Tories move to crack down on download demons – Yahoo! Canada News

he Harper government has served notice that the halcyon days of free Internet music downloading may be numbered.

The Conservatives introduced legislation Thursday that would carry a $500 penalty for Internet song-snatching and downloading of other copyrighted material.

A new version of the Firefox Web browser is scheduled for release Tuesday with improvements in security, speed and design. Many of the enhancements in Firefox 3 involve bookmarks. The new version lets Web surfers add keywords, or tags, to sort bookmarks by topic. A new “Places” feature lets users quickly access sites they recently bookmarked or tagged and pages they visit frequently but haven’t bookmarked. There’s also a new star button for easily adding sites to your bookmark list — similar to what’s already available on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 browser.

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