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Apple lawyer smacks Gawker with Mac tablet hint

Wins ‘fabulous’ gift pack Super-secretive Apple has provided some of the best evidence yet that its long-rumored tablet is on the way. No, not by leaking photos or specs, but instead by threatening a website about soliciting said photos or specs.…

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Friday, January 15th, 2010 P2P News No Comments

Will Pirates Sink the Pirate Boat that Rocked?

Despite a great deal of evidence to the contrary, the MPAA and its allies in the content industries constantly declare that it is, “impossible to compete with free.”  As recently as this September, Frederick Huntsberry, the Chief Operating Officer of Paramount Pictures declared before an FCC hearing that, “ultimately no industry can compete with free.”  He was referring to the wide existence of video-camera generated bootleg copies of the most recent J. J. Abrams directed Star Trek film from his studio, despite the fact these horrible looking “cams” did not prevent the movie from grossing in excess of $250 million in the U.S.

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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 P2P News No Comments

‘Offline, no-one can hear you whine’

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Yesterday I posted an open letter to Featured Artists’ Coalition (FAC) members asking them to go back to square one on their disasterous (for them and us, both) Three Strikes decision. Presumptuous? I’m a music fan and the group is backing a scheme which could — and would, if Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music get their way — criminalise me, and others like me, including my 13-year-old daughter.

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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 P2P News No Comments

Microsoft Software for Police Use Leaks onto P2P Sites

photo credit: download.cnet.com After last week’s hot talks about Congress members bringing sensitive data home and inadvertently sharing it through file sharing software, now a new leak makes the headlines. Microsoft’s digital forensics software made its appearance on p2p networks, The Inquirer reports. Dubbed COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) this tool was developed for as a small, accessible program that can fit on a USB drive to be used by police forces in PC forensics.

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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 P2P News No Comments

Are our Freetard motivational gurus going bonkers?

Putting the Meds into Social Media As the recession deepens, the strain appears to be getting to some of our best-paid business gurus and motivational speakers. It can’t be easy to keep the fantasy economics of Web 2.0 going against all the evidence, and cracks seem to be starting to appear. I have two worrying exhibits for you.…

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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 P2P News No Comments