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I'm calling it right now.

It’s Really Unlikely That Apple Will Release a $799 MacBook Air

by Max Eddy | 2:41 pm, May 7th

Today, the DigiTimes ran an article which proclaims that Apple will start selling its MacBook Air for $799 — $200 less than the ultra-slim notebook currently sells for — because of the rising threat posed by PC ultrabooks. The report says that the super cheap computer would be on sale starting in the third quarter of 2012. However, that’s almost certainly not going to happen, at least not as described.

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Is This WhoIs Knock-Off Really Run By Kanye West?

by Max Eddy | 7:33 pm, March 28th

You guys remember DONDA, right? The mutlimedia-everything company founded in a truly spectacular series of Tweets from Kanye West, which is supposed to fix everything from architecture to childhood education? It’s gonna be great, I’m sure. However, a website called WhoDat.biz has emerged claiming to be the first incarnation of the legendary DONDA. You might assume that it is, perhaps, a breakthrough initiative the likes of which the Internet has never seen. You probably wouldn’t assume it’s a WhoIs rip-off that lets you look up the owners of websites. Which is what it is, and it’s probably fake.

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Claims of February Release Date for Diablo III are Probably Wrong

by Max Eddy | 2:01 pm, January 8th

This past Friday, a shopper at a Best Buy in Rochester, MN noticed this large sign proudly proclaiming that Blizzard’s long awaited Diablo III would be launching on February 1 of this year. Complete with digital countdown clock, the sign promised a midnight opening to go along with the release. While it’s easy to get hopeful with the the purported release so tantalizingly close, this is probably just a case of retailers making up plausible sounding dates for a release. A big clue is that they spelled “February” as “Feburary” on the sign.

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Fraudulent DMCA Notices Claim Yet Another YouTube Video, YouTube’s Copyright Policy Ripe for Abuse

by Eric Limer | 2:35 pm, July 20th

Universal Music has recently been accused of using a fraudulent DMCA notice in order to corner an artist for the purpose of licensing his song. Here’s the rundown. Skepta, a hip-hop artist from London, premiered one of his tracks on YouTube earlier this month. Jimmy Iovine, founder of Interscope, (owned by Universal) the label to which Eminem is signed, heard Skepta’s track and decided he wanted to license it for use by Eminem. Naturally, Iovine took the next logical step and, allegedly, filed a bogus DMCA notice to get the track removed, essentially calling dibs and buying him time to get to Skepta and license the track before anyone else could hear it or associate it with its original artist instead of Eminem. Totally the next logical step, right?

Now, if you had been following the YouTube Nyan Cat video kerfuffle, you would know this isn’t the first time someone has had an issue with a bogus DMCA notice. If you weren’t: This isn’t the first time someone has had an issue with a bogus DMCA notice. The whole mess is documented here, but in short, it consisted mainly of Joe Schmo getting the video removed simply by claiming to be the copyright holder followed by the actual owner failing to have the video reinstated by repeatedly providing proof of his copyright.

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