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Teen TV extras drown during battle scene

Three TV extras, two of them students, drowned during the filming of a battle scene on the 70-meter wide Enyang River in southwestern China. Neither their parents nor schools knew the dead...

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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 Net News No Comments

Chinese censors kill MRPG Omerta

Freedom |  Games:- Chinese censors have halted the sale of 45 foreign computer games, and 26 domestic online games, including the massive multiplayer text-based RPG gangster and Mafia game, Omerta. The crackdown comes,...

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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 Net News 1 Comment

DigiProtect: alive and well in the US

In January this year, “An anonymous correspondent has written to us, indicating that the German company ‘Digiprotect’, which engages in RIAA-style tactics on a contingent basis in Europe, is now operating in...

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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 Net News No Comments

Microsoft exploits Hunger Action Month

Microsoft is cashing in on Hunger Action Month , which starts today, September 1. With that in the background, Steve and the Boyz are targetting the dwindling numbers of people who insist...

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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 Net News No Comments

Teen dies in China net addiction camp

Games | P2P:- China has an estimated 107 million juvenile surfers, 13 million of them labelled addicts, says the Shanghai Daily . And that can have dire consequences. An illegal net “rehabilitation camp”...

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Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Net News 1 Comment