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With the abundance of gadgets people have these days, it’s no wonder you have more items than USB ports. That’s why the USB hub was invented. And if you’re going to get a USB hub, why not get one that’s in the shape of an octopus.

The Octopus USB Hub features four separate USB ports, one on the end of each of the hub’s “tentacles.” Really, this is pretty practical, and you don’t have to worry about your gizmos being cluttered all together on your desk.

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Six of the UK’s biggest net providers have agreed a plan with the music industry to tackle piracy online. The deal, negotiated by the government, will see hundreds of thousands of letters sent to net users suspected of illegally sharing music. Hard core file-sharers could see their broadband connections slowed, under measures proposed by the UK government. BT, Virgin, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse have all signed up. Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the BPI, which represents the music industry, said: “All of the major ISPs in the UK now recognise they have a responsibility to deal with illegal file-sharers on their networks.” The plan commits the firms to working towards a “significant reduction” in the illegal sharing of music.

In addition to this chance, parents whose children download music and films illegally will be blacklisted and have their internet access curbed under government reforms to fight online piracy. Households that ignore warnings will be subjected to online surveillance and their internet speeds will be reduced, making it very difficult for them to download large files. The measures, the first of their kind in the world, will be announced today by Baroness Vadera, who brokered the deal between internet service providers and Ofcom, the telecoms body. About 6.5 million Britons are thought to have downloaded music illegally last year. It has been estimated that illegal downloads will cost the music industry alone £1 billion over the next five years.

This post is on behalf of iiZESBiE one of our forums Administrators that has been looking into a problem we have been having here on RLSLOG, please read below for more details.

Many of you have reported, and undoubtedly others have noticed a problem with rapidshare.com links containing an exe file.

Some of the recent rapidshare links posted on releselog by our readers contain an executable fine (.exe) file, this seems to be a problem with rapidshare.com when the original torrent files are uploaded inside rar archives.

This is NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT and is only a slight inconvenience, as the exe file is just a self extracting file.

To open these files (not suggested double clicking on file):
WINDOWS: right click the exe file and select “Extract here” , “Extract files… ” or “Extract to *directory name*” or drop into winrar.
MAC OS X: download and install The Unarchiver: http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html and enable ‘windows self extracting file’, and any others archives you wish to open with unarchiver, then double click the file.
LINUX: hopefully you’re savvy with the command line, with rar installed run “rar e /path/to/file.exe”.

iiZESBiE is currently looking into what causes this, his current theory is that the ’store’ archive function may be the problem but he needs some information from our readers and especially uploaders! if you have downloaded or uploaded any rar archives (seems to be multiple part downloads) that when extracted create an exe file then please post the links here and if you are the uploader please post information on how you archived these files (compression settings etc).