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G4 (female) casting call

CASTING END: 2/29/2008 11:59:59 PM

G4 is Searching for Young Females that Live & Breathe The World of Video Games…GotCast.com and the G4 Network are searching for the ultimate Gamer Girl for future G4 projects, that would include hosts and correspondents for current and upcoming programming…young females that live and breathe the world of video games. We’d like them to be able to play games as well as talk about the gaming industry. On-camera experience isn’t necessary, but it’s definitely a bonus!

VIDEO REQUIREMENTS: …a few minutes long, that shows off your personality and lets you highlight your knowledge of video games. Putting together an audition video in vein of ‘hosting’ a segment would be ideal.

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digital TV coupons

February 17, 2009, all full-power television stations in the United States will stop broadcasting in analog and switch to 100% digital broadcasting…

Congress created the TV Converter Box Coupon Program for households wishing to keep using their analog TV sets after February 17, 2009. Until March 31, 2009, eligible U.S. households can request up to two coupons, worth $40 each, to be used towards the purchase of up to two coupon-eligible converter boxes (CECB).

https://www.dtv2009.gov/

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a list of Authorized Coupon Eligible Converter Boxes (CECB)

http://www.ntiadtv.gov/cecb_list.cfm

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free wi-fi to go bye-bye???!!!

H.R. 3791

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…bill requires anyone with a wireless network that’s open to the public to report any illegal images that pass through their network…

The SAFE bill, or Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online Act…anyone with an open Wi-Fi network will be required to comply with the law…

…if a passerby uses the access point to find or share child pornography. It could also cause some businesses that offer free Wi-Fi service to shut down their open networks.

The SAFE bill must still pass the U.S. Senate before becoming law, which could take months.

http://www.macobserver.com/article/2007/12/06.6.shtml

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…The bill doesn’t require WiFi owners to police anything, merely ‘stiffening the penalties’ for those who make no effort to report obvious child pornography.

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/12/06/1354232.shtml

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Who’s Gone Crazy Here?

You may have heard that Musical Artist Prince has been on a mission to remove his copywritten music off of Social Networking Sites such as MySpace and YouTube. We learned this weekend of a case however in which a women named Stephanie Lenz received an email from YouTube telling her that the video she had on her YouTube account had been taken down due to copywrite infringement. The video featured her 18 month young baby boy playing and dancing to the Prince Song “Let’s Go Crazy.”

The “Crazy” thing about this is that the music is on in the background and the total running time for the video is about 29 seconds. The song can barely be heard but the name of the YouTube post “Lets Go Crazy” is certainly what caught the attention of Prince and the Universal Music Publishing Group who demanded the video be removed. According to ABC News, Ms Lenz was advised to refrain from further copywrite violations or she would have her account deleted. At the time the video was taken down she only had recieved about 28 views from mostly friends and family.

After transistioning from fear of the music group to anger, she contacted the Electronic Frontier Foundation and is suing the Music group citing abuse of the DMCA. YouTube restored the video after a filing with them from Ms Lenz. It was my belief in film school that music in the background of a scene could be legally heard, the DMCA may have changed all of that? we’ll have to wait and see how this one plays out.

Read the Full ABC News Story
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3777651&page=1

See the YouTube Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KfJHFWlhQ

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