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Horizontal scrollbar prompts EU gripe from 6 browser makers
With Microsoft’s EU-appeasing browser ballot rolling out across Europe over the next three months , dissatisfaction is growing with its implementation. Last week flaws in its randomization emerged— a result of ineptitude rather than malice . Today, six web browsers have petitioned the EU to complain about the overall design of the browser ballot.
Continue reading »Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde Starts Money Sharing Site
Computers and the Internet have made it extremely easy for anyone to produce content, and distribute it to millions of users. Musicians and movie makers can share their work with the rest of the world with very little investment, something that was impossible little over a decade ago. Similarly, weblogs are able to provide news and information much faster than old media at relatively low costs.
Continue reading »BitTorrent May Kill Zombieland Sequel, Writer Claims
Yesterday we wrote about the makers of the film Ink, who thanked piracy for promoting their film. “We’ve embraced the piracy and are just happy Ink is getting unprecedented exposure,” they said. Ink was downloaded more than 400,000 times last week and ended up in fourth place in our weekly chart of most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, where Zombieland occupied the top spot.
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