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Once the equivalent of file-sharing, Limewire has come now to be identified with endless lawsuits and absurd monetary claims.
The corpus of 13 record companies currently suing the legendary p2p service have come up with an estimation of that in their opinion is the amount owed to them by Limewire – between $400 billion and $75 trillion – and no, it’s not a typing mistake! My brain kind of refuses to even grasp the idea of such amount of money.
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The venerable Oxford English Dictionary has long been the definitive reference work on the English language. This week, it lent the majesty of its name to “LOL" (laughing out loud), a shiny new entry which will now join OMG, IMHO, TMI, BFF, and other linguistic "initialisms" in the dictionary. And why not? It's a perfectly cromulent word.
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Take-Two claims that the industry's eternally charging Lancelot, Duke Nukem Forever, is now set to arrive internationally on June 10th, and in North America on June 14th. At this crucial point in the game's comically extended timeline, though, you should probably just wait until the unboxing video before you start believing again.
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In its 2010 annual report (PDF), recorded music's global trade body said that the industry would "struggle to survive unless we address the fundamental problem of piracy." Just how "fundamental" a problem is that piracy? Not very, as new research suggests that only 9 percent of US Internet users even use peer-to-peer networks at all, down substantially from 2007.
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Facebook chief privacy advisor Mozelle Thompson appeared before the Australian Parliament’s cyber-safety committee this week to discuss Internet-related security issues. Thanks to the event, we learned that about 20,000 users are kicked off Facebook every day for various infractions, including for lying about their age.
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Yahoo has launched a new search feature that anticipates queries as users write them.

The feature, Search Direct, is similar to the Instant Search Featurethat Google released in September. In a press release,Yahoo distinguished its product as a query tool for answers, not links.
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