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Buzz Report: Avast, ye bootleggers and pornographers

2007-01-22
I just don't think this is gonna work it just won't can't do it to button quit kicking ah yeah you know what come on this thing is toast it's just I'm pregnant okay I'm pregnant that's all there is to it let's just do this hi I'm Molly Wood and welcome to the buzz report and now for the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is this orange backpack now I come to see yes every year I get a lot of swag and every year Toshiba and the Consumer Electronics Association give away some big bag sometimes it's a Rolly bag sometimes it's a giant messenger bag but this year it's awesome it's this huge backpack tons of stuff padded laptop case here it's got padding on the back cuz let me tell you CES makes your back hurt it's a pretty stylish orange and the logos aren't too tacky plus it's two bags in one it's got a little laptop strap hidden right here and you can actually zip this part all the way off and have a standalone laptop bag genius actually I'm still using my backpack it's like the best thing ever plus I can put all my cool CES stuff in here like I got this cool pen from this digital Hollywood party and oh I have my CES badge holder in here and then this other badge from this other party it's pretty sweet and I got this pirate necklace and I got this cool t-shirt and I have some other this is pretty dorky huh yeah I'm really embarrassed right now hmm let's just move on shall we and now for the news speaking of hangovers the iPhone honeymoon certainly ended quickly didn't it in the latest news some Australian programmers have created downloadable skins for Pocket PC phones that mimic the iPhone user interface Apple is of course sending its lawyers after the creators of those skins and after the bloggers and journalists who post screenshots of those skins apple says the designs violate its patents and trademarks on the iPhone hey yeah you know who else knows a little something about that Cisco there's word this week that Swedish file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is planning to buy Sealand a former British naval platform located in the North Sea Ceylon was declared a sovereign principality by its founder Prince Roy Bates but now law experts say that Ceylon isn't a legitimately sovereign nation and that actually UK law applies to the platform and even the Spanish estate agents representing Ceylon say that the Pirate Bay might not be able to buy it because they'd be acting against UK interests so it looks like the pirate bay is dreams of sovereignty might be over unless dudes you're pirates just go take it ninety-nine copies a board out on Pirate Bay ninety nine copies of Borat take one down pass it around still 99 copies of a oh that pesky high-definition DVD format war now even porn is caught in the middle at last week's ABN adult entertainment expo the co-founder of one prominent porn distributor said that Sony was pushing his studio away from blu-ray and on to HD DVD but now this week the blu-ray disc Association is making it mighty clear that there is no porn ban whatsoever oh no let me paraphrase listen folks anyone can publish anything on blu-ray honest even adult entertainment content that content will not be exclusive to our competitors HD DVD in fact oh god please don't say there's no porn on blu-ray please we love porn we don't want to lose we love porn we love it you get the idea I'm Molly wood and this has been the buzz report thanks for you
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