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Submission + - Mac OSX Leopard Leaked (com.com)

Submitted by hey0you0guy
hey0you0guy writes: Somebody has uploaded the beta copy of Leopard to a file sharing site for download. The beta copy of Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X handed to developers last week by Apple, is available on a file-sharing site for downloading. Apple's legal department tends to frown on things like that. Or, at least they did when the same thing happened with a beta copy of Tiger, the current version of Mac OS X released in April of 2005.
Movies

Submission + - Hollywood's new anti-pirate posters

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newtley
newtley writes: "Things are terrible, claims Hollywood, introducing new anti-pirate posters. Last year, the entertainment cartels claimed counterfeiting and file sharing were prime causes of deteriorating world economies. But, quoting from the Havocscope global index of illicit markets, movie and music piracy were way down the list at 16th and 20th respectively, said p2pnet. Despite these earlier spurious claims, things have worsened dramatically. Right? Wrong. Havocscope says movies have moved up only four notches to the 12th position, and music is now two steps further down, not up, at position # 22."
Programming

Submission + - Are Most CS Students Getting a Raw Deal?

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Jason Luther
Jason Luther writes: "Are most Computer Science students in universities and colleges around the world getting a raw deal? That's what it seems like; especially when you look at all the evidence and realize just how many hundreds of thousands of students are putting long hours and thousands of dollars into studying something that they just won't do well in... Given the disparity amongst the "coding talent" present in different students, is it the universities' duty to inform students of the real hardships encountered in the programming world, and the fact that it's not experience alone that makes a good programmer?"
Windows

Submission + - Windows Vista keygen is a hoax

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: The author of the Windows Vista keygen that was reported yesterday on Slashdot has admitted that the program does not actually work. Here is the initial announcement of the original release of the keygen, and here is the followup post in which the same author acknowledges that the program is fake. Apparently, the keygen program does legitimately attack Windows Vista keys via brute force, but the chances of success are too low for this to be a practical method. Quote from the author: "everyone who said they got a key a probably lying or mistaken!"
Television

Submission + - Joost and YouTube are different beasts

Submitted by Tookis
Tookis writes: The news that online TV platform Joost is to add more programs to its growing inventory of TV shows with international TV program distributor JumpTV has the media buzzing with speculation of its growing threat to YouTube. However, after only a brief play with Joost, it will soon become obvious why there is no threat to YouTube because YouTube and Joost are very different beasts.
Music

Submission + - Copyright Royalty Board Terminates Internet Radio

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: News of the new Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) rates retroactive to January 1st 2006 have leaked out today. The new rates amount to well over the total revenues of all internet radio stations. If the new rates are allowed to stand, every United States based webcaster will immediately owe more in back licensing fees to SoundExchange than the combined total of all revenues they have ever received. More details are on Kurt Hanson's website here: http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/030207/inde x.shtml
The Internet

Submission + - The RIAA is trying to kill internet radio

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sgeirk
sgeirk writes: "The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB),announced the new Soundexchange royalty rates, which could spell the end for many independent webcasters, not to mention the simulcast signals for many commercial and non-commercial radio stations. In a nutshell, rates are going to double between now and 2010. Even webcasters who stream through services like Live365 may be in jeopardy, as such firms' business models never envisioned a royalty rate this high. For more information on this story go here."

Comment Re:Oh great... (Score 0) 288

by deiol (#15016159) Attached to: Holographic Storage Crams in 0.5TB Per Square Inch
Yeah, I second the vapor status. Every few months something about "holographic" storage is posted to Slashdot, it is all by the same company which has claimed to break all these storage barriers, has this company ever produced any evidence of this technology? Have they ever produced *anything* real?

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