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Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox are busy funding some new, super-duper anti-BitTorrent technology called BitStalker . The difference between it and other anti-BitTorrent systems is that it’s said to be accurate . That’s a huge development, actually.

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Top BitTorrent sites are not afraid of BitStalker

Do not expect UFC to look the other when it comes to online piracy of its various pay-per-view events. Dana White, the company’s president, recently told the Vancouver Sun that he and the UFC will do whatever it takes to eliminate piracy

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UFC’s Dana White throws down, vows to go after Internet pirates no matter the cost

I feel like I’m missing something important with this concept. It appears that the keyboard slides out from the bottom of the monitor, but there’s no way to orientate it the way a keyboard should be

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MSI concept all-in-one has keyboard that slides out the bottom – wait, that doesn’t work at all

I question the actually utility of this, except for in corporate ID badging. It is cool though, combining OLED, RFID, and 3D into an ID.

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OLED ID cards creepy, probably helpful

Imagine this in 3D.

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Avatar has hit telesync, but by all reports you should just pay your money

Hey, something’s happening in China vis-à-vis piracy! The country’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has been fiddling with downloads there for the past few days, and people are complaining that they’re not about to access the content they were once able to. The new action affects BitTorrent download and has all but taken down VeryCD, which is supposedly the country’s biggest download site

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Banhammer hits loads of Chinese piracy sites

After more than a month of listening to their U.S brethren blab about how great the Droid is , folks in the UK finally got the chance to nab its European-doppelganger, the Milestone. Well, for about 3 hours anyway.

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Motorola Milestone sells out in the UK in three hours

Not a day goes by without coming across one or more stories related to The Pirate Bay . Today is no different, with OpenBitTorrent (a tracker that Hollywood has accused of being The Pirate Bay’s spiritual successor, serving some 550,000 “works”) being given a new lease on life by a Swedish court.

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Targeted by Hollywood, OpenBitTorrent lives to fight another day

The Pirate Bay just can’t catch a break these days.

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Oh dear: The Pirate Bay removed from Google’s search index

It’s time for story Eight Million and Six-teen about how the record labels and the musicians they ostensibly represent no longer get on with each other. This time, we have a bit of a row developing over in the UK, where that proposed knock-people-off-the-Internet-for-file-sharing law is currently stirring division amongst the ranks

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It’s brother versus brother in the UK re: that proposed anti-file sharing law