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Three men in California were arrested for selling modified Xbox consoles that would allow the users to copy and store games on the console’s hard drive. The three have been charged with conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and to violate the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act).
The real violation here in my opinion is the […]
Ho hum, right? You hear of spammers getting sued all the time.
But this time it’s different. These spammers aren’t hawking their own stuff.
Florida has sued Rik Rodriguez and North Carolina has sued Michael Abbott for spamming.
Now you might think that these are just more spammers getting sued for selling fraudulent products. But, you […]
After last week’s execution of Tookie Williams, the Greens in Graz started a movement to strip California Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger of:
his Austrian citizenship
the honor of having a local sports stadium bear his name
the “ring of honor” given to him in 1999 for having put Graz “on the map
“Wow! He’s got my number,” might occur to you while reading Lee Eisenberg’s whiplash spin through the maze of retirement planning, The Number. He manages to deluge readers with facts and references made palatable by his witty but nonstop prose. A conversation with Eisenberg must leave one breathless. In this […]
As I’ve stated here before, I love music. I could live without TV, but without music? Never! But the music industry itself is in a sad state of affairs right now. The RIAA just a few days ago issued another 754 subpoenas against file sharers. Sony has found itself in hot water with the public […]
How do you raise the ire of a global monopolistic mega-corporation with proprietary tendencies? By telling it that it is a global monopolistic mega-corporation with proprietary tendencies. Or at least telling it that parts of its software solutions are not ‘open’ enough to meet your state’s standards for data formats. That’s what has happened in […]