The companies behind an encryption system for high-definition DVDs are looking into a hacker’s claim that he has cracked the code protecting the new discs from piracy, a spokesman for one of the companies said Thursday. A hacker known as Muslix64 posted on the Internet details of how he unlocked the encryption, known as the [...]

20,000 YouTube music videos at your fingertips UPDATE: The site is no longer online, we suggest you check out Video DownloadHelper. Video DownloadHelper is a FireFox plugin that allows you to download videos from YouTube and save them to your computer. Click and play 20,000 music videos scraped from YouTube and embedded on one site [...]

The site lets you listen to the tons of concert recordings that the venerable concert promoter Bill Graham collected over his more than 30 years in the music biz, which includes Jimi Hendrix, Santana, The Grateful Dead, and much, much, more. As always seems the case, a publicized effort to shut down a website has [...]

Michael Eakes, a Tech blogger wrote to Al Gore asking him to release his movie “An Inconvenient Truth” via BitTorrent. In an interesting nod to just how BitTorrent can change the status quo of distribution models and methods, Michael Eakes, a Web 2.0 blogger, has written a letter to Al Gore, the former 2-term Vice-President [...]

Demanding access to RIAA victims’ computers is now routine, but the Big 4 Organized Music cartel members have, “escalated their demands to include, ‘production of ‘[a]ny and all computers and/or music listening devices including iPods and MP3 players’,” p2pnet posted, writing about the latest Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG attack on the [...]

PC Mag and The Princeton Review compiled a “Top 10 Wired Colleges” list that took into account the ability of students to use P2P and file-sharing software. PC Mag recently teamed up with The Princeton Review to find the “most connected, plugged-in, and high-tech campuses” in the United States, a survey which also factored in [...]

The RIAA is seeking $150,000 for each of the 11 million songs AllofMP3 allegedly pirated. It was first reported by the Washington Post last week that the RIAA was suing the Russian online music distribution company Mediaservices, which owns AllofMP3.com and allTunes.com, for illegally selling copyrighted music. The companies behind the claim, which include the [...]

It was just a week ago that Microsoft’s Jim Allchin was talking about Windows Vista security and how the operating system would fend off attacks from malicious code and hackers. Allchin made no mention, however, of the recent successful attempts at cracking Windows Vista’s activation scheme. Earlier this month, pirates found a way to spoof [...]

2006 appears to be a banner year for Google. It purchased the highly popular YouTube online video site in early October and saw its stock price dance with the $500 mark in November. Now according to ComScore Networks Inc., Google Inc. has slightly edged in front of Yahoo! Inc. to become the second most visited [...]

The popularity of file sharing demonstrates the popularity of media on demand, with which a subscription model would be the best fit for monetising this market. However, the DRM restrictions on current subscription models such as Napster prevent both CD burning and even syncing with various mp3 players making them less attractive to consumers. DRM [...]

BANGKOK: It was a tsunami for the digital age, a collapse of the virtual world that radiated through much of Asia and beyond after an undersea earthquake late Tuesday off the coast of Taiwan. People woke Wednesday to find themselves without e-mail or the Internet and, in some cases, without telephone connections, cut off from [...]

Similar to the movie “Omega Man,” starring Charleton Heston, the movie chronicles the lone survivor of a devastating world-wide plague. Public Domain Torrents has a wide selection of movies, cartons, and more to choose from and to both freely and legally download. One of the more interesting movies I came across recently was “The Last [...]

Fujifilm’s FinePix S6500fd incorporates face-detection technology and 6.3 megapixel shots to bring you a top of the line camera that any amateur photographer could use. The face-detection is touted as being super fast compared to other cameras that work with this technology and the fact that the camera can tell the difference between landscapes and [...]

While I have seen so many iPods in use I have often wondered how often those that use them constantly have to charge them. I know my daughter doesn’t use hers that often so she will charge it once a week, but someone that utilizes the iPod in their car, while at work and then [...]

Integrating iPod connectivity has been a big issue and selling point with vehicle marketing. I have noticed many commercials talk of iPod or MP3 player compatibility and in addition, bluetooth technology as well. Audio is a big deal with car owners (even myself) and marketing companies are catching on to the desire to have a [...]

There’s a number of great free music download sites out there and Jamendo is no exception. Jamendo bills itself as a “…new model for artists to promote, publish, and be paid for their music.” Now when they say “be paid for,” they mean that hopefully by downloading and listening to an artist’s music, users will [...]

A quick step guide that will show you how to rip audio from MySpace and any other site that allows you to stream music on your PC. There are many audio files available for playback on the venerable MySpace site yet, very few are available as downloads. There’s a number of ways to bypass this [...]

Skype will continue to aim at the business market, adding functions for specific business needs, executives said last week at the company’s development center in Tallinn, Estonia. The company’s most recent 3.0 version of its software allows system administrators to configure and control Skype use across an enterprise and Skype will build on that. Its [...]

The tussle between computer security companies trying to protect your PC and the bad guys that try to compromise it is often characterised as an arms race. Sometimes the security companies have the upper hand as they develop and deploy novel techniques to spot and stop malicious software of all stripes. And sometimes, such as [...]

The FCC was in court last week, defending its recent indecency rulings before an appellate panel of judges. The case at issue was brought by Fox after the network was sanctioned (but not fined) by the agency for a pair of curse words that went "unbleeped" during two different awards shows. The FCC found the [...]