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Quoting NPD figures and commentary, Forbes reports that 90 percent of all legal video downloads come from the iTunes Store. Moreover, some 1.2-million US households purchased at least one title via download in the third quarter of this buyers chose TV content 62 percent of the time.

“Even though right now the majority of downloaded video content is adult-film content,” said NDP senior analyst Russ Crupnick, “the amount of intellectual property stolen from mainstream movie studios, networks and record labels will continue to rise, unless strong and sustained action is taken to prevent piracy.” More …

Parallels Desktop 2.5 Build 3094 has been released, brining USB 2.0 support to the software for running Windows operating systems concurrently with Mac OS X.

The new release also improves “coherence” mode — functionality that allows users to run Windows applications in a manner that appears seamless — i.e. no Windows desktop is displayed, Windows apps reside in the Dock, etc. Improvements to this function include:

* Use Command+tab to cycle through Windows and Mac applications simultaneously, and ‘hide and show’ Windows applications just like you would with Mac applications
* View the Windows Command Console in Coherence mode
* Use Coherence in Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP and Windows Vista!

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