Latest piracy crackdown ...continued

Further details of yesterday's busts have now emerged making it abundantly clear that the scale of the operation had until now been vastly underestimated. Operation Fastlink (yes, 'the feds' are just as nerdy as the people they spend their coffee breaks snickering at) was brought into effect through the cooperation of anti-piracy organisations and intellectual property guardians in the United States,...

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The piracy 'scene' takes another hit

This morning Dutch anti-piracy group FIOD-ECD (Fiscal and Economic Crime Service), in cooperation with US customs agents, raided twenty university premises within the Netherlands thought to be cornerstones for the release group FairLight and a number of their affiliates. Two topsites were shutdown and speculation suggests that a major Kalisto archive site is now under the control of the authorities....

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All quiet on the anti-trust front

If there's one thing Microsoft excel at, it's using anti-competitive measures to muscle rival software vendors out of the market. Despite finding themselves up in court facing anti-trust charges on numerous occasions, Bill and his cronies still get away with bundling Internet Explorer with Windows, and this is the only reason it is the most widely used web browser in the world. It breaks W3C conventions,...

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Dead Prophets Society

Good Friday greetings Kookites everywhere. While some people claim that the true meaning of Easter has been lost amidst a smorgasbord of chocolately delights, I for one have spent today paying tribute to the greatest hippie of them all. Never let it be forgotten that He died on the cross to give us all a day off work at a time when Christmas is but a distant memory and summer still seems an eternity...

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How can I convert MPEG movies to other formats?

If you want minimal hassle and a small, free download, the best software to use is Flask MPEG. Unzip it to a folder of your choice, run the program and open the file you wish to convert by selecting it from the 'file' menu. Open the 'options' menu and click on 'output format options' to choose which video and audio codecs you would like to use to convert your movie. The final step is to press the...

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