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Illegal music downloader fined $616 video

The first person to be found guilty of illegal file sharing under the "Skynet" law has been fined $616.57.

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Sir Tim gingerly embraced part of our culture with a hongi greeting

World Wide Web inventor in NZ video

The inventor of the World Wide Web is in Wellington to share the benefits of sharing on the internet.

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Eric Rudder, chief technical strategy officer for Microsoft (Reuters)

Office adapted for touch screen, web

Microsoft is aiming its redesigned Office software at people who expect their favourite applications to be at their fingertips.

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Twitter says it will place warnings on clips that are reported as inappropriate

Twitter accidentally promotes porn clip

Twitter's new video-sharing service Vine may get pulled from the Apple App Store because it has been overrun with porn.

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Google sued over Safari tracking

About a dozen Apple customers are suing Google in the UK over its alleged secret tracking of their internet browsing habits.

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Observers have suggested a pay-per-download site that charges pennies for Hollywood hits (Reuters)

Antigua to become copyright haven

Americans call it piracy. Antiguans call it justice.

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UN agrees on new video format

ITU said in a statement late Friday the new H.265 codec could pave the way for "the next wave of innovation".

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (Reuters)

WikiLeaks film script leaked to WikiLeaks

If you're making a movie about WikiLeaks, this is the kind of thing you probably see coming.

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Kim Dotcom launches Mega (Photo: Dylan Moran)

Mega improves, visitors drop off video

It was launched with plenty of hoopla and hype last week, but how is Kim Dotcom's Mega cloud storage website faring one week on?

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Hackers take over sentencing website video

The hacker-activist group Anonymous says it hijacked the website of the US Sentencing Commission to avenge the death of Aaron Swartz.

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Facebook sex offender ban unconstitutional

A law banning registered sex offenders from using Facebook and other social networking sites has been ruled unconstitutional.

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An actor in police costume mock-arrests Kim Dotcom as he launches his new website "Mega" in Auckland (Reuters)

Concerns raised over Mega site security

The security of Kim Dotcom's new cloud storage website Mega is being questioned.

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