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Gameguru Mania News - Feb,27 2003 -

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(hx) 03:57 AM CET - Feb,27 2003 - Post a comment / read (9)

iSONEWS Busted - The US Department of Justice has seized the ISOnews web site, which was a kind of bible for the discerning software copier, and is turning it into a repository of anti-piracy propaganda. The site's remarkable switch of role stems from the sale of Xbox mod chips, in violation of the DMCA. David Rocci, 22, of Blacksburg, Va, handed over the domain, iSONews.com, in plea bargaining, after pleading guilty to "conspiring to import, market and sell circumvention devices known as modification (or "mod") chips in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act". Rocci imported 450 Enigmah chips illegally from the UK and sold them through the site for approx $28,000. For this crime, Rocci could face a fine of up to $500,000 and 5-years in prison. (Here is DoJ PR and yet another article at YahooNews)
Software Pirates Feel the Sting - Singapore police netted their biggest-ever haul of pirated software and music CDs in an island-wide raid, arresting 17 people and seizing $973,600 worth of goods, authorities said. Police in the strictly controlled city-state confiscated more than 124,000 pirated compact discs containing games, software and music during a three-hour raid on 10 shops and an apartment. More arrests are expected.
Cryptome Hacked - Cryptome.org was hacked yesterday (February 25) and all files on the site deleted. A message on the site says the files will be restored later today.
New York Chooses Plan for Spire, Pit at WTC Site - A towering spire that would be among the world's tallest structures was selected on Wednesday to restore New York's skyline where the World Trade Center once stood, an official source familiar with the decision said. The plan by Libeskind, who designed the Jewish Museum in Berlin, calls for a tower 1,776 feet high -- symbolizing the year of U.S. independence -- topped with a garden-filled spire.
NASA starts countdown to Mars mission - Charles Elachi, director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said final preparations were underway with one "exploration rove" arriving at Cape Canaveral this week and the second due in three weeks. He said the rovers, which are the size of an office desk, were set to be launched on May 30 and June 25, piggy-backing on two rockets then parachuting down to Mars in January in an air-bag cushioned landing.
NASA says last goodbye to Pioneer 10 - NASA has finally said goodbye to Pioneer 10, a spacecraft launched more than 30 years ago and that has already travelled 12.2 billion kilometres from Earth. A final, very weak signal was received from the distant probe on 22 January. Since then, attempts to reach Pioneer 10 through NASA's Deep Space Network have proven unsuccessful and NASA now says no more attempts are planned.
Hacking the Matrix - The wait is over. After four long years, the highly anticipated videogame based on The Matrix franchise is about to hit store shelves for all platforms at once. Directors Larry and Andy Wachowski and Shiny Entertainment serve up a driving, fighting, and adventure shooter so engrossing you may begin to believe that life on Earth is nothing more than an elaborate facade.
Lite-On IT and Sony form strategic alliance - The two companies were said to be cooperating on developing DVD-Dual chipsets, scheduled for launch in the second quarter. These highly integrated chipsets combine support for the DVD+RW and DVD-RW standards and could help DVD-Dual optical drives/players become mainstream products.
Sony sued over alleged DVD defects - faces class action - Sony is facing class action in a Californian courts as several of its customers had troubles with DVD players. The defects all showed up just a while after the warranty was voided and repair of the devices would cost about $175.
Overclocking Poses Risks to PDAs - Several software companies have developed small programs that allow handheld users who crave pure performance to run their processor's clock speed faster than advertised. Just because something can be done, however, doesn't mean it should, according to analysts. Two applets, XScaleCtrl from Wibble-wobble.com and Clear Speed from Revolutionary Software Front, let users adjust the speed of their processor from 100 MHz to 500 MHz simply by downloading a piece of software and clicking a few buttons. XScaleCtrl is available for $3.50 on the Handango.com Web site, which sells handheld-related products.
Desktop replacement features a speedy P4 CPU - Dell Computer will soon introduce an Inspiron notebook with a 2.8-GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor to U.S. customers, a Dell spokeperson confirmed Wednesday. The Inspiron 5100 will be available with 2.4-GHz, 2.53-GHz, 2.66-GHz, and 2.8-GHz processors in the United States in a matter of days, the spokeperson said. It is currently available to customers in Britain on Dell's U.K. Web site. A base configuration with the 2.4-GHz Pentium 4 chip will cost about $1200, but information about the rest of the base features of the U.S. model won't be available until the product is launched, she said.
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum eX Review - Creative's latest Audigy 2, the Platinum eX (which we'll just call the EX from here on out), is a product that endeavors to cover a lot of ground: DVD-Audio, FireWire, Dolby Digital EX, THX certification, two wavetable synthesizers, DirectSound3D/EAX 2.0 support, and 6-in/6-out hard-disk recording to name the most prominent features
Microsoft tunes P2P for Windows - The software giant on Wednesday unveiled a beta, or testing version, of the Windows XP Peer-to-Peer Software Development Kit. The programming tools are designed to let software providers or corporate developers more easily build peer-to-peer applications on top of Windows XP. Peer-to-peer applications, popularized by file-swapping services such as Napster and Kazaa, allow individual desktop PC users to share information directly, instead of going through a centralized server to disseminate data.
Ad-Blockers and Adrian's Rojak Pot - Adrian's Rojak Pot just posted an important editorial about "Ad-Blockers and Adrian's Rojak Pot". This editorial talks about the threat our site is facing from ad-blockers and how we intend to deal with it. There's also a poll that we are running in which we hope our visitors will let us know which advertising scheme they think our site should have.
Nethack 3.4.1 Released. - NetHack 3.4 is an enhancement to the dungeon exploration game NetHack. It is a distant descendent of Rogue and Hack, and a direct descendent of NetHack 3.3.
CPUCooL 7.1.10 - CPUCooL version 7.1.10 (download) has been released. What is CPUCool? CPUCooL is a program that monitors temperature, fan speed, and voltages for many motherboards.
MySQL 4.0.11 Gamma - MySQL 4.0.11-gamma (changelog) has been released.

last 10 comments:

blah	posted - Feb, 27 2003 - 04:26
Wow..isonews.com taken over by DoJ. Was reading a post on their forum and for all those who ordered any of these so-called "illegal" devices along with their names/credit cards....just made me think how worried they are now. Potential for 5 years prison along with half a million fine....is not a joking matter at all. In other news.....the Pioneer 10 travelling 12.2 billion km from earth.....WOW

thuggish	posted - Feb, 27 2003 - 04:43
man isonews was so freaking nice. too bad it will cease to exist

blah	posted - Feb, 27 2003 - 06:17
ehh.. binnews.com is still around.

bscrap	posted - Feb, 27 2003 - 07:20
the isonews crap is all fake, the site is still up.

giGGler	posted - Feb, 27 2003 - 08:18
lol..>!!! Yea was a DNS hijack. Amazing how many news sources have posted this when the whole story in itself doesnt make any sense. Busted for mod chips. :D Oh and having it happen 3 months ago. Somone would of known something about it by then. Nice try! :D

[email protected]	posted - Feb, 27 2003 - 08:30
Isonews has indeed been busted. There were allready multiple people involved in the investigation, disguised as so-called "warez"-players on the forum for some months. It was a just a matter of time and prove.

giGGler	posted - Feb, 27 2003 - 10:00
Ahhh yea I checked Reuters and it looks like he indeed did get busted for selling the chips. Supposedly the chips he sold already had the bios in them which deems them illegal.

hx	posted - Feb, 27 2003 - 11:42
to: giGGler check DoJ PR http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2003/February/03_crm_118.htm

giGGler	posted - Feb, 27 2003 - 22:37
hx: I found that link as well. Seems to be very real.

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