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Microsoft Family Guy W7 ads
Why is everyone so surprised? “Microsoft’s posted the clips from Family Guy’s killed hackathon that would’ve shilled for Windows 7, and they’re even more brain-liquefyingly stupid than I thought,” says Gizmodo . “Just watch, but when your brains leak out your ears, don’t say I didn’t warn you.” Yeh.
Continue reading »Xbox 360: better than 50-50 chance of fail
When three of the four red lights on Microsoft Xbox power indicators change their states to ‘on,’ owners know they’re in trouble. Says Colonel Korn in a Slashdot post, “The Seattle PI Blog is reporting that a soon to be published Game Informer survey finally shows the failure rate of XBOX 360s: 54% ! The survey also shows the rates of failure for the PS3 (11%) and Wii (7%).” But nonetheless and notwithstanding, “only 4% of respondents said they wouldn’t buy a new 360 because of hardware failures.” When the survey results were revealed in the September Game Informer, gamers, ” didn’t think 54.2 percent was a high rate – they thought it was low,” says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer , going on: ” ‘We’re not sure what future techno-utopia this poll was conducted in,” wrote Griffin McElroy of Joystiq,’ but a 54.2 percent Xbox 360 failure rate sounds awfully low. Had the survey’s participants been comprised entirely of Joystiq staffers, it would have been a bone-chilling 100 percent.’ “Furthermore, 41.2 percent of Xbox 360 owners suffered a second hardware failure after sending their console back to Microsoft for repair, according to the survey.
Continue reading »Another Court Deals Major Blow to DVD Copying
A California appeals court on Wednesday overturned a lower court ruling that paved the way for a $10,000 DVD copying system called Kaleidescape and other products from the company with the same name. The decision (.pdf) by the 6th District Court of Appeal in San Jose, California, was the second court in two days to rule that companies are bound by the entire Content Scramble System licensing regime, which prevents duplicating DVDs. Late Tuesday, a San Francisco federal judge ruled that RealNetworks’ DVD copying software was a breach of the Content Scramble System license, which is required for DVDs and computers to play DVDs.
Continue reading »Judge: Trafficking in DVD Copying Software is Illegal
A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that it was unlawful to traffic in goods to copy DVDs. U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel’s ruling came in a decision in which she ruled that RealNetworks’ DVD copying software was illegal.
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