Archive for January, 2008
Scientists Say Bush Stifles Science and Lets Global Leadership Slip | LiveScience
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Scientists Say Bush Stifles Science and Lets Global Leadership Slip
Now RIAA wants $1.5 million if you copy a CD
Posted by: | CommentsNow RIAA wants $1.5 million if you copy a CD:
Not content with the current (and already massive) statutory damages allowed under copyright law, the RIAA is pushing to expand the provision. The issue is compilations, which now are treated as a single work. In the RIAA’s perfect world, each copied track would count as a separate act of infringement, meaning that a copying a ten-song CD even one time could end up costing a defendant $1.5 million if done willfully. Sound fair? Proportional? Necessary? Not really, but that doesn’t mean it won’t become law.
The change to statutory damages is contained in the PRO-IP Act that is currently up for consideration in Congress. We’ve reported on the bill before, noting that Google’s top copyright lawyer (and the man who wrote a seven-volume treatise on the subject of copyright law), William Patry, called the bill the most “outrageously gluttonous IP bill ever introduced in the US.”
The industries pushing it (music, especially) have an “unslakable lust for more and more rights, longer terms of protection, draconian criminal provisions, and civil damages that bear no resemblance to the damages suffered,” he said.
Egypt says lay off music, movie downloads after ‘Net outage
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Egypt says lay off music, movie downloads after ‘Net outage
Secret societies
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The big secret about secret societies
The dismal state of George W. Bush | Salon News
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Empire State Building car zap mystery
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The helmet that could turn back the symptoms of Alzheimer’s | the Daily Mail
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Marijuana Vending Machines Opening For Business in LA
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Marijuana Vending Machines Opening For Business in LA
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Posted by: | CommentsVideos of people smoking salvia divinorum
Posted by: | CommentsVideos of people smoking salvia divinorum:
Random Good Stuff has compiled a bunch of YouTube videos of people smoking a legal and powerful hallucinogenic plant called salvia divinorum.
Why Hillary Clinton Should Withdraw From the Race Today – 2parse/blog
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Why Hillary Clinton Should Withdraw From the Race Today
Australian girl switched blood type after transplant: doctors
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Australian girl switched blood type after transplant: doctors
An Australian girl spontaneously changed blood groups and adopted her donor’s immune system after a liver transplant, in what doctors treating her said Thursday was the first known case of its type.
Cary Tennis, Since You Asked, science, peak oil, planetary death, Carl Jung, Shakespeare, synchronicity, UFOs | Salon Life:
I’m a brilliant scientist and I fear for the world’s fate
Near-Earth Asteroid 2007 TU24 to Pass Close to Earth on Jan. 29 – Should be Observable with Modest Sized Telescopes
BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Three Little Pigs ‘too offensive’
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A story based on the Three Little Pigs fairy tale has been turned by a government agency’s awards panel as the subject matter could offend Muslims
Think Progress » John Gibson Mocks ‘Weirdo’ Heath Ledger’s Death: ‘He Found Out How To Quit You’:
John Gibson Mocks ‘Weirdo’ Heath Ledger’s Death: ‘He Found Out How To Quit You’
“Anonymous” releases statements outlining “War on Scientology” – Wikinews, the free news source:
“Anonymous” releases statements outlining “War on Scientology”
Space Travel: Virgin Galactic Unveils Spaceships That’ll Take Passengers Up in 2009
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Virgin Galactic Unveils Spaceships That’ll Take Passengers Up in 2009
David Lee Roth Vocals and NWA in high school
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