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.
This driver supports all Realtek High-Definition audio chipsets. It is used as onboard sound on many motherboards. Chips covered include ALC260, ALC262, ALC268, ALC662, ALC861, ALC861-VD-GR, ALC880, ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC888, ALC888S, ALC880T.
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“No matter who you are, or where you live, or how much money you make … you will need, and you are entitled to have these tools (broadband) available to you, I think, as a civil right,” said FCC commissioner Michael Copps during yesterday’s broadband hearing in Pittsburgh. Users around here enjoy fighting over whether broadband is a luxury or necessary utility, but suggesting it’s a civil right is a new wrinkle. Yesterday’s meeting was a mish-mash of various ideas, with nothing even close to consensus. From CNET:
It would take work to be more vague than the event’s official title: “Broadband and the Digital Future.” So speakers veered haphazardly between spam, pornography, media ownership, database privacy, computer prices, Net neutrality, mobile provider pricing, bandwidth caps, Webcasting official meetings, and piracy on peer-to-peer networks. And that was just in the last hour.
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?
nLite is a tool for pre-installation Windows configuration and component removal at your choice. Optional bootable image ready for burning on media or testing in virtual machines.
With nLite you will be able to have Windows installation which on install does not include, or even contain on media, the unwanted components.
Features:
- Service Pack Integration
- Component Remova
- Unattended Setup
- Driver Integration *
- Hotfixes Integration **
- Tweaks
- Services Configuration
- Patches ***
- Bootable ISO creation
* – Textmode (CD Boot) and normal PnP
** – Hotfixes with white icons, *KB*.exe, including update packs and IE 7
***- Supports generic SFC, Uxtheme, TcpIp and Usb Polling patching.
Download: nLite
AnyDVD is a driver, which unprotects DVD-Movies automatically in the background. This DVD appears unprotected and region code free for all applications and the Windows operating system as well.
With AnyDVD’s help copy tools like CloneDVD, Pinnacle Instant Copy, InterVideo DVD-Copy, etc. are able to copy CSS protected Movies. With the help of AnyDVD you can watch movies with non matching region codes with every DVD Player Software you like!
AnyDVD decrypts not just DVDs: AnyDVD allows you also to play, copy and rip protected Audio CDs! But AnyDVD does much more, of course. For example, it is possible to control the rotational speed of your DVD drive, so you can watch DVDs on your PC with far less noise!
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It seems that the threat of the iPhone’s camera being used to take surreptitious “up-skirt” and “downblouse” pictures of unsuspecting Japanese women was significant enough that Apple decided to force the Japanese iPhone 3G’s camera emit a loud shutter “click” whenever a photo is taken, even when the iPhone 3G is set to “silent” mode.
Apparently, there are enough of these perverted Japanese iPhone owners out there that Apple found it necessary to force their Japanese iPhone 3G units to emit the sometimes useful, but mostly annoying, shutter click. The feature is unique to Japanese iPhones, and combined with warning signs, should help skirt-wearing members of the fairer sex avoid exploitation.
And, Apple apparently isn’t alone in their pervert-thwarting practices. Camera-phones are reportedly offered in Japan with similarly loud shutter clicks, with some cameras that even say “cheese” upon shutter actuation.
It isn’t clear, however, if the iPhone 3G jailbreak could open the door to sexual deviants in Japan disabling the up-skirt-preventing shutter click.
Source: Cult Of Mac
The new Catalyst drivers from ATI are now available for download:
Catalyst™ 8.7 introduces the following new features
- Catalyst Control Center: Information Center enhancements
- Support for new Linux operating systems
Catalyst Control Center: Information Center enhancements
This release of Catalyst™ introduces an enhancement to the Catalyst Control Center Information Center.
Full Hardware information will be shown for each physical graphics accelerator installed in the system.
Support for new Linux operating systems
This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces preview support for the following new operating systems:
- Ubuntu 8.04 production support
- SLED 10 sp2 production support
Download: ATI Drivers
Mobile blogging clients for the iPhone are every blogger’s dream application, us included. With the huge display and newly minted 3G radio, the iPhone 3G is poised to be a mobile blogging tool no unlike the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. Of course, the new, lower priced of the Nokia N810 features a larger display and physical keyboard. But, the 3.5-inch multi-touch display on the iPhone and the virtual keyboard makes for a seriously competent mobile blogging platform.
We’re hearing from WordPress’s Raanan Bar-Cohen that the team at WordPress.net has successfully uploaded their WordPress client for iPhone to the AppStore. We’ve been expecting the WordPress application to be available through the AppStore, so it’s good to hear that the wait is almost over. The application is still listed as “In Review,” so we should be seeing the Apple team wrapping up their tests of the new application sometime soon.
Source: WordPress
