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it's Wednesday November 16 2011 I'm Bridget Carey on cnet com and it's time to get loaded when Sony CEO so the company is developing a different type of television we now have an idea of what that would be a TV that can stream television shows through an internet connection so viewers maybe don't need a cable subscription sony has reportedly been talking to several big media companies like NBC Universal discovery and News Corp to distribute content through the playstation 3 and internet connected televisions if your facebook friends have been posting crude photos of animal abuse and porn they've been hit with a spam attack that has been going around over the past few days those who are affected cannot see proof of anything happening but to friends it shows they click to liked and shared sexual and violent images such as one photo of a dead dog the tax seems to be caused by a browser vulnerability although at this time Facebook hasn't said what browser those affected were likely duped into copying and pasting JavaScript into their browser's URL and in turn giving the bad guys an open door into their account often promises a free giveaways or contests entries or the lower to get people to put javascript in their URL if you've been affected change your password go to settings delete any strange applications and run a virus scan Google will reveal the details of its music service today google has been inking deals with music labels down to the final minutes before it kicks off the new cloud-based music service it will let users store the music online purchase music and share songs on Google+ cnet we'll be live-blogging the announcement at two p.m. pacific five PM eastern this afternoon the drum is growing around a bill in commerce called the Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA Hollywood is in support of SOPA which is supposed to stop foreign or rogue websites selling pirated movies and distributing copyrighted material it would give the government the power to immediately blacklist domain names it says or copyright infringing and it would have the power to order a search engine like Google to erase all links and traces of a website the wording is vague and the power is broad so web giants like Google Facebook eBay yahoo and AOL are all fighting against it the Electronic Frontier Foundation calls it disastrous a hearing before the full House Judiciary Committee on this debate is going on today some of us would do anything for every stuff but would you fill your facebook page with every item of clothing you own to earn a chance to get a gift earn a quirky startup idea from the founder of zappos com is called r NK D or ringt don't ask me how to pronounce it because there are no vowels and the idea is that advertisers would love people who share photos of the shirts or the skirts hats belts and shoes they wear and users will want to post this stuff because they'll get rewarded by the sellers I don't think my friends would want me to fill my feet with pictures of my clothes but for people to take the time to do that it seems the rewards would have to be really good like free shoes good but the founder said he has an iron out all the details just yet those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey for cnet.com and you've just been loaded