case that the trade
association sent notices to MP3 Board's service providers with the
intention of disrupting MP3 Board's contractual relationships," Judge
Sidney H. Stein wrote in his ruling. A trial on the merits of the case is
set for late May; however, MP3Board said in its statement that it is
actively seeking a settlement with the RIAA.
http://www.mp3board.com/dmca.html
http://www.riaa.org
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o Secret Service Busts CD Piracy Ring in New York

New York -- The U.S. Secret Service has raided and seized computers, CD
burners and printers from a group of alleged CD pirates in New York that
had the means to produce almost three million illegal CDs per year.
Working with the RIAA's New York anti-piracy unit, the Secret Service took
102 CD burners along with 20,000 recorded CD-Rs and 1,200 master
recordings of artists like the Beatles, Jay-Z and Jennifer Lopez. The RIAA
estimated that sales losses from this one pirate operation could have cost
it over $47 million annually.
http://www.riaa.org/PR_story.cfm?id=391
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o Palm Acquires E-Book Publisher PeanutPress.com

Santa Clara, Calif. -- Handheld wireless device maker Palm announced on
Monday that it has acquired PeanutPress.com, an online e-book publisher.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The company will be renamed
Palm Digital Media, and its 17 employees and operations in Maynard, Mass.
will be maintained. The company's e-book reader software, Peanut Reader,
will also be renamed the Palm Reader, and will ship with new Palm devices
announced today. In addition, Palm will also acquire the PeanutPress.com
e-commerce store, which features 2,000 titles.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010319/hsm015.html
http://www.peanutpress.com
http://www.palm.com/ebooks
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o Content Delivery Firm Ipedo Raises $7 Million in First Round

Redwood City, Calif. -- Ipedo, a developer of software that speeds dynamic
content across the Internet, announced on Monday that it has raised $7
million in its first round of venture capital financing. Draper Fisher
Jurvetson was the sole participant in the round. Redwood City-based
Ipedo's software allows content that can be personalized to a user's
specific preferences to be sent to the user more quickly. The company
plans to use the funds for product development, as well as for sales and
marketing of its software.
http://www.ipedo.com
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o Streaming Software Provider Into Networks Lays Off 37% of Staff

Cambridge, Mass. -- Into Networks, a provider of technology that allows
applications to be streamed to users with broadband connections, has laid
off 37 percent of its staff, or 50 employees, VentureWire reported. The
layoffs were spread across all departments. The company said that it has
become more "scalable," and therefore needed fewer staff.
Massachusetts-based Into Networks also on Monday announced a partnership
with Enron Broadband and game publisher Electronics Boutique to offer
video games on-demand.
http://www.intonetworks.com
http://www.intonetworks.com/news/archives/press48.htm
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o Microsoft, SightSound to Offer Digital Cinema Using Windows Media

Mount Lebanon, Pa. -- SightSound Technologies, a video and audio download
and peer-to-peer e-commerce service provider, announced on Monday that it
has partnered with Microsoft to hold a digital cinema film premiere. On
March 19, the movie "Quantum Project" -- starring Stephen Dorff, Fay
Masterson and John Cleese -- will have its theatrical premiere at
Pittsburgh’s Star City Cinemas. The movie will be encoded in Microsoft's
Windows Media Video 8 with digital rights management and sent over the
Internet to the theater, where it will digitally projected using a
Panasonic DLP projector.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010319/sfm087.html
http://www.sightsound.com
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o SurferNETWORK.com Invests in BroadcastURBAN.com

Washington, D.C. -- Internet radio broadcaster SurferNETWORK.com announced
on Monday that it will make an undisclosed investment in
BroadcastURBAN.com, a Washington-based Urban radio webcaster, in return
for a minority stake in the company. SurferNETWORK will also offer
hardware, streaming services and ad insertion technology to
BroadcastURBAN, which will share advertising revenue with SurferNETWORK
and give the company a seat on its board of directors.
http://www.surfernetwork.com
http://www.broadcasturban.com
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> Digital Media Wire: NYC & DC Interactive Games Panels

New York City -- "Interactive Games on the Internet"
MODERATOR:
-Billy Pidgeon, Analyst, Jupiter Research

FEATURED SPEAKERS:
-Greg Costikyan, Founder & Chief Design Officer, Unplugged Games
-Rob Davis, Executive Producer, Spiderdance
-Frank Lantz, Sr. Game Designer, gameLab
-Joseph Varet, VP BizDev & Strategy, The Groove Alliance
*Additional panelists TBA.

Date: Wednesday, March 28th, 2001
For more information and to register:
http://www.digitalmediawire.com/NYCgames.html

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Washington, D.C. -- "Interactive Games on the Internet"
FEATURED SPEAKERS:
-Phillip Campbell, Chief Creative Director, Quantic Dream
-Larry Cotter, CEO, Sandbox.com
-David Levine, CEO, Butterfly.net
-Doug Lowenstein, President, Interactive Digital Software Association
*Additional panelists TBA.

Date: Thursday, April 5th, 2001
For more information and to register:
http://www.digitalmediawire.com/DCgames.html
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o Briefly Noted:

(Sausalito, Calif.) Mirreentry.com has partnered with a number of
companies to provide a live webcast of the Mir Space Station's re-entry
into the earth's atmosphere. New York-based Interliant will host the
webcast, which will be streamed to users with Massachusetts-based
NaviSite's Stream OS technology and sent over Inktomi's content delivery
network.
http://www.mirreentry.com

(West Chester, Pa.) Video and computer game retailer Electronics Boutique
announced on Monday partnerships with Enron Broadband and Into Networks to
develop a video games on-demand service. The service, scheduled to launch
on June 1st at EBWorld.com, will use Massachusetts-based Into Network's
software streaming technology to deliver the games. Houston-based Enron
Broadband is providing strategic, financial and operational services to
the service, which allows users to play games in a streaming format that
does not require downloading games to a computer.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010319/2771.html
http://www.ebworld.com

(Palo Alto, Calif.) Search engine provider AltaVista has added a
"newsstand" function to its search technology that automatically returns
up-to-the-minute news stories that relate to topics entered in queries,
the Associated Press reported on Monday. San Francisco-based Moreover has
licensed the newsstand technology to Palo Alto-based AltaVista.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5174028.html?tag=mn_hd
http://www.altavista.com
http://www.moreover.com

(Irvine, Calif.) GameSpy Industries, a provider of services and
technologies for retail and video game publishers, announced on Monday the
launch of GameSpy.net, which will provide companies with an infrastructure
for online gaming. Irvine-based GameSpy's service will include software,
back-end servers, bandwidth and network operations personnel that keep
games with online features up and running for game developers and
publishers. The service promises to help facilitate multiplayer, chat and
game persistence for online games.
http://www.gamespy.net
http://www.gamespyindustries.com

(Burlington, N.J.) Franklin Electronic Publishers said on Monday that
wireless handheld device maker Palm is licensing reference content for
e-books from the company, that will be offered as expansion memory cards
for Palm's new line of handhelds. Titles from New Jersey-based Franklin
included in the deal are the publisher's American English Thesaurus and
bi-directional language translation dictionaries.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010319/sfm078.html
http://www.franklin.com

(Alameda, Calif.) Interactive television program guide maker Gemstar-TV
Guide International announced on Monday that it will integrate
Alameda-based Wink Communications' interactive television service with its
platform for Motorola's DCT-2000 digital set-top boxes. The agreement will
make Wink's iTV service available in six million additional homes.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010316/sff041.html
http://www.wink.com

(Scottsdale, Ariz.) Video game publisher ARUSH Entertainment said on
Monday that it has licensed Internet gaming platform technology from
Hollywood-based The Groove Alliance. Under the agreement, Arizona-based
ARUSH will publish nine browser-based 3D games based on the technology,
which it sells in "episodes" that cost users about $5 each.
http://www.arushgames.com
http://www.3dgroove.com

(Los Angeles) Cable network American Movie Classics said on Monday that it
has partnered with Culver City-based Ibidlive.tv to create live auctions
that will accompany some of its programs. The first auction will offer
"Hollywood's Leading Men Memorabilia," with proceeds going to Martin
Scorsese's non-profit film preservation organization The Film Foundation.
http://www.ibidlive.tv/schedule/schedule.html
http://www.amctv.com
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/filmfoundation/

(Boston) International Data Group (IDG), publisher of new economy
publication The Industry Standard, has launched a Chinese edition of its
publication, Internet.com reported. The bi-weekly Digital Fortune will
have an initial circulation of 60,000, and brings the number of titles IDG
publishes in China to 18.
http://asia.internet.com/biz/2001/03/0319-idg.html
http://www.digitalfortune.com.cn
http://www.thestandard.com

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> School of Visual Arts, Animation Manager - New York City

This position reports to the film chairman and the Film Department's
director of operations. Manage daily functions of animation facility,
supervise assistant & student workers, coordinate schedules &
responsibilities, research & plan animation technology and convey budget
updates & proposals. Knowledge of Illustrator, Adobe Premiere,
AfterEffects & Photoshop. Send resumes to hr@adm.schoolofvisualarts.edu
http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu

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> Pitch Like Pros / Intensive Professional Coaching, March 26 - D.C.

Have your pitch honed by VCs and professional coaches! VCs Linda Powers
of Toucan Capital and Jonathan Silver of Core Capital, and professional
coaches from PowerSpeak of Philadelphia, hosted by Jones Day lawyers Doug
Whipple and Thomas Beck, work with 15-20 entrepreneurs in a three-hour
highly interactive, highly intensive pitch coaching session. No cost for
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information: http://www1.jonesday.com/html/what_s_new_at_jones_day.asp
To apply, submit your executive summary to dwhipple@jonesday.com
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> Digital Media Revolution in the Americas, Nov. 29-30 - Pasadena

Institute of the Americas and the Annenberg School for Communication
Conference will focus on all aspects of digital media content production,
delivery and protection of digital property rights in the Americas.
Features CEO track at the Huntington Museum and high-level Latin American
speakers.
Send inquiries to cmorton@iamericas.org
For more information: http://www.iamericas.org
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