The Morning Reboot:
- The kids are not alright, in fact they're a bunch of dirty pirates. The RIAA has announced it will be increasingly targeting college students in the fight against copyright infringing downloads. Just as a note for those applying to college this year, Purdue says it rarely even notifies students accused by the RIAA because it's too much trouble to track down alleged offenders — “we are a leading technology school with thousands and thousands of curious and talented technology students.”
- Google has patched a potentially serious security hole in its Google Desktop tool. The cross-site scripting hack was discovered earlier this year, but Google says the vulnerability has been patched by an automatic update.
- ITunes outs classical music fraud. The recordings of Joyce Hatto, a British concert pianist who found fame in the last years of her life, have been exposed as hoaxes. Last week, a critic at Gramophone magazine popped a Hatto recording of Lizt's 12 Transcendental Studies into his computer and noticed that iTunes identified the disc as recorded by another pianist, L???szlo Simon. The critic dug out the Simon album and discovered it sounded exactly the same as the Hatto one.
- Photobucket has announced a partnership with Adobe to bring web-based video editing technology to the site. The new editor on Photobucket is a Flash-based application that Adobe claims will bring the editing capabilities similar to Adobe Premiere Elements to Photobucket users.
