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Today on its blog, Pogoplug answered the burning question: “What happens if Pogoplug goes out of business?”  The group over at Pogoplug has taken the impressive and humbling step of thinking about what will happen to their customers if Pogoplug should ever go belly up.  You don’t come across such… Continue Reading »

There’s a fairly new file syncing program in town, and it is getting lots of positive feedback from its users.  Dropbox is an online sync and storage service that is able to be used over Windows, Linux or Mac.  It relies on Amazon S3 storage, and has both a free… Continue Reading »

When, oh when, are they gonna learn it is pretty much senseless to even attempt to hunt down the pirates?  Right or wrong, P2P file sharing happens.  And suing the creators of the popular Pirate Bay isn’t gonna stop it.  And now, in a rather obvious attempt to support that… Continue Reading »

The Swedish courts handed down a landmark decision by finding the four founders of the wildly popular torrent site Pirate Bay guilty of hosting copyrighted material on their website.  Along with being sentenced to one year in prison each, the company will have to pay an estimated $3.5 million to… Continue Reading »

The Pogoplug, a device that lets you get to the stuff on your hard drive through the internet, and one of Gadgetell’s favorite things at CES, is now shipping to US customers. So, if you pre-ordered it, your wait is finally over. If you didn’t order one yet, you can… Continue Reading »

It seems like a never ending story doesn’t it?  People are downloading music and not paying for it.  Naughty, naughty.  The industry has their panties in a bunch over the fact people are downloading music illegally.  Threats ensue.  “We’re gonna get you all.”  “Oh no you won’t, pirating will live… Continue Reading »

This morning, a Harvard professor and his students will defend two Rhode Island residents from the RIAA, which is suing their son for sharing 7 music files on Kazaa.  Although Arthur and Judie Tenenbaum are not named in the suit, the RIAA is attempting to force them to turn over… Continue Reading »

You don’t even have to be illegally sharing your files to have the gaming firms after you apparently.  Just ask Gill and Ken Murdoch.  They’re senior citizens who don’t even play computer games and had never even heard the term “peer-to-peer” until they got a letter in the mail telling… Continue Reading »

Remember Jammie Thomas?  The single mother who fought against the RIAA when they sued her?  She was originally told to pay $222,000 for copyright infringement.  On Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Michael Davis declared a mistrial and ordered a retrial.  The mistrial is ruled on the grounds that the RIAA… Continue Reading »

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… Continue Reading »