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Well, it had to happen some day.  The Zune DRM Stripper removes the DRM from music squirted to you and music you bought at the Zune Marketplace.

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A court in Belgium has ruled that an Internet Service Provider bears the responsibility for stopping illegal file-sharing on its network. Although the ruling was made in Belgium, it relies on the E.U. copyright directive and may set precedent for the entire Union according to IFPI, an organization that represents the recording industry world wide.
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The suit was brought by a group representing Belgian authors an composers (SABAM) against ISP Scarlet, formerly Tiscali. In 2004, the SABAM received an injuction against the ISP, which assigned an expert whose investigation provided 11 ways to prevent infringement across the network. The judge agreed and Scarlet has 6 months to enact anti-piracy measure or face fines of up to $4,300 per day.

Hmm.  The MPAA seems to be getting kinda desperate to catch people.  They are putting up traps.

A new video download site busts you for illegally downloading video content as well as offers the ability to download video content using a custom client which scans your PC to see if the you have already downloaded copyrighted files.

I think it was just shocking.  Maybe we should send Clinton over there to give Ahmadinejad a talk about morals while in office.

Iran’s president has come under fire from a conservative newspaper after he publicly kissed the hand of a woman who used to be his school teacher. 

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This is hilarious!  The CP80 (Clean Port 80) foundation, wants to make it against US federal law to transfer pornographic material over port 80 on the internet.  Of course, they are ignoring all of the flaws of this plan such as the internet being global and US law not applying outside of the US.  By the way, this idiotic crusade is being lead by Ralph Yarro, chairman of the board of directors for SCO.  That would explain the complete lack of understanding of technology.

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