Tag Archives: lawsuits

Multi-link for 11/16

November 16th, 2007 – 20:40

Marie has a round-up of alt-media looking at big media. Neat. I LIKE the idea of alt-media, though the execution is usually… lacking.
Kate’s got a write-up of some ugly browser advertisment behavior. Here’s the answer: the Firefox browser, with the Adblock Plus and NoScript extensions.
The UN worries about US control over the [...]

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Multi-link for 9/21

September 21st, 2007 – 19:27

A snippet from one of Prince’s 21 nights in London. He STILL rocks. (Three songs: One I can’t name off the top of my head, “Anotherloverholenyohead” from the Under the Cherry Moon soundtrack, and a quick reprise of “Peach.”)
Tired of stringent American copyright laws? It could be worse. Achtung, baby.
Oh [...]

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P2P Extortion

March 8th, 2007 – 14:57

Link and run: p2pextortion.com, the answer to the previously mentioned p2plawsuits.com.

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RIAA Wins AND loses

August 25th, 2006 – 13:24

Two legal lessons from the RIAA: don’t disobey the judge and don’t sue innocent people
In a nutshell:
(a) RIAA sues someone, gets a judge to order the defendant to turn over her computer for scrutiny, defendant’s data mysteriously disappears, judge issues a default victory for the plaintiff. Don’t wipe your hard drives, if sued.
(b) RIAA [...]

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