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Boo, Apple. Spoilsports.

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In the past, parallels between narcotics enforcement and copyright enforcement may have been drawn, but in one country parallels are out of the window, as copyright and trademark enforcement will now be treated as drug trafficking.

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The Pirate Bay has been “censored” in Italy following an urgent decree from a deputy public prosecutor. Pirate Bay’s IPs and the domain name are inaccessible, as they are blocked by ISPs all over the country. Whether these blocks will be very effective, however, is doubtful, since The Pirate Bay has already announced several countermeasures.

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As the prices of educational laptops for children in developing countries creep upward, a group of researchers attempts to create a new, even lower-tech computer that would cost as little as $12.

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PC OEMs offered a halfhearted endorsement of the Linux desktop on Wednesday, claiming that the operating system was mainly suited for low-cost appliances and PCs designed for education. Two vendors of consumer Linux distributions, gOS and Xandros, spoke glowingly about the OS and its future. But representatives of three PC OEMs next to them – Dell

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A new BitTorrent site has appeared which will allow scammers and spammers to infect its users with spyware, malware and viruses. An admin of TrafficLoader.com says that no bad torrents will ever be removed from the site and is inviting people to upload malicious software to infect torrent users.

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The recently released Xbox Live Arcade title Braid has been receiving a lot of praise since its release, but the game’s designer has said that the XBLA certification process may have actually prevented the game from being even better.

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