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I totally agree with phanbouy, why steal and watch crappy divx rips when you can watch all the original dvds and blurays you want legally for like $10-$24 a month with Netflix ...


What's so ridiculous about saying that P2P traffic is "dominated by copyrighted materials."
Isn't that pretty obvious ? What else would constitute the bulk of the P2P traffic, home videos, yeah right ...
Alex, you totally missed my point. I am talking about software, not
hardware ! I am talking about Chinese developed software.

Apple and most decent american, european and japanese companies
properly license all technology and third party software they use.
They play by the rules and they make sure their devices are legal.
There are probably some (few) good chinese companies that also do that, but
those making these cheap players most certainly don't. Go and see
for yourself how many chinese companies are licensing the MPEG4
licenses (http://www.mpegla.com/m4v/m4v-licensees.cfm). It's also
laughable to think that they get the licenses from Microsoft that they
would need to support ASF, WMV and WMA or that they publish the
source code of all their software since they most likely use GPL code.
You all realize that chinese companies producing these cheap players
use ripped of open source software, usually violating the open source
licenses but also do not pay any of the licenses required to support
most of these formats, ... which is why they can just throw
everything they can find and run on the device.
As such these devices really are illegal and should not even be on the market but who can enforce that in China ...
This remote does Bluetooth and Sideshow, which is exactly what I am looking for and I don't know of anybody else offering that. I can't even find ones with just BT or just Sideshow.
If only they could actually ship something (the previous model has not yet) ...

The RAZR was developed before Zander joined Motorola. It just so happened that it started shipping shortly after that and he shouldn't get credit for its success.
MK84, how much did you pay for it ?

How well does this screen work in the dark compared to a regular screen, or can this screen be used in the dark as well without sacrifying anything ?
PEZ, you may want to check out http://www.tmobileskins.com for lots of skins you can stick on. Not as nice as these but they don't look too bad either.

Well, the Sidekick has been out for years and Danger's platform is all Java.

Microsoft's Live Local (http://local.live.com) beats Google maps in so many ways (full screen, wheel support, zoom box, much higher resolution satellite views, bird's eye view, route planning, ...).
For those who don't know it yet, you've got to give it a try, and a fair one if that's something you are capable of.
So much unjustified hype with whatever Google does ...
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I'm in the market for a new phone and money isn't a limitation. I'm also not partial to any particular US carrier, but here are some of the features I'd like to have: WiFi, GPS, good coverage in lots of places, push Gmail (a must!), physical keyboard (a must!), a touchscreen, decent battery life and a relatively slim body. And please, nothing that has a fruit logo on it. No offense to the fruit fans, though. Thanks!"

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