Robert De Niro's character in the movie Heat offered up some words of wisdom for those who operate in the criminal world. He said, "Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner." BTJunkie, one of the largest torrent search engines in the world, might not have been doing anything illegal, but with all that's been happening lately, the site's founder thought it best to take De Niro's words to heart and voluntarily shut down for good.
Google Music has allowed users to upload as many as 20,000 songs since it launched last year, but those tracks were stuck in the cloud. Only purchased songs could easily be downloaded to a local PC. Well, today that has changed, and U.S. users of Google Music are now able to pull down their entire cloud-synced music library of uploaded and purchased tracks.
The U.S. government's 
Select members of Congress are trying to convince advertisers to join the fight in stifling piracy on the Web. Leading the charge is the Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus, which has taken pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and written letters to three prominent advertising agencies asking that they refuse to pay websites thought to be serving up illegal software.
Most of the world's nearly 7 billion inhabitants don't have the means to physically explore every corner of the Earth, or even a quarter of it. That doesn't mean we're not intensely curious about this rock we live on, which might help explain how Google Earth has been downloaded over a billion times since it launched six years ago.
Ruh-roh Shaggy, peer-to-peer file sharing just became a little more dangerous. Hackers up to no good (and no, those two don't always go hand-in-hand) set their sights on BitTorrent.com and uTorrent.com, sneaking in the back and replacing legitimate downloads with tainted copies brimming with malware.
Hey, guess what? Walmart has an MP3 store! Some of you already know that, and for others, you're just now finding out. There's a good chance the latter outnumbers the former, which would help explain why Walmart is closing its MP3 store by the end of the month. Or maybe music listeners were just too settled with iTunes, Amazon, and other music marts to pluck MP3s from Wally World.
While 
Let’s face it, summer is no friend to your brain. When you’re not busy killing it with beer, late night campfire parties or Michael Bay movies (seriously, he needs to be stopped), your poor grey matter gets boiled inside your noggin from taking on too much direct sunlight during weekend trips to the beach. To make up for the annual beating visited upon your poor noodle, we recommend treating it to some of the best free education on offer anywhere in the world. Do your brain a solid and direct your browsers to Massachusetts Institute of Technology's OpenCourseWare Program, our Cool Site of the Week.
Hopping around the web downloading programs willy-nilly is a surefire way of putting your PC's security software to the test. Think you're in the clear if you download judiciously? If only! According to Microsoft, 1 out of every 14 programs downloaded by Windows users contains malware. What's worse, even though Internet Explorer 9 has multiple layers of security designed to protect surfers from socially engineered malware attacks, 5 percent of IE9 users blatantly ignore the warnings.Connect with MaximumPC
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