THURSDAY ROUNDUP-O-RAMA:


VIRUS ALERT!!!
PC WORLD WARNS of a new worm, called "Mimail.C" which comes in an attachment under the innocent subject heading "OUR PERSONAL PHOTOS." Once infected, your computer will launch denial of service attacks against anti-spam sites.


RUNNING SCARED
According to USA TODAY, over 1.4 million file sharers are so afraid of getting sued by the RIAA they are deleting their entire MP3 collection from their computers.

No word yet on if CD- sales have risen as well.

I guess terror really does work.


YOU DON'T TUG ON SUPERMAN'S CAPE ...
The Death Star didn't seem to get the message ... until NOW. The FTC just smacked ATT with over $750,000 in fines for violating the National Do Not Call rules.


REVOLVING AROUND YOU
Now that EARTHLINK has successfully abated pop-ups to their subscribers, they suddenly want to collect more information on their users in order to market to them exclusively.

"I see your true colors shining through ..." - Cyndi Lauper


HEAR KITTY, KITTY - COLLEGE EDITION
Penn State is offering legal music streams to their students via THE KITTY. Costs will be included in tuition fees.


WOULD YOU LIKE FRIES WITH THAT?
McDonalds' will be giving away ONE BILLION music downloads via iTunes. According to sources, Apple isn't even giving them a price break.

Hopefully, Apple can convince them to dump that stupid "I'm lovin' it!" campaign.


Meanwhile, Walmart jumps on the music download bandwagon by launching it's own music download service.


TOTALLY
According to PIXAR, the Disney summer hit "FINDING NEMO" is still smashing records as it sells over 8 million DVDs in it's first day of release - about twice as much as the last king of the hill - Pixar's MONSTERS INC.

Sweet!


SPAM, WONDERFUL SPAM
Here's a story on how SPAMMERS get ahold of you.


CALLING DICK TRACY
A Japanese company has demo'd a wrist/watch cellphone.


ACHOO
Yahoo's Tech Tuesday is a primer about Computer Viruses.


BLACK FLAG
The FCC has voted to require a "digital broadcast flag" in HDTV signals which would prevent copying of TV programs. By 2005, you're VCR and DVR must have technology incorporated into it which would prevent you from permanently archive a recorded flagged program. Next in the crosshairs for Hollywood? You're lookin' at it.


WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?
With help from DirecTV, TIVO has sold over a million DVRs! Now you know why the FCC is acting.