Archive for March, 2008
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
As Techdirt put it: "A new Chancellor was selected to lead a Community College District in northern Harris County, Texas. A critical blog was set up to blast the new Chancellor, who quickly had IT block it on all campus computers. As these things always do, it backfired. The college ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
In 2003, Barbara Streisand filed a $50 million lawsuit against Kenneth Adelman because he had posted an aerial photo of her home on his website. His website contained around 12,000 photos of the California coastline as a way to document coastal erosion.
Streisand's house had gained virtually no attention online until ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
A man named Robert Lancaster created a site called Stop Sylvia Brown, which makes a case for Sylvia not being a "true psychic medium".
Whether she is or not, Mr. Lancaster has every right to express his opinion. Sylvia and her lawyers disagreed. They demanded that she stop using her trademark, ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
In 2004, a Senate aide named Jessica Cutler kept a very explicit blog titled "Washingtonienne", in which she detailed her sexual escapades. One of those men listed on the blogs was another aide named Robert Steinbuch, and he was quite upset to find that kind of information on her site.
In ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Traffic Power is a company that offers to help improve the ranking of your site in the search engines.
A customer of theirs had a bad experience and created a site to express his displeasure. The Wall Street Journal, who had already written about the case before, decided to dig a ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Tintin In The Congo is a series of comic strips in a book, written in 1931 by Belgian author Herge.
In July of 2007, Britain's equality watchdog (The Commission for Racial Equality) came down hard on the book, accusing it of making black people "look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles". ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
The Pirate Bay is well-known for their BitTorrent tracking and is a very popular place for people to share music, movies, software, etc.
In May of 2006, The Pirate Bay's Stockhole were raided and their servers were seized. The MPAA considered it a major victory and made sure everyone knew about ...
Posted in BitTorrent, Music | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
"The Grey Album" was released by DJ Danger Mouse in 2004. It used samples from the Beatles' "White Album" and Jay-Z's "Black Album", and became quite a hit.
EMI, who own the rights to most of the Beatles' music sent a cease-and-desist letter both to Danger Mouse and to stores that ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
The Samsung SGH-X820 (also known as the "Ultra Edition") is one of the thinnest phones available at only 6.9mm thick.
In September of 2006, a woman posted a video of her snapping the phone in half. Samsung was obviously not pleased about this, so they had it removed from YouTube due ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
DeCSS is a program that is able to decrypt a DVD that had been encrypted using CSS (Content Scrambling System).
The program was first released in October of 1999 and was similar to the later HD-DVD controversy as it provided a way for people to bypass the copy protection on a ...
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