The one your site shows looks just like the one I had but I think it had a built in speaker (but I could be confusing it with the umpteen similar pc cards over the years). I think I got it from a show.

I remember the product and it worked well. Oh well, at 20 your doing good just staying sober. But anyone else reading, call there bluff and email me for help with the details (free guidance)!! LOL!

Sorry to hear they ripped you off dude. I thought at the time that the bigger company bought you out and that you would be sitting pretty. Bummer. Hope your next one hits big.

"I had the very first audio every on most computer platforms. From digital audio on the Apple II, Lisa and Mac, C64, IBM PC and XT and even the Tandy Model 2 and 3. I had the first PC digital audio products on the market the Sound Byte, then someone literally took my name trade marked and and sent me a cease and desists on the name! So I renamed it Audio byte. http://www.dnull.com/zebraresearch [dnull.com]"

Why didn't you just say "This name and concept is mine- give me all your money or else?" A trademark is automatically invalidated if it was in use prior to the trademarking. And if you marketed the first product by that name you would win- big. But of course you might have to be able to feed a few lawyers to make it work though.

No, the principle is that there are more renters than apartment owners, and therefore politicians pander to the tyranny of the majority (and those who feel sorry for them) while trampling on the property rights of the minority. Votes over principle. Just please don't call it "renters' rights." There are no such rights, only cynical politicians willing to rob from Peter to pay Paul; and the politician who does that will always have the support of Paul.

You claim to be a lawyer but you certainly are not very well versed in the facts of New York City's rental realities. The landlords have money, lots of it. They pay, donate, and bribe the politicians and judges. The majority gets screwed as a result. Really, read something, like try 10 years of news articles on skyrocketing rents.

But then there is the whole concept of "reliance" and IP - Intellectual Property. If a lawyer were to follow those two doctrines there is a considerable possibility of finding that AOL caused the loss of the user's IP which has a value. Moreover, the consideration in this case has an implied value, that the free host stay up under reasonable terms. Is it reasonable to close a website, which costs pennies per year to maintain, without giving the consumer IP owners ACTUAL notice?

Then also there are UCC interpretations if the IP is considered business rather than consumer. Quite frankly counselor, I think the probability of litigation due to the crappy way this was handled far outweighs the pennies the saved by closing down in 4 weeks rather than say 6months. At the very least they should have provided a way for people to get their content after the site went down.

So does the course you teach cover consumer protection statutes and simple tort principles? Because there does seem to be some play in that area given that IP is property and if it has been destroyed there are damages, and through the contract there is a duty....

But hey, I'm sure AOL's lawyers considered those possibilities as deeply as you did.

What dimension are you from? New York City's rent control laws have been gutted and ignored by landlord loving judge's who are on the Real Estate industry's payroll. Entire neighborhoods have been evicted to make way for the (phoney) money train. Rents have skyrocketed out of control. Seniors have been under constant assault by landlords trying to push them out so they can quadruple the rents.

I know, I do a website about the New York housing crisis: http://rentwars.com/

And if you don't believe me just read the New York Times articles about gentrification and displacement. Or just read the articles about Rent Wars while you are at it (old though, 2001- but they have newer articles on how the Landlords simply ignore the tenant protection and repair laws yet still get evictions).

Although now that the financial industry has been exposed as a fraud the RE market has dropped. But the madness continues even now.

Actually the stuff works great when your hair first starts thinning. I bought the stuff years ago and it was in an aerosol can. You spray it on an viola, your hair looks thick and no scalp shows through. This is the stuff actors might use. You can duck and move with no problem. But then it happens, you dance full of confidence and a tiny bit of perspiration hits the shoe polish. Suddenly your sweating black streaks down your face like Tammy Faye mascara, and don't forget the back of your shirt collar which now looks like an inkwell. However, the most embarrassing moment is when the attractive young lady you are dancing with runs her hands through your hair and then screams when she notices her hand is covered with black ink. I fled into the night groaning like Igor...

One time I used it, and that one time humiliated me more than 20 years of thinning hair!