That Viacom is suing GooTube for $1bn is old news – a great opening shot in the negotiating battle to come, but old news.
The thing I don’t get is, why would Viacom bother? One of the podcasts I listen to is Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code. On each episode, he plays (at least) a couple [...]

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IE7 has only been on release for a week, but Secunia are reporting another vulnerability along with a working proof-of-concept. This one is about spoofing the address bar in a pop-up window, and has the potential to be used in phishing attacks.
With IE7 having been available in Beta form for a long time, there will inevitably [...]

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After my recent post about trusting allofmp3.com with my credit card details, it seems that the dillema is moot.
Credit card giants Visa and Mastercard have stopped accepting transactions from allofmp3.com, both saying that they don’t want their payment networks used for “illegal activity”. I wonder how much pressure the Recording Industry Ass. of America had to [...]

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