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.
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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.
In a blog post this week, Google announced plans to add a new layer of security to its Chrome browser by having it warn surfers of potentially malicious downloads. This is in addition to Chrome's "Safe Browsing" technology, which Google says "has done a lot of good for the Web," though admits that "the Internet remains rife with deceptive and harmful content." This is where malicious download warnings will come in.
A new study reveals that the land down under is overflowing with illicit downloaders. Some 5 million Aussie scallywags pillaged television shows, music, and other online content that supposedly cost the related industries a combined $900 million. That number will rise into the billions in just a few short years.
Apple is reportedly trying to get major music labels to give iTunes customers unlimited downloads of music they've already purchased. If successful, iTunes users would be able to access and download purchased music across multiple devices, in essence having a permanent online backup in case the originals are lost or damaged.
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