According to numbers compiled by the blokes over at the Official Charts Company (OCC), Britain went and passed the 500 millionth digital download mark, and these are of the legal variety.

"There are nearly 70 legal music services, more than any other country, and consumers continue to embrace the choice, value, and innovation on offer," said Geoff Taylor, chief executive of music industry body BPI.

"Five hundred million downloads is an astonishing achievement especially given the ongoing backdrop of widespread illegal downloading the music industry still faces."

By the end of August, the OCC had recorded 102 million legal downloads, and is on pace to record 170 million by the end of 2010. That would surpass 2009's 150 million downloads and 2008's 110 million.

In a blog post on Thursday, Capcom announced that Dead Rising 2: Case Zero has claimed the crown as the fastest selling Xbox Live Arcade game of all time.

"Capcom is happy to announce that its recently released downloadable title, Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, has broken all records on Xbox Live with the best week one unit sales in the history of all content distributed through Xbox Live Arcade," Capcom said.

Capcom stopped short of disclosing hard numbers for its Dead Rising prequel, but unless someone's abacus is busted, it would have to be at least 200,000 copies, which is how many Epic Games' Shadow Complex sold in its first week when it broke the one-week sales record for a single player game.

The Aland Islands sit at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia and, collectively, form the smallest region of Finland. The total population is less than 30,000 spread out over 572 square miles, and those that are connected to the Net enjoy download speeds on average about 5Mbps faster than the U.S.

That's according to Ookla's Household Download Index, a list comparing and ranking consumer download speeds around the globe based on millions of recent test results from Speedtest.net. South Korea Tops the list at 32Mbps, and coming in second is Latvia with 24.85Mbps.

And what about the U.S.? We're pulling in a respectable 27th place with an average download speed of 10.16Mbps, trailing such world destinations like the aforementioned Aland Islands (15.08Mpbs), Kyrgyzstan (14.16Mbps), Lithuania (22.54Mbps), and the Republic of Moldova (23.25Mbps), to name just a few.

As for last place (#162), that goes to Zambia with 0.26Mbps, followed by Nepal (0.40Mbps), Zimbabwe (0.43Mbps), and Afghanistan (0.53Mbps).

How do you compare? Hit the jump and post your broadband speeds (downstream/upstream), ISP, and if you're so inclined, your general location.

Researchers from the University of Ballarat's Internet Commerce Security Laboratory have it all wrong. Everyone knows BitTorrent is mostly used for downloading Linux distros and game demos, right? As it turns out, it's even hard to type that with a straight face.

It's no secret that BitTorrent is a popular tool for snagging copyrighted content, but is BitTorrent getting a bad rap? According to a new study, if anything, we might be underestimating just how much illegal content flows through the file sharing protocol.

The above mentioned researchers examined 1,000 torrent files from 23 trackers and found that 89 percent of the content was confirmed to be copyrighted, while the remaining 11 percent was suspect at best. And out of all those files, only three of them were confirmed legal. That's .3 percent, folks.

Broken down into categories, movies, music, and TV shows were the most popular, with not a single legal file being shared among any of them.