Indie Movie Explodes on BitTorrent, Makers Bless Piracy
torrentfreak.com — Hollywood often complains about the billions of dollars allegedly lost due to piracy. Indie film makers, on the other hand, tend to welcome the free buzz generated when their film is pirated. The makers of Ink belong to this latter group, and are thanking the hundreds and thousands of people who downloaded their movie on BitTorrent. (Submitted by NuPagady) More…
Microsoft pulls Windows 7 tool after GPL violation claims
arstechnica.com — Microsoft has pulled the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from the Microsoft Store website after a report indicating that the tool incorporated open-source code in a way that violated the GNU's General Public License (GPL). (Submitted by DiggUnderground) More…
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German Court Rules Ripping CDs Legal
zeropaid.com — Record industry trying to fight ability of music fans to make private digital copies of physical CDs. The German Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe recently upheld provision 53 of that country’s copyright law against a legal challenge by the record industry whom have against the provision for allowing digital copying of CDs for private use. (Submitted by whiteblackninja) More…
Four Hackers Indicted in $9.5 Million Bank Card Attack
wired.com — Four men have been indicted on charges that they hacked into the Atlanta-based bank card processing company RBS WorldPay and used an army of flunkies to steal $9.5 million in cash from ATM machines around the world in a span of hours. The hack involved reverse-engineering PINs for payroll debit card accounts — the holy grail of bank card hacking. (Submitted by angel.wardriver) More…
Public pressure stops BBC's HDTV DRM drive (for now)
arstechnica.com — Under pressure from Hollywood, the BBC suggested encrypting some key bits of its new over-the-air high-def TV broadcasts... and it would only give the keys to set-top box makers who agreed to a secret set of copy protection measures. After public pressure, the government has put the brakes on the scheme. (Submitted by DiggUnderground) More…
Hollywood's antipiracy charm offensive has FCC in crosshairs
arstechnica.com — Can Hollywood and Big Cable get the FCC and Congress to give them carte blanche on their war against movie piracy? An impending decision on a proposal to block analog streams to HDTVs may show how much clout the studios have with the new FCC. (Submitted by louiebaur) More…
Digg Officially Launches Digg TV
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Build a Bootable Rescue SD Card For Your Mac
maclife.com — For the hardcore users out there, Apple decided to give the SD port super powers -- you can use it to build a bootable SD card. That bootable card can then become an awesome tool for performing emergency hard drive repairs, data recovery, recovering deleted files, and much more. (Submitted by backwardscompat) More…
Apple Didn't Break 'Support' for Hackintoshes
wired.com — Apple’s latest Snow Leopard update breaks compatibility with netbooks hacked to run the Mac operating system. But it’s unlikely that the move signifies the company’s future plans to clamp down on the “Hackintosh” community, observers say. (Submitted by mtnboy) More…
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