Whether you're a Mac or a PC, an iPhone, Android, or a BlackBerry user, the gadgets you use say something about you. Based on Retrevo’s new Gadget Census Report, gadget owners exhibit different behavior and characteristics depending on which gadget “camps” they belong to. Here’s a list of some of the more interesting conclusions we’ve drawn from looking at the gadgets people use in thousands of households across the country and around the world.
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Asks Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiators at Mexico’s Ministry of the Economy if the treaty could be used to cut off Mexico’s and other countries access to “damaging” sites such as WikiLeaks.
In a eerie sign of things to come, the MPAA seems to be pushing forward with a new policy agenda that is trying to link sites with arguably little harm – non-commercial P2P – with sites that traffic in pirated goods – commercial P2P – as well as those like WikiLeaks which it believes could be used to play some sort of national security card.
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This week the controversial French three-strikes anti-piracy law Hadopi went live. Copyright holders are currently in the process of sending out tens of thousands of IP-addresses of alleged infringers to Internet service providers, and this will increase to over a million in a few weeks. The ISPs have to hand over the identities of the associated accounts to the authorities within a week, or face a fine of 1500 euros per unidentified IP-address.
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Well there you have it: digital sales have outpaced physical sales. For PC games, that is. According to the all-seeing, all-knowing NPD Group, there were 11.7 million digital sales of PC games during the first half of 2010. That compares to 8.2 million physical sales. Clearly Steam and others like it are on the right track.
What’s perhaps just as interesting is that, even though there were more digital sales, physical sales still made publishers more money. Physical sales brought in 57 percent more money than their digital counterparts. That’s probably because you’ll pay more for a PC game at a retail store than you would from a digital distribution service.
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A copy protection scheme used in virtually all consumer HD video devices, from Blu-ray players to game consoles, was broken this week when someone leaked an essential secret key online. The High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) protocol key found its way onto the Internet on Monday, and HDCP vendor Intel has since confirmed its authenticity.
It’s unlikely that this breach will have any immediate impact on either digital media sales or online piracy. However, the defeat of HDCP is yet another instance of supposedly unbreakable content protection schemes failing badly.
Still, people in the industry are holding onto the illusion that there will one day be a secure architecture for digital content, despite of plenty of evidence to the contrary. We’ve compiled a list of five of the most glorious DRM failures over the years:
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Japan views Chinese hackers as main suspects for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that affected several of its official websites last week.

According to the Taipei Times, the Japanese government is investigating attacks directed at the Ministry of Defense and National Police Agency websites, between Wednesday and Friday.
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