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Twitter’s TV Guide Experiment Gets a Little Closer to Prime Time

Apple TV Adds Yahoo, PBS

The Ratings Are in for Alpha House, Amazon’s First Made-for-the-Web TV Show

The Idiot’s Guide to Valuing Snapchat

NFL, MLB Tell Supreme Court: If Aereo Wins, We’re Bailing on Broadcast

Rap Genius Already Hugging It Out With Music Publishers

Verizon Stocks Up on “TV Everywhere” Tech by Buying upLynk

Foursquare’s Longtime Head of Product Leaves, Midway Through a Huge Product Rollout

Netflix Gives Most, but Not All, of Its TV Viewers a New Look

Good News for the Cable Guys! Subscriber Numbers Dropped Again.

Yahoo Video Head Erin McPherson Heads for Maker Studios, the Giant YouTube Network

Pay Wall Operator Tinypass Grows, Raises $3 Million

Netflix + YouTube = Half Your Broadband Diet

Vox Media Spends Some of Its Giant Funding Round on Lockhart Steele’s Curbed Network

Even After a Small Swoon, Twitter Investors Are Incredibly Optimistic

Here’s How Much Twitter’s Top Dogs Are Worth This Morning

Time Inc. Limps Toward a Spring Spinout

Startup Has an Awesome Idea That Will Get Crushed by Big Media

Is AOL Finally Making Money From Content? Maybe!

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Just as the atom bomb was the weapon that was supposed to render war obsolete, the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering it impossible for anyone to ever make a profit off anything again. It’s especially hopeless for those whose work is easily digitized and accessed free of charge.

— Author Tim Kreider on not getting paid for one’s work