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Courtesy of the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

How Not To Get Sued By The RIAA For File-Sharing

(And Other Ideas to Avoid Being Treated Like a Criminal)

The Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA) announced on June 25, 2003, that it will begin suing users of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing systems within the next few weeks. According to the announcement, the RIAA will be targeting users who upload/share "substantial" amounts of copyrighted music. The RIAA has stated that it will choose who to sue by using software that scans users' publicly available P2P directories and then identifies the ISP of each user. Then, using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the RIAA will subpoena the ISP for each user's name, address, and other personal information in order to sue that user.

While there is no way to know exactly what the RIAA is going to do, who it is going to sue, or even how much music qualifies as a "substantial" amount, users of P2P networks can take the following steps to reduce their chances of being sued: Read more...

Quick Links:
To find out if your name has been subpoenaed from your ISP - Click here
More information about the RIAA lawsuits and responses to them - Click here

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WASTE UPDATE: 1.1 Released

"Here is my first update to the WASTE source code. It should be considered Beta, but is tested. I'm am not a C++ programmer, so if you peruse the source and see where something could be done better, please let me know. Here's a quick overview of the changes (more detail in the changelog):

- Other user's nicks are colored blue in chat windows
- WAV file played on incoming chat message
- Logging of chat windows to file.
- Logging of downloaded files."

Click here to go to the sourceforge project page.

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can any of you gentlemen suggest to me a mother board that i should purchase when the time comes for me to buy another? i do not want one of those dual processor jobbies, just a good-to-great performance mojo that can hadle gamein' and other non-work related craig projects. i'll also probably stick a 1.5 gig processor in the board that my room-mate gave me when he upgraded his pc.

i was just looking for your suggestions.

thanks

Sepia in Photoshop: How-to

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How to make a photo Sepia in Photoshop: Change the Image Mode of a B&W to RGB Color. Go to image-Adjust-Hue/Saturation. Check the colorize box, move the Hue slider to about 40, the saturation to 25, and the Lightness in the middle, or to your liking. You could use this adjustment to completely desaturate your color image, then set as above. As is everything else in PS, there are 25 plus ways to do anything.