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YouTube Makes Friends with EMI Music

YouTube is still battling it out with Viacom, but despite Viacom’s accusations against the video site’s copyright-protection integrity, YouTube is making new friends in musical places. On Thursday, YouTube inked a deal with EMI Music.The agreement will give YouTube users access to authorized videos and recordings from EMI Music artists, including those featured in user-generated content. YouTube users will be able to watch professionally produced music videos from the likes of Coldplay, Fat Boy Slim, Gorillaz, Lily Allen, and Norah Jones. EMI is also making authorized video content available to YouTube for the first time.

“With this deal, all four of the world’s major music companies are now official YouTube partners,” Chad Hurley, CEO and cofounder of YouTube, said in a statement.

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Spam King’s Revenge: Junk E-Mail Rages On

They call him the “Spam King,” but removing him from his throne might not make much of a difference when it comes to the deluge of junk mail hitting your inbox.The so-called Spam King, 27-year-old Robert Alan Soloway, was arrested on Wednesday after being indicted by a federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court in Seattle for mail fraud, wire fraud, and fraud in connection with e-mail, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering.

“Spam is a scourge of the Internet, and Robert Soloway is one of its most prolific practitioners,” Jeffrey C. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington, said in a statement. “Our investigators dubbed him the ‘Spam King’ because he is responsible for millions of spam e-mails.”

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