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A co-owner of a Hollywood video game store that caters to celebrity clients on Wednesday pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to violate federal copyright laws by selling Xbox video game consoles modified to play pirated games.

Jason Jones, a co-owner of ACME Game Store, entered a guilty plea in federal court in Los Angeles. His business partner, Jonathan Bryant, has signed a plea agreement and is scheduled to plead guilty to a conspiracy count on Monday, prosecutors said.

Jones pleaded guilty, and Bryant agreed to plead guilty, to one felony count of conspiring to traffic in a technology used to circumvent a copyright protection system, conspiring to infringe on a valid copyright for financial gain, and willfully infringing a copyrighted work by reproducing and distributing pirated works worth more than ,000.

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Hollywood is asking China to crackdown on the rampant piracy that is so widespread in China before the world converges on Beijing for the Olympics in 2008. Maybe they should go after china secretly using Russia's wireless network.

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Whelp, plead ignorance or really that dumb to have his wireless network unsecured? I bet the former. A Ohio man has been charged with pirating a movie (Coach Carter of all movies...wow) by distrubuting it over the eDonkey network. His escuse was that his network was unsecured and someone must have parked a car outside with a laptop and illegally use his bandwidth to distribute the film. Yeah, good luck with that one buddy. but it brings the question of what to do about people with wireless networks and how to secure them. Most general people are lucky now that DVD players don't have LCD clocks flashing 12:00 all day long.

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Strike another notch into the outsourcing camp. Microsoft is going to invest .7 billion dollars into India and employ an additional 3000 employees bringing their total amount of employees to over 7000.

CBS will be offering free coverage of college hoops during March Madness. They're going for an ad supported model to gain viewers. There goes the bandwidth in corporate offices in March while everyone at 'work' will be watching games.

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has the Infocus 61" rear projection TV for $ 2499.99+ shipping again but this time they're including some crazy Matrix Collectors box set with over 10 DVDs. Woot is describing it as..."Think of it as a Very Pricy DVD Set That Comes With a Free TV". I'm liking this the more I look at it, but I still have my sights on the Samsung 61" 1080i HLR box. But I can wait until after Jan 1 when prices come down even more. (Funny I keep saying that quarter after quarter ever since I had my eye on the old HLP series) I'm sure i'll want the 70" in January.

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UPDATE: Deal's dead, but they have a Camcorder for < $ 400 now