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The announcement this week that Sony plans to work with other television makers to eliminate the need for set-top cable boxes could not have gained more affection at Fortune magazine's Hollywood digital test lab - also known as my living room.

The announcement this week that Sony plans to work with other television makers to eliminate the need for set-top cable boxes could not have gained more affection at Fortune magazine's Hollywood digital test lab - also known as my living room.

Online media company Revision3 suffered a severe Denial of Service (DoS) attack over the weekend, which brought down the main site, the RSS server, and even its internal corporate email. Although DoS attacks far from uncommon in the modern internet era, the real mystery was who would actually want to close down Revision3.

A couple of times over the past couple months, The Fives has focused on the blog community throughout South Dakota -- in particular, the political blog network.

A couple of times over the past couple months, The Fives has focused on the blog community throughout South Dakota -- in particular, the political blog network.

Metallica does seem like it is trying to make amends from its full-court press against file sharing circa 2000. But fans are treating the new stance like a case of too little, too late, and when we wrote about this the other day the venom started pouring out. Are Lars & Co. beyond redemption? Take our poll.

From Napster to Morpheus, iTunes to .torrents (not to mention the popularity of indie-kid and kid-at-heart collector's favorite record shops), CD sales are on the decline . While this isn't exactly a news-making statement today, it becomes one when the retail giants finally decide to step up and er, face the music.

In May of 2000, when Lars Ulrich personally delivered a 60,000-page printout of the Napster users who were sharing Metallica songs, he probably never suspected that the online backlash against his band would still be running at full steam eight years later.

Facebook represents a major technology and distribution change for the games industry. Very interesting stuff.