No, they are among the very few labels that decided to legally go after small-time "pirates", and certainly the most famous one.

I know one person IRL who was targeted by Gallant-Macmillian on behalf of MoS. He denied and refused to pay, and they seem to have given up, but this friend is obviously quite wary of p2p now. The chilling effect is, undeniably, working.

Hell, i was targeted by US copyright lawyers myself: I'm in the UK and I laughed it off, but my ISP didn't and cut the connection (only to re-establish it after a few days). I haven't touched an illegal torrent since then, trying to figure out the best solution for my needs (mixed Linux/Windows environment here, low budget, and I'd like to "get out" in a low-profile country like Russia or similar).

Q2 2011? Seriously? By that time Apple will have released yet another OS update, and the market will be flooded by Android devices.
All my friends, even the hardcore long-time Nokia fanatics, this year have moved on -- tired of waiting for a decent OS after the terrible N97 experience.

Nokia should have released a super-device *this year* and instead they wasted months on the move to MeeGo. As someone who wanted to profit from the platform, I feel badly let down. The N900 with a polished OS would have rocked, instead we got another year of "just wait, it'll be worth it!". Yeah, we wait, and meanwhile Apple and (especially) Google are eating our lunch.

That is, an easy to access, distributed, bulletproof solution to bypass the proposed filter. A network of proxies in different countries, using a constantly self-updating list of peer nodes in a P2P way (like Gnutella/eMule do). Make it extremely easy to get (firefox addons etc).

Make the filter irrelevant even before it's implemented, and show Conroy for the tool he is.

(Besides, such a project would also turn out to be invaluable for activists in places like Iran.)

That's not a benefit, because that 20% time must be employed on projects that will, indirectly or directly, eventually benefit Google itself. I.E. you can't just play with your Spaceballs dolls.

... and to enable Google's customers to use Google revenue-generating services (like GApps) if other browsers fail, which is why they also developed the IE engine replacement.

No. VB complements the Xen/OracleVM offer. I know for a fact that it's extensively used inside Oracle itself. They'll just add features to facilitate integration between VB and OVM (i.e. develop on VB, deploy on OVM).

Dunno about NYC, but European coin-op distributors have always been controlled by mafia cartel, and they still are (although videogames have been replaced by videopoker, slots and partygames). They make for excellent money-laundering devices: low profile, wildly different volumes of income depending on location, very distributed, loose accounting. Many large arcades also doubled up as drug markets in the early 90s (dark, full of youngsters...), before the authorities started to crack down on the practice. Nowadays, you can still find very small arcades on small streets far from the city centre, but you wouldn't dream of actually enter the place unless you're somehow affiliated with the mob.

Yeah, "The Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program". In the downloads section, it's just "Enterprise Linux".

And your second links is broken :)

No it's not.
It's called "Oracle Enterprise Linux", which gets updates from the "Oracle Unbreakable Network" as part of "Oracle Unbreakable Support" contracts.

Yeah, Italy won the FIFA World Cup (after finding out its best football clubs were corrupting referees, including one club owned by a certain Mr. Berlusconi).
Some people were forced to (gosh!) pay taxes or (damn!) face competition in the market.

We couldn't allow that to continue, right?

Feltri is known for never, ever allowing strikes. Even when his workforce goes on strike (which happened a few times) he still prints the paper. He's just a scab.

All papers supporting the government. "Libero" is controlled by one of the political parties in government.

Actually, no. He was convicted for corrupting the judges in the Mondadori case, but saved by the Italian equivalent of the "Statute of Limitations", i.e. after stalling the trial as long as he could, eventually we reached the stage where facts were too old to be considered. Same for illegal party funding in the first All-Iberian case, and illegal funds used to buy a footballer.
He was also convicted of lying to judges and using illegal funds to buy land, but was saved by generalized amnesty.
A couple of other trials were nullified by laws he passed (All-Iberian 2, SME-Ariosto 2). He's still awaiting judgement on a trial where his then-lawyer was convicted of corruption, again coming out of All-Iberian.

It's all on Wikipedia, among other places, but you're probably not interested in facts. Keep voting whatever you want, I've left the country for good, only come back every few years to be a tourist -- lovely food, shame for people constantly complaining about the shit economy and crap society.

Where are mods points when I need them? +1 Informative.

... plus a few millions to print, distribute and sell the thing, plus marketing, plus lobbying the Booker jury, plus plus plus...

And this if we assume the author was not paid some sort of advance, which is not going to be the case. That's quite a few thousand pounds right there (up to a few cool millions if you happen to be a public figure like Tony Blair or Peter Andre).