Archive for March, 2008
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
The IFPI, the RIAA of the UK, has convinced a judge to have Httpshare.com -- a torrent tracking site -- shut down.
The site is located in Israel, and doesn't appear to be breaking any Israeli laws. Like many other sites, this site is simply a torrent search engine and ...
Posted in BitTorrent, Music | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Bank Julius Baer, the Swiss firm that sued Wikileaks last week and had their site taken offline, has dropped their lawsuit.
Techdirt has the details, where they add that this is "One more lesson for overly aggressive lawyers to think about the consequences of certain actions, rather than just launching lawsuits ...
Posted in Companies | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Since I created this site about a year ago, it's been running on a simple CMS that I built. I finally took the plunge and converted to WordPress for a number of reasons. The biggest two were so you could subscribe to our RSS feed if you wanted to stay ...
Posted in Site News | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
In an efforts to showcase some illegal activity (tax evasion and money laundering) at Swiss bank, the Wikileaks site posted some information about some of the bank's clients.The Bank Julius Baer fought back and successfully convinced a San Francisco judge to have the site taken down, which succeeded. As is ...
Posted in Companies | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
In April of 2007, a group of girls at Framingham State College went to a lacrosse game and cheered on their team, bare-bellied. When they found out that a photo of them was going to be on the front page of the student newspaper, they stole nearly 1,000 copies of ...
Posted in People | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
In September of 2006, fashion model Daniela Cicarelli was videotaped having sex in the ocean with her boyfriend, Merrill Lynch employee Tato Malzoni. The video was quickly posted on YouTube and then was quickly deleted. Despite being deleted, the video was still showing up on various websites and file sharing ...
Posted in People | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
At a show on July 24, 2007 concert in Orlando, Beyonce fell down a some stairs and tumbled to the stage. While it appeared to be quite a nasty fall, she hopped back up and continued the show.
At the end of the concert, she asked her fans to please keep ...
Posted in People | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
This one is quite odd. A man took his 14 year old daughter on a camping trip with his wife (the girl's step-mother) and later the step-mother posted the pictures on her MySpace page. The pictures included photos of the 14 year old in her bikini, though none ...
Posted in People | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
A YouTube user created a video of the King of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej, in which he was portrayed as a monkey.
The Thai government decided their best course of action would be to ban all of YouTube from the country.
The result was YouTube users everywhere creating more clips bashing the king, ...
Posted in People | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
In early 2007, Paula Abdul appeared on the "Good Day LA" show and seemed to be a bit tipsy. Her and Fox explained her behavior as "technical difficulties", but many people felt otherwise.
As the buzz was beginning to die down from the incident, Fox decided to send a DMCA takedown ...
Posted in Music, People | No Comments »
