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Buzzkills Time Warner want you to know that every time you wish your friends a loved ones a happy birthday by singing the song "Happy Birthday" and DON'T pay royalties to ASCAP, god kills a puppy. Or something.
So, Winster, if your co-workers want to wish you a happy birthday after work, have 'em buy you a shot instead of singing some lameass song. Otherwise, your bosses might have to bring the hammer down and start garnishing wages.
(via boing boing)
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21 Dec 2004 |
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27 Jun 2004 |
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"It may soon be possible to carry around an AK-47 assault rifle and an iPod with you down the street - and be arrested for carrying the iPod."
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In his floor speech introducing the measure, [Utah Senator Orrin] Hatch said that once people are given PCs, they are bound to infringe. (Many would agree with him there). So he frames his bill as a protection. Hatch said people weren't aware that they were breaking the law by running P2P software, (citing work by Harvard's Berkman Center, which says the Senator quoted them out of context) and therefore running "piracy machines" that had been designed to mislead their users. Therefore, his argument goes, the users are in need of protection from 'inducement'.
Guh. So, according to that logic, why don't we just start charging gun owners with murder right now? 'Cause you know eventually someone's gonna be induced to pop a cap in someone.
"But officer, I didn't mean to run that red light, my car induced me with all that horsepower!"
Would someone introduce a bill to protect me from uptight, ancient, out-of-touch Senators who will flip flop on an issue over a steak dinner and a lobbyist blowjob? Loosen the collar, Orrin, I think your brain is in need of oxygen.
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15 Mar 2004 |
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I think the guy on the mike at Marigold Lanes likes this web site. Although McDonalds lawyers might find "Bar-ba-pa-pa" on the far right, a little too grimace-y.
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04 Mar 2004 |
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The Jay-Z Construction Set is a toolkit with all of the necessary software and raw materials to create a new remix of Jay-Z's Black Album.
See, rather than fight this trend, I think Jay-Z should come out in support of it. It's like the next logical Information Wants To Be Free-esque step to the Tupac / B.I.G. phenomena of releasing more albums posthumously than they ever did while alive, only Jay-Z ain't dead! He still gets to be one rich mofo with a hot girlfriend!
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26 Oct 2003 |
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For those of you who haven't heard, Amazon has introduced an amazing new service that allows users to search the entire text of over 120,000 books.
The Authors Guild has some (probably well-founded) issues with this. When I first read about potential lawsuits, I thought, "why would authors not want their works more accessible?"
When we learned of the program, we thought that it would be impossible to read more than 5 consecutive pages from a book in the program. It turns out that it's quite simple (though a bit inconvenient) to look at 100 or more consecutive pages from a single lengthy book. We've even printed out 108 consecutive pages from a bestselling book. It's not something one would care to do frequently, but it can be done. So a reader could choose to print out all the fish recipes from a cookbook in the program. Or the section on Tuscany from a travel book. We believe readers will do this, and the perplexing question is whether the additional exposure for a title -- and the presumptive increase in sales -- offsets sales lost from those who just use the Amazon system to look up the section of a book when they need it.
Oops. Yeah, that's probably no good. Technology, Ho!
I decided to see how difficult it would be to snake some free recipes from a cookbook, looked up "Jamie Oliver pecorino," and clicked to see the excerpt. In order to do so, you have to log in, and then provide credit card information for "verification." Sorry, I'm just not motivated enough to hand over my credit card information to Amazon to look inside a book. It's like online bookstore porn!
So, it looks like Amazon has taken steps to ensure abuses are kept to a minimum.
via kottke