Content owners, rejoice! -- At least for the moment. Some top Hollywood studios just won an injunction against Pirate Bay's bandwidth provider CB3ROB via a court in Hamburg, The Guardian reports. The injunction reportedly prohibited CB3ROB from 'connecting The Pirate Bay website and its servers to the internet." If you're not familiar, Pirate Pay allows web users to access music, movies and TV shows without paying for them, and claimed 22 million users in February. Rumor has it, however, that the ever resilient operation is already working on a backup solution. In mid-2009, Pirate Bay's four co-founders were sentenced …

With the May 31 deadline looming, a LaLa member who calls himself "The Big Lebowski" (About me: I went out and achieved anyway...) has taken it upon himself to blast Apple's decision to shutter LaLa and its compensatory package. Besides spreading a petition protesting the move, this Dude has authored what amounts to a manifesto outlining his complaints. In precise and surprisingly lucid language he outlines the injustices if the situation. Shades of the Port Huron Statement -- the original Porty Huron Statement, not the compromised second draft. Lebowski is understandably angry that he'll …

Those looking for private, yet publically searchable updates, outside of Facebook now have a place to go. The Register points to a site containing potentially embarrassing information posted in Facebook status updates, such as playing hooky from work or complaints about a cheating spouse or cheating on a test. The Web site illustrates that problems with Facebook's privacy settings, and the understanding by its members, go far deeper than some suggest.

Thanks to basketball legend and uber underwear man Michael Jordan, American men will soon know the name of a problem that has been bothering women and stylists since the dawn of casual Friday: Bacon neck. The two new TV spots for Hanes Lay Flat Collars feature Jordan trapped on a plane next to a chatty salesman, who points out the way other passengers' t-shirts pucker when worn with button-down shirts or V-necks. Running on sports and cable shows, Hanes says the ads are designed to appeal to consumers who want a collar that keeps its shape …

There are 24 hours worth of videos uploaded each minute on to YouTube. The site gets 45 million home page impressions and more than 2 billion views daily. It monetizes a billion videos per week that tripled partner ad revenue in 2009. YouTube has gone through a transformation, grown up, during the past five years. And although parent company Google has not admitted the site turns a profit, the numbers reflect positive days ahead. Celebrating it's birthday, the crew launched a YouTube Five Year Channel and gave you a place to upload your own story.

Kenshoo said Sunday it has integrated the ability to mange search campaigns on Baidu.com, the Chinese search engine, through its technology platform. Analysts report the Chinese search engine's business has flourished since Google made a decision to relocate the search engine from China to Hong Kong. Ctrip, a travel service provider in China, became the first to use the platform to automate and optimize its paid search campaigns. The company implemented Kenshoo Search in an effort to simplify campaign management, synchronize online ads with real-time inventory updates, and track activity across multiple search engines and channels including social media …

Google admitted Friday collecting small pieces of private information people sent through unencrypted wireless networks. The practice mistakenly occurred during the past three years. Alan Eustace, senior vice president of engineering and research at Google, admitted the mistake and explained how it happened in a blog post. The revelation occurred after the data protection authority (DPA) in Hamburg, Germany asked to audit the WiFi data that Street View cars collects for use in location-based products like Google Maps for mobile, which enables people to find local restaurants or get directions. His request prompted Google to re-examine everything …

Google admitted today in a blog post that its Street View cars inadvertently collected data from non-password protected WiFi networks for three years. The company called the data collection a mistake and said it intends to shed the information. "As soon as we became aware of this problem, we grounded our Street View cars and segregated the data on our network, which we then disconnected to make it inaccessible. We want to delete this data as soon as possible, and are currently reaching out to regulators in the relevant countries about how to quickly dispose of it," the …

Ad Age is reporting that Jeff Hayzlett, 49, today posted news of his leaving Kodak to pursue other opportunities, including promoting his new book, "The Mirror Test: Is Your Business Really Breathing?" "Hayzlett has been equally -- some might say even more -- adept at building his own profile," reports Beth Snyder Bulik. "He is an active Twitterer (21,000-plus followers) and Facebook user (more than 3,800 fans)."

The New York Times has set a date for the launch of its so-called "metered" pay model: January 2011. Times executive editor Bill Keller revealed the news while speaking at a dinner event for the Foreign Press Association on Thursday, according to Fast Company. Still, "We don't know what Keller's latest thinking on pricing is, or whether the new pay-protected Times will follow the Net edition model adopted by the original London Times, which is to make the Web version very much like the paper edition." In February, Janet Robinson, The Times Co.'s president and CEO, said the company …