Hackers have learned a thing or two from Microsoft and are using strategies similar to those of the Redmond company when building pirated releases of Windows 7.

It is the case of one pirated version of Windows 7, for which hackers claim to have gone the extra mile and tested the cracked operating system on a wide number of computers from different original equipment manufacturers.

Some users might recall the software giant noting that responsible for Windows 7’s high quality interoperability level in terms of hardware and devices, was the work done with OEMs around the world.
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After a series of private tracker open signup and invite application updates, here’s some DDL forum news for a change. Over the years, we’ve featured a number of DDL forumson this blog, most of which cater to specific niches such as music, movies, games, documentaries, etc. While these are some very special sites indexing unique content, several of our readers had asked us to feature more sites with scene 0-Day releases. PreScene is one such DDL forum that indexes latest scene releases along with download links to listed releases - all sorts of uploads ranging from zero day software to TV shows can be found here. In fact, this site acts both as a release log (pre database) as well as a download link repository – most scene pres are listed on PreScene and most of these releases even come with direct download links (based on one click hosting sites), making this much more than a web based pre channel.
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In a rare interview session two of the MPAA’s top executives gave an interesting insight into the movie industry’s view on copyright in the digital age and the anti-piracy hunt that accompanies it. The pair say that their organization will continue to fight against copyright infringements, but admit that piracy will never be completely defeated.

Fritz Attaway and Craig Hoffman are two of the MPAA’s top suits. Attaway is one of the leading people involved in developing the movie industry’s anti-piracy policies, and Hoffman Fritz is the head of corporate communications for the movie industry body.As part of a course on the production of digital media at the University of Texas, the two were invited for an interview to share their views on copyright and the movie industry in the digital age.
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79-percent of China's businesses actually used pirated software in 2009.
Friday Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer publicly condemned Chinese businesses that use pirated copies of Windows and other software, calling the situation a big problem.
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The FBI wanted poster looks like a yearbook page from a Russian provincial college. Seventeen men and women from Eastern Europe, mostly between the ages of 19 and 22, with bad skin, nerdy haircuts and no resemblance to your stereotypical bank robbers. But in the past two years, this ring of hackers was allegedly able to steal tens of millions of dollars from small businesses in the U.S. The arrests of 39 of their operatives in the U.S. last week is being touted by the FBI as one of the biggest busts in the history of cybercrime. The problem, though, is that the real masterminds are likely still pecking at their keyboards across Russia and Eastern Europe, and experts say there is little to stop them from regrouping, sending out another virus and pumping millions of dollars more out of American bank accounts. ...

Placing a laptop computer on your lap may actually cause a dangerous skin condition called Toasted Skin Syndrome, according to medical experts.
In an Oct. 4 article in the journal Pediatrics, Swiss researchers explain that Toasted Skin Syndrome (TSS) -- a skin condition caused by long term heat exposure -- has been observed recently on a 12-year-old as a result of playing computer games a few hours every day for several months.
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