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Copyright Trolls: 200,000 BitTorrent Users Sued Since 2010

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August 9, 2011
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Copyright Trolls: 200,000 BitTorrent Users Sued Since 2010 Mass lawsuits against file sharers hit a record high.
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'Watchmen' Author Supports WikiLeaks Whistleblower Alan Moore, author of such hit graphic novels as V for Vendetta and Watchmen, unsurprisingly supports a G.I. who allegedly leaked secret gov't documents to WikiLeaks.
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BlackBerry Blog Hacked for Helping Police Quell London Riots The attack on the BlackBerry blog was spurred by RIM's reaction to reports that BlackBerrys were being used by rioters to orchestrate their activities.
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Sony DADC Disc Distribution Center Torched in London Riots Sony London-based warehouse for games, music, and movies burns to ground in riots, deliveries 'likely' to be impacted.
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Five Linux Desktops That Aren't Unity or GNOME 3 Now that Linux creator Linus Torvalds has officially dumped GNOME, it's time for a fresh look at the alternatives.
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The Cybercrime Tide is Turning Cyber criminals are facing more tech-savvy law-enforcement agents and harsher sentences.
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Acer Taking on MacBook Air with Ultrabook Laptop Leaked images of the Acer Aspire 3951 show a laptop with a silver aluminum casing, large trackpad and chiclet keyboard. It's rumored to have a 13.3-inch display and Sandy Bridge chips.
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Android App Brings Hacking Tool to Novices Analysis: Just what the world needs: another killer mobile app for the clueless who want to hack but need only to push a couple buttons to find targets or to take control of computers and servers.
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Google+ to Become Second Largest Social Network in U.S. in One Year, Says Survey Can Google+ attract enough users in a year to become more popular in the US than either Twitter or LinkedIn? A new Bloomberg-YouGov survey says yes.
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Companies Lose $2.5 Million from Missing Memory Sticks, Study Says Lost or missing memory sticks, as well as malware carried on the USB devices, are a huge problem, the study by the Ponemon Institute shows.
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Freedom and Privacy, R.I.P. There are two kinds of privacy, and if both aren't already lost, they soon will be.
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Londoners Take to Social Media Outlets During and After the Riots "Catch a Looter" photos are being circulated on Tumblr; clean-up efforts are organizing on Twitter.
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Tribune Co. Developing Tablet for Its Newspapers, Report Says The tablet is rumored to run on a modified version of Android and it is expected to be offered for free or at a low cost as an incentive to sign up for extended newspaper subscriptions.
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T-Mobile Renting Android Tablets at the Ballpark The Android tablet rental costs fans at Angel Stadium $10 per game, and the device comes preloaded with a game-day program, free content from a magazine app and access to games and TV shows.
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Google+ App Update Adds iPad Compatibility Google's new social network Google+ is now available on your iPad and iPod Touch.
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First Look: High-Speed Thunderbolt Accessories Strike Storage, video editing, and other peripherals that can make good use of Intel's new ultra-fast Thunderbolt data-transfer connection, now start to emerge--initially for use with Apple products.
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Chinese Smugglers Use Zip Line to Get Apple Goods Into Their Country: Zippity Do Dah! Chinese police arrested a smuggling ring that used an ingenious zip-line rig to bring contraband Apple goods into the country from Hong Kong.
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The Lesson of Anonymous: Corporate Security Sucks Anonymous has run up quite a score against lots of groups, but corporations are overlooking the real problem: their security is terrible.
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Twitter Snaps up Bagcheck, a Social 'Lists' Site Twitter has acquired Bagcheck, an online service where people create lists of items that interest them.
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Staying Ahead of Cloud Complexity Managing cloud infrastructure and services is similar to traditional network management - only bigger, badder and more complex.
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Copyright Trolls: 200,000 BitTorrent Users Sued Since 2010 Mass lawsuits against file sharers hit a record high.
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