Courtesy of The Wall Street Journal:

After years of suing thousands of people for allegedly stealing music via the Internet, the recording industry is set to drop its legal assault as it searches for more effective ways to combat online music piracy.

The decision represents an abrupt shift of strategy for the industry, which has opened legal proceedings against about 35,000 people since 2003. Critics say the legal offensive ultimately did little to stem the tide of illegally downloaded music. And it created a public-relations disaster for the industry, whose lawsuits targeted, among others, several single mothers, a dead person and a 13-year-old girl.

Read the rest here.

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Blog posts have been slowing down as of late. Between exams coming up and Christmas holidays, free time has been hard to come by. I’ll be in Mexico next week for holidays and promise to come back refreshed and ready for some more blogging. In the mean time, you can all think of me baking in the hot sun, where “pretty much everywhere, it’s gonna be hot.”

Happy Holidays everyone!

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Courtesy of Lifehacker, here are a couple of top 5 lists:

-Five Best Media Center Applications

-Five Best Media Converters

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