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Sentencing delay in online suicide case
p2pnet news view | P2P:- US district judge George Wu, who was to have sentenced Lori Drew (bottom right) on counts of accessing computers without authorization, says he wants to review the testimony of two prosecution witnesses. Drew is said to have created a phony MySpace user who drove 13-year-old Megan Meier (top left) to suicide, inspired an episode in Law & Order TV, and eventually led her mother, Tina (centre) to launch a foundation to “educate and encourage positive changes to prevent bullying and cyberbullying”. Drew, the mother of one of Megan’s former friends, told police how she and others, “had made up the love interest, a 16-year-old Josh Evans” obstensibly to see what Megan, “might be saying about Drews’ daughter, Sarah (bottom centre) ,” p2pnet posted shortly after news of the tragedy first broke.
Continue reading »Record Labels Increase Legal Pressure on Pirate Bay
Despite a resounding court defeat against the combined might of the music and movie industries, The Pirate Bay continues to operate – at any given moment there are in excess of 20 million peers connected to the tracker. In any event, the verdict is subject to appeal and could drag on for years yet. The music industry plaintiffs from the case, Universal, EMI, Sony and Warner, have had enough of this situation and through their lawyer Peter Danowsky, have applied to the court requesting it starts imposing additional fines on three of the defendants for as long as they continue to infringe their copyrights.
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