They say that with DRM (Digital Rights Management) it is possible to clean up the mess that is on-line music and video piracy. But not if your name is Sony! The nippon conglomerate employed a company to install a DRM system called XCP on their CDs and DVDs. This guy at Sysinternals smelt a rat and has outed the closet music company.

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Are we hip or what! Ed the Editor signed us up to a new voice-messaging option from Snapvine. It is a pretty cool deal for on-line voice comments that you can leave or listen to on a PC or mobile phone. All we need is a community, a telephone and a small budget to use the service properly, and The Pisstakers will be in business.

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Google shares (GOOG) went up through the roof and left (YAHOO), the puublishers of this financial information, on the ground floor. Oh how Yahoosters must be rubbing their search engine wounds. But just how do the Googloids do it, defying the "experts" at Wall St time after time? The answer for this quarter? More fancy Adsense backgrounds!

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Dear User, (don't they mean loser?)

We are Andy and John the directors of MSN, (yeah, right!) sorry for the interruption but this is an email to inform you that MSN is closing down. (OMG quick, phone Bill Gates, warn him of his impending unemployment.)

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After searching high and low on Google, at last, Lordy Lordy, we have found a simple, stylish and free way to add a Rate this article feature to Rapidweaver and other blogs that do not have an interactive rate or vote feature built-in. Thankyou Pro.rate for a rate this article solution that requires no php scripting, no hand-coding

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Anyone got any ideas for names for Astromodder's computer-based website? We came up with Knackered hacker, PC mod bod. Maybe you can do better?