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  • Ideas To Reduce Piracy In The Erotic Ebook Marketplace
    By: Carmella Borchers | - The ongoing debate about SOPA in the United States, as well as the recent shutdown of the Megaupload file sharing service has been an important news element in the past few days. Many copyright holders are hoping that the government will take actions to reduce piracy in the future in order to prevent losses from unauthorized sharing of their materials. However, according to a recent Market Watch report, businesses who sell content online shouldn't rely on the government to protect their works, b ...
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  • Rampant Music Piracy And Broke Artists
    By: Mark Etinger | - When you hear the phrase "starving artist" you generally think of some poor sap painter with only five fans. Four of those fans are members of his family. It has typically implied the world of unknowns, some deserving of recognition and others who should find a new career. We don't really think about the famous musicians we know and love today. They're famous after all. How could they be struggling with bills? But politicians, people against music piracy, and some artists themselves have been ve ...
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  • What Is The Definition Of Maritime Piracy And Could A Victim File Claim As A Result Of It?
    By: jasouan7fo | - Maritime piracy has been a serious matter challenging the international community and overseas industries for centuries. The pirates are no longer looking for treasure or gold, however. Piracy these days target vessels holding oil or goods, and additionally passengers have been taken as hostages.


    Global attempts to fight piracy spurred restored assault strategies instead of a reduction of these frightening incidents. If you've been the target of a maritime piracy incident, a ...

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  • How To Safely Download Movie Online?
    By: peter | - Today, downloading movies online are extremely popular among the movie buffs to save their favorite movies on PCs, iPods, iPhones etc. Even those who are not regular to the theaters are going the online way to watch their favorite movies. Some of the reasons why people prefer to download movie online include its convenience and the very fact that its a far more economical way. Going to the theater calls for a lot of things. For instance you may have to drive to the place wasting the expens ...
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  • Piracy Concerns Rise In Online Book Market
    By: Carmella Borchers | - Electronic editions of books have been available online for quite a while now, with the first ones appearing around 1994, when the internet was just starting to be used by individuals rather than scientists and business people. Over the years, they have become much more popular, when increased use of the PDF format came into existence and then with the launch of e-reader devices such as the Amazon Kindle. People can now purchase and download millions of books in electronic format, such as romanc ...
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  • Dish Network And Its Methods To Combat Piracy
    By: cherly brown | - In the past few years, DISH Network has become the fastest growing Satellite TV provider in United States. With superior content and the best of prices, DISH Network has more than fourteen millions happy and satisfied customers. There are also a host of other Satellite TV companies who are competitors of DISH Network. But nobody can match with DISH Network. With the rise in the prices of Cable TV bills, people are fast switching to DISH Network packages. This has lead to an increase of a lot of ...
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  • Data Loss Protection "€" Anti Piracy Strategies
    By: Achilles Marshall | - Every publisher will be pleased to acquire anti piracy software that can ably protect PDF documents, swf flash content and html content. Fortunately, DRM - digital rights management platforms are available to address these needs and also to provide the necessary controls to adequately implement data loss protection (DLP). These platforms allow the author to register a customer using a licensing system, select the right customer access level, create customized messages to tell unauthorized users ...
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  • Marine Software For Easy Sailing
    By: shyampaliwal | - Managing a ship is no mean task; there are a lot of preparations and one has to attend to a dozen things everyday. An organized approach can really help simplify even the most complicated matters on a ship on a regular basis. Maritime software can help you in this regard. Use of the maritime software these days is quite common in a ship. Such software can help organize maritime activities in a more efficient manner so that precious effort, time and money are never wasted.

    Maritime ...

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  • The Ip Piracy Menace Of India
    By: Santosh Kumar1 | - Today we have easy access to software products in the market with just a single degree of separation between the producer and the consumer. On one hand, it has opened up new vistas for software developers, content producers and publishers; but on the other it has created a host of new problems, foremost among them being counterfeiting and piracy.

    Software being one of the most valuable assets of an organization, its illegal reproduction and distribution has significant implications ...

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  • Somali Pirates Have Cranked Up The Action
    By: tishbite | -
    The world is aware of the piracy situation in the Gulf of Aden. Pirates from Somalia have found that kidnapping crewmen and the merchant ships which they operate is a lucrative way to make some quick cash. Someone has to be funding the pirates from behind the scenes but if the world powers that be know who it is they arent saying.

    Piracy has been so prosperous that it is growing by leaps and bounds. Piracy is up almost 100 per cent in th ...

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  • Ebook Piracy- Do Publishers Need To Be Worried?
    By: Pratap Chowdary | - Ebooks are getting popular by the day. A look at the statistics released by International Digital Publishing Forum for 2010 seconds that fact. The sale of ebooks in USA alone was USD 119,700,000 for the third quarter of 2010. Thats up from USD 4,900,000 for the same quarter in 2006, a jump of almost 25%. However, theres a dark side to the popularity of digital content, and thats piracy.

    Although there are no clear numbers to suggest the extent of piracy in the epublishing ...

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  • Why Anti-piracy Technology Is So Important?
    By: Phyllis | - Baidu, the largest search engine in China, has about 70 percent of China's search market by revenue, announced on Thursday it would introduce anti-piracy technology for its document and books product in May. Last week, the firm was criticized by authors who demanded to remove numerous copyright infringing books and documents found on its Baidu Library product.
    Anti-piracy technology is a better way to reduce piracy than legal enforcement. More and more publishers and booksellers have r ...

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  • When A Spammer Goes Rogue - The Donald D'avanzo Effect
    By: robert dcosta | - What happens when a broken, defeated, and failed spammer turns rogue? He creates a spammer from his failed actions to serve as a scapegoat, and then he promotes his creation to the top of Google with keyword attacks that spawn defensive keyword attacks from his victim.

    Then, he does what any good spammer would do and he monetizes his creation by registering domains bearing his victim's name in the url (knowing that is the primary keyword of interest now), and he adds
    banner ...

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  • Spamhaus Creates The Spammers And Then Profits From Them"€¦
    By: robert dcosta | - NANAE and Spamhaus are the internet's most significant terrorists by far! They have been preaching their "permission-based email" manifesto for years and have made a mess of U.S. Commerce in the
    process. Why is it, with a cause of "no ads", they still seem to lose the war. They chase around smaller email marketing firms calling them spammers and vile names and attempt to ruin their reputation online,
    so what does this do...

    Well, since NANAE, the terrorist organiza ...

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  • Pirated Software Or Cheap Software?
    By: Rondle Tomsen | - Software piracy is the copying, selling, or installing and using a software product wherein the software developer was not compensated for the product.

    The negative effects of software piracy are not only against the manufacturer or developer of the software, but also the reseller and the consumer. There is an increased risk of a user's computer becoming infected with a virus or other type of malware and if the end user gets caught with the software on their computer they can be fin ...

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  • The Internet's Influence On Music Libraries Evolution
    By: Sneitben Tiens | - At first the internet was seen mainly as a threat to the livelihood of music artists and recording studios. Producers were concerned for their financial books, since they believed internet sharing would kill their businesses by leaving them with no means to make profit from the music. The rush could not be stopped, however, and music has flooded the web through both legal, and currently illegal, means.

    Music companies began to see that stopping the technology was a futile task and swi ...

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  • Software Piracy A Disadvantage To It Firms
    By: | - When software is pirated, consumers, software developers, and resellers are harmed. The ever increasing availability of high speed internet must also surely play a large part in the piracy "market". Software piracy gave a sharp awakening to copyright infringement counsels around the world. Those who knowingly use a copy of software "borrowed" from work or supplied by friends, who probably acquired it by the same means. If downloads are made available on the Internet, make sure that the publisher ...
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  • Software Piracy - Why It's A Bad Idea
    By: Jose Sanborn | - We have all heard of programs that allow you to share information, software, and music with other Internet users. This is often referred to as file sharing. Sometimes, file sharing is perfectly acceptable, such as when people are sharing free information or open source and free software programs. However, the ease of sharing these files also makes it very easy to share software that is copyrighted. This is considered software piracy and it is very much against the law.

    If you have e ...

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  • Software Protection - How Developers Protect Their Intellectual Properties
    By: Laurence Connelly | - Software protection refers to the ways that the manufacturer tries to prevent unauthorized people from copying the material enclosed on the medium, ordinarily a compact disc (CD) or a digital video disc (DVD). It's copyrighting the information that's present of the CD or DVD so that the manufacturer is able to create money from it, and so that people can not copy it without purchasing it as well.

    There are actually numerous ways that manufacturers try to circumvent people from copying ...

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  • Software Licencing Policy Crucial For Smes
    By: David Parks | - Going by the rising cases of security breaches and malicious virus attacks, it has become imperative for SMEs to be on the right side of IT-related laws and adopt suitable measures to guard their systems and applications. Besides deploying necessary software applications, opting for a suitable software licencing policy also becomes crucial as it gives an organisation not only the legal right to use the software but also takes care of vital factors such as upgrades or updates, software support an ...
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  • How Piracy Actually Hurts Open Source
    By: Jay A. Jenkin | - Piracy is a problem for software, music, movies, books, and almost every other form of digital media. Steps have been taken, like digital rights management and software codes, but many people have easily broken this type of protection and make versions of the files that are open for anyone to steal. Generally, piracy is seen as hurting paid software but it actually also hurts open source software as well.

    Piracy keeps the idea that industry standards are the best. Let us take Pho ...

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  • The Navy's New Littoral Combat Ship
    By: tishbite | - If you have been following our blog you may remember several posts that I have written in the past on the new Littoral Combat Ships (LCS).
    Delivery of the USS Independence (kind of sounds like the Independence Navy ring doesn't it) was accepted in Mobile Alabama recently. This is the first of a new class of Littoral ships that the Navy will acquire in the future. Littoral ships are designed to operate close to shore in the Littoral or shallow water zone. This kind of gives me an idea of wh ...

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  • Global Piracy Incidents
    By: Andy Jones | - Global piracy on international shipping waters is a problem that has been occurring far more frequently in recent years. If we go back ten years ago to the turn of the millennium, piracy was thought to be consigned mostly to the history books and was almost never heard of. A mention of the word piracy would have conjured visions of swashbuckling brigands and hoards of gold hidden somewhere in the Caribbean; the word was reduced to an historical anachronism and veiled in romanticised visions. Wit ...
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  • Piracy Claim Against Sonicview Usa Could Not Be Proven
    By: James Harrison | - Dish Network LLC has to wait further to put an end to the alleged piracy by the Sonicview USA. Earlier, they have alleged to the federal court that Sonicview is pirating their satellite programming and appealed the court to order a TRO or Temporary Restraining Order. However, the court has expressed that order the TRO without notifying the defendants would be too harsh an order.

    However, the judge has not completely routed out the allegations. According to reports, the US Distri ...

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  • Everybody Wins Except Musicians?
    By: Indiana Gregg | - A relatively new 'Pirate Party' has emerged out of Sweden in the last few years. This party, founded in Sweden, and currently under the leadership of Rick Falkvinge has gained some momentum having landed a seat in the European Parliament. However, what's really on their agenda?

    So far, this group has used arguments about how you can't stop new technology and to some extent, I agree. Rick Falkvinge explains how new technology traditionally replaces dying industry. Here's their sketch ...

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  • Quick Pirate Downloads
    By: Linus Orakles | - The people are always interested in getting something free of charge. You can call it stealing or grabbing o the piracy, but the people always try to get the copy righted materials free of cost. The piratebay.org is the website where you can get all the copy righted materials as the free downloads. These copy righted materials include movies, music, software and many more other materials. What is this piratebay.org and what are these free downloads? Let us get more info about these in this short ...
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  • Dealing With Hdmi And Piracy
    By: Aydan Corkern | - There are so many benefits to HDMI in your home theater. One of the features is that HDMI has the ability to protect your data from piracy. Using high bendwidth digital coy protection or HDCP to protect your system from pirates looking to steal your information or signal. HDCP is nothing more than an authentication protocol. What this means to the user who is not so technically savvy, each of your home theater devices has data to identify it as well as encryption data which is stored on the ex ...
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  • A Short History Of Pirates & Piracy For Kids
    By: Stanley Lewis | - You may be surprised to learn that piracy and pirates have been part of the world for thousands of years. Even during the days of the Egyptian pharaohs, there were instances of ships on the water that attacked other vessels. The word pirate actually comes from a Latin word; periato .... which means a "sea bandit".

    Certainly the Romans and the Greeks had to deal with pirates when they began exploring the lands bordering the Mediterranean sea. The very first known definition for the ...

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  • The Pros And Cons Of Digital Music Files
    By: Aydan Corkern | - Very much has changed about the way businesses and people in society handle their work and personal business. With the introduction of advancements in technology, a great many improvements have been made that have benefited us and helped improve our quality of living. The internet, for example, has greatly revolutionized the way we retrieve information, and it has also expanded our ways of communicating with one another. What could only be done through landline phones can now be done over the co ...
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  • Considering Product Activation? You Need To Think About These 10 Issues
    By: Agilis Software | - Product activation is a popular approach for securing software licenses. However, software developers need to consider all the requirements for a capable activation system, from the license models they'll need to support to how they'll deal with the corner-case customer environments.

    The basic activation process is typically as follows. Upon purchase the software vendor sends a unique product serial number to the user. When the user installs the application they are prompted to en ...

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  • Why Product Activation For Software Is Becoming Widespread
    By: Agilis Software | - Product activation is widely used by software vendors to protect their applications and enforce license agreements. While some users object to any form of license management, modern product activation systems are superior to other techniques from both the vendor's and the end-user's perspectives.

    Software vendors use license management for a variety of reasons. They are often concerned about protection from piracy, and protection against users exceeding their agreed license terms ...

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  • Larbi Belrhiti Talks About Inova Interactive's Mmo, Piracy Age
    By: Larbi Belrhiti | - Now living the swashbucklers life is only a click away on the web.
    I recently sat down and spoke with the managing director of Inova Interactive, Larbi Belrhiti about his game Piracy Age. Piracy Age is a massive multiplayer online game where players take on the role of a pirate, manage a crew and, according to the site, reach absolute notoriety and fear on the seas, and use the means of terror and force to achieve it.
    Piracy Age was released this month (March 2009) a ...

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  • Fbi Reports Upon Crime On The Internet Thriving In Recession
    By: Jeff Ryan | - Today, whether you talk about the IT industry, real estate, or any other business group, topics revolving about the recession are prevalent nearly everywhere except one. Unfortunately, it happens to be the field of internet crimes.

    Recently, as per the reports generated by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) ( controlled by the National White Collar Crime Center as well as FBI), here are some mind boggling facts and figures about internet crimes in past 12 months.
    Fir ...

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  • The Fast Paced Development Of Technology And The Challenges This Presents To The Legal System
    By: Andrew Frowen | - The process of law making is notoriously long and drawn out, with Bills taking months or even years to pass into to law. In the realms of computer crime, where technology develops apace, this sometimes means that the law is left flagging dangerously behind.

    An area where law particularly struggles to keep up with technology is in the prevention of breach of copyright by illegal distribution of intellectual property via the internet. For example, copyright law has struggled to ke ...

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  • Hire A Private Investigator For Safe, Professional Investigations
    By: Chris Robertson | - Do you have a runaway teenager? Do you need to investigate to find a witness for a legal court case? Are you trying to resolve a worker compensation matter, or collect information for anti piracy or fraud? Unfortunately, these situations and others do come up occasionally and only thorough investigations can help resolve these matters. It's occurrences like these when the services of a private investigator may help.

    A private investigator (a.k.a. private eye or PI) is someone who ...

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  • Only Fools Use Freeware
    By: Johnson Philip | - I live in a fast-growing town in Kerala, India. Fast-growing also means a town loaded with computer-fans. Even the janitor in our church seems to consult a computer before he sweeps so that he can cover the whole are in minimum sweeps and also to to decide upon the the latest ergonomical strokes of the broom to obtain maximum cleaning with optimum effort.
    Without doubt, almost every computer-user here seems to be loaded with the latest version of MS Word, Photoshop, Video editing software ...

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  • Warez And The Crack Factor Of Internet Piracy Can Piracy Law Stop Crack Addiction?
    By: Stephen Watson | - Warez often originates from hackers that crack a code for the thrill of the challenge. But crackers, those in the hacker world who crack and profit from software piracy, have capitalized on the efforts of hackers and their cracked codes successfully building a billion dollar international underground economy. This underground community of cracker pirates thrives on international software and Internet piracy.

    Litigators, copyright holders, and media giants are wo ...

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  • Software Piracy And Internet Pirates Going To Prison
    By: Stephen Watson | - Software piracy gave a sharp awakening to copyright infringement counsels around the world. Software piracy law efforts backed by the SIIA (Software and Information Industry Association), the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), the Business Software Association (BSA) and of course Microsoft, are running fast and furious to intimidate internet pirates and quash any and all efforts of internet piracy, software piracy and copyright infringement on software, music and film. Efforts a ...
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  • Internet Piracy Of The Nations: Piracy Law Treaty Negotiations
    By: Stephen Watson | - Internet piracy disrupts economic growth across the continents. How nations react to Internet piracy could well define the future economic health of a nation. Piracy laws and copyright infringement laws have reached global attention - and international treaties continue to grow that seek to give credit to the originator and encourage economic gain while still promoting freedom, progress and education.

    Copyright laws have existed for centuries but have been weak in internationa ...

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  • Fighting Music Piracy On College Campuses
    By: Jill Moss | - When the parents of today's young people were in school, sharing music was a slow process. They had to copy songs from a vinyl record or a cassette using a tape recorder.

    Today friends can share the latest hits at the speed of light over the Internet. Peer-to-peer networks make file sharing easy -- and, in many cases, illegal.

    Five years ago, the Recording Industry Association of America, the R.I.A.A., launched a major effort to catch music pirates. Piracy violates ...

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  • Tougher Anti Piracy Laws To Cause A Stir.
    By: Alan Arnott | - Software Piracy Law. Hard - working software resellers attempting to make an bona fide income are now facing a conflict with software pirates that's hotting up.

    New Battle against Piracy

    Hard - working software resellers attempting to earn an bona fide income are nowadays coming to terms with a conflict with software pirates that seems to be getting more ardent every day; this is caused by burning, ripping, mod-chips and and p2p technologies that let software pirate ...

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  • What Is Theft?
    By: Incbizz | - This week I read an article that really stopped me in my tracks. It related
    an incident where the writer of the article found out that one of his
    employees had stolen a packet of toilet tissue from the store cupboard and
    fired him. The employer cited that if the employee had stolen a packet of
    toilet tissue then he did not know where the stealing would stop. The article
    went on to say that the same employee had come to him years later and thanked him and i ...

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  • Microsoft Is King Of Computer Software
    By: Andy Tao | - Software was all complicated when it initially stormed the market. Only computer nerds were associated with it, but a lot of things have changed today. Thanks to Microsoft, they have made everything very simple for users. Software has also evolved a great deal when it comes to daily usage.

    A lot of things in the software field happened only because of Microsoft. Even though there have been many competitors in the field, they have ruled the roost. They have been least perturbed by ...

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  • The Cons Of Using The Internet
    By: Andy Tao | - Though the internet has enabled us to function every day without any hassles, there are still some cons to consider about this medium. First there is the content on the internet. There is so much unlimited content, that anything can be availed through this. There are no limitations to the age groups using them as well. Today there is endless number of people using the internet for various negative reasons.

    One very common activity is the use of spyware and adware. This allows anyo ...

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  • The Dark Side Of The Net Pays Dividends
    By: Prophet of Profit | - Now I'm not talking Blackhat SEO a popular theory being pondered on by people who have not much to risk; who have sites related to pretty much junk, in for the quick click buck.
    I'm talking about an old secret method of marketing that you likely have never even heard of. I know you've seen it, its called p2p marketing. Sometimes its referred to as Viral Marketing. For Viral Marketing to work you need something cool that people will automatically forward to all their friends, alot of co ...

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  • Life Imprisonment For Copyright Fraud Could Be Enforced Soon
    By: Chidi akomas | - The penalties for copyright fraud could soon be much severe. What would you think a reasonable punishment for pirating a copy of windows would be? A slapped wrist and don't do it again? A fine? How much though? Maybe about double the cost of buying it in the first place? Yeah, that sounds about fair.

    On a related note what types of crimes do you think would merit a life sentence?. In America, legislation has been proposed that would mean certain kinds of copyright infringement co ...

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  • The Danger Behind Peer-to-peer File Sharing
    By: Migz Mon | - File sharing is very common nowadays. You can get a P2P (peer-to-peer) program for free, and soon start sharing stuff like music, videos and programs. We use these applications freely and most of us don't know the risks involved when using them.

    Questionable reliability of files - Once we get our hands on a P2P program, we download everything we want like crazy. Favorite music, free softwares, as long as it is available, you download them. Hackers, attackers, or whatever, use thi ...

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  • Ebay Issues New Digital Product Rules
    By: Michael Nalbone | - Acknowledging higher demand for digitally delivered products, Mara Holian, from eBays Product Marketing team said that eBay is tightening the rules for egoods in an effort to "improve the way these items are bought and sold on eBay".

    Sellers will now be required to identify digital items during the listing process and provide additional information about each product.

    Listings for digital products will now include:

    *System Requirements.
    *Fi ...

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