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The case of 28-year old CSU student Matthew Crippen has come and gone. Arrested last year on Digital Millennium Copyright Act violations — specifically, for modding Xbox 360s to enable them to play pirated games — federal prosecutor Allen Chiu announced on the third day of trial that the government was dropping its case against him “based on fairness and justice.” It’s not a complete surprise: according to Wired, on the previous day (Wednesday), an undercover agent testifying against Crippen claimed the defendant used a pirated game to test a modded console in his presence. That detail, required for the prosecution’s case (the use of pirated software), was never mentioned in any of the previous reports or sworn declarations, so once the judge dismissed it as evidence, the case against Crippen hit a snag. Source link’s got the full, very interesting tale, but if you’re patient, there’s always a chance one of the Law and Orders will pick up the story in the years to come.

Accused Xbox 360 modder finds case pleasantly dismissed originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Did you update your free copy of AVG 2011 today, in the hopes of evading a nasty bug? In a set of mildly familiar circumstances, the antivirus company has inadvertently unleashed an even nastier one. Users running 64-bit editions of Windows 7 and AVG 2011 are reporting a STOP error after a mandatory antivirus update this morning, which is keeping some from booting their machines into Windows at all. The buggy update has since been pulled and there are a couple ways to preemptively keep it from happening if you’re staring at the message above, but if you’ve already been stung, you’re looking at some quality time with a recovery disc or repair partition to fix your Windows boot files. Find all the solutions, including the preemptive ones, at our source link below.

PSA: Botched AVG 2011 update might be why your PC won’t start today originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on May 17, 2007 by CyberNet.

We’ve mentioned UTube before, not to be confused with YouTube, the popular video site.  Last November, the Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation (UTube.com) decided that they were going to sue YouTube. They went from getting 1,500 visitors per month to over 2 million once the video site gained popularity. Some might view this as the perfect opportunity to make some extra money off of someone’s mistake, but UTube owners filed a lawsuit stating that they wanted YouTube to stop using the domain, or reimburse them for a new corporate identity.

Now if you were UTube and you started receiving all of that traffic, you’d think that they would realize the potential that’s there and work to make money off of the domain for the long haul, instead of making money via a lawsuit.

Eventually they caught on to that idea because in December, UTube threw up a sponsored search box , some links to monetize the site, and pushed the original content of the site down the page.

Fast forward to now, and UTube is making a decent profit. According to Red Herring, UTube is making an estimated $1,000 per day off of the ring-tone search engine that is certain to attract some of the YouTube seeking users who make the mistake of entering UTube.com into their browser’s address bar.

While their bandwidth costs undoubtedly went up as a result of YouTube’s popularity, an extra $30,000 per month should certainly cover it, and give them some leftover money – yet they’re still suing.

I’d have to imagine that this is the easiest money that corporation has ever made, and I think it’s about time they drop their suit.

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The ultraslim, metallic, chiclet-styled obsession all began back in mid-2007, but a revised iMac in March of 2009 delivered something else: a chopped-down version of the Apple Keyboard. If you’ll recall, that one dropped the numeric keypad and gained two peripheral USB sockets, making it one of the more compact desktop keyboards on the market. Just shy of its second birthday, it seems as if the supply chain overlords in Cupertino have seen fit to discontinue it, though a number of e-tailers still seem to have stock for the moment. If you’re dead-set on snagging one (we know, stocking’s aren’t that long), Amazon can make your day for $46.99, but we’d probably pony up the extra $3 necessary to bring one home with a number pad on the right.

Apple’s numpad-less compact wired keyboard gets discontinued, few tears are shed originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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