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AP - The entertainment industry won round one Friday in a legal battle against file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay, with guilty verdicts and one-year prison sentences handed down to four men accused of running and financing the popular site.

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Macworld.com - Prosoft Engineering released an update for its disk utility, Drive Genius. The update fixes several items with the application.

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Reuters - Sony Ericsson will take some time developing a phone using Google’s Android operating system, its chief executive said on Friday, but declined to say when such a handset would be available.

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Reuters - Four men linked to The Pirate Bay, one of the world’s biggest free file-sharing websites, were each jailed for a year on Friday for breaching copyright and ordered to pay 30 million Swedish crowns ($3.58 million) in compensation.

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AP - Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas says he doesn’t want to change Vermont’s laws to lessen the potential penalties for teenagers who use their cell phones to send sexually explicit pictures and messages.

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PC World - Nintendo’s Wii and DS topped US March hardware sales, but Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was the only system that managed year-over-year growth, according to the latest NPD data. Total console hardware sales were $456 million, down 17% over last year’s $551 million, while software sales — bolstered by Capcom’s Resident Evil 5 — totaled just $793 million, also down 17% over last year’s $952 million.

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PC World - Facebook promised to put the future of its privacy policies in your hands — and now, it’s staying true to its word. The social networking site has officially opened the polls for a user vote on its terms of service. Have you cast your ballot?

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Reuters - A Swedish court handed down a guilty verdict and a year in prison on Friday to all four defendants in a copyright test case involving The Pirate Bay, one of the world’s biggest free file-sharing websites.

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