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Adrian Lopez writes “According to PC World, ‘Hollywood may have won a battle, but the war against piracy is far from over. Unauthorized file sharing will continue (and likely intensify), if not through The Pirate Bay, then through dozens of other near identical swashbuckling Web sites. … What Hollywood needs to remember is sites like The Pirate Bay are like weeds. When you try to kill one, they grow back even stronger. In this case, The Pirate Bay already moved most of its servers to the Netherlands, a move that could keep the site running even if The Pirate Bay loses its appeal.'”

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Researchers have added ferroelectric capability to material used in common computer transistors. The result could mean no more waiting for the operating system to come online or to access memory slowly from the hard drive.

“Google now can and does do what the Pirate Bay has always done,” Edelman says. “And if they’re prosecuted, they would have much more interesting arguments in their defense.”

Microsoft and Apple have been in the forefront of efforts to green IT and computing in general — and, of course, letting the world know about their efforts. But because Linux requires less processor power and less advanced hardware, it may be the greenest operating system of all.

Miracle Jones writes “Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive has jumped on Google’s ‘Authors Guild’ settlement and asked to be included as a party defendant, claiming that they ought to get the same rights and protections from liability that Google will receive when the settlement is approved by federal court. From the Internet Archive’s letter to Judge Denny Chin: ‘The Archive’s text archive would greatly benefit from the same limitation of potential copyright liability that the proposed settlement provides Google. Without such a limitation, the Archive would be unable to provide some of these same services due to the uncertain legal issues surrounding orphan books.'”

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