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Submission + - Swedish firm to offer lawful alternative to piracy

Submitted by Karol
Karol writes: A Swedish company believes it may have discovered a lawful solution to the movie industry's long-running file sharing quandary. By merging peer to peer file sharing methods with advanced watermarking technology, Stockholm firm Headweb hopes to beat the internet pirates at their own game and offer consumers a legal alternative. Customers will be given the opportunity to pay for movies, download them legally using BitTorrent technology and view them using a regular DVD player.
Announcements

Submission + - Koji Kondo Performs at GDC

Submitted by
njkid1
njkid1 writes: "The CMP Game Group today announced that Video Games Live will be performing during the final night of the Game Developers Conference (GDC). This concert will be taking place at the Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium on Friday, March 9 at 8 PM. As a special treat, Koji Kondo, the music composer for games like Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda and Star Fox, will make an appearance and perform one of his favorite songs. http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/news/?id=15278&n cid=AOLGAM000500000000020"
Role Playing (Games)

Submission + - Homework!?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: With all the talk about Blizzard lately, I was asked a question about Guild Wars and World of Warcraft. While both games address different aspects, how would you get Blizzard to drop the monthly fee for WoW without trying to generate a force needed to compensate for the entropy of the players' need to play the game? After all, the no monthly free works for Guild Wars, so the model itself is fine. Or perhaps the question should be stated, how would you get this model to be the accepted form for all MMORPGs? Also, assume that the person asking me will not accept impossible for an answer. I would like to know your thoughts.
Censorship

Submission + - Wikipedia Blocked by Schools

Submitted by
Malkara
Malkara writes: "Apparently my school system, in Central Florida, has blocked Wikipedia access on all school computers. I had known wikipedia was blocked for the last week, but I was just recently informed that it had indeed been a conscious decision. Apparently they're worried about people quoting directly from Wikipedia, and decided to take the easy way out by simply completely blocking the website in all schools from Elementary to High School."
Security

Submission + - Teleworkers need strict rules, security

Submitted by
coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "When it comes to securing remote employees, it takes more than awareness. Arlington Ocunty in Va., has layered a number of technologies in order to secure the endpoints, installing Symantec's Client Security on government-issued computers that offers virus, spyware, and intrusion protection as well as personal firewall features. The computers are physically protected by Absolute Software's Computrace — "the LoJack of computer hardware," which lets the county trace the location of a computer. In addition, the county secures network access with firewalls and uses SSL for authentication. "A lot of organizations still believe that a security strategy is antivirus, and that simply doesn't work anymore," says Natalie Lambert, senior analyst at Forrester Research. "Now attacks are nefarious, extracting corporate information, and there's a lot of organized crime and going after competitors . . . attacks these days are very targeted." http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/022007-heigh tened-awareness.html"
Graphics

Submission + - Sapphire Delivers new sub-$150 ATI GPU

Submitted by
Kyle Bennett
Kyle Bennett writes: "HardOCP runs the a new Sapphire Radeon X1950 GT (new GPU from ATI that is only sold by Sapphire currently) through it paces and shows where the X1950 GT delivers some great high resolution gaming at up to 1600x1200 resolution. This video card may change your mind about the sub-$200 "budget" category. And it is not from NVIDIA, which given the Vista driver situation, is a plus. [H] says, "The Sapphire Radeon X1950 GT can be had for $154.99 USD from Newegg, with a $10 mail-in rebate. This compares directly to what you can find a GeForce 7900 GS for. For this price the Sapphire Radeon X1950 GT is a tremendous value.""
Windows

Submission + - Vista loophole allows for cheap install

Submitted by
PetManimal
PetManimal writes: "A loophole in Vista's activation scheme that lets users install an upgrade version of Vista on Linux machines and save up to $140 is spreading over the Internet and causing Microsoft a fair amount of embarrassment. The trick involves installing Vista twice but not entering the product key the first time, which effectively fools Vista into upgrading itself. While most home users are unlikely to try this, it may appeal to some PC DIYers and other power users:

The type of person most likely to benefit from this workaround are power users and hobbyists who own multiple computers running Windows as well as Linux and Mac OS X. Indeed, one concrete scenario would be someone with a used PC that's just one or two years old running either Linux or OS X who decides to convert it to Vista and buys the upgrade version of the OS to do so.
According to the last article, Microsoft is aware of the scheme and says it violates the Vista EULA."

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