Links for Thursday July 31^st, 2008

• Cory Doctorow: Filesharing deal will drive swapping underground: What with the success of iTunes, you'd think that the music companies would focus their efforts on selling music, instead of the ultimately futile effort to catch thieves. But the fact that I'm still linking to articles about this, in 2008, is pretty depressing.

• Analysis: why Apple won't drop Intel chipsets any time soon: Like I said - I sure don't see Apple making their own chipsets, and while doing something with Nvidia is an outside possibility, it's likely that Intel is where it's at.

• Firefly DVD news: Release Date, Extras for Firefly - The Complete Series on Blu-ray: More details on the impending Firefly on Blu-Ray release. Do I have a Blu-Ray player? No. A TV capable of showing HD? No. Do I want to buy this? Oh hell yes.