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Despite the legal hoopla related to its DVD ripping practices, Kaleidescape is still releasing high-end media servers designed to save the rich (and now their spawn) from the hassle of opening a movie box. The Cinema One is its latest and most affordable creation to date, but still costs a hefty $4,999. For the most part, the server is just a cheaper replacement to 2009’s Mini System, that can store up to 225 DVDs or 2,500 CDs for instant access. It also sports the same hassle-free setup, but adds a new wrinkle in the form of kid-friendly features. Specifically, a junior remote is included in addition to the standard version, which triggers a simplified system UI anytime it’s used. While we’re all for toddlers being able to watch their favorite content too, at this price we’d have rather seen support for Blu-rays and dare we say Netflix streaming. Then again, we aren’t in the best position to judge the value of a digital babysitter. For more shots of the kiddo UI and remote check out the gallery below, otherwise read the full PR after the break.

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This article was written on May 27, 2008 by CyberNet.

Can you believe it’s already been a year since Viacom tried to purge Google’s money bank with a $1 billion dollar lawsuit against YouTube? Ever since March of last year (2007) when the lawsuit was filed, we hadn’t really heard much of what was going on, until yesterday. According to the Associated Press, YouTube is claiming that the Viacom suit against them is a threat to online communication. This claim was officially filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan as YouTube’s response to Viacom.

So what exactly does Google mean by this claim? Google said that if they have to become liable for Internet communication, and thus other carriers and hosting providers would have to become liable, Viacom “threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news, entertainment and political and artistic expression.”

What Google has going for them is that they say they do their very best to follow the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In fact, they believe they go above and beyond what is even required of them, but it’s still not good enough for Viacom. According to Viacom, they have found over 150,000 clips of copyrighted material on YouTube and they say those videos have been viewed over 1.5 billion times. Despite what Google says, that they remove copyrighted content and help content owners protect their work, Viacom says Google does “little or nothing” to help stop the infringement.

It’s turned into a big game of “he said, she said” and from the sounds of it, it’s only going to get uglier before all is said and done. From our knowledge, we believe Google does what they can to keep copyrighted videos off of YouTube, yet Viacom says making those videos available is part of YouTube’s business plan. Heck, YouTube even implemented a copyright filter (which launched back in October) to help identify copyrighted content as it appears on the site. What more can YouTube do? Should they lose this battle with Viacom, I believe they could be right in that it will threaten online communication.

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GT5 is finally, finally out, but amazingly it seems to have beaten its official steering wheel to market. For a long time Logitech has maintained the honor of building the wheel that carried Gran Turismo branding, and indeed its Driving Force GT is still the first wheel in the GT5 options. But, Thrustmaster seems to have secured the license for the franchise now and is building a wheel called the T500RS which, if you go Thrustmaster.com, you can get a quick peek of — or you can just look at the screengrab above. The wheel promises unrivaled accuracy and what looks to be the same sort of magnetic sensor technology used in the company’s overwhelmingly beefy HOTAS Warthog controller. Rumors say it’ll carry a similar price, too, a whopping $500 MSRP without the optional H-pattern shifter and, though our attempts to confirm anything were shooed away like so many fruitflies, we’ve been promised more info to come at CES.

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This article was written on August 28, 2008 by CyberNet.

If someone were to ask me who I’d rather meet in person if given the choice between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, I’d pick Bill Gates. He’s an excellent public speaker, and he always seems to be a humble, gracious man. Steve Jobs on the other hand, it’s not that I don’t like him, it’s just that there’s an arrogance to him that can get on my nerves. Despite this, I still feel like I have to stick up for the guy. Lately he’s been getting a lot of grief over his health. Most recently, news source Bloomberg “mistakenly” published his obituary. Yes, his obituary.

According to CNET, it’s not unusual for big media outlets to have obituaries written up for famed individuals, even if they are perfectly healthy. That way if something should happen, they can immediately post an announcement and make a few minor changes if necessary. It sounds kinda creepy if you ask me, but it makes sense. This helps explain why Bloomberg has an obituary written for Jobs but it doesn’t explain how someone mistakenly sent the pre-written obituary out over the wire for all to see.

If Jobs ever wondered what he accomplished in life (I don’t think he would, but…), now he knows. According to Bloomberg, he “helped make personal computers as easy to use as telephones, changed the way animated films are made, persuaded consumers to tune into digital music, and refashioned the mobile phone.”

Of course with this mistake came more talk and speculation on his health and the way he looked (rather thin) at WWDC . Like I said, the guy can be arrogant sometimes, but it’s about time he is given a break!

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We’ve already heard that the Federal Trade Commission is pushing for a “do not track” button of sorts to stop cookies from watching your every move, but it looks like it isn’t stopping at the usual, non-edible definiton of a “cookie.” Speaking at a press conference on Friday, FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz also dropped the rather interesting tidbit that it’s been talking with Adobe about what it describes as “the Flash problem.” As Paid Content reports, newly-appointed FTC Chief Technologist Ed Felten later clarified that the problem in question is actually so-called “Flash cookies,” or what Adobe describes as “local shared objects.” As Felten explained, those can also be used for tracking purposes, but they usually aren’t affected by the privacy controls in web browsers — Chrome is one notable exception. For it’s part, Adobe says that Flash’s local shared objects were never designed for tracking purposes, and that it has repeatedly condemned such practices — the company also added that it would support “any industry initiative to foster clear, meaningful and persistent choice regarding online tracking.”

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