Valve never ceases to surprise me with their awesome quality of service. If creating the most anticipated release of the year weren’t enough (October 9th, if you care and won’t blindly be a Bungie fanboy gorging yourself on Halo 3 from its September 27 launch), when Trackmania United came out on Steam, there was […]

Hoo-freaking-ray! Now, let me preface this post by saying that I despise the actions of the RIAA as much as the next person, and that I’m all for fair use. However, fair use has a limit. It doesn’t mean that you can do absolutely whatever you want with files. Some irresponsible people online seem […]

Our guest author today is Brad Temple, a student at UT majoring in bioengineering and liberal arts. He writes regularly on both the music industry and music in general on his blog, and today he addresses some of the issues surrounding the future of iTunes.
On February 23, iTunes sold its billionth song online - […]

Is, once again, StarForce. I should’ve heeded my own advice about it in my previous post, but Trackmania was just too tempting. And now I’m down one DVD writing drive. That’s right, the rumors you’ve heard online about StarForce royally messing up systems to the point that drives fail are totally true, and I […]

Compared to this, Sony rootkits are as benign as fluffy bunnies eating cake in Canada on a Sunday afternoon. I’ve had experience with StarForce before, but the new version takes the gold for the most troublesome piece of spyware out there. Some evil European software developers even became comfortable with this form of invasive […]