Despite being ordered to Cease & Desist and then sued by the RIAA, LimeWire is refusing to cave in to industry pressure and is prepared for a long fight. Installed on an amazing one-fifth of desktops worldwide, LimeWire’s popularity has never been greater and in their battle against the RIAA, millions will be cheering them [...]

A high school science experiment by two 14-year-old girls has embarrassed the world’s second-largest food and pharmaceutical company.
GlaxoSmithKline will appear in Auckland District Court on Tuesday to face charges alleging 15 breaches of the Fair Trading Act.
GSK Australia this week dobbed itself into the Australian equivalent of the Commerce Commission, admitting it had been misleading [...]

I’m really starting to wonder if game consoles have become such an addiction that they might need to be banned. In the last few months, you could easily compare the Sony Playstation 3 to a reasonable batch of cocaine; People shooting each other to get it, paying high prices to get some when supply is [...]

Users who have been using a pirate copy of Microsoft Office are soon to find out why that was such a bad idea. Microsoft are shortly going to release an update that will check the licence status of Office and stop users from accessing online resources and updates.
Anyone who thinks they might have a pirated [...]

Copyright laws are “out of date” and must be updated so MP3 player users can make copies of CDs without breaking the law, according to a think tank.
This is certainly something that needs looking at. I’m sure a lot more consumers would buy their music instead of stealing it if they actually had the right [...]

Beware fast food joints flogging MP3 players; McDonalds in Japan has fouled up by giving away a trojan installed on an MP3 Player customers got when buying a coke. The Trojan installs on Windows PC’s and emails the trojans author details of the users passwords and other private information.
Both McDonalds and Coke have plenty of [...]

From crunchgear – It’s now easier than ever to be a stalker with the new SkyTRX Mini Tracker. This little ditty uses GPS to track your target with accuracy of up to 2.5-meters. That’s pretty good. The case is weather-proof so you can attach it to somebody’s car with the magnet and just go. The [...]

RIAA spokesperson Jenni Engebretsen was interviewed by phone in connection with a suit filed against a college student over a 600 song collection. Her response: “There is no set threshold, no single number that would trigger a lawsuit. Uploading or downloading even one song is illegal.”
There hasn’t been a lot of action in [...]

A good short read about the continuing success of Nigerian scammers getting their grubby hands on unsuspecting victims hard earned money.
If you get these sorts of offers via email, make sure you click DELETE.

Okay, so I was all for the “Windows Genuine Advantage” tool, a tool that Microsoft is deploying to all Windows XP users to check that they have actually bought and are using a legal, licenced copy.
Turns out that its broken. ZDNet are reporting that a Microsoft letter confirms that 20% of authentication failures are false [...]