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Lily Allen: Sell Bootlegs of My CDs, Don’t Share for Free
UK recording artist, and vocal anti-file-sharing critic, remarks that she’s fine with people selling bootleg copies of her CDs rather than share it for free with others since the person selling it is at least placing “some kind of value on my music.” Lily Allen just doesn’t seem to understand music fans at all. Gifted as she may be as a recording artist she thinks that commercial pirates, those that offer copyrighted material for financial gain, are better than noncommercial pirates (i.e. file-sharers), those that offer copyrighted material simply so that others can enjoy it as well.
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Iran has been in turmoil since last week’s disputed elections, in which both incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his chief challenger,
Continue reading »RIAA lawyers toss "a skunk in the jury box," apologize
A remarkable scene unfolded Tuesday at the Jammie Thomas-Rasset retrial in Minneapolis, as Judge Michael Davis threatened to toss out the morning’s entire testimony by RIAA computer science expert Doug Jacobson. The judge warned recording industry lawyers that he was “contemplating striking the doctor’s testimony based on your behavior in this case.” The drama unfolded just before lunch at the end of Jacobson’s morning of testimony. Most of it was pedestrian—the well-credentialed Jacobson (a network security professor at Iowa State University) explained P2P networks and connected the dots between yesterday’s MediaSentry and Charter evidence.
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