Comment Re:Power to the official paedophiles? (Score 1) 630
Oooooh! I've been horribly negligent in my duty to augment my spellchecker's vocabulary with useful words like "orificer," "paedosmile" and "catamite."
[clickety-clack] Added those!
Comment Power to the official paedophiles? (Score 1) 630
The set of paedophiles also includes orifiers of the CIA, the FBI, the police, court judges and city councillors.
This law, which gives those paedophiles the legal power to use another paedophile's account anywhere, anytime is a paedophile's dream come true.
Comment Re:(un)Fairpoint's Profit Plan (Score 4, Funny) 249
Well, the "Fair" in Fairpoint's name is a bit like the "Honest" in Honest John's Used Cars.
Nonprofit Group Sends Filesharing Propaganda To Students 266
palegray.net writes "The National Center for State Courts, a nonprofit organization, has sent file-sharing propaganda to thousands of students. The supposedly 'educational' materials, presented in the form of a comic strip, are intended to frighten students with gross exaggerations of the legal consequences of sharing music online (lose your scholarship to college, go to jail for two years, and more). From the article: '"The Case of Internet Piracy," however, reads like the Recording Industry Association of America's public relations playbook: Download some songs, go to jail and lose your scholarship. Along the way, musicians will file onto the bread lines. "The purpose is basically to educate kids — middle school and high school-aged about how the justice system operates and about what really goes on in the courtroom as opposed to what you see on television," said Lorri Montgomery, the center's communications director.' I'm not encouraging anyone to break any laws, but this is ridiculous. What's truly discouraging is the fact that several judges appear to be in full support of this sort of 'education.'
The propaganda material is available in PDF form, and it lists the judges and others involved in its creation. Wired's post has a summary of the story (which is good, since the story is awful), and Techdirt notes a couple of the legal inaccuracies.
