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Here’s some big news from the music industry: Portishead will release their fourth album, called Third, on 14 April. And it wouldn’t be 2008 if the album hadn’t already leaked as a torrent.
Most of you Gen Y peoples have probably never heard of the band but there was a time before Britney called Trip-Hop and Portishead was surely one of the most important influences back then. Here’s the first video for the track Machine Gun:

Book publisher No Starch Press and Wired author Leander Kahney are experimenting with free, publisher-provided book torrents and giving away official releases of Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod as eBooks. Here are the download options:
Direct download
The Cult of Mac [torrent link]
The Cult of Ipod [torrent link]