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Scientology Attacker Will Be Sentenced To Jail 354

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @05:15AM from the taking-one-for-the-team dept.

OBG writes "A Nebraska native charged with taking part in a massive cyber-attack against the Scientology website will be spending the next year behind bars. 20-year-old Brian Thomas Mettenbrink will plead guilty to the charge of unauthorized access of a protected computer for his involvement in the denial of service attack, which was orchestrated by the online group 'Anonymous.' Mettenbrink's is the second successful prosecution connected to the 'Anonymous' attacks. Last year, Dmitriy Guzner of Verona, New Jersey, was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for attacks on Scientology sites."

Microsoft Facing Class-Action Suit Over Xbox Live Points 107

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @03:45AM from the demo-suit-is-free dept.

An anonymous reader tips news that a lawyer in Pennsylvania has filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that the company's handling of Xbox Live transactions is, in some cases, fraudulent. "Samuel Lassoff, of Horsham, PA, said an invoice he received earlier this month from Microsoft included charges for purchases he couldn't complete due to a balky download system — and he claimed it wasn't an accident. Microsoft 'engaged in a scheme to unjustly enrich itself through their fraudulent handling' of his account, Lassoff charged in papers filed earlier this week in US District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania. ... 'Microsoft breached that contract by collecting revenues for digital goods and services which were not provided,' Lassoff said in his lawsuit."

Comment Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! (Score 1) 930

by vyzar on Friday January 26, 2007 @04:41AM (#17765956) Attached to: Norway Outlaws iTunes

"Good intentions, questionable execution. European legislators have been giving DRM considerable attention for a while, but Norway has actually gone so far as to declare that Apple's iTunes store is illegal under Norwegian law. The crux of the issue is that the Fairplay DRM that is at the heart of the iTunes/iPod universe doesn't work with anything else, meaning that if you want access to the cast iTunes library, you have to buy an iPod."

It is NOT necessary to own an iPod to access the iTunes library! It is only necessary to have a copy of iTunes!

To carry those tunes on a portable device it is only necessary to have a CD burner, and follow these steps:

- Burn tracks onto CD from iTunes (iTunes lets you do this).
- Either use recorded CD into your portable CD player, or
- Rip tracks from CD using iTunes or similar package, and save as .mp3 files
- Transfer ripped tracks to your favourite MP3 player.

Provided this is all done for *personal use only* it would seem to be covered by fair use. However IANAL, so you freedom may vary.

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