This notional tiered-pricing graphic — from a world where there’s no Net Neutrality and ISPs are allowed to block various web-sites if the companies that run them don’t pay for “priority delivery” — scared the pants off of me. I think that this is what it’s really all about — not just charging three times [...]
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Now, I don’t advocate piracy per say. But I think that Big Media in the form of some music and movie companies, have really messed up and should get in trouble for some of the illegal things they have done in “protecting their members copyrights.”
TPB files charges against media companies
Thanks to the email-leakage from [...]
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I’ve been saying this was going to happen…
“The SCO Group, Inc. (”SCO”) (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), a leading provider of UNIX® software technology and mobile services, today announced that it filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. SCO’s subsidiary, SCO Operations, Inc., has also filed a petition [...]
This below story is sad and funny at the same time. I especially love the tag line…
Firefighters who turned up deliberately late to a burning pizza delivery company were reprimanded yesterday for making an ironic comment on their standard of service.
ProntoPizza of Balham, South London was burnt to the ground back in June despite being [...]
In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals,
but the animals must be female.
Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death.
That makes almost no sense…
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In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman’s genitals, but is
prohibited from looking directly at them during the examination. He may
only see their reflection [...]
I’m reminded of a line from Independance Day (The Will Smith Movie):
“You don’t think they actually spent $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat do you?”
A small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years from the Pentagon for fraudulent shipping costs, including $998,798 for sending two 19-cent washers to [...]
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A Russian court found the former boss of music download Web site www.allofmp3.com not guilty of breaching copyright on Wednesday in a case considered a crucial test of Russia’s commitment to fighting piracy.
The allofmp3.com Web site angered Western music companies by undercutting the price of downloads in deals they said breached copyright law.
Denis Kvasov, head [...]
Comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, whose programs were once among the most viewed on YouTube, were requested by the video site to give testimony in legal proceedings as it fights a $1 billion lawsuit by Viacom Inc, according to court filings.
The two hosts of the Viacom hits “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” [...]
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[T]he court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights.[Groklaw]
That single small line signals the death of SCO. Their only way to make money has been illegally threatening to sue companies about UNIX patents and Copyrights. And the reason this is the death sentence for the company is that [...]
Manufacturers may set a fixed price for their products and forbid retailers from offering discounts, the Supreme Court said today, overturning a nearly century-old rule of antitrust law that prohibited retail price fixing.
The 5-4 ruling may be felt by shoppers, including those who buy on the Internet. It permits manufacturers to adopt and enforce what [...]
