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Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover 264

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 06 2010, @09:40PM
from the get-me-off-that-thing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Astronaut Bruce McCandless is suing Dido for her album cover that uses a famous NASA photograph of a tiny, tiny, tiny McCandless floating in space. McCandless doesn't own the copyright on the photo, so he's claiming it's a violation of his publicity rights ... except that he's so tiny in the photo, it's not like anyone's going to recognize him."

Nintendo Penalizing Homebrew Users? 95

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday April 25 2009, @02:17AM
from the thanks-so-much dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Bricked your Wii? Not only will Nintendo charge you for the repair, they will now add an additional fee if they detect any homebrew software. 'Should Nintendo have to pay to repair hacked Wiis under warranty? Maybe not, but they have no (moral) right to gouge customers out of spite for having the HBC installed. This actually poses a technical dilemma for us with BootMii. As currently designed, BootMii looks for an SD card when you boot your Wii, and if it finds the card and the right file, it will execute that file. Otherwise, there's no way to tell it's installed.'"

Comment: Big deal (Score 1) 101

by blackmh on Thursday July 26 2007, @07:06PM (#20004567) Attached to: BitTorrent Comes to Cell Phones

eMule had this before bittorrent even existed

First Authorized iPhone Reviews Roll In 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2007, @05:31PM

An anonymous reader writes "From Digital Daily: The first reviews of the iPhone published to the Web at 3 PM PST today and seem to be generally positive with the typical caveats about Apple's choice of cell phone carriers. Walt Mossberg says that "despite some flaws and feature omissions, the iPhone is, on balance, a beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer." David Pogue says it's "so sleek and thin, it makes Treos and BlackBerrys look obese." More reviews to be found in Digital Daily's review round-up."

InsanelyMac Forum Deleted-> 0

Submitted by on Tuesday June 26 2007, @05:00PM

An anonymous reader writes "[quote]Hello Imac visitors We are all really sorry to have to report that late last night an attacker managed to compromise the main insanelymac.com server and delete the whole forum. Obviously this is a totally devastating and criminal activity. Luckily we think we have managed to track them down from tracks they have left on the server and have now contacted the relevant police authorities who will be paying them a visit. Anyway in the mean time we have been trying all day to restore the site from our backups but unfortunately the back-up service we did have was encrypted and we can't get hold of the server admin who has the password to unlock the encrypted files. We do also have an old copy of the site and forum posts from 6 weeks ago, but re-opening the site with this is far from ideal so we are still trying to contact the old server admin to find out the password so that we can access last nights backup. Please bear with us at this difficult time, we will be back shortly we hope with a better back-up solution and some more security to stop this happening again. Brendan, Paul, Ed and Jim. PS:We're also taking the opportunity to migrate the site on to two shiny new servers that should hopefully speed the forum up a little during times of high traffic.[/quote] There had also been a climate of terror of late in the forum: threads deleted without warning or notice, private messages deleted or tampered with as well... One might wonder if the two things are related. A mysterious user "aulter" seemed also very involved with everything. Who the hell was he?"
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