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File-sharing company LimeWire was shut down after a US federal judge issued an injunction against the company on October 26.

They posted a legal notice on their website:

“This is an official notice that LimeWire is under a court-ordered injunction to stop distributing and supporting its file-sharing software. Downloading or sharing copyrighted content without authorization is illegal.”

Features such as searching, downloading, uploading, file sharing and all distribution capabilities associated with the service have been disabled.

A LimeWire spokesperson noted that the company is still willing to work with the music industry in order to keep its file-sharing network alive.

“While this is not our ideal path, we hope to work with the music industry in moving forward. We look forward to embracing necessary changes and working with the entire music industry in the future.”

At the top of its game, over 3 billion songs were being downloaded every month by the members of LimeWire’s P2P network, which amounted to in excess of $1 billion in damages, RIAA argued.

A new trial, designed solely to determine the amount of damages created by LimeWire to the music industry is expected to debut in January 2011.

Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday it will call back for repairs about a total of 1.5 million cars, 740,000 cars in the U.S. and 599,000 in Japan.
The remainder are in Europe and other markets around the world.

The recall is to fix a brake fluid leak that it warned can gradually diminish braking performance in the cars.

He said that no accidents had been linked to the defect.

Toyota is recalling the cars to repair a flaw in which “a small amount of the brake fluid could slowly leak from the brake master cylinder”, which would lead the brake warning lamp to illuminate, the company said.

If at this point the brake fluid is not replaced, “the driver will begin to notice a spongy or soft brake pedal feel and braking performance may gradually decline,” Toyota USA said in a statement.

The autos affected are the 2005-2006 models of the Avalon, the 2004 through 2006 non-hybrid models of the Highlander, the Lexus RX330, and the 2006 Lexus GS300, IS250 and IS350 vehicles, Toyota USA said in a statement.

US owners of affected vehicles will be notified by early November, it said.

In Japan, Toyota announced it would recall more than 600,000 cars spanning 13 models, including the Crown, Mark X, Lexus IS and GS, according to filings submitted with the transport ministry.

While in 11 of the models Toyota will fix defects in fuel pump wires and brake master cylinders, the total also includes more than 1,800 units of its Voxy and Noah models affected by a speedometer defect.

The latest moves by the auto giant come after a series of mass recalls of around 10 million vehicles worldwide announced in late 2009 and early 2010 undermined Toyota’s once stellar reputation.

It led to US congressional investigations and a record $16.4-million fine to settle claims it hid gas pedal defects blamed for dozens of deaths.

Since then Toyota has seen its US market share shrink by 1.4 points to 15.2 percent for the first nine months of this year.

Toyota said earlier this month it had completed more than five million repairs on US vehicles affected by the series of recalls.

Toyota said some 80 percent of the 2.3 million US vehicles affected by the “sticky pedal” defect had been repaired while 86 percent of the 148,000 Prius and Lexus vehicles recalled for braking problems had also been fixed.

Despite its woes Toyota, a global leader in green car technology, said last week that its Prius petrol-electric hybrid, launched in 1997, had topped the two million sales mark by the end of September.

Its popularity has continued despite Toyota last year recalling 437,000 Prius and other hybrid vehicles to repair a flaw in the braking system.

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The MPAA has gone to extreme lengths to obtain information on illegal filesharing in an effort to shut down popular BitTorrent sites. This included paying $15,000 to a hacker to illegally retrieve information about TorrentSpy that ultimately assisted the MPAA in a court case leading to TorrentSpy’s demise.

New information indicates that the MPAA was also paying this same hacker for information about Swedish BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay.

The hacker offered to provide information about the identities of The Pirate Bay’s founders as well as to turn over evidence of email communication between The Pirate Bay and TorrentSpy.

The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde, who notes that information about the founder’s identities is public and easily retrievable online without this type of spying, says that the information contained in those emails is nothing shocking and finds it amusing that the MPAA would pay such a large sum of money to illegally obtain that information.

Nokia and Qualcomm today announced that they’ve reached an agreement to settle all litigation between the companies. The new agreement covers various standards including GSM, EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA, HSDPA, OFDM, WiMax, LTE and other technologies, and will also see Nokia withdrawing its complaint to the European Commission.

Under the terms of the new 15 year agreement, Nokia has been granted a license under all Qualcomm’s patents for use in Nokia’s mobile devices and Nokia Siemens Networks infrastructure equipment. Further, Nokia has agreed not to use any of its patents directly against Qualcomm, enabling Qualcomm to integrate Nokia’s technology into Qualcomm’s chipsets. The financial structure of the settlement includes an up-front payment and on-going royalties payable to Qualcomm. Nokia has agreed to assign ownership of a number of patents to Qualcomm, including patents declared as essential to WCDMA, GSM and OFDMA. The specific terms are confidential.

Both parties seem satisfed. Nokia’s Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo sees the agreement positive for the industry, “enabling the market to benefit from innovation and new technologies.” Qualcomm’s Paul Jacobs is also pleased with the deal, adding that it “paves the way for enhanced opportunities between the companies in a number of areas.”

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The FCC website has the speeches from three of the commissioners (Tate, Copps, Adelstein), and a video of the event should be posted here in time. The FCC has announced they’ll be holding yet another public hearing, this time in Brooklyn on July 30, according to an FCC press release. But why? More rhetoric doesn’t accomplish anything, and the current FCC has shown they aren’t interested in implementing new policy.

The FCC’s first two hearings had an actual purpose: addressing transparency in network management and Comcast’s packet forgery. That ended with Kevin Martin announcing that Comcast would be wrist-slapped. But now it’s getting harder to decipher what the hearings are actually supposed to accomplish. Not that Mark Cuban’s thoughts on 3D basketball aren’t really, really fascinating, but what’s the actual point?

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