Topic: News

DVD pirate Joanne Dunn escaped being tagged by a court after claiming it would make her look like a criminal. She moaned that the electronic device on her ankle would prevent her going out in a skirt... even though she turned up for the hearing in trousers.

For the last several months, the P2P population has reversed its mid to late year stagnation and decline. As is typical, cyclical variations in the total number of simultaneously connected users features small declines and plateaus, however over time the population has ultimately continued its march forward.

Hardware websites are in a fever over accusations that graphics chip maker Nvidia paid people and gave them gifts to salt message boards with endorsements of its products.

O2 has pledged to become the first mobile phone network to bring Nokia's 'visual radio' technology to UK consumers, courtesy of a tie-in with the Virgin Radio station. It's a "completely new kind of radio experience", apparently.

An ice cream man has been convicted of running a piracy operation from his van, selling fake DVDs, CDs and games.

DVD jedi Flash has posted his latest review - for the new Cd and DVD disc library which we reported on last month. Seems like flash is impressed by this new "must have" from RiDisc - you can see why in his review.

In response to an open letter written by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), SunnComm has outlined what it has done and will do to address potential security problems caused by its MediaMax CD copy-protection software.

VSO Software has announced a new product, which is an updated version the well known DivXtoDVD. ConvertXtoDVD allows you to convert and then burn your video files that were originally only playable on your PC so that they are now playable on any DVD Player. ConvertXtoDVD extends support beyond AVI files, XVid, MPEG 1/2/4, VOB, MOV, and now WMV 3 and HD formats and more.

Joint efforts by relevant Chinese departments have cracked 172 wet piracy cases and closed down 76 websites in a three-month crackdown over on-line piracy across the country, according to the National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC).

According to a scan from the upcoming March issue of PlayStation Magazine, Sony is planning to launch a full-frontal assault on Microsoft's Xbox Live service.

An Aussie faces extradition to the US to face piracy charges after the FBI claims he was the leader of a $6.5 million software copying racket.

A Louisiana man is suing Apple claiming that the iPod is "inherently defective" because it can pump up the volume to ear-damaging levels and that Apple hasn't done enough to warn him of the risks.

Three men were arrested when pirate DVDs worth more than £500,000 were seized in north-west London. Kent Police and the Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact) have also raided an address in Burnt Oak, Kent.

Nobody was ever arrested for leaking the secret source code for parts of the Windows operating system in 2004, but a hacker who sold a copy online afterward was sentenced to two years in federal prison Friday.

Ten internet service providers have been ordered to hand over the details of 150 UK customers accused of illegally sharing software.

Microsoft have released an official update to the Xbox 360, patching in improvements to a number of different facets of the console.

An "extremely critical" security vulnerability has been discovered in AOL's Winamp digital media player, relating to the way the software handles filenames that include a computer name. An exploit has already surfaced for the flaw, which affects version 5 of the software.

RiDisc, under the Risafe brand, have introduced a novel, efficient and highly cost effective way of storing all your discs.

DVD dynamo Flash has posted his latest review for Plextor 16x DVD+R which he has put through all the usual and highly rigourous tests. Of the disc he concludes, "This disc looks nice with its gold finish making it look the part of another quality disc". You can read his review here.

Western Digital (WD) has upped the capacity of its Caviar Serial ATA desktop hard drive range to 500GB, pitching not only the part's storage but also its low power consumption and low operational noise level - features it also highlighted for its new 120GB Scorpio 2.5in notebook drive.