Microsoft apologises for serving malware
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 [...]
BBC and YouTube in Deal Talks
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 [...]
States Seek Laws to Curb Online Bullying
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 [...]
US trains new ELITE Swedish anti-piracy police force
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 police. [...]
Do delays in TV programming cause 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 [...]
FREE BITTORENT DOWNLOAD of the DAY – SXSW’s Austin, TX Local Music Artists Roundup
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 loves [...]
Shunning YouTube, Viacom hooks up with Joost
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 [...]
PIC: World’s first BitTorrent user?
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 [...]
TuneBuckle lets you wear and protect your iPod Nano
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 [...]
PS3 plans to offer video download service
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 [...]
