Members of the group Apocalypse Crew pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the department said, and each faces up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000.   Derek Borchardt, 21, of Charlotte, North Carolina; Matthew Howard, 24, [...]

source: PC World Next version of Windows will be available in six editions, four aimed at consumers and two for business. Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service Microsoft has officially verified the editions for Windows Vista a week after the information leaked when it prematurely appeared on the company’s Web site. Vista will have six core [...]

For those that have either run out of blank CDs or DVDs, or are simply tired of burning those downloaded movie images, here’s the guide for you. There’s an excellent program out there called IsoBuster that will put an end to that incessant burning and allow you to watch movies on your own terms. First [...]

The lawsuit is for compensatory and punitive damages for multiple breaches of contract, fraud, unjust enrichment, and misappropriation of CBS Radio’s broadcast time. It further seeks damages from Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. for unfair competition and tortious interference with Stern’s CBS contract. The suit further charges that Sirius intentionally interfered with and procured Stern’s breach [...]

From IsoHunt: — As Reported Everywhere, MPAA issued a press release that thay are now suing isoHunt.com, TorrentBox.com, and a number of other BitTorrent, eDonkey and Newsgroup indexing sites. I still have yet to receive a formal cease and desist letter directly from MPAA Legal, but all seems to indicate this is for real and [...]

The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is steamrolling across the great indexing plains. Tuesday brought news the eDonkey2000 indexing server Razorback2 was taken offline by Belgian Police, in conjunction with the MPAA. Today, the MPAA has announced a tremendous escalation in their fight against online piracy – this time targeting BitTorrent, eDonkey2000 and Newsgroup [...]

“Instead of the lone hacker, for the first time, it was written by a team of more than a dozen scientists,” Johan Pouwelse, one of the group, told p2pnet.   Called Tribler, it falls under the I-Share project of the Delft University of Technology’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science and will introduce, [...]

SXSW and BitTorrent say they’ll be offering a free music compilation and movie trailer package on both sxsw.com and bittorrent.com. The compilation from artists playing at SXSW includes songs from The Secret Machines, Giant Squid, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Boyskout and, “hundreds of others,” promises a statement. SXSW will also be offering a collection [...]

Among the highlights, pirate music distributors are increasingly manufacturing and selling high-quality product that closely resembles legitimate CDs while large criminal enterprises are becoming increasingly involved in the piracy racket, illegally burning massive numbers of blank CDs with music from today’s most popular artists.   "The practice and trade of music piracy have become more [...]

The flaw could give malicious attackers a back door into Mac computers if users visit carefully crafted websites and download booby-trapped files.   Although no attackers were known to be exploiting the bug, experts said it was easy to write code to take advantage of the flaw.   Separately, three concept viruses for Apple computers [...]

The action was instigated by the global Motion Picture Association (MPA), which claimed Razorback allowed around 1.3m computer users to access pirate copies of movies, music, TV recordings, games and applications.   The move follows an aggressive programme begun in November 2004 to shut down major eDonkey servers, first in the US and now Europe. [...]

Published Tuesday February 21, 2006, with 13H58 (+0100 GMT)By Guillaume Champeau Avec plus d’un million d’utilisateurs, le plus gros serveur eDonkey/eMule du monde, Razorback, s’est est allé ce matin dans les mains de la police fédérale belge. Deux de ses administrateurs restent injoignables à l’heure où nous écrivons ces lignes. Nous n’avons que très peu [...]

Published Tuesday February 21, 2006, with 16H57 (+0100 GMT)By Guillaume Champeau Alors que beaucoup d’internautes s’inquiètent quant aux données saisies par les autorités belges avec le serveur Razorback, nous avons eu l’assurance qu’aucune donnée nominative n’y était stockée. Avec un million d’utilisateurs et des dizaines de millions de fichiers échangés, Razorback n’aurait pas pu techniquement [...]

It looks like 193nm chipmaking kit will be able to remain on the field of play for a little while longer IBM Research has come up with a way to draw lines in silicon 29.9nm apart with existing chipmaking machines, far closer than on today’s chips, a development that could help cut the cost of [...]

The Big Four record labels are escalating their attack on Patti Santangelo, the New York mother who’s so far the only person to stand up to them. And they’ll be using her children as weapons against her.   On Tuesday judge Mark D. Fox presided over a discovery hearing in Elektra v Santangelo and, "Elektra’s [...]

AIMOnPSP is an AOL Instant Messenger client for the Sony Playstation Portable. The purpose of this project was to make a web-based AIM client that can be used in almost any browser that supports JavaScript (such as the one included in the new PSP firmware); it uses no Java or Flash.   AIMOnPSP is a [...]

The new beta of the ever popular uTorrent has been released, shortly following yesterday’s release of 1.4.2-beta (build 426).   The fixes for each are as follows:   — 2006-02-19: Version 1.4.2-beta (build 427) Fix: Hashfails on torrents with piecesize >1MB (new bug since 426)   2006-02-18: Version 1.4.1-beta (build 426) Feature: Added active/inactive categories [...]

source: ABC Science Online Anna Salleh Record companies are being given the power to veto the design of new digital communication technologies, say advocates of online civil liberties. The claim, by Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA), comes on the eve of an appeal against a landmark ruling last year against providers of the internet file-sharing software [...]

For the next two days, in the grand surroundings of the Palais des Nations, a United Nations meeting will decide the formation of a new Internet Governance Forum (IGF).   The meeting gathers together the most powerful, important and knowledgeable people in the world concerning the internet and push them toward a single consensus on [...]

Most electronics consumers had never heard of rootkits before last year’s Sony BMG debacle. Now, rootkits have the attention of the U.S. public — and the U.S. government. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Thursday suggested that a measure outlawing the controversial software may be in order.   A rootkit is a security tool [...]