The time World of Warcraft players and enthusiasts have been awaiting has finally arrived. January 16 was the release of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, which is the first expansion for the widely popular online game. For those who have no idea, World of Warcraft is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG). A player creates a character to complete quests, obtain loot, and level-up, all the while being able to interact with friends.
Archive for January, 2007 - Page 2
It seems that the people in China have more free time on their hands then anyone thought. China is on its way to overtaking the US as the nation with the most number of Internet users. As per the China Internet Network Information Center (CINIC), a state-controlled agency, in the next two years, growth in Internet usage would pick up as computers get cheaper, and people adopt more mobile lifestyles.
Italy’s top criminal court has ruled that downloading music, movies and software over the Internet is not a crime if the person downloading is not making money off of it. Analysts have questioned Monday whether the ruling would have much effect on copyright laws. The court’s decision, issued earlier this month but reported over the weekend by the Italian media, overturns earlier convictions against two former Turin Polytechnic Institute students who set up in 1994 a peer-to-peer, file-sharing network that was shut down within months.