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by Laura Rich
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Jul 30 2008 6:14pm EDT

Last Bytes: YouTube, Apple, Scrabulous, China's Great (Olympic) Firewall

-- More trouble for YouTube. Italian television company MediaSet, which is controlled by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, has sued YouTube for copyright infringement. MediaSet is looking for at least 500 million euros ($779 million). [Bloomberg]

-- Contrary to earlier reports, the Chinese government will keep politically sensitive Web pages from reporters' prying eyes during the Olympics. [NYT]

-- Apple is warning retailers of a coming "drought" in Mac and iPod supplies, urging them to stock up now. This may indicate that the company is preparing to launch new products in advance of the holiday season. [AppleInsider]

-- Can't live without Scrablous, which got yanked from Facebook earlier this week? The game lives on at scrabulous.com. [PC Magazine]

-Sam Gustin. □

Laura Rich is a co-founder of Recessionwire, which provides news, advice, perspective and humor about the recession and the recovery.

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