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Movie buffs and conspiracy theorists will immediately recognize this scenario. Apparently European Parliament officials are heading home earlier than expected as a result of U.S. officials declining to meet with them. These “U.S. Officials” read like a who’s who of cloak and dagger — the CIA, NSA, FBI, State Department, Members of Congress, the Pentagon and more. The nuts and bolts of it surround Echelon, a global security monitoring system set up at the end of the cold war.

Gracenote has hit Roxio, makers of Toast CD mastering software, with a lawsuit alleging patent infringement and breach of contract. Roxio used Gracenote’s CDDB database until the agreement expired on April 22 — at that time they started using Freedb.org. Gracenote says that organization illegally uses its technology.