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Google Makes Changes in Effort to Fight Piracy

Google has made some changes recently in an effort to fight piracy. They have released a 26 page PDF titled How Google Fights Piracy that you can read if you want to know all the details. The key point seems to be an effort to highlight legitimate resources where people can legally purchase (or rent) music, movies, and other digital

Even Pirates are Frustrated by Piracy

Greenheart Games has done something unique, and fascinating, with the release of their brand new game. They released a cracked version of Game Dev Tycoon that contained something that the real version did not. The results show that even people who pirate software become frustrated when someone pirates from them. Game Dev Tycoon is a Sim game where you run

GNC-2012-01-30 #738 The Voice

End of the month show, big Thank You to our sponsors and Thank You for supporting them. Starting to implement some hardware upgrades here in the studio we will see how they work out. If you have not checked it out yet be sure to listen to our live audio stream available 24/7 see sidebar links here on the website.

The iPod is 10 Years Old Today

The iPod is 10 years old today. We look at the original event, and how the iPod shaped the digital music landscape.

GNC-2011-02-17 #648 Special Apple Product Announcement!

For those of you that actually read the show notes and I know 10's of thousands do not the clue on the Apple Product announcement is in the show notes.. You want to talk about a product that the koolaid drinkers will get excited about. Action packed show, of course I had to have a mini soap box time over

GNC-2010-09-17 #611 Wait till you see the Rover Tracks!

There is so much great tech in this show, that I did not get through the entire stack some of the stuff at the end I only casually covered due to time constraints. Join me on Saturday for The Morning Show. Should be a great show, we have two new guest, one calling in from the UK. Have suggestions on

The MPAA may have a point…

...or at least a bit more justification than the RIAA for their fear of downloaders. I have discussed in past posts how the biggest downloaders of music files are generally the biggest purchasers of music.  This makes a policy of prosecuting downloaders a strange one since they are attacking their biggest customers.  In the case of music, piracy can actually