A screengrab of anti-piracy firm Canipre's homepage.A legal challenge to have an Ontario Internet service provider (ISP) release personal information about its clients could be the start of a massive battle against online piracy in Canada.

The Canadian Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement agency (Canipre) is seeking the identities of hundreds of thousands of Internet users it claims have illegally downloaded movies belonging to its client.

The Canadian Press reports that the face-off could be the beginning of large, U.S.-style lawsuits against people who illegally download movies off of the Internet in Canada.

Canipre has teamed with studio Voltage Pictures to go after those who are downloading their films without permission. Canipre is asking the Federal Court to force Ontario-based Internet provider Teksavvy provide them with customer information.

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In short, Canipre has a database of IP addresses it claims have downloaded Voltage movies (Oscar-winning Hurt

Love to see what other people are saying about your favourite show on Twitter, but hate seeing spoilers? A 17-year-old coder from New Hampshire has come up with a way to stop that from happening, and has already won a national competition for her efforts.

Jennie Lamere has developed Twivo, a plug-in for Chrome and Firefox that blocks specific keywords for a set time period on Twitter. So if you don’t want to know about what Tyrion Lannister was up to on Game of Thrones this week before you’ve watched the episode, you can block any tweets with those words from your Twitter feed for a day so you have time to catch up.

[ Related: ‘Game of Thrones’ premiere sets piracy record, but HBO exec doesn’t mind ]

Lamere developed Twivo as part of last month’s TVnext Hack 2013, a hackathon seeking developers to create new and innovative programs for the television industry. The teen was the only female to present a completed project, and beat out about 80 other competitors for the ‘Best in Show’ prize.

Well, it’s Friday, and you’ve got two days before Mother’s Day on May 12. If you haven’t got a gift yet, you may be fretting that the odds aren’t in your favour, but don’t worry, all hope is not lost.

Lots of websites have great last-minute gift ideas for mom, although I’ve often found in my hurried shopping that a lot of them don’t ship to Canada. So fear not, The Right Click has your go-to list of websites with the perfect gift for Canadian moms, just in time for Sunday:

SeasonsBox

(Photo by Shareba Abdul)Instead of getting your mom one gift, get her something that will last all year with a monthly subscription service. You might be out of luck for getting the May box to her in time, but mom won’t mind when she finds out she’ll be receiving a box every month filled with goodies. The blog In Search Of Yummy-ness explains that unlike most subscription services, of which there are now many, SeasonsBox sends a collection of full-sized products each month, all designed to fit their goal of introducing customers

It seemed inevitable that we’d soon move from using keys to a more high-tech means of opening doors. However, that doesn’t make a lock you can open with your smartphone any less cool.

T3 reports that Kwikset, a maker of electronic locks, has come up with a way to let you unlock doors with your iPhone. The Kēvo includes a standard lock you can use with a key, as well as an electronic mechanism called UniKey that can be unlocked with an app on an iPhone 4S or an iPhone 5 via Bluetooth.

Here’s a look at the lock in action:

But what makes the lock really different is the ability to send a key to another person. If you have a babysitter, neighbour, or someone else stopping by the house when you’re not there, you can create a temporary key for a limited amount of time. You can also let anyone close the door behind them without a key (physical or digital) by triple-tapping the lock on their way out the door.

Engadget adds that while the app is only available for iOS at this point, it does include

Guests are silhouetted at the launch event of Windows 8 operating system in New York.After months of complaints from users about the new Windows 8 operating system, it is now confirmed that we’ll get a glimpse the first major update to the OS, codenamed Windows Blue, this summer.

Tech Crunch reports the first public preview of Windows Blue will be happening in late June, Microsoft Windows chief Julie Larson-Green said during the Wired Business Conference this week. She said that the update will be available to everyone that has Windows 8 in the Windows 8 store, but that’s about all the details she would share.

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We know slightly more about Windows Blue from an interview Microsoft’s Tami Reller, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Windows, who was interviewed by the corporate blog Blogging Windows. While she wasn’t much more forthcoming with details, she did hint at some of the changes we can expect to see:

“It will deliver the latest new innovations across an increasingly broad

Film director Steven Soderbergh, who is probably better known for his work on Magic Mike and Ocean’s Eleven than his literary career, is releasing a novella in a very unconventional way.

Starting April 28, Soderbergh began posting pieces of Glue, a crime-suspense-thriller, in single tweets to his Twitter account, @Bitchuation.

Here’s a sample of the first few tweets:

CHAPTER ONE.

— Bitchuation (@Bitchuation) April 28, 2013

Amsterdam. twitter.com/Bitchuation/st… — Bitchuation (@Bitchuation) April 28, 2013

It was difficult for you not to assume the worst after the way your funeral went down. The whole thing seemed like a parody of itself.

— Bitchuation (@Bitchuation) April 28, 2013

Like anything else, the #&%# was only valuable because everyone wanted it and nobody had it. — Bitchuation (@Bitchuation) April 28, 2013

You’ve become the receptacle for everything forgotten, and an impulse can only be ignored for so long before people begin to wonder.

— Bitchuation (@Bitchuation) April 28, 2013

(Screengrab from creative.adobe.com)It’s been almost ten years since Adobe first launched its Creative Suite, and now, it looks like CS6 was the last boxed version we’ll ever see.

At this week’s Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles, California, the software giant that has become renowned for everything from Reader to Photoshop to After Effects delivered attending developers quite an unexpected surprise: instead of unveiling Adobe Creative Suite 7 as many expected, the company announced that it would no longer be making the boxed suite of software for users.

Instead, Adobe is focusing its efforts on its Creative Cloud service, which connects its customers to its full suite of programs through a subscription-based model. Launched just over a year ago, users pay a monthly fee to use the apps, and also receive 20GB of cloud storage. Monthly subscriptions range from $19.99 USD for students and teachers to $49.99 USD for new Creative Cloud users.

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According to an email, certain functions will require an Internet connection, but it won’t be an ‘always-online’ scenario.Despite early reports that the new Xbox, codename “Durango,” would need an always-online Internet connection, it appears that this may no longer be the case.

According to an email obtained by Ars Technica that they report was sent to Microsoft employees, certain functions will require an Internet connection, but it won’t be an ‘always-online’ scenario:

“Durango is designed to deliver the future of entertainment while engineered to be tolerant of today's Internet.” Ars reports was said in the email. “There are a number of scenarios that our users expect to work without an Internet connection, and those should 'just work' regardless of their current connection status. Those include, but are not limited to: playing a Blu-ray disc, watching live TV, and yes playing a single player game.”

[ Related: ‘Always online’ Xbox system requirement defended by Microsoft’s Adam Orth ]

Microsoft wouldn’t comment on the alleged email, or even confirm that it was actually an email sent within the company,