A group of programmers have created ratDVD http://www.ratdvd.dk/, making it easy to compress all DVD components into a single file-not just the movie itself, but also the extras, the bonus footage, the directors commentary, the alternate endings.

Japanese media report that the programmer of the popular file-sharing software has been arrested on charge that he supported the proliferation of illegal copying of copyrighted materials. The P2P client author is a teaching assistant at a University of Tokyo graduate school. The software called Winny, supposed to be based on freenet, would allow anybody to publish and read infor