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Alright, everybody can calm down . . . especially me. Memo: Amplified Lib is turning into the pop music library tabloids.

The latest on the Universal proclamation says that songs will go poof six months after you download them. Of course, that’s an admitted rumor. (See posts from earlier in the week for more backstories on this.) People are also speculating on portability/compatibility problems. We’ll just have to see where it heads. December seems like an optimistic launch-time.

But on a more appropriately alarmist note . . .

Wow, I had no idea that YouTube was included in the Deleting Online Predators act.

What’s the fun of the announcement a few weeks ago -- YouTube planning to host every music video ever – if we can’t use it for teen services?

And are librarians themselves (at work) exempt, does anybody know? I’ll have to check that out. Otherwise, (if I’m ever publicly funded) I can’t even do my essential, ahem, professional research!

Like watching Pitchfork’s 100 Awesome Music Videos. Pitchfork was the feature of an entire beautiful article in Wired this week. A music review site that's as influential as Rolling Stone or Billboard anymore – you’re telling me they are also, according to the law, one of the accomplices of child endangerment?

(Or is it just the main YouTube site that will be banned, and not imbedded streaming YouTube vids on other sites? I’m going to look into this, too. If anybody even knows at this point . . . )

I also would be banned at work from demonstrating some timely pop culture facts – like the videography behind Little Miss Sunshine’s director.

Meanwhile, Mashable says that the Save Your Space campaign isn’t doing so well – due to lack of press, he speculates.

Is it our place as librarians to educate teens about what social rights they may be losing very soon? Or would that seem too biased-and-political to fire up your teen advisory board about?

So many questions . . .

Two more social-networking+youth+music headlines today:

YouTube launches YouTube Colleges to challenge Facebook. So YouTube IS expanding into direct social networking. For college kids. Does that justify including YT in the DOP act, though? Maybe legislators are just thinking ahead. :)

Bebo and NBC have hooked up to promote the upcoming series Friday Night Lights. There are writing contests and prizes and such. Your football enthusiast teens could win big bucks if they enter. This news would work well for a sports book display, too. Bebo is as music-oriented as MySpace since Bebo Bands started in July-- that's the music relevance.