"Hurt Locker" File-sharing Suits Moving Ahead with Subpoenas
September 3, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
A few months back, Voltage Studios (the indie studio that made “The Hurt Locker”) began legal proceedings against those seen illegally sharing the movie online. 5,000 “John Doe” lawsuits were filed by the film’s producers. Voltage Pictures has now started moving ahead with the next phase of the legal process. Several ISP customers have received notices that their provider has been subpoenaed, and must turn over their names to Voltage’s lawyers.? A number of small movie studios have been working with the law firm of Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver. This firm is managing the cases in exchange for a portion of any settlements of judgments that result. The ACLU and EFF have both strongly opposed this action.
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"Hurt Locker" File-sharing Suits Moving Ahead with Subpoenas
The 404 659: Where we check out the bubbles on that one (podcast)
September 3, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
(Credit: Facebook) Facebook is about to get a whole lot creepier. A small group of users are beta-testing a new “subscribe” button located under users’ profile pictures that could make Facebook stalking as simple as a single click. The button is a lot like “following” someone on Twitter and here’s how it works: If you click the “subscribe” button, all of that user’s activities, from new pictures to status updates to videos and links, will show up in your notifications. Few details have been released so far, but we’re interested in knowing if the service will show you who’s stalking your profile or if you can subscribe to non-friends, which would take the creep factor up to a solid 10.
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The 404 659: Where we check out the bubbles on that one (podcast)
Samsung Officially Announces the Galaxy Tab
September 2, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
It’s hardly? a secret ?that Samsung’s been working on a 7-inch tablet device called the “Galaxy Tab.” Still, it’s always nice to have confirmation, and that’s exactly what we got today from Samsung. While we’re not sure that we agree with the press release that the Tab is a “new category of device” (prepare for the initial wave of iPad comparisons in 3… 2… 1…) it does have a pretty compelling featureset, including Flash support, DivX certification, and front- and rear-facing cameras (1.3 and 3 megapixels, respectively). Inside, the Tab’s packing a 1GHz Cortex A8 proc, a PowerVR SGX540 GPU and 512 MB of RAM. Every version of the tab can connect to Wi-Fi and 3G networks (with a data plan, of course.) It’ll be available in a 16GB and a 32GB model, and it ships with Samsung’s TouchWiz UI on top of Android 2.2 (Froyo).? No word on pricing yet, but expect the Tab to come out in Europe in September, and in the states sometime after that
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The 404 656: Where we vote yes on virtual girlfriends (podcast)
August 31, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
It’s not too late to enter the JetBlue All You Can Jet Giveaway! You only have until 12 p.m. PDT to tweet out this message: Follow @the404 and RT this for a chance to win 1 of 2 #AllYouCanJet @JetBlue passes. Rules: http://bit.ly/dodRKs #AYCJ Don’t forget that you have to be at least 18 years old and a resident of the United States to enter. We’ll tweet a congratulatory message at 3 p.m.
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Google Discussing Streaming Movie Rentals with Major Studios
August 30, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Google has been quietly dabbling in streaming movie rentals since the beginning of this year. YouTube’s repertoire of rentable movies continues to grow at a steady pace, but the service commands little attention. That is likely to change in the next few months as big G plans to add streaming movie rentals from major film studios to its catalog, according to a Financial Times report that cites several sources familiar with ongoing negotiations between Google and the movie studios. The plan is to launch the streaming movie rental service, or more accurately its expanded avatar, in the US first, before offering it to the rest of the world. New titles will be available for streaming at the same time as their Blu-ray and DVD releases, with each movie rental costing $5. If none of the movies in YouTube’s current catalog impress you, or if you live in a country where the service is currently unavailable, then you could consider scouring its Movies channel , a repository of free streaming movies that recently received a massive shot in the arm through partnerships with movies studios like Lionsgate, MGM and Sony Pictures
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How To: Automatically Upload Pictures to the Internet As You Take Them
August 25, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
When you’re a tech journalist, you learn some tricks for getting the news out of meatspace and onto the internet as fast as humanly possible. Pictures in particular have always been a challenge, and although technological advances have made uploading them easier over the years, it’s still impossible to have pictures you take with your DSLR transmitted immediately and automatically to the internet. Or is it? In this article, we’ll share out top secret industry secret ?method, which lets?you use two cool gadgets together to automatically upload your photos as you take them, no matter where you are. In order to pull this off, you’re going to need the following items: Seeing all this stuff laid out may seem a little daunting, but the basic idea is simple: the Eye-Fi is a special SD card that has a Wi-Fi antenna and a processor inside that allows it to automatically upload pictures, over a Wi-Fi network, to an online service.
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How To: Automatically Upload Pictures to the Internet As You Take Them
How Blind People See the Internet
August 24, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Your eyes are absorbing this webpage. They’re passing over this, this, then this word, right now. That’s how reading works, online: you take this for granted. But what if you couldn’t
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How Blind People See the Internet
Toshiba Tablet Images Pop Up on the Web
August 24, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Italian website Notebookitalia.it posted a handful of pictures they claim are preview images of Toshiba’s upcoming tablet, the SmartPad. From the looks of things, Toshiba has no problem borrowing heavily from Apple’s iPad design
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Toshiba tablet images spilled onto net
August 24, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
More tablet news this morning, this time regarding Toshiba’s effort at clawing some market share away from the iPad. Notebook Italia has published some leaked pictures of what the site claims is Toshiba’s tablet, which has apparently been christened the SmartPad
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USB And Sitck
August 19, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
Pyogenes Gruffer. posted a photo: Taken for the Our Daily Challenge. Topic for 18 Aug is MADE FOR EACH OTHER. That USB hole and memory stick sticky out bit were just made for each other.
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