Suburban NYC family settles music piracy suit

After battling a suburban family for four years over music downloads, the recording industry has agreed to accept $7,000 — paid in installments — to settle its federal piracy lawsuit.

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Tentative settlement reached in NY piracy suit

Lawyers have reached a tentative settlement in a music piracy lawsuit filed by the recording industry against the children of one of its best-known opponents, both sides said Friday.

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Free Business Book Is Web Sensation

The Oprah touch doesn't just work for traditional books. More than 1 million copies of Suze Orman's "Women & Money" were downloaded after the announcement last week on Winfrey's television show that the e-book edition would be available for free on her Web site, , for a period of 33 hours.

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Most Fans Paid $0 for Radiohead Album

Radiohead let its fans decide how much to pay for a digital copy of the band's latest release, "In Rainbows," and more than half of those who downloaded the album chose to pay nothing, according to a study by a consumer research firm.

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Teen Accuses Record Companies of Collusion

A 16-year-old boy being sued by five record companies accusing him of online music piracy accused the recording industry on Tuesday of violating antitrust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats.

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Record Companies Sue Defendant's Kids

Patricia Santangelo wouldn't concede in her fight with record companies that accused her of pirating songs over the Internet. Now the companies are hoping for an easier tussle against her kids.

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Photo Essay from Time Magazine. Not sure how old this E-Reader list is. But I didn't know there were other companies outside of Sony and the Kindle that were selling competitive E-readers. Cool. Would love to buy one of these.

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Microsoft yesterday blamed user confusion for the problems many have encountered trying to move from Vista to Windows 7 after buying a discounted upgrade offered to college students.

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Almost four months after his death, Michael Jackson fans can hear the King of Pop's voice yet again, as the first of his new songs debuts today. The pop star's single "This Is It" is released posthumously.

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You have probably heard a lot about this whole app craze, but without having actually downloaded an app, you are not sure where to begin. Fear not! You have come to the right place.

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Black Internet, the Pirate Bay's largest bandwidth supplier, just shut down the notorious BitTorrent tracker after a court ordered it to pay a fine of 500,000 kroner ($70,800). Since about 9:30am PT, the site has been inaccessible.

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Users of the iPhone know applications are available for everything from tuning a musical instrument to firming up household finances. Now Pittsburghers can download an 'app' that might help improve city streets.

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In our 'behind the scenes' series TorrentFreak tries to peel away some of the mystery surrounding BitTorrent sites and the people who run them.

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Need a break? Take these fun and free downloadable games for a spin. Tired of being productive? Who isn't? Every now and then, all you want to do is get in front of your PC, waste some time and have some fun.

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Cyberattacks that have crippled the Web sites of several major American and South Korean government agencies since the July 4th holiday weekend appear to have been launched by a hostile group or government, South Korea's main government spy agency said on Wednesday.

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Mozilla today released Firefox 3.5 into the wild. Not surprisingly, it's flying off the virtual shelves. And unlike when Mozilla released Firefox 3.0 last year, its servers are staying up and reliable, so the rate of downloads is pretty incredible.

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WASHINGTON - TENS of thousands of applications are available for Apple's popular iPhone and the iPod Touch but a report released on Thursday indicates that only a few are likely to attract widespread usage.

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. Call it the anti-Hulu.

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"Normally in our American legal system, we say the punishment should fit the crime," said Ken Port, director of the Intellectual Property Institute at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul.

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Is it to early to proclaim—loudly, as you do—the practice of buying video games at retail dead? Yes, it probably is too early; yet we continue.

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Today, Flash is everywhere. Animations, music, games, advertisements or even streaming presentations. Speaking of games, here's a list of site with the best flash games.

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We now have it straight from the horses mouth: the Windows 7 Release Candidate will be available for public download on May 5th. The Windows 7 beta team reports that they've had a feedback report sent to them at the rate of 1 every 15 seconds during the busiest periods.

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Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. More Articles

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T-Pain is said to have broken four teeth and suffered several cuts and abrasions on his face during a freak golf cart accident that took place on Friday.

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Security researchers said they have discovered software capable of stealing information installed on computers in 103 countries, an apparently coordinated cyber-attack that targeted the office of the Dalai Lama and government agencies around the world. More Articles

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01 – Funky Mozart 02 – Never Can Say Goodbye 03 – On the Outskirts of Minitow 04 – Hap'nin' 05 – Cold Sweat 06 – Bee 'n Tee 07 – Spanish Harlem 08 – Soul Drums 09 – Blow Your Lid (But Watch Your Cool) 10 – Funky Donkey 11 – Testifyin' 12  …

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So begins a new day for the venerable YouTube, the popular video streaming site is testing downloadable videos which include both a free and a for-pay model.

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State of the World 2009 Climate Change Reference Guide and Glossary, compiled by Worldwatch researchers Alice McKeown and Gary Gardner. This guide is a resource for policymakers and others throughout this critical year moving toward the Copenhagen negotiations in December 2009.

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Amazon has officially launched the beta for their casual games download store. Here you'll be able to digitally download easy to pick up and play games.

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Watching Waltz with Bashir online

Oscar-nominated film "Waltz with Bashir," about the Sabra and Shatila massacres, cannot be shown in Lebanon because of the country's boycott of Israeli products, the information minister.

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KDE's software consists of a large number of individual applications and a desktop workspace as a shell to run these applications. You can run KDE application just fine on any desktop environment. KDE applications are built to integrate well with your system's components.

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