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• RapidShare: From "Notorious Market" To Proactive Piracy Eliminator February 9, 2012
  In a 2010 submission to the US Government, RapidShare was described by the RIAA and MPAA as a “notorious market” for pirated media. Just one year later the file-hosting service was given a tacit clean bill of health. […]
• What the RIAA Won’t Tell You: Users Matter February 8, 2012
  The truth is that a broad swath of public interest, consumer rights, and human rights groups were fighting these bills from the get-go, because we saw how they would harm users, not just technology companies and platforms. Due in part to the hard work of this coalition in raising public awareness, millions of those users saw that, too, and that’s why they co […]
• Infographic: Flash Still Bests HTML5 by Most Measures In Web Gaming February 8, 2012
  Apple may have hitched its star to HTML5 with iOS-based devices like the iPhone and iPad, but Flash is still more secure, more available, and used for more multimedia overall. […]
• Why Jailbreaking should be legal February 8, 2012
  The Electronic Frontier Foundation has selected some of the best submissions from the Copyright Office's review of whether it should continue to be legal in the USA to "jailbreak" your devices in order to make them more suited to their needs. In this post, we hear from a deaf man who jailbreaks his phone so that he can use it as an assistive d […]
• Speed Tests: Mac OS X Lion vs. Windows 8 Developer Preview February 8, 2012
  Windows 8 promises to give Mac OS X Lion a run for its money when it comes to speed. […]