I woke up this morning to this story on the BBC Breakfast television News about the UK having the highest rail fares in Europe, which is no great surprise to anyone who’s spent any amount of time on the continent. At one point during the report it cut to one of those vox pops with [...]
RIAA wins damages of $222,000 against Jammie Thomas
…for illegally making 1,702 songs available on the network, though only 24 of those tracks were central to the case at stake.
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Resnikoff’s parting shot here
SonyBMG lawyer: ‘Ripping CD’s is stealing’
Sony BMG’s head of litigation in the States Jennifer Pariser got up on the stand yesterday to testify against Jammie Thomas, a single mum who’s been accused of downloading 26 tracks off Kazaa. During her testimony she said that making copies of puchased CD’s is “a nice way of saying ’steals just one copy’”. Which [...]
McCarnage: The Game
Came across this on Digg. Apparantly it’s been around since early 2006. It’s sort of like a champ manager for farming and selling burgers only with a wickedly wry sense of humour. If you have a couple of hours to burn go check it out. Knowing how litigious McDonalds are I have no idea how [...]
Madonna sorting out Middle East
Madonna’s had a meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres where she talked about World Peace and stuff. A very significant development in the 3000 year old war betweeen Muslims, Jews and Christians and we at Nine:ThirtyFive towers will continue to support her in her selfless efforts to make the world a better place.
Champion.
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