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Yep, those bloody pirates have struck again! But the British police were right to save the day as they conducted a dawn raid in Cardiff, Welsh and arrested three people suspected of involvement in Internet-based music and film piracy rings. Two men (one of which is the ring leader) and a woman were said to be part of the biggest suppliers of pirated music and films in Britain, earning about 3,000 pounds (6,173 $) a month. Now I understand how these cyber thieves find the piracy business a lucrative one. Too bad it�s considered illegal and unethical. But piracy is not going to end unless people stop buying from them. Just some food for thought, folks.

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China has long been identified as one of the leading sources of hackers and malware the world over along with Russia and many other countries. Their aims may be for economic and other means yet the country itself is falling victim to it’s generation of computer savvy youth’s armed with the know how and cheaper technology coming in from the West to do more damage it now fears itself from home-based hackers. There have been publicized cases of hackers being caught and prosecuted but the government is taking more steps to prevent such incidents happening from within its borders. Continue Reading »

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The Intel 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH7M) driver seems to be the one you’re looking for.  You desire to put that on a CD or floppy and when you start installing xp the blue screen with white text appears on the far end “Press F6 if you need to install a SCSI or RAID driver….” press F6 and put in your disk with the sata driver. I found plenty of sites with the driver download by just googling “Intel 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH7M)”.

People with notebooks usually don’t have a USB Floppy to install SATA drivers from, so you will also have to use nLite to merge them with install CD, or search in BIOS Setup for an entry like “SATA Native mode” and set it to disabled – that will allocate legacy software to detect your HDD as a normal PATA drive.

You have to install the SATA driver earlier than turning the native support off.

Peer-to-peer sharing of files is killing the music industry slowly AND surely. Not only the music industry but also that of the movie, publishing and other industries affected by it. With the boom of the internet, people are now more “free” to share files online in a matter of seconds.

Limewire probably is everyone’s favorite for small-file sharing. You can download the program over the internet for free and log on to their servers (Gnutella) and start downloading and/or sharing files. For large scale downloads such as movies and the like, different torrent programs are available too over the internet.

There is a thin line between piracy and personal use when it comes to peer-to-peer file sharing. Some say that if you are to use the file only for yourself, then you are not committing any kind of copyright infringement. But the fight over the term “piracy” starts when one burns (technical term for copying CD contents with the use of a CD writer) a CD full of song compilations and gives that CD to someone as a gift. Some say that as long as the person did not give that CD in exchange for money, then he/she is cleared of piracy, however, some say otherwise.

The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has already sued a number of file sharing programs such as KaZaA, Limewire and Grokster for violating copyright laws.

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Bad news for that certain someone who leaked the info at Sun Microsystems. Intel is furious when news of a particular PDF document that outlines the year-old partnership between the twp companies. It does not contain highly- sensitive information however there are pricing details and other information on a new high-end Xeon for multiprocessor server. Sources state that the leak came from the Austrian offices of Sun and has wormed its way outside the company’s network. However, Intel still refuses to comment on said leak.

SOURCE: Internetnews