Every few months for the past year and a half or so, the MPAA has basically begged the FCC to let it make use of "selectable output control" on televisions to block DVRs from recording stuff shown on TV.

Matthew Lasar notes that the MPAA is finally admitting that if it gets its way, it may actually require some people to buy new equipment. So, not only will the plan functionally break lots of DVRs by not letting them do the one thing they're designed to do (record what's on TV), but they may break other parts of the process as well, such that people will need to buy new equipment.

News Corporation's James Murdoch has said that a "dominant" BBC threatens independent journalism in the UK.

Organisations like the BBC, funded by the licence fee, as well as Channel 4 and Ofcom, made it harder for other broadcasters to survive, he argued.

Mr Murdoch said free news on the web provided by the BBC made it "incredibly difficult" for private news organisations to ask people to pay for their news.

News Corporation has said it will start charging online customers for news content across all its websites.

According to the China Daily newspaper, executed prisoners currently provide two-thirds of all transplant organs.

Human rights groups have often criticised China for its lack of transparency over organ donation, but critics have focused particular concern on the use of body parts from executed prisoners.

Amnesty International said at least 1,718 people were given the death penalty in 2008.

A judge has banned a 71-year-old paedophile from being in possession of Viagra.

Martin, from Peterborough, Cambs, admitted sexual assault on a child after inappropriately touching an 11-year-old victim on December 27 last year.

He was also told he must tell police whenever he has any such drugs in his possession.

This spring, Mr. Aleynikov quit Goldman to join Teza Technologies, a new trading firm, tripling his salary to about $1.2 million, according to the complaint.

He said that he had inadvertently downloaded a portion of Goldman's proprietary code while trying to take files of open source software -- programs that are not proprietary and can be used freely by anyone. He said he had not used the Goldman code at his new job or distributed it to anyone else, and the criminal complaint offers no evidence that he has.

Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said that the 15-member crew had been taken on board a Russian navy vessel.

Speculation over the cause of its disappearance had ranged from pirates to a mafia dispute to a commercial row.

Access Copyright is talking about customers here. The people who actually determine the real value of whatever content creators make. And Access Copyright is flat-out insulting them, by making them out to be an unruly mob that content creators need to fight.

If you want to understand why these industries are dying, the evidence is right here. When you treat your customers as the enemy, don't be surprised if they go away. It's not because of "piracy" or "the internet." It's because these content creators are treating their best customers as anything but customers.

Although lead content in paint has been restricted in the United States since 1978, University of Cincinnati (UC) environmental health researchers say in major countries from three continents there is still widespread failure to acknowledge its danger and companies continue to sell consumer paints that contain dangerous levels of lead.

In that study, 75 percent of the consumer paint samples tested from countries without controls - including India, Malaysia and China - had levels exceeding U.S. regulations.

The nation's cellphone networks could suffer "potentially catastrophic" cyberattacks by iPhone-wielding hackers at home and abroad if iPhone owners are permitted to legally jailbreak their shiny wireless devices - that's what Apple claims.

By tinkering with this code, "a local or international hacker could potentially initiate commands (such as a denial of service attack) that could crash the tower software, rendering the tower entirely inoperable to process calls or transmit data," Apple wrote the government.

Jamie Neale, 19, told Australia's 60 Minutes television programme that he was "a total idiot" to venture unprepared into the Blue Mountains, 60 miles west of Sydney.

He said he ate seeds and weeds, and kept warm at night under strips of bark. He waved his blue shirt at circling helicopters, but the forest was so thick that he was not seen.

Two hikers happened upon Jamie last Wednesday. He spent two days in the hospital for treatment of dehydration and exposure.