There are at least 400 movies and an uncountable number of television shows on about 200 VHS tapes stored in my den. I will apparently be branded a thief for keeping these tapes and will have made Brigitte into a criminal — the receiver of “stolen” goods.
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Peer-to-peer traffic management was a hot topic at this year’s NXTcomm convention in Las Vegas, as keynote speakers and telecom industry panelists highlighted new methods for handling P2P traffic crunches.
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It’s no secret to most readers that Comcast’s outsourced techs are often late, rude and incompetent, and that calling customer service is more akin to improving dialogue in a Beckett play, but as this exclusively obtained internal Comcast powerpoint shows, it’s no secret to the cable company either.
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The History, Jokes, Easter Eggs and Comic Strips. The light side of Linux you didn’t know about.
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You may not know somebody that bought a PhysX card, but if you’re a PC gamer with a relatively recent NVIDIA card, you’ve already got one. Or, at least, you will soon.A proportion of the 3D card’s power can be given over to running physics, giving those fancy PhysX-style interactions without actually having a specific card for it.
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Only a few weeks ago, a University of Washington study showed showed how inaccurate the MPAA and RIAA’s evidence gathering techniques are. Now, instead of improving their pirate chasing tactics, the MPAA simply claims they don’t need any evidence to bankrupt “alleged” copyright infringers.
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Earlier this week, Nintendo released firmware version 3.3 for the Wii in the hopes of deterring some of the homebrew work being done for the console. The update nixed the commonly-used “Twilight Hack,” which made use of a modified save file to launch homebrew applications. It didn’t take long for the community to respond, however…
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Despite being ensnared in legal proceedings with the MPAA, isoHunt is continuing to grow. Adding fuel to the ’significant non-infringing use’ argument is their latest partnership, with the Creative Commons music distribution site Jamendo.
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