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TorrentSpy: $110m Court Fine: MPAA Happy

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has won $110 million damages against TorrentSpy, a site that pointed to where TV programmes and films could be downloaded without them being paid for.

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Your Laptop Is Open Season When Flying To SF, USA

We’re still reeling after reading this story last week that a federal appeals court in the US ruled that it was fine for US customs agents to go through the content of an airline passengers laptop with no evidence of wrong doing - just because they felt like it.

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Hans Reiser, Linux Filing System Creator, Found Guilty Of Murder

ReiserFS creator, Hans Reiser, has been found guilty of killing his wife.
ReiserFS is an open source filing system that has been popular with Linux users.
Reiser moved to sell his company, Namesys, back at the end of December 2006, when he said that he needed the money to pay his mounting legal costs. It’s understood that […]

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Canon XL-H1S and XL-H1A HD Video Cameras Revealed

Canon’s XL-1 camera range has been a fave with the prosumer video camera market for years … actually stretching as far back into the previous millennium.
Today they’ve announced an updated version, the XL-H1S and XL-H1A HD - both capable of shooting in High Def.

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Yahoo Takeover News Catchup

The tussle between Yahoo and Microsoft has gone through a couple of extra rounds of late. We thought we’d bring you up to date with the current state of play.
Back in Feb Microsoft offered Yahoo $44Bn. Yahoo said no thanks.

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“Eco Amazon.com rival” BetterWorld Books Gets Funding

Self-sustaining, for-profit social venture brings in outside investment.

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Bye Bye Standby: Save The Planet With Your Thumb

We’re all keen on doing our part on not destroying the planet these days - and quite rightly too.
For quite a while, we’ve known that much electrical equipment uses a lot of electricity in standby mode - sometimes, with things such as PVRs, actually more power!
A company calling itself Bye Bye Standby released its […]

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Mac OSX And XP Trump Vista For Corporate Satisfaction

Apple users feel the love but Windows XP is still the corporate number one choice

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Brake Lights Gain Intelligence

The invention of the brake light on the car was arguably the most important addition to the safety of driving, probably trailed by the availability of ABS.
Somehow, perhaps because brake lights are so important, there’s been no significant advance in their development, beyond changing the bulbs to a brighter version.

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Film Studios Relying On Web Trailers

Web movie trailers now a vital part of a film’s promotion.

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