Web 2.0 has brought with itself too many lawsuit infringements. Youtube takes the lead with many companies taking there turns to sue it for videos which Youtube should not have on its website. It seems a nice way to earn money.

This time its Church of England sues Sony over the use of Manchester Cathedral as the backdrop to Resistance: Fall of Man, a PlayStation 3 game “in which hundreds are killed during a virtual shoot-out inside the Cathedral”.

The Church says Sony didn’t ask for permission to use the cathedral and has demanded an apology and the removal of the game from shop shelves - otherwise legal action will be considered. Now that’s a big ask, especially as it’s one of PS3’s biggest sellers. Sony has not returned calls to officials from the Church. Sony has also been branded “irresponsible” for choosing Manchester. Bishop of Manchester, the Rt Rev Nigel McCulloch, said: “It is well known that Manchester has a gun crime problem. For a global manufacturer to re-create one of our great Cathedrals with photo-realistic quality and then encourage people to have guns battles in the building is beyond belief and highly irresponsible.”

ITV concluded by saying that during the game “players are asked to assume the role of an army sergeant and win a battle” and that screenshots show the interior of the Cathedral “with the player’s gun ready to fight; soldiers can be seen elsewhere in the nave taking aim”.

Remember Charlie’s Angels, the 3 Girls, solving different crimes on TV screen in 30 minutes? With changing technology those same 30 minutes problem would be worth of maximum around 5 or 6 minutes? Satisfied? No? But Sony Corporation is.

The legal owner of many such relics of a distant era of television, that’s the length Sony has shrunk episodes down to in order to create what the company hopes is an appealing new business in retooling old shows for a new era of entertainment. Sony even has a name for these shrunken slices of television nostalgia: minisodes.

Sony Television is planning in June to introduce an Internet-based service called the Minisode Network, initially offering the mini-shows for an exclusive run on MySpace. (The company may consider establishing a separate Internet channel called the Minisode Network later.)

These are not clips of the shows, but actual episodes with beginnings, middles and ends, all told in under six minutes. As Steve Mosko, the president of Sony Television, described it, “So in ‘Charlie Angels,’ they have a meeting, Charlie’s on the intercom telling them what the assignment is, there’s a couple of fights, and then a chase, and they catch the bad guy. Then they’re back home wrapping it up.”

With sites like YouTube proving that people love to watch snippets of the real long TV soaps, Sony is sure to benefit from this innovative idea. Wonder when will the famous O.C.’s and the slow but long long Ekta Kapoor’s soaps will get such treatment.

Were you not satisfied with Sony Play Station3 as your living room media center? Try vaio TP1, and then say it does not contain your kind of entertainment. The ultra-cool vaio TP1 will keep you entertained in almost every way you might think of! The sleek white finish and the small spherical shape gives it the perfect style necessary for your living room. With the wireless LAN technology and with a wireless router, you can put an end to the wires running around in your room.

Features which make TP1 something to watch out:

- dimensions: 27 cm x 9.1 cm x 9.1 cm;
- weight: 3.7 kilos;
- processor: Intel Core2 Duo, 1.83 GHz, 2 MB Cache, Intel Viiv technology;
- RAM memory: 2 GB of PC2-5300 DDR2 memory;
- HDD storage capacity: 300 GB SATA HDD, 7200 RPM;
- graphics: Intel Media Graphics Accelerator 950, 224 MB of graphics memory;
- optic unit: multiformat DVD-RW (compatible with Dual Layer discs);
- TV tuner: HD digital cable tuner with ATSC and NTSC compatibility;
- network: 10Base-T/100 Base-TX Ethernet adapter, 802.11 b/g WiFi adapter;
- features: memory card reader for MS and SD memory cards;
- inputs: composite A/V, VHF/UHF (NTSC), 4 pin iLink interface, microphone jack;
- outputs: HDMI, headphone jack, VGA, S/PDI F, IR;
- interface: USB 2.0;
- comes with: wireless keyboard, remote control;
- OS: Windows Vista Home Premium.

Price $1,600, but worth every penny. Expected to be launched in march 2007. We will keep you updated with the progress.

Source: SoftPedia