[H]ardNews 8th Edition

RIAA Suing Again:

The second wave of lawsuits against downloaders just got underway. The RIAA warned 204 people they were about to be sued unless they reached a settlement…Apparently 80 of those people couldn’t reach an agreement by paying the RIAA so it’s off to court they go. The RIAA claims that they are making headway with these tactics, but sales figures are saying the opposite. I think we all know that CD sales are still on the decline which means the RIAA won’t have the P2P people to blame all their problems on.

The Recording Industry Association of America on Thursday said it filed 80 new lawsuits against alleged file swappers, a move that comes after a wave of letters it sent earlier this month that warned targets of their legal risk. The action marks a second round of suits against computer users who, record label investigators say, have made hundreds or even thousands of copyrighted songs available for download through peer-to-peer services such as Kazaa. The first round, filed in early September, targeted 261 individuals accused of putting "egregious" amounts of music online.

XFX GFFX 5600Ultra:

People looking to upgrade their video card to a midrange GPU might be interested in this quick and dirty XFX GFFX 5600Ultra review posted at Nex-Gen Electronics. So, if you ain’t one of the 52 billion people out there running out and grabbing an ATi card that comes bundled with Half-Life 2, take a look at the other side of the midrange performance isle.

XFX has put together a real nice solution for people wanting to upgrade to the GeForceFX line of video cards, and not break their budgets doing it.