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Just hours ago The Pirate Bay and Piratbyrån held a joint press conference at the Museum of Technology in Stockholm. It was broadcasted live on the web and Pirate Bay co-founders Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm spoke at length. Here is a breakdown of some of the key points.

The joint

It’s one thing to have a camera shoved up your ass where ever you go in England but that doesn’t appear to be good enough for the powers that be in England; or the European Union. According to a report in the Times Online today the English Home Office has very quietly (I wonder why) adopted a new plan that will allow police across Britain to routinely hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant.
Without a warrant!


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NEW YORK (Fortune) -- For five years, Apple's iTunes Music Store has been the Internet's most successful music store. But as music publishers have sought a higher share of its proceeds, Apple has threatened to shutter iTunes.
The Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, D.C. is expected to rule Thursday on a request by the National Music Publishers' Association to increase royalty rates paid to its members on songs purchased from online music stores like iTunes. The publishers association wants rates raised from 9 cents to 15 cents a track - a 66% hike.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that Microsoft would soon be releasing an OS for cloud computing, tentatively titled Windows Cloud. Like Windows Home Server was a specialized release of Vista with new components to serve its role, Cloud will carry specialized components for cloud applications.
Ballmer details that it’s a separate project from Windows 7, but further details remain nebulous. What cloud computing applications are so important that they require a new OS? Cloud computing is a tremendous buzzword, but is there actually so large a demand that an OS dedicated to it is needed? More simply, what cloud applications are out there?
Apparently Microsoft has answers to these questions. It’s possible that more details will be released at the Microsoft

The Pirate Bay has successfully appealed the decision of an Italian judge who had ordered ISPs to block access to the popular BitTorrent tracker last month. The Court of Bergamo decided that this block was unlawful, and that Italian users should regain access to the site.

As those of you who have been keeping an eye on the bug tracker will probably be aware, the frequency and severity of bugs being reported has dropped right off in the past few weeks, and I believe that it has reached the point where we should declare vBulletin 3.7.0 stable and do a final, 'gold' release.

vBulletin 3.7.0 Stable/Gold will be released in the coming week.

I do not anticipate the release of any further release candidates in the interim period.

Today, we will be updating vBulletin.com to run the final version of the code, and we will allow this to run over the weekend to get some final, extra uninterrupted testing done on a production site.

Needless to say, should you find more bugs over the weekend, don't hesitate to report them as soon as