By LARRY NEUMEISTER NEW YORK (AP) - A $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit over YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, owner Google Inc. said. The company's lawyers made the claim in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan as Google responded t...
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Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan took part in a MySpaceTV "Artist on Artist" interview with actor/writer/comedian Patton Oswalt. The pair discuss the psychological toll performing can take, origins (both real and fictional) of Keenan's new band Puscifer before they draw parallels between Maynard and Justin Timberlake. Watch the interview below. | More VideosAs previously reported, Maynard's s...
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Tool will tour the United States again from mid-November to Christmas. Tool will be supporting their April, 2006 release ??10,000 Days??, the Grammy Award-winning fourth full-length studio album.As for the concert film or DVD that's rumored to have been shot during the group's recent touring cycle, bassist Justin Chancellor told The Pulse of Radio that there's no official plan yet. "We've got m...
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By TOM RAUM CHICAGO (AP) - Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton heaved toward the finish line in their exhausting Democratic presidential odyssey with Obama poised to claim victory and Clinton facing the prospects of having to abandon a quest that once seemed a sure shot. And although Tuesday's primary-season ending contests in South Dakota and Montana won't decide the Democratic nomination,...
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By ALEX VEIGA LOS ANGELES (AP) - SpiralFrog Inc., which operates an ad-supported, free music and video download Web site, said Monday it will soon begin offering content from Coldplay, Keith Urban and other recording artists as part of a new licensing deal with EMI Music. Terms of the deal between the New York-based company and Britain-based EMI Music, a unit of EMI Group PLC, were not disclose...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - George Carlin, the frenzied performer whose routine ``Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television'' led to a key Supreme Court ruling on obscenity, has died.Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He had performed ...
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Tool recently opened up in an exclusive interview with veteran journalist Bryan Reesman. The seven-page cover story spearheads the relaunch issue of Metal Edge magazine, and according to the band itself, is the longest in their 17-year history.The following are excerpts, for details about the interview, "CLICK HERE":CHTool on media manipulation:Q: You don't seem to mind if you rile up the media...
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By SAMUEL SPIES RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Top law enforcement officers from seven states issued a letter to MySpace.com on Monday, asking the social networking site to turn over the names of registered sex offenders who use the service. The letter asks MySpace to provide information on how many registered sex offenders are using the site, and where they live. Attorneys general from North Carolina, ...
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By AMY DOOLITTLEAugust 28, 2007A House committee will hold hearings next week on the Homeland Security Department’s new National Applications Office (NAO).Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee last week complained in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that he had learned only through media reports of the department’s two-year-old
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The All Points West Music & Arts Festival, which starts next Friday, July 31 just outside NYC in Jersey’s Liberty State Park, has just published its full schedule:
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I guess they expect Danny Carey to recover from his arm injury for June dates. They could be rescheduled yet again..... hopefully not. New Dates:June 5 Greenville, SC Bi-Lo CenterJune 7 Richmond, VA Richmond ColiseumJune 8 Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner ArenaJune 9 Atlantic City, NJ Boardwalk Hotel June 13 Winston-Salem, NC Joel Lawrence ColiseumJune 15 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo FestivalJu...
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Tool's last album, ??10,000 Days?? (Volcano II/Tool Dissectional) was released a year ago. It was the group's fourth studio album as well as their first in nearly five years. In an interview with bassist Justin Chancellor, the English-born musician explains that fans might not have to wait another five, but rather "sooner than later," according to "Blabbermouth":CH.??Justin Chancellor??He expla...
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Just announced, is another new festival, the one day, 12 band show entitled Epicenter 2009. It's being held on Sat. Aug. 22 at Fairplex in Pomona, CA.Lots of rock to shake the ground in this earthquake of a festival: Tool, Linkin Park, Alice In Chains, Wolfmother, Atmosphere, Hollywood Undead, Atreyu, Street Sweeper Social Club, Aesop Rock, Sonny and others.Tickets are $79.50 for GA and $125 fo...
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being a Tool fan for quite a while now I know not to trust anything that pops up on their site on April 1st...I think last year it was Maynard "finding Jesus"...and this year...tour dates postponed to find an ancient Mayan symbol...."Having examined and re-examined certain material in 'The Mayan Factor - Path Beyond Technology' by Jose Arguelles, Adam, Danny and I (along with a few others - we'...
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With Tool entrenched on the road in support of its latest effort "10,000 Days," guitarist Adam Jones tells Billboard.com the alt-metal act is tossing around ideas for a band movie."It has to be a collective thing as far as the band members," says Jones. "Everyone has to be very happy and it has to be done in a way where people would see integrity and hard work and not just something thrown toge...
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