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Submission + - Windows Vista keygen is a hoax

Submitted by on Saturday March 03, 2007 @01:32AM

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!"

Submission + - Joost and YouTube are different beasts

Submitted by Tookis on Friday March 02, 2007 @11:56PM

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.

Submission + - Copyright Royalty Board Terminates Internet Radio

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 02, 2007 @11:00PM

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

Submission + - The RIAA is trying to kill internet radio

Submitted by

sgeirk

on Friday March 02, 2007 @10:34PM

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."

Feed Fertility: Hot Tub, Cold Fish (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Friday March 02, 2007 @10:32PM

A new UC study lends credence to the old wives' tale that hot baths can lead to male infertility, but it also says the effects can be reversible. In Bodyhack.

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

by deiol on Wednesday March 29, 2006 @02:57AM (#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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