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Welcome to the weekend everybody! Time for another installment of the Policy Roundup. It was an awkward week out there on the interwebs – most notably for our more scurvy readers, The Pirate Bay officially shut down its tracker. The move comes at the end of a very drawn out, sketchy takeover of the domain by an independent buyer. And while PEX and DHT will obviate the need for trackers in the long run, it’s sad to see TBP fizzle out so impotently.

For what it’s worth, Viacom’s General Counsel this week admitted to a group of Yale undergrades that suing P2P-users, “felt like terrorism.”

Also this week, or at least since the last Roundup, Apple Computer scored a major victory over hackintosh purveyors Psystar. Psystar was found to have violated Apple-held copyrights, in addition to violating the DMCA. There is plenty of legal-wrangling yet to be had, but precedent has been set squarely in Apple’s favor.

Finally, in a bit of off-policy-yet-equally-important news, the Large Hadron Collider is back in action. Don’t worry, the thing is still black-hole free. For now.

We’ll see you next week!

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