Hozza - Slashdot User

Radio station threatens Bad Science lawsuit 0

Submitted by Hozza on Monday February 09 2009, @06:31AM

Hozza writes "Ars technica are reporting that a London based radio station is threatening to sue Ben Goldacre's well know Bad Science column from The Guardian.

At issue is the reporting of a radio show which attempted to debate child vaccination programs, but in the end just expounded all the worst aspects of the anti-vaccination movement, Ben Goldacre presented the clip on his blog and asked his readers to document all the bad science found therein. This resulted in a take down notice from the station's lawyers, and the threatened lawsuit

The lawyers have obviously never heard of the Streisand effect, meaning the clip is now widely availabe (youtube.com)"

French court fines eBay $63m over fake goods. 0

Submitted by Hozza on Monday June 30 2008, @07:02AM

Hozza writes "The BBC is reporting that a French court has fined eBAY $63m for failing to prevent the sale of fake goods. The action was brought by the luxury goods group LVHM which owns brands such as Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and Givenchy."