RIAA Accused Of Coaching 15-Year-Old Witness In File Sharing Suit

Apparently, the lawyers for the RIAA had contacted her [15 year old girl], urging her to testify against the defendants, her employers. Combined with the fact that no other person who testified could recall the defendants ever using the computer to listen to music, it certainly seems to support the story that they did not do so.

Mrmmorden: This is just one more nail in the coffin of the RIAA

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New WOW Alliance Race Leaked by Feb. 06 Computer Gaming Magazine

According to some scans of what appears to be the Computer Games Magazine February 2006 Issue the Draenei have been confirmed as the new Alliance race. Read the full article for the rest of the info.

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Apple stock skyrocketed 128% thanks to the iPod!

It even outgrew Google in the last year and accounted for almost 4% of growth on the S&P500. What an amazing turnaround for a company.. all because of a trendy MP3 player.

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U.S. vs. the world on file-sharing

Is the United States getting increasingly out of touch with the rest of the world where technology matters are concerned? This week, members of the French Parliament voted to allow free downloads of copyrighted material, a move with provisions similar to a ruling last year by a Canadian judge.

Philosophical differences between the U.S. government and other countries have become abundantly clear in technology-related business matters, as seen in the European Commission's antitrust actions against Microsoft. And other nations have become frustrated with the United States' influence over accepted behavior on the Internet, a medium that ostensibly has no geographic boundaries.

Hollywood's powerful lobbying machine has managed to hold sway in Congress, but its influence wanes quickly beyond U.S. borders. Will an international backlash eventually force fundamental changes in long-held concepts of copyright protections?

BAD Tivo BAD

I thought that you should all know the tivo SEEMS to be forcing people to buy the wired USB adapter that would allow you connect to your tivo to your LAN from them. the adapter that I am speaking of is the Linksys USB200M which tvio says will work with Tivo, BUT, and here the catch Tvio does not mention that they do not support the new version 2 of this adapter and to my knowledge there is no information on the box that tells you that 200m has chagned.it version and there does not seem to be any change to the drivers download site @ linksys they still only show the drivers for version 1 So Here is what happen to me and how i found this out I have the two tivo's and one uses

The Netgear WG111 wireless 802.11g on one and usb200m on the other. The issues was that i was have problem with the wireless adapter and just decided that I had had enough with that adapter and was going to buy the wired one. So I went to BestBuy and bought the usb200m got home and plug it and too my surprise tvio came up saying that the adapter is not supported I tried it on my other tvio and got the same thing then i saw the adapter was version 2 i called tivo and they said that the device was not supported and i will have to order one from them. I returned the adapter and went out looking for a version 1 adapter and was not able to fine one any were in the city I should say that the only way I was able tell the difference between the two was that the version 2 is slightly smaller then version 1. so now any stuck using the crappy wireless adapter that does not work all the time I have to restart the tivo ant least twice a week.