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Submission + - Lawyer asks RIAA to investigate Bush twins 1

Submitted by tanman on Thursday June 21, 2007 @06:35PM

tanman writes: After reading an article in the Miami Herald that said "[President] Bush's twin daughters, gave him a CD they had made for him to listen to while exercising", a Florida lawyer calculated statutory damages of 1.8 million dollars and has sent a letter to the RIAA asking that they "display the same vigor in prosecuting this matter and protecting the rights of your rights-holders that it has displayed in enforcing those rights against other alleged violators." From the letter, "This is a serious violation of copyright. As you know, whichever of your member organizations that are right-holders for the copied musical works may be entitled to statutory damages of $150,000.00 per musical work copied."

Submission + - Student Arrested for Making Video Game Map of Scho

Submitted by tanman on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @01:20PM

tanman writes: A Chinese student at the Houston-area Clements High School was arrested, sent to an "Alternative Education Center" and banned from graduation after school officials found he created a video game map of his school (Google mirror). School district police arrested the teen and searched his home where they confiscated a hammer as a "potential weapon". ' "They decided he was a terroristic threat," said one source close to the district's investigation. ' With an upcoming May 12 school board election, this issue has quickly become political, with school board members involved in the appeal accusing each other of pandering to the Chinese community in an attempt to gain votes.

Submission + - Confessed Web addict sues IBM for firing him

Submitted by

weinerdog97

on Sunday February 18, 2007 @01:58PM

weinerdog97 writes: "Dude gets canned for surfing an adult chat room at work. http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/02/18/chat.room.lawsui t.ap/index.html"

Comment Re:Hasn't Paypal done this for years? (Score 1) 212

by tgtanman on Wednesday December 27, 2006 @03:24PM (#17379880) Attached to: PayPal Launches Virtual Debit Card

Apparently, the difference between this and the old Virtual Debit Card is that the new one provides a CVV2 number (the security code on the back). I've been using the old system online for a while and I've never had a problem with websites needing a security code (I think entering 000 makes it work?)

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