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With Kazaa, TPB going legit, are illegal downloads over?

With Kazaa, TPB going legit, are illegal downloads over?Pirate Bay was purchased?I would love to see that business model! All the thieves in jail are polishing up their resumes as we speak. And hey, I have a stack of baseball games on video tape that I recorded without the express...

Tags: Cyberthreats, TPB, Kazaa, illegal download

Discussion threads 2009-07-20

So about those illegal downloads

So about those illegal downloadsFrankly, no one cares about copyright infringementWhen these things are still overpriced dramatically or have things like DRM in them that discourage people from buying the things in question.The pirate bayIs technologically the pure equivallent of Napster : a central server maintaining a list of...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Digital rights management (DRM), P2P, tracker system

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

Album sales hit nine-year low in 2005

Album sales hit nine-year low in 2005It's all junk...that's why!It is for a lot of reasons.Media is expensive.Music is awful.Pirates are plentiful.Drop the price of your music to about 7 - $9 a CD and 12 - $14 a DVD. Use volume discounts.Quit throwing those fruitcakes on stage sounding like...

Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Soundscan, piracy, sales, illegal download, music, UPC, Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen

Discussion threads 2006-01-05

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Copyright associations want enforcement for free

The defender of status quo?What a tired old rant. Use technology and the law to enforce ill advised and ill gotten copyright protection.The internet has revolutionized mankind's ability to communicate and share knowledge and culture, and you want to put it under lock and key to deny mankind that benefit?How...

Tags: Benefits, Federal government, Sales force management, Mickey Mouse, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Psystar releases 'build your own Hackintosh' kit

there a few brain who will throw a fit big time Will nice i really wanna see what will happen on the legal side .but its a bit too late how many people already have the appz .... Well like many people ask for so long osx...

Tags: Sales strategy, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple Mac OS X, EULA, EFI

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Fake 'Conficker.B Infection Alert' spam campaign drops scareware

Not much they can do.Not much they can do.Email was never designed for security, and it's HARD getting everybody on the same page with a solution that works, because basically every solution we know of pretty much requires everybody to use it. But, unfortunately, it's difficult convincing people running email...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Spam, Microsoft Corp., Conficker.B Infection Alert, spam campaign, sample message, Internet Service Provider, e-mail, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Does software piracy lead to higher malware infection rates?

Dial-up connections and malware?What percentage of the world runs their Windows machines on a dial-up connection? On those machines, it can take HOURS to download routine security patches, and most people aren't that patient.It sure does . . ."The rationale behind their claims is fairly simple - users relying on...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, security, computer, malware, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Time for Palm to give up the iTunes sync nonsense!

Apple is leveraging the monopolyYou got your guys crossed1If M$ would do anything similar there would be a revolt.We need to be consistent and call out the bad guy: Apple.palm is wrongpalm could simply use the xml file of the itunes library apple has been providing for years for interoperability...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, palm, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Palm Inc., bad guy, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Analyst: non-exclusive iPhone could dominate world

Spreading the joyI had Verizon for years. Very good coverage, excellent service, but the control they insist upon over apps and such makes Apple's app store look like a Linux convention. I've read within these hallowed pages speculation that Verizon was where Apple first tried to set the iPhone but...

Tags: Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, ATT, Verizon Communications Inc., Apple Inc., GSM, phone

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

What will the fallout be from Microsoft Security Essentials?

a new antitrust lawsuitthis is a shining example of monopoly squashing competition on price.Incorrectas the product isn't being bundled. Additionally if your car maker sold you seat belts prone to failure you wouldn't expect to pay someone else to fix them.I agree about validation.It would realy help to stop...

Tags: Corporate law, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, MSE, Microsoft Corp., Linux, antitrust, security

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

News to know: Apple; AT&T; Google Books; Palm Pixi; Verizon; Best Buy-Microsoft

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Live blog from Apple's "It's only Rock n Roll" event Apple afterthoughts: The real news is what...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple iPod, Palm Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Linux, Digital Music, Digital Media, Government, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Blog posts 2009-09-10

Windows Genuine Advantage: Spyware or legitimate tool?

Since when is your IP address "personal information"?Your IP address is visible for the whole world to see, just like it always has been.Are people really this stupid?PersonallyIt's a hassle Windows could do without. People will pirate regardless, and in those terms, Microsoft is fighting a war it cannot win.I'm...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, tool, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, spyware, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

An open letter to the RIAA: Illegal file sharing problem solved?

I think I'll skip......governments collecting and paying royalties. Its called tolling and every business in the world would like to access governments' ability to use force to collect money for them.What would be the outcome of such a scheme? Whenever "artists" (and I use the word loosely given...

Tags: Taxes, Vertical industries, Free trade, Peer to peer (P2P), RIAA, government, file sharing problem, tax, open letter, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Mozilla execs raise objections to Microsoft's browser-ballot proposal

Mozilla should focus on its product!No matter what decision Microsoft makes, will never satisfy Mozilla. Why don't Mozilla use all that energy and market Opera to the world. Just like every other company in the world, they market their product to make consumer aware. Its pathetic that...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

Courts put DVD ripping on shaky ground

this is only on the broken USA copyright and court system.not every one lives in the united states of america...Was it ever really about combatting piracy?"It?s amazing how the focus has shifted from combating piracy to taking as much money as possible off customers."Considering how much they've been using DRM,...

Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, piracy

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

Downloading content illegally vs. getting away with it

Downloading content illegally vs. getting away with itBasically, student don't appreciate the effort going into music/videosTheir world is focussed on their own wants and desires, rather those those with whom they do not share much thinking-wise.It is only after having to appreciate the value of their own efforts that values...

Tags: Operational accounting, Overall IT, Downloading Content, music

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

Downloading content illegally vs. getting away with it

I have mentioned a few times before my somewhat controversial view on Internet piracy - the end-user downloading (and uploading, to some extent) of mostly videos, music files, software - and the issues which surround it. As this generation of students are the forerunners of the technological age, born into...

Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., RIAA, Licence, RapidShare, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Dead Finger Tech: BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone and multi-monitor manager DisplayFusion Pro

Dead Finger Tech: BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone and multi-monitor manager DisplayFusion ProMy can't live without tech!My Sonos music system I use it every single day. That coupled with the Rhapsody Music service should cure the RIAA complaints of illegal music downloading. Not to mention the 3 portable devices...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, DisplayFusion Pro, Blackberry Curve 8900, Dead-Finger Tech, BlackBerry Curve, smart phone, RIM BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2009-08-02

Hey, kids! The days of free music are over.

The RIAA claims that they will not be going after any more individuals who share music. As Ars Technica points out in its coverage of the ruling in the Joel Tenenbaum case, Last December, the labels announced that they were no longer initiating new cases...

Tags: Comcast Corp., P2P, RIAA, Verizon Communications Inc., Music, Internet, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-01

File format blues

File format bluesTry to educateWhen I receive a *x file, I usually respond with a note to the sender that the file is unreadable, and would he/she please check the program's default format settings and then re-send as .doc, .xls, etc.As others have noted, most of the time the sender...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Word processors, Microsoft Office, File format blue, WordStar, job

Discussion threads 2009-07-29