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Netflix released this statement,to announce the debut of their Video Streaming Service.

“We named our company Netflix in 1998 because we believed Internet-based movie rental represented the future, first as a means of improving service and selection, and then as a means of movie delivery,” said Reed Hastings, the company’s CEO. “While mainstream consumer adoption of online movie watching will take a number of years due to content and technology hurdles, the time is right for Netflix to take the first step.” (more…)

A Brazilian judge reversed course Tuesday and lifted an order that led to a ban of YouTube across much of the country because a sexy video of supermodel Daniela Cicarelli and her boyfriend kept circulating against the boyfriend’s wishes.

Sao Paulo state Supreme Court Justice Enio Santarelli Zuliani asked telecommunications companies and Internet providers across Latin America’s largest nation to stop blocking the popular video-sharing site immediately. He also wanted to know why the companies can’t simply prevent the video from being seen without pulling the plug on the entire site. (more…)

The Internet’s key oversight agency has revived a proposal it earlier rejected to create an online red-light district, after adding stronger provisions to prohibit child pornography and require labeling of Web sites with sexually explicit materials.

The use of the proposed “.xxx” domain name would remain voluntary, but any porn sites that choose to use it instead of the more popular “.com” would be subject to the new terms issued late Friday by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. (more…)

Daily Mirror front page leads with holiday accident

UK tabloid The Daily Mirror today leads with a story of a tragic holiday accident and a half-page headline stating: “Killed by Xmas Game Boy.”

The story, also on the red top’s website, tells of 7 year-old Connor O’Keefe, who was electrocuted while unplugging a charger in his hotel room in Thailand. (more…)

Apparently, one in every 5 million copies comes with adult entertainment.

This has to be a first: a 14-year old boy in Utah is claiming his factory-sealed copy of Madden 07 for the Xbox 360 displayed hardcore porn when he popped the disc into his system. The boy, Kolton Mahoney, immediately notified his parents, who are backing up his claim.

IGN contacted an Electronic Arts representative said the company is working with Circuit City, where the game was purchased, to resolve the issue. EA has not seen the disc in question and was unable to verify whether or not the claim is valid. The representative did say that EA “regrets any embarrassment this matter has caused the family,” and pointed out over 5 million copies have been sold without any similar complaints. (more…)

A Brazilian judge has ordered YouTube to find a way to stop Brazilians from viewing steamy footage of supermodel Daniela Cicarelli and her boyfriend on the highly trafficked video-sharing site, court officials said Thursday.

YouTube was first ordered in September to remove video showing Cicarelli and Brazilian banker Renato Malzoni in intimate scenes along a beach near the Spanish city of Cadiz.

But the clip still appears periodically on YouTube, prompting the expanded order from Sao Paulo state Supreme Court Justice Enio Santarelli Zuliani on Tuesday, the court’s press office said in a statement.

Two Brazilian sites that ran the video of Cicarelli and Malzoni complied with the original order, the statement said. (more…)