We reported earlier that Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) has its own security problem stemming from the attacks on the PSN.

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Stoobalou writes “The only way to stop piracy is to cut prices. That’s the verdict of a major new academic study that reckons copyright theft won’t be halted by ‘three strikes’ broadband disconnections, increasing censorship or draconian new laws brought in under the anti-counterfeiting treaty ACTA. The Media Piracy Project, published last week by the Social Science Research Council, reports that illegal copying of movies, music, video games and software (more…)

It started in the bread aisle of Tesco and ended on an island off New Zealand. How Paul Smith got abandoned in America, lost in Paris, covered in cockroaches and saved by kindness.

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There may be only one tennis player in the world who wishes he had taken it a bit easier on Roger Federer.

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Halftime at the Super Bowl is generally marked by two events, both often characterized by excess: the entertainment program and the rush for restrooms that produces the condition known to public works departments across the country as the halftime flush.

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An anonymous reader excerpts from an interesting article at Ars Technica, which begins “There are 3,706,650,624 usable IPv4 addresses. On January 1, 2000, approximately 1,615 million (44 percent) were in use and 2,092 million were still available. Today, ten years later, 2,985 million addresses (81 percent) are in use, and 722 million are still free. In that time, the number of addresses used per year increased from 79 million in 2000 to 203 million (more…)

AT&T tells the FCC that, with consumers embracing VoIP and wireless, it’s time for the agency to schedule a sunset date for landline telephony. But the move could force the Commission to resolve many long-delayed questions about unbundling and the Universal Service Fund.

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Set on 500 acres on a hilly, forested expanse with year-round creeks and uninterrupted views, the couple’s 9,000-square-foot Italian villa-style house in Sonoma is filled with custom flourishes and details, much of it shipped from France and Italy or handmade by craftsmen.

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