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Season 4 Episode 1, "Adrift," winds up in the hands of pirates everywhere.
I don’t know how many of you out there are fans of the Sci-Fi channel’s "Stargate Atlantis," but a screener of the first episode from the upcoming fourth season has found its way onto BitTorrent tracker sites.
The new season isn’t expected [...]

Forget the “blue screen of death,” users running bootleg copies of Windows Vista are soon to get screens to total darkness.
Never one to take piracy lying down, Microsoft apparently sent an e-mail to a large Windows Vista distributor telling them point blank what will happen to bootleg Vista installations.
Titled “Pirated Vista — A [...]

Paves the way for a more simplified digital music buying experience in which one can purchase music tracks while sipping a cup of coffee and reading the daily paper.
Apple and Starbucks have announced a new partnership that lets customers wirelessly browse, search for, preview, buy and download music from the iTunes Wi-Fi [...]

Handsets search for other phone handsets when a cellular tower is unavailable.
In an exciting new twist for P2P possibilities, Swedish company TerraNet has created mobile phone handsets that can work without the need for any cell phone towers at all.
TerraNet technology works by using modified handsets adapted to work as peers [...]

Here’s today’s daily dose of humor.
Every once in a while I come across some hilarious anti-piracy clips and other tech related videos. I mean who can forget “Don’t Copy that Floppy” or ‘Glimpse of the Future’ – The Internet Circa 1994?”
Well, here’s a funny new video I came across that takes anti-piracy enforcement [...]

Angry that pirating is so easy, industry reps met to come up with solutions.
The MPAA and RIAA have been upset for years that their content has wound up on P2P and file-sharing networks everywhere, and their efforts to tackle it are common knowledge. But, despite similar discontent by the Porn Industry Producers they have [...]

Music industry tries a new trick to rescue its flatlining CD sales.
In a new twist to efforts to revitalize slumping physical CD sales, the music industry is rolling out the “ringle,” which combines the old-school single format with ringtones.
Each “ringle,” as it’s being referred to, is expected to contain 3 tracks to include [...]

So much for so-called “unlimited” internet service.
In the continuing proxy war against illegal downloading, it seems as though ISPs are increasingly flexing their muscle as internet gatekeeper.
The MPAA, the RIAA, and even some file-sharing companies have all asked Congress to mandate that ISPs monitor their networks for illegal-sharing of copyrighted content and to disconnect users [...]

Apple fanboys everywhere rejoice.
Several days ago at an Apple gathering in San Fransisico, a number of new Apple products and services were announced. Included in the news was the stunning proclamation that it was immediately dropping the price of its 8GB iPhone by $200, from $599 to $399.
Many, if not most, of the people [...]