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Do you happen to be one of those rare people who believes that a little marijuana can improve your shooting skills?

It's an important question as, on Friday, the government declared that pot has no medical benefits whatsoever. Indeed, its opinion is that it should remain in the same class of drug as heroin. ...

For years BitTorrent sites have remained untouched by the RIAA’s legal battles, but recent court filings indicate that this may change. After settling their dispute with LimeWire earlier this year the RIAA is now targeting several BitTorrent indexers. The record industry group has filed a complaint at the U.S. District Court of Columbia and has obtained subpoenas to reveal the identities of individuals behind three large torrent sites.
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Life has been something of a rollercoaster ride for Dropbox lately. In May, the consumer cloud-storage service was hit with an FTC complaint based on allegedly misleading contractual language about data security. Last month, a group of consumers filed a class-action lawsuit against Dropbox for how it handled a temporary security hole in the service.
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The decision to bring Pokemon to iOS and Android this summer seems to be final but Nintendo would like to remind you that although the made the Pokemon franchise great, the games are actually built by the Pokemon Company (of which Nintendo owns a minority) and that those guys can do whatever they want.
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Consumers who illegally download copyrighted films, music or television shows might see their Internet speed slowed or access restricted under an industry anti-piracy effort announced on Thursday.
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Researchers from the Tribler project at Delft University of Technology are proposing a new set of rules that should significantly improve the download speeds of many BitTorrent users. The new “Superior Seeding Standard” implemented in the latest release of the Tribler BitTorrent client is inspired by the ratio-enforcement policies at private tracker communities, but doesn’t discriminate against people with low bandwidth connections.
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