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  1. Comment - First signs of the Obama administration's technological aptitude

    (Nov 6, 2008 - 8:23 PM)

    I hope this has an impact on the stock market tomorrow :)

  2. Comment - A peek at an early build of the new Win7 taskbar

    (Nov 5, 2008 - 9:31 AM)

    I like it. I'm currently running Windows XP Pro, while my coworkers are running Windows Vista. I installed the prebeta of Windows 7 on a PC here for testing and all the drivers were detected. It runs fairly quick too. Installed microsoft office 2007 and several in house applications with no problem. Have not received any errors either. I think this one will be a winner. I was told it was built from Windows server 2008.

  3. Comment - Real suspends RealDVD in wake of MPAA lawsuit

    (Oct 7, 2008 - 3:22 AM)

    This will be an interesting battle. Six major movie studios are suing the company together.

    A similar lawsuit happened in 2004 against 321 Studios the company that made DVD-X Copy and DVD Copy Plus. They ceased operations. Their lawyer said that they couldn't afford to do business and fight all the legal affairs.

    MPAA is all about keeping the profits high for movie studios. It's a corporation. Piracy has been proven to cut profit for them and proven over and over. MPAA studios lost $6.1 billion to piracy in 2005 globally. Not sure how they calculate that loss, but hopefully not by taking every pirated movie and multiplying it by the average price of all of them or plus and minus for the pirated movies that are purchased elsewhere 'illegally.'

    Technology has improved substantially in the last decade. DMCA was established in 1998. People used to be able to copy VHS movies and nobody would care. Now it's lawsuit after lawsuit.

    Good luck to RealNetworks.