http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/judge-hits-beatles-mp3-seller-with-restraining-order.ars

Apart from the psycho-acoustic simulation, BlueBeat also appeared to be making the claim that because it embedded image files in the music downloads, they somehow became totally new "audio-visual works." Indeed, BlueBeat claimed to own the copyright on these works.

StackOverflow is really impressive, and useful. I find myself adding "site:stackoverflow.com" to google queries when I'm troubleshooting some code problem. If there's an answer on there, it's almost always better than the answers on other sites. With none of the horrible multi-page answers, scribd paper, navigation hell that plagues other sites.

Great idea to branch this into other areas, but I wonder how many dedicated users you'll see like jon skeet when it comes to a parenthood advice website.

I don't use their product but http://palantirtech.com/ makes a data visualization tool and has a good blog about it, with some interesting Java dev tips thrown in. It might be overkill for the data discussed in the article summary, but sounds pretty badass.

One really interesting blog article http://blog.palantirtech.com/2008/12/12/vizweek-2008-report/ talks about something called the "VAST Interactive Challenge", which as near as I can tell is a competition for data visualization tools to go head-to-head against each other. (Side note - wouldn't it be cool if more software frameworks/applications had shootouts like this?)

The blog article talks about how they had 30 minutes to train an analyst that had never used Palantir, and then 2 hours for the analyst to explore the data. It's an interesting read, and makes you realize how useful a really good tool like this could be for finding trends in raw data.