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• Long-lived hacker mag shuts down

  Hacker magazine Phrack is to close its doors after almost 20 years serving the darker side of the Internet and communications community.

• Three convictions in Net piracy sweeps

  The U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday that three men pleaded guilty to criminal copyright infringement, as part of what attorneys called the largest multinational Net piracy investigation to date.

• A new hope for BitTorrent?

  Just weeks after legal attacks crippled the popular BitTorrent file-swapping community, an underground programmer from its ranks has stepped forward to announce new software designed to withstand future onslaughts from Hollywood.

• Feds convict warez pirate

  The US Department of Justice has landed its first conviction against an American defendant trapped via Operation Fastlink, a multinational law enforcement effort undertaken against online software piracy.

• BitTorrent file-swapping networks face crisis

  BitTorrent 'hubs' that publish lists of movies, TV shows and other free downloads went dark over the weekend in a major victory for Hollywood.

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  Download Mac warez, pay the price

  Mac users should heed the call and realise that root user stupidity can always subvert any security in place.

Features and Case Studies (4)

• 10 ways to avoid being the victim of identity theft

  Identity theft is on the increase, to the tune of 10 million victims in the U.S. and $50 billion in costs. Share this list of preventive measures with your end users, friends, and family members to help protect them from this escalating crime.

• The fellowship of the 1GB storage lockers

  Move over Google, here comes Middle Earth. British-based Planet-Tolkien.com is the latest company to offer a Web-based e-mail product with 1 gigabyte of storage--a trend that kicked off in late March with the test release of Google's Gmail service.

• Activation aggravation

  Commentary: What benefit, exactly, are consumers meant to get from product activation?

• How ethical hacking saved the day

  What should you do if your hacked servers are being used for illegal purposes? Read this case study to find out.

Reviews (5)

• Mythconceptions

  Commentary: The average fairy tale has more truth in it that some of the rubbish that's endlessly reiterated about software piracy.

• Activation aggravation

  Commentary: What benefit, exactly, are consumers meant to get from product activation?

• Avert your gaze! 8 filtering packages tested

  Just how good are web filtering packages? We put eight of the best head to head in our Australian review.

• There's a bear in there... and some warez as well

  In the shark-infested world of peer-to-peer file sharing BearShare is an unobtrusive delight, marred only by a low success rate in downloading files.

• Copy, right?

  Commentary: As digital media shifts from CD-Rs to writeable DVDs, the question of copyright fair use isn't getting any less relevant.

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