Comment RIAA Always Needs a Good Scapegoat (Score 1) 4
Too bad legislators actually buy into this nonsense.
Submission + - Elton John: 'Close Down the Internet!' (zeropaid.com)
Jared writes: "Says that it's "destroying good music" and "stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff." Laments the way that the internet and the emerging industry of digital music has created a cold and impersonal world for artists to create new music in. He says that it is "destroying good music, and that "The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff."
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8947/Elton+John%3A+'C lose+Down+the+Internet!'"
Comment COPY of the ACTUAL LETTER SENT TO STUDENTS (Score 1) 406
Submission + - Michael Moore's new "Sicko" leaked on BitT (zeropaid.com)
Jared writes: "Michael Moore went so far as to stash a copy of his new documentary "Sicko," a scathing indictment of the US healthcare system, in Canada over fears the Feds would seize it since a portion of it was filmed in Cuba despite the current US embargo against it. Buyt, it won't matter after all since a copy of it has been leaked on BitTorrent and P2P networks everywhere.
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8846/Michael+Moore's+ new+documentary+%22Sicko%22+leaked+on+BitTorrent"
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8846/Michael+Moore's
Journal Journal: Top 5 stupid things in immigration reform (Lou Dobbs) 6
5. Taxpayers will be paying for immigration attorneys for illegal aliens if they're working in agriculture.
4. Illegal aliens will be given legal status one day after their application is filed even if the background check isn't complete.
3. Gang members eligible for amnesty if they renounce their gang status.
2. Borders do not have to be secure before amnesty begins.
4. Illegal aliens will be given legal status one day after their application is filed even if the background check isn't complete.
3. Gang members eligible for amnesty if they renounce their gang status.
2. Borders do not have to be secure before amnesty begins.
Feed Satellite Images Show Destroyed And Threatened Villages In Darfur (sciencedaily.com)
A pioneering AAAS program that provides technical expertise to human rights groups is helping Amnesty International USA with a new online effort to monitor threatened settlements in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan and provide evidence of destroyed villages.
Feed Police Blotter: Court overturns man's Net ban for life (com.com)
Appeals court decides that judge's decision to permanently ban sex offender from Internet is too broad.
Submission + - Pirate Bay to create YouTube competitor
Jared writes: "The site will be modeled after YouTube in that content will be user generated. What will set it apart however, is that there will be "no censorship," that The Pirate Bay "will not be the moral police" and determine what content stays or goes as is oftentimes the case with YouTube. He then hinted that that the community will instead be the censors, that "the community will have to do that.""
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