*woooosh*

Thanks for the irony overload!

Since when?

"Anonymous Coward" is a registered user who chooses not to announce his/her username to the world. Slashdot would still have it without needing to go "all detective" on log files

You sound a bit peeved that the EU actually had the balls to follow through with their fine, whilst the US case a few years back piddled down to nothing

Much of our area is limestone, with no clay or anything on top. And it RAINS a lot.

A few big sink holes have appeared on roads, and there are lots of cave systems.. My house doesn't even have foundations - it's built direct on the limestone.. I often wonder if the limestone is just a few feet thick, with a big cavern below.

Still - seems our weasly insurance companies aren't as weasly as yours!

Yeah, I agree that that is mental, but overall the song melody does sound far more that "99%" of the Andrew Oldham version.... It does raise a question though - how the hell is the Andrew Oldham version so tied in as a 'mix' of the original Stones version!

And for the record, I agree that the verve were right royally screwed over this.

It's not the same situation. Well, the parent poster was talking about our conclusion to that situation,

In the UK, some time ago, a law was passed to stop credit card companies demanding the retailer didn't pass on the credit card surcharge (as is soon to be done in the US too)

For a small while, some shops started charging the extra surcharge, but presumably through loss of business changed their minds.

In other words, the law you are talking about NOW allowing shops to charge a surcharge.. we went through ages ago, and If the same thing happens over there as over here, you'll see some stores charging a surcharge for a while, but after a year or so things will be back to as they are now

Signatures? How quaint. I remember that from the last century,

Really? Here in the UK you can use the ATM of any bank without a surcharge. (Some 'private' ATM's do charge though - the ones you find inside shops etc,)

Back to the subject, many years ago, it was made illegal for the card companies to charge a surcharge whilst not allowing the retailer to pass the cost directly to the customer. (they previously would say that if a retailer charged more for credit cards, their service would be revoked)

After that, for a while in some shops, you'd see "prices are 3% more if paying by credit card" etc. but that soon stopped. All shops that I know of just accept the surcharge, presumably because they were losing too many credit card customers.

Sorry 'bout that!

It did the reverse for a while - Richard Ashcroft said he'd never sell out and allow any of his music to be used on TV advertisements.. After the decision, the new copyright holders thought different...

Then you obviously haven't heard the mix they are talking about:

"Song credits

Although the song's lyrics were written by Verve vocalist Richard Ashcroft, it has been credited to Keith Richards and Mick Jagger after charges by the original copyright owners that the song was plagiarized from the Andrew Oldham Orchestra recording of The Rolling Stones' 1965 song "The Last Time"."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKC5cdGBY04

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talktalks position on this: http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2010/09/28/talktalk-confirms-that-customers-not-affected-by-acslaw-data-protection-breach/