When we reported about the leak of a BuckCherry track last week, and specifically the band’s response to it, we hinted that this could be a covert form of self-promotion. Indeed, after a few days of research we found out that the track wasn’t leaked by pirates, but by Josh Klemme, the manager of the band.
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Yesterday we reported that the bail date for OiNK administrator Alan Ellis and the six arrested OiNK uploaders was extended again. New information, however, now shows that two of the six uploaders were released from further investigation and can get on with their lives.
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EA, who developed the Scrabble Facebook app for Hasbro, reported that it had been maliciously attacked today after the news that Scrabulous had been shutdown.
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It’s official - NVIDIA has extremely poor closed source drivers that do not work properly on Linux systems. The KDE 4 issue is a widely known problem amongst Linux users. I created the thread to raise awareness of those who were left in the dark after purchasing expensive, high end NVIDIA cards that do not work properly on Linux.
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New York attorney Ray Beckerman, an outspoken critic of the Recording Industry Association of America, has acquired the ear of thousands of federal judges nationwide. His lengthy must read paper, “Large Recording Companies v. The Defenseless” chronicles RIAA litigation start to finish from the investigative stage to the eventual lawsuit payment.
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Mozilla has announced that the first Firefox 3.1 alpha is now available for download. This release, which is codenamed Shiretoko, includes Gecko 1.9.1 and adds a handful of new features.
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TV shows are by far the most wanted files via BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s fast becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people downloading?
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In what appears to be an increasingly common problem, hairline cracks are beginning to form on Apple’s new iPhone 3G.
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It’s an eye opener full of PWN.
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For many people, justice is something that is bought and sold in the US, especially where filesharing is concerned. Few lawyers are willing to represent, and fewer still understand the technologies involved in cases. Ray Beckerman is one of the few that seem to, and he now has an article in the current edition of The Judges Journal, about the RIAA
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Rockstar today launched the official site for upcoming DS-exclusive GTA China Town Wars. The site is little more than a placeholder for the game but we were able to squeeze one bit of potential news out of all of that empty space. Down at the bottom of the page there’s the universal symbol for the Nintendo WiFi Connection.
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“We actually announced a PS3 version early on but that was when we were still doing a lot of technical exploration of the architecture,” explained Ajami. “PS3 is a very powerful system but as you guys know it’s very exotic and tough to develop for and our engine really at the time wasn’t designed for PS3.”
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