12079596
submission
mbravo writes
"Turns out that every Canon prosumer and professional DSLR and even their professional video camcorder, the $8000 Canon XL-H1A, can only be used "for personal and non-commercial purposes". For everything else, you need a license from MPEG-LA and pay royalties, as detailed in an OSNEWS article by Eugenia Loli-Queru"
11438148
submission
mbravo writes
"Domain registration authorities have abolished special status for 2-nd level geographical domains, such as .SPB.RU and .MSK.RU, and are currently transferring the maintenance of them to a commercial registration company. According to the comments received over the phone from the company representatives (as described here — http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/domains/90936/ (in Russian, use Google Translate or Yahoo! Babelfish)), 3rd level geographical domains will stop being free and will become paid at the same level as any domain in .RU zone. Which means 600 roubles per domain to register (approx. $20) and 450 roubles to renew, per year.
There is at least a million records in these domain zones.
Several other, non-geographical zones are similarly affected, such as COM.RU, NET.RU, ORG.RU, PP.RU
Website of the RU-CENTER registration authority to which the control is being transferred — http://nic.ru/ — is currently not responding, making business of current paying customers impossible, as well as retrieval of any news."
242551
submission
makomk writes
"The BitTorrent (Mainline) 6.0 beta has been released, and it's a rebranded version of uTorrent. Unfortunately, it's also closed source and Windows-only. (Apparently, BitTorrent Inc always planned that the next version of Mainline would be closed-source, even before they decided to base it on uTorrent.) It also comes with a mysterious content delivery system called BitTorrent DNA, which appears to consist of a single invisible background task, dna.exe.
Does the original, open source BitTorrent client have a future, or is it time for its users to switch to one of the many other BitTorrent clients?"
