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Submission + - WD crippled "NAS", prevents sharing of med

Submitted by loraksus on Thursday December 06, 2007 @05:56PM

loraksus writes: One of the latest offerings from WD is this 1 TB drive that sits on your network. It's nice and white with a gigabit Ethernet port and UPNP support.
Oh... and it won't share any media files — from AAC to WMV — due to "unverifiable media license authentication"

Submission + - Celebrity Paparazzi sue blogger over photos

Submitted by kaufmanmoore on Sunday December 17, 2006 @09:18PM

kaufmanmoore writes: X17, the paparazzi group famous for photos like Katie Holmes pregnant and Britney Spears sans underwear are suing blogger Perez Hilton for copyright infringement for his use of their photos on his blog to the tune of $7.6million. Perez Hilton maintains that he is entitled to fair use of newsworthy images and is using them to comment on them and for satiric purposes. The paparazzi claim that Hilton is freeloading off their images and reducing their ability to sell them as exclusives to gossip magazines. Full story here

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