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Scary Google Voice
“Google Voice (formerly GrandCentral) is a free Google-owned Internet service that uses voice over internet protocol (VoIP) to link customers’ phone numbers,” says a Wikipedia post, also noting: “On July 1, 2009, Google Voice provided users that had set up their account before, to change their number. For a $10 fee, users can change their number to any of the new numbers that Google purchased.” But Google is a nothing but a massive online advertising agency dressed up to look like a service, and you know anything and everything it does will in some way or another be hooked into that reality. Now, “Google is already thinking of the ways of monetizing Voice” in the way it, “knows best,” says UnwiredView , going on, “Through advertising.
Continue reading »Amazon censors Orwell’s 1984
Amazon has joined Google, Microsoft, China, Australia and major Canadian ISPs — to name just a few – who think it’s up to them to decide what people see online. In George Orwell’s 1984 , “government censors erase all traces of news articles embarrassing to Big Brother by sending them down an incineration chute called the ‘memory hole’,” says the New York Times . But on Friday, Amazon remotely deleted digital versions from Kindle ‘books’, says the story, noting: “Digital books bought for the Kindle are sent to it over a wireless network.
Continue reading »Woman Hit With $1.92 Million Fine in RIAA Case
In 2007 a jury slapped the single mother with a $222,000 verdict in her case against the RIAA, which she later appealed. When the case between Thomas-Rasset and the RIAA was declared a mistrial last year, the judge ruled that the fines were “disproportionate to the damages suffered.” The case went up for re-trial before a new jury, who found her guilty and surprisingly handed out even harsher fines than in the first trial. Thomas-Rasset was ordered to pay $80,000 per infringement mounting up to a total of $1.92 million in fines.
Continue reading »Student challenges RIAA procedures
RIAA attack lawyers have been running wild since the Big 4 extortion unit first launched the bizarre sue ‘em all marketing campaign on behalf of its owners, Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music. But that could be about to change. The procedures used by the RIAA are to be examined by a court whose decision will have the power to influence other courts.
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