Excuse me did i miss something…

Woman Gets The $222,000 RIAA Shaft

How the hell is this right? WTF was that jury thinking? These record labels should be ashamed of themselves. Yet another reason not to buy music. $9,250 per song…thats a little more than itunes. Hopefully they do some online fund-raising for this lady.

At least some of the readers have a little sense:

you say “Thank God” that this woman got hot coals heaped on her head, and hit with a ridiculous sum she probably can never come close to paying, for what amounts to nothing more than a hill of beans? Don”t thank my God, He is not for stoning people for petty crimes. As for you, you”re typical of the “jaywalking is a crime too” mentality that has caused the legal system in this country to run amok. Your god is, apparently, the god of corporate wealth, and you worship the corrupt system that prosecutes middle class apple-thieves while CEOs and senators walk away with the mint. And, you”re a shill for the shady, grasping record industry (who have been guilty of actual real crimes in their illustrious history — can you say “payola”?). How do you like being one of their shills? Is it rewarding?

This has got to be the most retarded use of resources EVER.

MPAA Shows Off Anti-Piracy Dogs in Dubai at TorrentFreak

Anti-piracy campaigns are comedy. Before Captain Copyright there was MC Double Def DP the “Disk Protector”:

More info on the ‘92 anti-software campaign here.

So the big hot new Mac gadget is the iphone:

Shop Cingular | Cingular Wireless

and wow doesn’t that slimmed down pda/smartphone/media player/camera look nice, so why not want one?

-4 or 8 GB means not enough storage.

-Touchscreen makes for lousy dialing surface.

-Touchscreen makes for lousy keyboard.

-OSX looks nice but I like outlook.

-Camera lense is only good for snap shots would still need a digital camera

-Lastly, but most importantly, contract is held exclusively through Cingular wireless. One of the most craptacular providers (if not the most) around. EDGE is slow compared to EV-DO. So i spend $500.00 dollars for a phone that is stuck getting bottle-necked from a crappy provider. (Of course it had to be 3G that way it could be sold across a wider market, but still no sense in paying for slow internet)

-I don’t like apple’s position on DRM.

and there kids is a quick couple of reasons to not feel too bad about being on a two-year contract with (insert your providers name) thus unable to hop on the iphone bandwagon (hopefully they’ll make one that runs windows mobile and has a decent screen-lock)

Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation - Los Angeles Times

I new these shifty bastards had to be up to no good…

Looks like the foundation is just a tax exempt corporation. 95% towards more profit, 5% for the pesky poor. Long Article though.

RIAA petitions to lower artist royalties, weakens piracy arguments

This is a good one for all those ‘protect the artists!” dick riders. Seriously folks, Fuck DRM and the RIAA.

Rich few hold world’s wealth

I’d be jolly for a couple extra bucks an hour, meanwhile. . .

if the world’s population was reduced to a group of 10 people, one person would hold $US99 and the remaining nine would share $1.

Greed, Damn.

Boy Scouts in the Los Angeles area will now be able to earn a merit patch for learning about the evils of downloading pirated movies and music.

Be loyal, kind and don’t steal movies

The brainwashing continues.

There’s even talk of stores installing facial recognition programs and license plate readers to catch repeat offenders. You’re not likely to notice much of a difference at your favorite shopping haunts. But make no mistake — they’re noticing you.

Attention, Shoplifters

Retail collecting even more data on its customers? Nice.

MyspaceBashing.com Forums :: Index

Lot of wasted MySpace hate misdirected at its users rather than the more disturbing aspect of MySpace and social networking sites.  Still.  Some of the threads are pretty amusing.