Soon it’ll be Intel and AMD. You know, because you can’t pirate music without a processor. Maybe then they could go after Maxtor or Western Digital for making hard drives big enough to hold so many albums. Hell, even Keyboard manufacturers won’t be safe! In fact, they should really sue the estates of Babbage and [...]

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Team Twiizers, the group behind almost all of the Wii Homebrew scene, has released an update to the Homebrew Channel (and installer) that allows for installation on a Wii with the most recent update installed. While the team still recommends against installing the Nintendo update, those who accidentally updated or purchase games that require the [...]

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In an attempt to make BitTorrent more secure, and to reduce some of the load on their own tracker, The Pirate Bay has started to remove all duplicate, dead and anti-pirate trackers from the torrents they host. These changes will improve the trackers’ performance, and increase ’security’ for its users.

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President George W. Bush signed into law on Monday a controversial bill that would stiffen penalties for movie and music piracy at the federal level.
The law creates an intellectual property czar who will report directly to the president on how to better protect copyrights both domestically and internationally. The Justice Department had argued that the [...]

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Source

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Weighing in at just 10 MB… but uncompressed it becomes 3.7 GB… neato.

Download: http://rapidshare.com

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…it seems only people who pay for music risk losing it to DRM shenanigans. Ugh.
Hey suckers! Did you buy DRM music from Wal*Mart instead of downloading MP3s for free from the P2P networks? Well, they’re repaying your honesty by taking away your music. Unless you go through a bunch of hoops (that you may never [...]

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Part 2…

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When Windows Vista was first introduced, it came with a powerful defense against pirating. In fact, it was so powerful that paying customers complained when it malfunctioned, and Microsoft wound up making some big changes.
Unless Vista was properly activated, it would drop into “reduced functionality mode”, in which the only thing you could do with [...]

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This is cute…

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Law enforcement officials from several German states have told local press in recent days that they won’t pursue the vast majority of file sharing lawsuits anymore. A spokesperson of the state prosecutor of Nort-Rhine Westphalia told the online magazine jetzt.de earlier this week that P2P users won’t have to fear any lawsuits if they don’t [...]

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The new Batman movie, The Dark Knight, has been the biggest film release of the year so far by a mile. Warner Bros. has claimed victory in fighting off Piracy during the release of the movie, despite taunting from the torrent site, The Pirate Bay.

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It’s easy to make the mistake. The idea that the fact these things are free of cost isn’t the major motivator is something that is over most peoples heads.
Take movie piracy for example. The fact that it enabled you to get movies without paying is only a tiny fraction of the allure. It’s the only [...]

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