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Source are reporting that a final divorce agreement is being drafted for Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren and that their split should be official very soon.

Supposedly, at this stage, all the major points have been flushed out and because the pair were able to work out the details fairly privately, “both Tiger and Elin are very close to finishing the negotiations and filing and signing the paperwork.”

Insiders say that Elin is expected to receive approximately $750 million in the settlement.

Lindsay Lohan walked out of the L.A. County Courthouse yesterday sporting a brand new fashion accessory — her court-ordered SCRAM bracelet. This isn’t something she is unfamiliar with, however it is now smaller, lighter, and sleeker.

Check out how well she rocket it several years ago. Look at Miss Fashionable Trendy! Who says she never wears the same thing twice?

Lindsay was put into her new SCRAM bracelet right inside the courthouse, where Judge Marsha Revel also informed Lohan that she would be meeting with a probation officer on Thursday.

Until the judge decides she can remove it — LiLo must wear the device at all times … even in the shower.

The music industry has dealt a major blow to illegal music downloads in the United States, winning a copyright lawsuit against the operators of LimeWire.

Lime Group and founder Mark Groton faced claims of copyright infringement, unfair competition and inducing copyright infringement in a battle with the Recording Industry Association of America. CNet reports that U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood issued a summary judgment in favor of the RIAA, ruling thatt LimeWire’s operators optimized their software to ensure that users could download music, most of which was copyrighted. She also noted that LimeWire advertised in Google to people who searched for terms like “replacement napster” and “kazaa morpheus,” reports All Things D.

From here, the RIAA will likely seek a primary injunction against the LimeWire software, disabling its file-sharing features. The group could also seek statutory damages of up to $150,000 for each of the millions of copyrighted downloads facilitated through the software.

LimeWire rose from the rubble of Grokster, Kazaa and Napster to become the premiere vessel for illegal file-sharing in the United States. The NPD Group estimated last year that 58 percent of people who said they downloaded music from peer-to-peer services used LimeWire. CNet notes that the software’s been downloaded 200 million times from its Download.com site, and nearly 340,000 times in the last week alone. The music industry is understandably giddy.

“LimeWire is one of the largest remaining commercial peer-to-peer services,” RIAA chief executive Mitch Bainwol said in a statement. “Unlike other P2P services that negotiated licenses, imposed filters or otherwise chose to discontinue their illegal conduct following the Supreme Court’s decision in the Grokster case, LimeWire instead thumbed its nose at the law and creators. The court’s decision is an important milestone in the creative community’s fight to reclaim the Internet as a platform for legitimate commerce.”

The Federal Communications Commission is considering ways of warning wireless users when their bills start getting too high. After dozens of high-profile cases in which consumers have been landed with bills of thousands of dollars, it says it wants to find ways of averting such ‘bill shock’. Many over-the-top bills arise through unexpected roaming charges, but there are plenty of other reasons too.

“My bill suddenly tripled in one month. . . When I got to looking it over, I noticed that they had charged me for my mobile to mobile minutes,” read one recent complaint to the FCC. “They had advertised free mobile to mobile.”

“We are hearing from consumers about unpleasant surprises on their bills,” said Joel Gurin, Chief of the FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau. ”We’ve gotten hundreds of complaints about bill shock. But this is an avoidable problem. Avoiding bill shock is good for consumers and ultimately good business for wireless carriers as well.”

One method under consideration is to warn consumers via text message whehn their bill starts to approach a pre-set level. The EU made a similar move in March, forcing operators to enforce a cut-off limit for charges and warn users when their bill reaches 80 percent of this. Gurin said he was looking for public input on wherether there are any reasons why US wireless providers shouldn’t be able to issue alerts in the same way as their European counterparts.