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Comment Re:Universal shoots itself in the foot. Film at 11 (Score 1) 287

by SuperFunFunFun on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @05:28AM (#19728093) Attached to: Universal Refuses To Renew On iTunes

Hold on, Hold on. The iPod is NOT a prosecutable monopoly.

This whole line of thinking is silly. iPod is not a monopoly to begin with and faces stiff competition from other music players ranging from digital media players to your dad's CD player to your granddad's cassette player to great grandpa's Vinyl. iPod is successful, but last I looked CD players sitll outsell MP3 players by a few orders of magnitude.

The Potential of Science With the Cell Processor 176

Posted by Zonk on Sunday May 28, 2006 @07:35AM from the making-a-station-play dept.

prostoalex writes "High Performance Computing Newswire is running an article on a paper by computer scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. They have evaluated the processor's performance in running several scientific application kernels, then compared this performance against other processor architectures. The full paper is available from Computer Science department at Berkeley."

BSA Claims 35% of Software is Pirated 617

Posted by Zonk on Saturday May 27, 2006 @06:21PM from the that's-a-lot-of-eyepatches dept.

hdtv writes "Business Software Alliance says 35% of packaged software installed on PCs globally is pirated, and estimates the losses at $34 bln. From the article: 'The countries with the highest piracy rates were Vietnam (90%), Zimbabwe (90%), Indonesia (87%), China (86%), and Pakistan (86%). The countries with the lowest piracy rates were the United States (21%), New Zealand (23%), Austria (26%), and Finland (26%).' TechDirt analysis debunks some of the myths: 'The BSA claims that all of these "lost sales" represent real harm to the economy. It's the same bogus argument they've trotted out before, which is easily debunked. Much of that unauthorized software is being used to make firms much more productive than they would be otherwise -- probably benefiting the overall economy quite a bit.'"

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