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The music industry is taking its lawsuit campaign to China. The whole country of over a billion people spend about seven cents per person per year on legal music - including CD's. And music is even more popular with the nation's vast online population than email.

Oscar-winning movies are also favorites among pirates. Virtually all are available online within days of their release.

More and more undersea Internet cables are being cut in the Middle East. A key carrier hotly denies that sabotage or a conspiracy is afoot - but that's just what you'd expect them to do, right?

Apple doubles the memory available in top-of-the-line iPhones and iPod Touch's. They hike the price too.

Apple is meanwhile hitting record levels in market share amongst Internet users.

... Even as the podcasting world hits new highs in users and ad dollars ...

... and Folding@Home sets its own records, with over a million people donating idle PS3 cycles to bio-researchers.

Flickr users are furious that Microsoft has the nerve to buy the parent of their favorite photo site (clearly the main purpose of the acquisition is to slight them). Fun photos illustrating their gall are here and here.