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Largest action against sites with free content

By Alex Dobuzinskis

LOS ANGELES, June 30 (Reuters) – U.S. authorities seized nine websites on Wednesday, accusing them of movie piracy by offering free access to movies such as "Toy Story 3".

Kevin Suh, vice president of content protection for the Motion Picture Association of America, a Hollywood trade group, called the action, "Operation In Our Sites", the "largest takedown of illegal movie and television websites in a single action by the federal government."

It involved U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement agencies, and came a week after the White House unveiled an enforcement plan for tackling theft of intellectual property.

Warrants were issued in Manhattan federal court to shut down seven websites: TVshack.net, Movies-Links.tv, FilesPump.com, Now-Movies.com, PlanetMoviez.com, ThePirateCity.org and ZML.com.

NinjaVideo.net and NinjaThis.net were also shut down in another action, but authorities declined to give the location because the investigation is ongoing.

"If your business model is movie piracy, your story will not have a happy ending," Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement.

Bharara said copyright infringement over the Internet costs the U.S. economy billions of dollars.

Suh said past crackdowns have focused on the sale of pirated content, such as DVDs copied illegally.

This latest action marks a move to target websites that offer pirated content for free and make money by selling advertising or seeking donations.

"Their (the federal government’s) shift in focus toward this kind of enforcement is extremely positive," Suh said.

TVshack.net showed an image for the Disney/Pixar movie "Toy Story 3," which is in its second week in theaters, with the words "Watch now."

Other websites targeted in the action had links to such films as "Knight and Day," "Jonah Hex" and "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time," which are all playing in theaters.

The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District said in a statement that Movies-Links.TV had about 3.3 million visitors per month.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement that as part of the action, authorities had seized assets from 15 banks, the e-commerce service Paypal and from investment and advertising accounts, but it did not elaborate on the assets. It also said that four residential search warrants had been carried out.

Pat Reilly, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said authorities would replace content on the websites with a banner saying the destinations had been shut down.

Reilly said further actions were expected against the operators of the websites.

Authorities did not disclose the names of the operators of the websites. (Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis: Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

Source: GeohotPS3, Good site for PS3 Hacking Updates here.

More than one piracy scene group today released iso disc images that bear the build string and filename "7600.16385.090713-1255_x86fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRMCULFRER_EN_DVD.iso."

It’s unclear how different this is from  build 7600 that leaked onto the internet last Sunday, though the filename indicates that it was compiled on July 13, 2009 at 12:55 p.m., making it a few days newer than the one previously leaked.

Microsoft did follow up with a comment on July 13, saying, "Just because a single build may have ‘leaked’ it does not signal the completion of a milestone such as RTM."

Furthermore, Microsoft’s Windows Communication Manager Brandon LeBlanc warned users against using leaked builds of Windows 7. "As always, beware of what you download. There are many bogus copies of Windows 7 floating around the Internet. More often than not, they contain a rather nice malware payload," he said.

"When Windows 7 hits RTM, it will be announced here," LeBlanc continued. "Until that happens, any builds you are likely to see on the web are either not the final bits or are laced with malicious code."

Source: Tom’s Hardware US

Thanks to Tom’s Hardware for the update and for linking to our generated NFO, I hope you guys don’t mind us posting it up here. Be sure to subscribe to their RSS too :D

While German hacker and Team ICE member StreetSkaterFU demonstrated via video (view here – requires Apple Quicktime Software) how the feat was accomplished, in a surprising turn of events, PSP homebrew sceners Alek and Mathieulh confirmed that the exploit was actually doable and real.

A full video in Apple Movie format was released demonstrating how StreetSkaterFU was able to get Warhawk to run without the Blu-ray Disc. Despite the quality and size of the video, the developer claims that this demonstration is not fake. Take note, however, that both StreetSkaterFU and Alek say that this is just a proof of concept for the moment.

Moderator FreePlay of the QJ.NET Forums says that the exploit is actual pretty simple. But according to FreePlay, the exploit is only doable if you have a second hard drive handy and have a good sense of timing.

Watch the video here…
Source: PS3.QJ.net | Alek’ Blog

Rumors about Microsoft planning to cut the price of its Xbox 360 game console, but now there appears to be sufficient evidence that such a move is imminent: Flyers and internal memos posted on the Internet suggest that the price of the Xbox 360 Pro (Premium) console – Microsoft’s volume system – will drop by $50 from $349.99 to $299.99.

Various gaming websites confirmed an earlier report by the Wall Street Journal about the upcoming price cut. Ads from Best Buy Best Buy and K-mart as well as an internal memo from GameStop essentially confirm the $299.99 price beginning Sunday, July 13. The price of the $450 Elite system is generally believed to remain unchanged.

Target online has taken it a step further by already offering the Xbox 360 Pro on its website for $299.99.

So, why the price drop?

There may be two sides to the story. One is the life-cycle of the console. As the production matures, production cost goes down (which has been confirmed by Microsoft over the past six quarters) and enables the company to drop the price to make the package more attractive.

On the other side, the Wii and the PS3 have significant momentum and are hurting Xbox 360 sales especially in Europe and Asia. According to NPD, the Xbox 360 was the second worst selling game console in May: 186,600 units were just slightly ahead of the Playstation portable, which sold 182,300 units. Sony sold 208,700 PS3s and Nintendo 675,100 Wiis and 452,600 portable DS consoles.

Source: tomsguide.com

Despite previous confusion, it is now confirmed that the GPU will come with 800 stream processors, 965 million transistors, 40 texture units, a core that is clocked at 625 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR3 memory at 1986 MHz. The maximum power consumption of the card is rated at 110 watts.

In terms of performance, the 4850 goes head to head with Nvidia’s 9800 GTX (which was dropped to $199 today). Reviews published today indicated that the two GPUs deliver a close race in terms of gaming performance. Most reviews we saw today saw the 4850 ahead of the 9800 GTX in games such as Call of Duty 4, FEAR and in the 3D Mark vantage benchmark under Windows Vista. The 4850 came in behind the 9800 GTX in Crysis, ET: Quake Wars, Stalker, Ghost Recon and Grid.

Some may consider Nvidia as keeping the lead and even extending it with the release of the 9800 GTX+ GPU for $229 graphics cards.

But first reviews indicate that AMD has a solid product on its hands. The 4850 version will be announced on June 23 and become available on June 25, according to our sources, followed by the 4870 on July 8 and the 4870 X2 in mid-August.

According to AMD, the new HD 4850 GPU (codenamed RV770) is superior to Nvidia’s GTX200 in several ways. AMD says that on a performance per watt scale, the RV770 GPU comes in at 1.95x while the GTX200 delivers just 1x performance. Memory wise, AMD says that its RV770 GPU supports GDDR5 memory compared to the GTX200’s GDDR3 support. However, current HD 4850 cards on the market that are starting to appear all come with GDDR3 memory. This is because the HD 8450 cards all use the RV7700 Pro GPU. Those who want GDDR5 will have to wait for cards using the RV770 XT.

The RV770 XT is expected to launch within several days, with an even higher clock speed of 750MHz compared to 625MHz for the RV770 Pro. Because of the memory difference, the overall bandwidth for a board using a RV770 XT is nearly double that of a RV770 Pro board — 115.2GB/sec. vs. 64GB/sec.

Example reviews:

Tweaktown
Guru3D

Source: tomshardware.com

It appears that Mozilla has easily achieved its goal to set a new Guinness world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. Despite the fact that the download pages were virtually not reachable for several hours after the software was officially released at 1:16 PM EDT today (we actually found it posted on Mozilla’s FTP server at 1:31 PM EDT), lots of download requests apparently were successful.

Eight hours after the release of the software, the download counter stood at almost 2.92 million downloads. Mozilla’s own goal was to hit more than 1.6 million Firefox downloads within 24 hours to set a Guinness world record. Firefox 2 was downloaded about 1.6 million within one day after launch. Mozilla said that it will take about one week to review download logs and validate the record attempt.

So far, more than 1 million downloads came from the U.S., more than 100,000 from Brazil, Canada, Germany, Japan, Spain and the UK.

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Why you ask, cause these midgets always seem to find their way back in to the scene over and over and ENOUGH!
Use this ban-list the way you want or dont want its up to you.
We think this is one way to make it harder to “get back” after a ban untill someone cracks a better idea.
Sure, many of these idiots got dynamic ip, wich might change their ip a lot and then back on.
But some of them are static, and many only change last 3 digits so:
We strongly advice all SiteOP’s to use extreme caution when adding a new user with range matching any of below IP’s:
Also Affils traders sceneusers, check your sites ips, it may seem sweet but do you dare dig deeper?

There’s no program or app, just an NFO.
Interesting to know what’s happening in the scene.

So you have a brand new, super-powerful, web-enabled device that could easily run 3rd party software – if only the manufacturer hadn’t spent millions locking the device down so it can’t. Luckily, there are third party services that make it possible to put these gadgets to further use.

TorrentFreak spoke with Kevin Kowalewski of TorrentRelay, which is designed to bring BitTorrent functionality to platforms that don’t support a native torrent client, such as the PlayStation 3, Wii or iPhone.

As we had an iPhone to hand, we decided to give this system a go, choosing the easy mininova option (detailed below) and downloading a single .jpg image from a wallpaper pack. In just a few seconds the image appeared in Safari as promised, but due to limitations in the current version of Safari, it wasn’t directly possible to save the image. I know there is an addon somewhere that already provides this functionality, if only I could find it…but the file transfer component worked fine.

Here is a video showing the process on PS3. We follow up with an interview with Kevin below:

Just got an email saying “I’m a Valued Webroot costumer” but I never gave Webroot a dime. In the email it states I’m invited to test their beta software and I get a 90 day test period with 5GB storage. I love Webroot products so I might as well try the Beta of their newest app and see what their “Cutting Edge Webroot Technology” with “256-bit Military Grade Encryption” can do.
Expect Webroot AntiVirus with Antispyware and Firewall Beta this week and be sure it will be posted shortly after it’s released :-)

Key Features:

• Online and local backup
• 24/7 access to online backups
• Locally and remotely encrypted data ensures that no one except you has access to backed up files
• Easy-to-use interface for quickly selecting files and folders for backup
• Ability to share backed up online files with anyone on any computer
• Unlimited number of versioned files; retrieve any version of a file you’ve backed up
• Access to your backed up files from any computer
• Schedule backups hourly, daily, weekly or monthly
• Unlimited-size local backups
• PC Magazine Editor’s Choice technology

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Here’s the 18mb install but it useless without an account: RS, MU, DF
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