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Security firm McAfee found that users searching for the star’s photos or screensavers had a 20 percent chance of getting a site that had malicious software.
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork," George Orwell wrote in his 1949 tale of a totalitarian regime “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”
Qtrax, an Internet company that promises the first free music download service paid for by advertisements, said Wednesday it had signed up the last of the four major recording companies and plans to relaunch next month.
David Cook's "American Idol" win is already paying dividends on the music charts. The 25-year-old singer raked in 942,000 digital downloads in just a week, according to figures released Thursday by Nielsen SoundScan. The numbers are from the week ending Sunday.
Apple Inc. said Thursday that new movies from a slate of major studios will now be available for purchase over iTunes the same day they're released on DVD.
SpiralFrog.com, an ad-supported Web site that allows visitors to download music and videos free of charge, was scheduled to launch Monday in the U.S. and Canada after months of "beta" testing.
A music download site that was the poster child for U.S. anti-piracy crusaders and an obstacle to Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization has been shut down by Russian authorities, according to the U.S. government.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has launched its long-awaited online movie download store, entering a market that has yet to catch on with consumers but is expected to grow rapidly.
When SpiralFrog announced a deal with a major recording company to offer free, ad-supported music downloads, it made headlines as a bold but natural step, giving the label a share of the fast-growing Internet advertising pie, while squeezing out pirates.
Electronic Arts Inc. is taking the wraps off of a major overhaul to its download service for computer games, signaling the largest video game publisher's commitment to the growing trend of online distribution.
Movies and television shows from Paramount Pictures will be available for sale through AOL's new video portal under a deal announced Monday.
The Philadelphia Orchestra will become the first major U.S. orchestra to open its own online music store for consumers who want to download performances.
Google Inc. on Wednesday plans to begin letting consumers download and print free of charge classic novels and many other, more obscure books that are in the public domain.
The new "X-Men" movie and television shows like "24" are coming to a computer near you.
The guy who recorded "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" has joined other performers in a lawsuit against Sony Music over royalties for downloaded music.
Hollywood has been tiptoeing its way toward letting consumers buy a movie online, burn it onto a DVD and watch it on a living-room TV. While the studios hesitate, the adult film industry is taking the leap.
Rock bands Cheap Trick and The Allman Brothers Band are suing Sony Music, claiming they are being shortchanged on royalties for songs downloaded legally over the Internet.
A published report says the Disney Company plans to start making some of its most popular programming available free on the Internet.
10 Essential Windows 7 DownloadsWindows 7 may be brand spanking new, but that doesn't mean you can't find free or cheap tools to tweak its settings, add features, or smooth an upgrade from XP or Vista.
Apple, Eminem headed for trial as talks break down | Technology | ReutersIt sound like a greedy grab for money from Apple, inc. The managing company that handles the rights for distrobution of the music granted apple permission to sell his music.
Opera 10 Downloaded 10 Million Times In Its First WeekIn the first week after its release and after many favorable reviews – including our own – Opera Software has announced that its revamped desktop browser has been downloaded 10 million times and is now in use by millions of users around the world.
Fla. man blames cat paws for child porn downloads Florida investigators say a man accused of downloading child pornography is blaming his cat. Keith Griffin of Jensen Beach is charged with 10 counts of possession of child pornography after detectives found more than 1,000 images on his home computer.
Let's celebrate Firefox's 1 billionth download!Where were you when Firefox passed 1 billion downloads? It happened sometime yesterday, some five years after its first release, in 2004.
Firefox 3.5 Soars Past A Million Downloads. Approaching 100 Downloads A Second.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.
Woman fined to tune of $1.9 million for illegal downloads(CNN) -- A federal jury Thursday found a 32-year-old Minnesota woman guilty of illegally downloading music from the Internet and fined her $80,000 each -- a total of $1.9 million -- for 24 songs. Illegal downloads of musical files will cost a Minnesota woman $1.9 million, a ju …
Jury rules against Minn. woman in download case - Yahoo! News on Yahoo! NewsFree downloads are getting very costly.
Browser Wars Continue: Apple Claims 11 Million Downloads For New Safari In 3 DaysOpera may be reinventing the web next week, but in the meantime the browser wars continue to rage on. Apple has come out with a news release claiming its latest browser, Safari 4, has topped 11 million downloads in the first three days of its release.
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Reports: Sony mulling game rentals, music downloads for PSP?Sources are saying that Sony in early talks with the big music labels about a music store for the PlayStation Portable, while a recent survey raises the possibility of downloadable game rentals for the portable console.
I have collected many GBs worth of material on Nikola Tesla and his work. Other than the fascination, none of it is a practical use to me since I am not an engineer nor a physicist or inventor.
Running to Ceragon and cellular upgrades due to "Susan Boyle effect"The relay of information over networks due to Apple's iPhone and its competitors is forcing communications companies to invest in the type of equipment supplied by Ceragon, because existing network infrastructure is old, and part of it is near the point at which it will not be …
Apple's Application store has, just minutes ago reached 1 billion application downloads but now begs the question - can we expect to see 2 billion within months due to its amazing growth?
Here's a thought - what about adding a small fee onto your broadband bill each month to cover the costs of your ''illegal'' music downloads? Yes, another cost on top of the already expensive bills, but maybe it's something that the record companies need to look at instead of tryi …
Blockbuster Integrates OnDemand Service Into TiVoBlockbuster has announced that it will integrate its movie download service into TiVo DVRs in the US from the middle of this year.
DSi To Get Virtual Console For Game Boy Games?The Wii has a Virtual Console. Lets you download games from the NES, SNES, Master System, etc. No Game Boy, though. Why? Maybe because they were saving those for the new Nintendo DSi.
Trent Reznor: download now?Left in dire straits by downloading, the music industry is in desperate need of retuning.
Resident Evil 5 Xbox 360 Torrent Appears 10 Days Before ReleaseWith 10 days still to go until release; a version of of Resident Evil 5 for the Xbox 360 has appeared on file sharing networks. That means for the remaining 9 days we'll probably see a number of grainy spoiler images and videos appearing across the 'Net.
Isle of Man considers unlimited downloads as Ireland pulls plugsThe Isle of Man is dealing with the crime of Internet piracy in an equally novel way: by accepting defeat. Rather than police the Internet for illegal activity, the Isle of Man has proposed a radical new tax of £1 ($1.45) per week that will be paid directly to recording compani …
EDGE: Can aging rockers provide cheap, accessible music?"I think the majors at the moment — I'm not dissing them — but I don't think they really know what's going on. I get the feeling that, with the download culture, they're floundering a bit, because they've had it their way for so long."
Record labels eye mobile music gamesMusic games such as Tap Tap Revenge are a bow-tied, brightly colored gift to the ailing record industry, which has struggled in recent years to adapt to the realities of the digital landscape.
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