Anti-Anti-Piracy Seal: WARNING! Artists Supports Filesharing - The Peer-to-Peer Weblog - p2p.weblogsinc.com _ Some artist created the "Anti-Anti-Piracy" seal, I hope I see it next time I go shopping :)

A Gamers' Manifesto, some good points in that list.

Sony president says Xbox 360 is more like an Xbox 1.5 - CD Freaks.com

Don't be over confident with your machine Sony, or you'll lose the battle.

Skype: be afraid

Wired News: My Great Big Console Adventure: "Square Enix said it is working on Final Fantasy XI for Xbox 360, which might have been more impressive if the company hadn't just told Sony's crowd it is working on Final Fantasy XII for the PlayStation 3."

Wired 13.06: The Xbox Reloaded, interesting article

How Hilary Rosen learned to stop suing and hate Apple's iPod | The Register

Neowin.net - Where unprofessional journalism looks better - Microsoft Readies a 'Lean' Windows Client this stripped down XP focuses on enterprises currently running Windows 2000 (or worse) who don't want to upgrade their hardware.


It seems kind of strange that Microsoft new business idea is to focus on enterprises with old hardware that don't want to upgrade.

Apple pays no homage to Catalonia

Apple has raised the ire of perhaps ten million Europeans - because it chose not to deliver Catalan localization within Mac OS X 'Tiger'.

The move means Apple has ignored a local campaign in the 68,730 square kilometre Catalan region, which extends across parts of Spain, France, Andorra and Italy. The language is spoken by over seven million and understood by ten million people.

What renders the pill bitterest of all to swallow is that Apple has released Mac operating systems localized for Catalan in the past, systems between OS 7 and 9 offered this.

It gets worse: The company that localizes Mac OS X for Spanish, Portugese and French is based locally; in Catalonia.

TrustedReviews - The UK's Premier Source for IT Reviews & News: "There’s no doubt that the Athlon 64 X2 4800 is very impressive indeed."

Slashdot | CMU Professor's Rebuttal Against RIAA Propaganda jsc writes "On Sunday, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published an article by Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA, stating that university students are hijacking Internet2 to pirate copyrighted works, and schools who don't actively combat file-sharing are teaching their students bad values like "acceptance of theft". The Post-Gazette didn't let Sherman get away with it, though... Today they published a letter to the paper from Roger Dannenberg, a professor of Computer Science and Music at Carnegie Mellon University, reminding everyone how past/present behavior of the RIAA and its members is an even worse model of values..."

Zeropaid.com - Bush signs law targeting P2P pirates: "File-swappers who distribute a single copy of a prerelease movie on the Internet can be imprisoned for up to three years, according to a bill that President Bush signed into law on Wednesday."

Samsung and Microsoft introduce hybrid hard drive (HHD) how’s it work? It’s outfitted with a 1Gbit NAND flash buffer (instead of the usual 8-32MB buffer of volatile memory), and it only spins up the platters and writes to the drive when its good n’ full.


mmmm......... looks interesting! :)

French court rules in favor of DVD copying - Engadget - www.engadget.com /: "apparently a French court has ruled that adding anti-copying mechanisms to a DVD violates the rights consumers have to make private copies of media that they’ve bought and paid for."

IMAX Theaters Refused To Show Volcanoes Of The Deep Sea: "Several IMAX theaters in the South have refused to show a science film on volcanoes because of concerns it might offend evangelicals who don't believe in evolution."

We have definitely a lot more creation public than evolution public

when religion invades truth.

Media boycott week April 24-30

P2P fuels bandwidth demand, MPAA tactics backfiring research indicates that “in North America … there has been virtually no change in P2P traffic levels,” despite industry crack-downs. Furthermore, the publicity created by the MPAA has actually increased P2P use in some parts of the world. Sweet irony.

Linus Torvalds in bizarre attack on open source | The Register

Blu-ray format wars could hurt an already timid audience - CD Freaks.com It seems that some analysts and those in the know at big corporations, think Blu-ray is years off from becoming the successor to the DVD.

: "Apple, meanwhile, must struggle against teenagers who must violate the Geneva Convention in order to extract information about mind-blowing new products such as pastel socks."

Great sentence for the real situation: someone reveals secret information about new products from Apple, who wants to stop this too often leak.