iPhone app developer Ben Chatelain was practically fuming when he found out that his app Full Screen Web Browser had been cracked and posted to iPhone warez site Appulo.us just four days after release. He decided that he wasn’t going to just take things lying down; he was going to do something about it. So [...]

What would happen if you graded all video games by publisher, giving points for higher Metacritic scores? With a little help from GameQuarry, we now know. The site, which respected game designer David Perry called “a Metacritic expert,” crunched the numbers based on Metacritic scores and found Rockstar Games to be the most consistent publisher. [...]

Those who oppose the RIAA’s lawsuit campaign against file-sharers may be tempted to see Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson as a white knight who hoists the Lance of Sheer Intellect and Harvard’s Shield of Obscene Endowments, who jousts with music industry lawyers and knocks them, one by one, from their chargers. And he may well [...]

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