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  • The five ways YouTube is blowing it
    In this week's Buzz Report, Molly Wood looks at the five ways YouTube is blowing its chances at greatness.

  • Why the Zune will help kill DRM
    Microsoft's Zune hits the streets with little fanfare, lots of negative press, and yet another clunky, intrusive DRM scheme to master. Rather than entice customers, Molly thinks this latest attempt at content lockdown will only hasten DRM's demise.

  • Sports: enemy of both technology and fans
    When professional sports and technology meet, it often turns into the equivalent of a personal foul. The NFL doesn't want game-day information published online, the MLB pulled its podcasts from iTunes, and no one can figure out how to deal with streaming. Time for Molly to take up knitting.

  • Net neutrality: bring it on
    I was hoping it wouldn't have to come to this, but I'm actually rooting for Net neutrality legislation. No, I don't really want to have to regulate the Internet, but we can't afford to leave it in the hands of the telcos and the cable companies. They're blinded by greed, and lately, they've started lying to you about tiered Internet. Big time. Check it out.

  • Is the end of the Internet upon us?
    There are a lot of, shall we say, challenges facing the Internet as we know it--and before your eyes start to glaze over because you take the Net and the Web for granted and you don't think anything will ever really change, think about this. What if we ended up with a whole bunch of Internets? It could happen. Here's how.


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