Great. A New Way for Cell Phone Users to Irritate People: Yes, Samsung Electronics has announced it has invented a cell phone that recognizes motions – so you can dial it by waving it in certain patterns. Just what we needed on the subway.

Cash for Scoring: Twin Galaxies, the “Official Electronic Scorecard,” has put up High Score Bounties for gaming overachievers. Yes, you can make big bucks if you attain impossible scores on a variety of games.

Contestant #1 was Kevin Rose while Contestant #2 was Sarah Lane. The first to ring their bell after the question and answer correctly scored a point.

Round One: Is it legal or illegal to download an episode of The Screen Savers from a bit torrent site after the television show has already aired?

Sarah: “Illegal.” Correct!

Ren: "Sarah gets a point. Downloading copyrighted TV shows today can get you in trouble. This might be surprising in a world where everyone has either a VCR or a TiVo. With those, you're basically taking a program that has been broadcast and 'time-shifting' it to view later. If your TiVo flakes out, you might think that going to eDonkey or Suprnova is just as good -- and just as legal. But Suprnova recently shut down after copyright holders brought a ton of new lawsuits. So we're in this crazy situation where one kind of time-shifting is legal while another is not."

Round Two: You have just purchased a series of songs from iTunes and have created a playlist; you then make seven copies of that playlist and distribute them to your friends. Is this legal or illegal?

Kevin: “Legal.” Correct!

Ren: "Kevin gets a point for this almost-trick-question. You see, songs from the iTunes Music Store come with strings attached. They're encrypted, but iTunes will let you burn a playlist up to seven times. However, burning an eighth copy would require you to circumvent the copy controls with something like Hymn, and that would run afoul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."

Round Three: You go to your favorite video store and buy the latest Johnny Depp blockbuster on DVD. Then you convert said DVD to MPEG4 for viewing on your PlayStation Portable – legal or illegal?

Kevin: “Legal.” Incorrect!

Ren: "Kevin does not get a point. DVDs, like iTunes MS songs, are encrypted. And the only way to legally decrypt them is on a "licensed" player. In order to get a DVD on the PSP, you've got to decrypt it with unlicensed software. In other words, you're in this weird situation where you have a legally purchased movie and legally purchased device, but you can't use the two together."

Round Four: You decide to host a movie night at your house. All of the DVDs you are showing have been rented from a local video store. You are short on cash, so you decide to charge all of your friends' $5 to attend the party. Is this legal or illegal?

Sarah: “Illegal.” Possibly correct!

Ren: "It depends on how much you charge and how good the friends are. If you're really just asking friends to chip in for a movie night, and their money pays for the rentals, then you're in a better position than asking people from the street to pay $20 per head. In the second situation, you're not really having a private party. It's more like a for-profit performance, and that can get you in trouble if you don't have permission."

Sarah wins!  

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Both Kevin R. and Kevin P. created their own massive, self-glorifying murals. Kevin P. managed to put together the largest poster, though Kevin R. got the biggest laugh when he made an unfortunate mispronunciation of  “Rasterbate,” as in “You can Rasterbate over my picture.” Touché, Kevin R.!

Rasterbate your own by visiting the Rasterbator homepage. Show us your best TSS-themed work and you may win a prize.

Lost in the CES Rush: DirecTV is going into the DVR business… which means TiVo may be left out in the cold. That’s bad news for TiVo, considering that DirecTV is one of its biggest distributors.

Silent Yet Deadly Hacking: T-Mobile’s customer accounts got hacked – over a year ago. Unfortunately, T-Mobile took its time telling people.

Bend it Like Beckham: A team of Japanese scientists say they’ll create a team robots that’ll win the World Cup in soccer by 2050. My God -- Will Smith was right!

Try out the demo (in Windows, Linux, and OSX flavors) at http://chroniclogic.com 

Abandonware is stuff that was copyrighted, and the company that owned it is out of business. Ren said that the legality doesn’t change just because a company disappeared – someone else might have bought the rights. But there are organizations that try to help make abandonware legal. Archive.org has tried to track down owners of copyrights to make software open to the public.