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Gigaom is reporting that the new 250GB cap Comcast announced recently may not be set in stone. In a chat with the site, Comcast spokeperson Charlie Douglas said the cap, which is roughly 100 times more than the average Comcast customer uses in a month, will likely rise as average consumption rises.

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With help from the so-called Web Sheriff, Michael Jackson (along with The Village People, UB40, and some folks who have the rights to Bob Marley’s music) are going to take on The Pirate Bay, just like how MPAA did. This all springs from, as you may already know, the fact that a lot of people are getting their music for free through the very popular Torrent web site. But of course, The Pirate Bay Team stands more firm than ever, with Brokep commenting that, “The common thing for all of these artists of course is that no one listens to them anymore.” Harsh. Now if that doesn’t hurt the Web Sheriff’s feelings, I don’t know what will. Oh, wait, I know—if they don’t win the case (which has a very high probability). Good luck to them all, though.

Via [Torrent Freak]

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If you torrent a lot, then you will be happy to hear about this new product by Myka. Usually, whatever we download we end up watching on our computer screen, but sometimes we just want to watch it on the bigger screen of our big screen TV. To do this, people often burn it on a DVD, or if they have a video iPod or any other PMP, they could convert the video to put it on that and then play on the TV. All of the above can become annoying and time consuming. Apple saw that people had a hard time with this and designed the Apple TV. Now this helped some people, but you would have to buy the videos of iTunes in order for this to work.

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Evan will be filling in as The Water Cooler contributor while Bryan continues his plot to take over the world, for the next few weeks, across the pond in London .

Before I start on today’s topic I want to call everyone’s attention to my favorite non Gadgetell blog on the internet, written by a great technology mind, Mark Cuban the man behind HDNet, the former Broadcast.com, and is currently the owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks as well as other tech/video ventures.  In the past few weeks he has written some great entries on blogging, MySpace and the pure stupidity of shareholders: all are a must read. Check them out at Blogmaverick.

One of Cuban’s recent posts deal with the new partnership between BitTorrent and Warner Brothers. These two seem like more of an odd couple than Kobe and Shaq; you have to wonder what possessed these two sworn enemies to unite.  Pretty much BitTorrent will provide a similar platform as iTunes. Whereas iTunes currently offers television shows, WB will offer Movies and shows. The puzzling thing here is, iTunes only has legal products on its catalogs and has total control, whereas no matter what the WB want to believe, there will still be copies of illegal content on the servers. Cuban found MI-3 and Scary Movie 4 with relative ease according to his blog.

Maybe there is something I don’t know but I trust Cuban in his research and if the legal files are going to be right alongside the illegal ones, what’s going to stop Joe Downloader from taking a peak at the newest movie rather than shelling out the $9. Just imagine the excuses you can give if you were to get questioned by the authorities, “how am I supposed to know whats legal and whats not if it’s all showing up on the same search that WB has”. So good luck to the WB and their parent company TimeWarner because we all know you are the smartest of businessmen…after that AOL debacle of a few years ago - maybe you’ll prove me wrong, but I think you’re making a big mistake here.

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