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Comment Re:Or how about Android Marketplace? (Score 1) 270

it should only look in other directories if i explicitly tell it about them. and hell, i think it should ask me first before even scanning the default directory. i opened picasa the other day after one of its updates and it had convienently forgotten my "do not scan" orders and began scanning the entire hard drive again, adding a bunch of random images into my photo library. pissed me off. and it was entirely too hard to tell it to stop scanning as well.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops the Most Pirated Game of the Year 5

Torrentfreak reports that after calculating download frequency for pirated copies of popular video games, Call of Duty: Black Ops has won the dubious honor of being the most pirated game of 2010. The PC version of the game was torrented roughly 4,270,000 times, and the Xbox 360 version was downloaded an additional 930,000 times. (The most pirated Wii game was Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Dante's Inferno somehow managed to accrue the most downloads of Xbox 360 games.) Fortunately for Activision, the game has still made over $1 billion in sales, and its 20,000,000+ players have racked up over 600,000,000 man-hours of play time since the game's launch in early November.

Comment Re:Sounds good... (Score 1) 451

if your isp is capping your monthly download by a megabyte total, then you could argue that you are already paying a sales tax on those megabytes because you are most likely paying a sales tax on the service. however, it sounds like this is more aimed at the perceived value of a file, and not the size. what if the government decides that a linux iso has the same retail value as windows or os x?

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