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Spain Police has gained success in identifying the Anonymous hackers after they arrest three people connected to the hacking of Master Card, Paypal and Amazon.

The arrests were made simultaneously in three Spanish cities – Barcelona, Valencia and Almeria.

Anonymous Hacker had earlier claimed responsibility for attacks on Sony, Spanish banks because of the World Govt action against the whistle blower site Wikileak

A statement from the Spanish national police force said that a computer seized in the home of one person it arrested was used in the hacks.

Further, the Spanish Police claim the hackers have been using a tool named Loic through which they hacked Master Card, Paypal and Amazon.

With this arrest, more breakthrough is expected in all other countries mainly US where hackers have penetrated deep into the system.

Sony’s Playstation Network is down!

The issue was first raised by the play station gamers who were unable to login to the console of the Play Station Network. When the problem was reported with Sony, Sony acknowledged about the error and promised to correct it pretty soon. But seems that, Sony might take a couple of days then previously assumed hours, according to the official Playstation Blog.

“While we are investigating the cause of the Network outage, we wanted to alert you that it may be a full day or two before we’re able to get the service completely back up and running,” Sony spokesman Patrick Seybold wrote.

Europe’s Playstation blog previously said the company was investigating “the possibility of targeted behavior by an outside party,” but that message has since been removed. Hacking group Anonymous, which attacked Sony’s servers earlier this month, claims no involvement.

Well, Sony is facing a real tough time. It was attacked just a month ago and again it is facing Network problems.

Have you been affected by the PlayStation Network problem. Do share with us your comments.

Alien invasion film “Battle: Los Angeles” waged a successful campaign for North American movie supremacy over the weekend, collecting $36 million in a march to the No. 1 spot on box office charts.

The movie, which tells of a group of U.S. Marines defending the city from otherworldly beings, trounced two other new films in theaters, thriller “Red Riding Hood” and animated “Mars Needs Moms,” which looks to be a costly flop for the Disney studios, according to studio estimates on Sunday.

“Battle: Los Angeles” also opened in 33 overseas markets, where it took in $16.7 million to boost its worldwide haul to nearly $53 million over its debut weekend in theaters.

“It hit the high end of our expectations,” said Rory Bruer, distribution chief for the film units of Sony Pictures, which released the movie. He called the opening a “great result.”

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Will.i.am hits at Sony for profiting out of MJ's unfinished work

Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am says he wants no part in the new Michael Jackson album because it stands against everything Michael believed in.

“Whoever put it out and is profiting off of it, I want to see how cold they are … He just wasn’t any ordinary artist. He was a hands-on person. To me it’s disrespectful. There’s no honouring,” TMZ.com quoted him as saying.

According to Will.i.am, the biggest issue is using unfinished Michael tracks on the album.

“Michael Jackson songs are finished when Michael says they’re finished … Maybe if I never worked with him I wouldn’t have this perspective. He was very particular about how he wanted his vocals, the reverb he used … he was that hands-on,” he said.

“It’s worth noting … the album is put out by Sony, through Michael’s estate. So Michael’s kids are the ones who stand to make money off this,” he added. (ANI)

Michael Jackson’s latest album after his death ‘Michael’ is all set to be released on December 14th 2010. One track has already debuted in YouTube.

This new album has already caused a lot of controversies with Michael Jackson’s mother Katherine Jackson and Sony. Michael Jackson’s mother was not for the release of these tracks and albums as Michael Jackson considered them unfinished work and did not want to release them when he was alive. Releasing them after his death is considered as an insult to his memory as he did not want them to be released in the first place.

But the decided to go ahead with it anyway in spite of all the misunderstandings.

Michael Jackson’s official YouTube Channel has just released the track ‘Breaking News’ which is believed to be part of the ‘Michael’ album.

Listen to the song here :

This is just another attempt by Michael Jackson’s estate trying to cover the debt that Michael left behind. Michael Jackson personally wouldn’t have wanted this to be released as this was recorded over the phone and Sony attempted to smooth it out with their latest gigs.

In short, its not perfect. But for Michael Jackson fans this could be a real treat as they get to hear their idol once more.

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Michael Jackson in Final Rehearsals

There have been reports all over the internet. I don’t know where these things started but mostly they will turn out to be true. The reports suggest that Sony has made a bid of $50 Million for the video of Michael Jackson’s final rehearsal videos for his ‘This is it’ concert. The video footage is around 80-hours long. The video is currently in the possession of AEG and the Jackon’s Estate. The reports also suggest that the reason why Sony wants these videos is because they are planning to produce a movie with these footages.

Whats more ? The movie could be in theaters before the end of the year, and possibly as early as October.

One of the video footages also contain the 3D version of ‘Thriller’ but its not clear whether this will also be included in the movie.

A bidding war erupted in Hollywood after concert promoter, AEG Entertainment, shopped the footage to movie studios late last week, blogger Nikki Finke first reported on Deadline Hollywood Daily.

Its not just Sony thats trying to get its hands on these footages. It also seems like Paramount, Universal, 20th Century Foxand Warner Bros are trying to make a bid for the footages.

Looks like Michael Jackson is all GOLD even after his death.  One thing is for sure, I would really want to have a look at those footages as they ARE the final performances of the King of POP.