Microsoft has apologised for serving malware via its websites and Windows Live Messenger software. APC reader Jackie Murphy reported the problem: "With Microsoft launching Vista along with their Defender software to protect users from viruses and spyware, it seems therefore to be an oxymoron that they have started to putting paid changing banner advertisements for [...]

The BBC and YouTube are in the process of striking a deal between themselves, allowing BBC content to be available on Google-owned YouTube, the world’s largest and most popular video sharing service. The Beeb has previously demanded takedowns of a large number of its videos that were posted to the site by YouTube users, resulting [...]

Ryan Patrick Halligan was bullied for months online. Classmates sent the 13-year-old Essex Junction, Vt., boy instant messages calling him gay. He was threatened, taunted and insulted incessantly by so-called cyberbullies. In 2003, Ryan killed himself. “He just went into a deep spiral in eighth grade. He couldn’t shake this rumor,” said Ryan’s father, John [...]

Look out Pirate Bay, the FBI and the MPAA have joined forces to create a new Swedish anti-piracy ‘p2p’ “hit squad”. Never one to let its interests anywhere in the world go unprotected, the United States govt and the MPAA have teamed up with the Swedish govt to create an elite corps of Swedish anti-piracy [...]

A new Australian study says “huge delays” in airing overseas TV programming locally are to blame for an increase in piracy in the Land Down Under. The UK’s Sky TV blunder back in 2004, where a delay in airing it in the United States by some 3 months led to its widespread distribution over P2P [...]

It’s 3 GB of 739 MP3 track listening pleasure, and well worth grabbing. I come across a lot of cool FREE and LEGAL BitTorrent downloads each day, and so I figured that I’d start sharing some of the cooler stuff that I find with you so that you may download it as well. Sure everybody [...]

Viacom has announced a deal with Joost that will see the new P2P-based video start-up "broadcasting" Viacom’s music videos, TV shows and other materials on the service. Viacom will provide Joost with content not only from MTV, but also from BET, Comedy Central, and even movies from Paramount. The news comes less than two weeks [...]

Web comic Scott Johnson gives the world his take on early man’s first encounter with BitTorrent. ExtraLife is Scott Johnson’s self-described attempt to “…destroy the world, one panel at a time.” His web comic appears on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with the BitTorrent one you see below being from June 21st of last year (so [...]

Though I’m no fan of “i” anything, this little bad boy puts the “C” back in cool. The TuneBuckle protects your iPod Nano by encasing it in a “convenient” and “fashionable” belt buckle made of aircraft quality aluminum. The canvas belt it’s attached to makes it look comfy and simple to wear. It comes in [...]

Following on the heels of Microsoft’s much hyped XBox 360 content download service, Sony’s PS3 is reported to one day offer a similar video content download service. Sony Computer Entertainment President Phil Harrison revealed in a recent interview that he plans to expand the PS3′s content download capabilities to include movies, music, and HD content [...]

The media industry is clashing with YouTube over its proposal to offer anti-piracy tools only to companies that have distribution deals with the top online video-sharing service, media insiders have said. YouTube, owned by Google, plans to introduce technology to help media companies identify pirated videos uploaded by users. But the tools are currently being [...]

The impact of heavy use and high temperatures on hard disk drive failure may by overstated, says a report by three Google engineers. The report examined 100,000 commercial hard drives, ranging from 80GB to 400GB in capacity, used at Google since 2001. The firm uses "off-the-shelf" drives to store cached web pages and services. "Our [...]

A former IBM employee fired for accessing an adult chat room from work is suing the company for $5 million. In his lawsuit, James Pacenza claims that he is an Internet addict and sex addict, and that IBM should have allowed him to seek treatment after he was caught in the chat room rather than [...]

It’s the ending entertainment kingpins would have ordered Hollywood to produce if the industry’s struggle with peer-to-peer piracy had been a scripted reality show: After years of ferocious legal battles and high-tech hijinx, the unsavory purveyors of illicit music, TV shows and movies come in from the cold, pledging to respect copyrights and to use [...]

While CDs still accounted for 90 percent of music purchases last year, digital downloads grew by 20 percent, reaching a trade value of about $2 billion. Push your finger through the hole in the center of a CD and stare at the reflective side. You’ll see yourself looking much older than you did when CDs [...]

Continuing our discussion on P2P legality, As I said EFC has some better idea on generating money from the users itself, by charging a small amount of money from them and let them download as much music as they want.It sounds strange but here’s how they propose this “Collective License” idea would work… If millions [...]

Trumpeted at a press conference featuring Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other local leaders, a regional economic group has unveiled a study showing entertainment piracy cost area companies $5.2 billion in lost revenue and 106,000 jobs in 2005. About $2.7 billion was pegged to film piracy and the balance attributed to piracy of music [...]

As of today, broadband users will find it easier to switch to a new ISP. From 14 February, users nearing the end of their broadband contract will be able to demand a migration access code (MAC) from their ISP. They can give the MAC to their new ISP, which should enable a seamless handover of [...]

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other local leaders were set to attend a news conference Friday regarding a regional economic group’s new study showing entertainment piracy cost area companies $5.2 billion in lost revenue and 106,000 jobs in 2005. About $2.7 billion was pegged to film piracy and the balance attributed to piracy of [...]

A group representing UK media companies has called on the BBC Trust not to allow adverts to be published on its international websites. The British Internet Publishers Alliance (BIPA) said the plan would hit revenue its members could make online. Showing adverts to non-UK readers of BBC websites would also undermine the BBC’s "worldwide reputation [...]