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Judge Rules On Bootleg Law

Judge Rules On Bootleg Law 09/25/2004 12:02 PM
Fans of live music received a helping hand from Judge Harold Baer Jr today as he struck down a lawsuit brought against a New York record dealer. Under previous Bootleg law, the RIAA had brought a lawsuit against the dealer for selling recordings of live shows; the dealer was convicted in 2003 yet appealed the ruling.

He was convicted of "unauthorised recordings of live performances by certain music artists through his business". However, with today's ruling the decision was over turned. Judge Baer Jr commented that the previous law had provided "seemingly perpetual protection" and was thus invalid. He also described it as “unfair”.

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), an industry lobby group, announced that they were disappointed with the ruling, and would be reviewing the decision. Spokesman Jonathan Lamy said "It stands in marked contrast to existing law and prior decisions that have determined that Congress was well within its constitutional authority to adopt legislation that prevented trafficking in copies of unauthorised performances of live music."

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Judge Strikes Down FDA Ban on Ephedra
(AP)

Judge Strikes Down FDA Ban on Ephedra
(AP) 04/14/2005 04:23 PM
AP - A federal judge Thursday struck down the FDA ban on supplements containing ephedra, the once-popular weight-loss aid that was yanked from the market after it was linked to dozens of deaths.

Federal Judge Strikes Down F.D.A.'s Ban
on Ephedra

Federal Judge Strikes Down F.D.A.'s Ban
on Ephedra 04/14/2005 05:05 PM
The judge ruled in favor of a Utah company that challenged the F.D.A.'s ban of the once-popular weight-loss aid.

Judge Strikes Down Campaign Finance
Rules

Judge Strikes Down Campaign Finance
Rules 09/22/2004 04:15 AM
U.S. District Judge Kollar-Kotelly, the same judge who threw out the Microsoft break-up ruling, and backed the feds in the Gitmo case, issued a 157-page ruling today which rejects 15 of the 19 federal rules implementing the two year old US campaign finance law. While the ruling does not affect the law's key prohibition against large donations to political parties (known as "soft money") it does seem to create some uncertainty for political fund-raising, with only six weeks to go until the elections.

Judge Strikes Down Campaign Finance
Rules (AP)

Judge Strikes Down Campaign Finance
Rules (AP) 09/20/2004 10:28 AM
AP - A judge has struck down more than a dozen of the government's current rules on political fund raising with just weeks before Election Day, concluding federal regulators improperly weakened the nation's campaign finance law.

Federal Judge Strikes Down Part of
Patriot Act (Reuters)

Federal Judge Strikes Down Part of
Patriot Act (Reuters) 01/26/2004 05:18 PM
Reuters - A federal judge in Los Angeles has struck down as too vague part of the Patriot Act that bars providing "expert advice and assistance" to foreign terrorist groups -- marking the first time a court has declared part of the law unconstitutional.

Judge Strikes Down Washington Video Game
Sales Law (Reuters)

Judge Strikes Down Washington Video Game
Sales Law (Reuters) 07/15/2004 08:13 PM
Reuters - A federal judge struck down a Washington state law designed to restrict the sale of violent video games to minors on Thursday, saying that such restrictions violated free speech rights, court documents showed.

Judge strikes down Washington state's
violent video game law

Judge strikes down Washington state's
violent video game law 07/16/2004 05:16 PM
Judge rules that Washington state's violent video game ban is a violation of free speech.

Bootleg Objects

Bootleg Objects 08/10/2004 12:23 PM
Bootleg Objects, the site of two artists in Germany, have done some really amazing work retrofitting popular technology to serve a new and/or unintended purpose -- just because they can. It's quite beautiful design -- who knows of other examples?

Bootleg RSS: TV Edition

Bootleg RSS: TV Edition 08/17/2004 01:28 PM

Bootleg RSS feeds for TV listings.

Gossip's Bootleg RSS Feeds Palooza

Gossip's Bootleg RSS Feeds Palooza 01/07/2004 02:59 PM
Carlo has added newly scraped RSS feeds to his Bootleg RSS site, which include a few science sites and a Web comics. He has a cool feature when you roll over the XML link, it gives you a list of aggregators so you can add the feed to your aggregator of choice, if it's listed....

Scots police in £10m bootleg raid

Scots police in £10m bootleg raid 12/18/2003 10:39 AM
'Colossal success' - ELSPA

Microsoft Readies for Software Bootleg
Binge

Microsoft Readies for Software Bootleg
Binge 04/09/2004 03:58 PM
Microsoft acknowledged Thursday that it is investigating the illegal use of an activation key generator that can let pirates sell bootleg copies of Windows Server 2003.

Online Groups Behind Bulk of Bootleg
Films (AP)

Online Groups Behind Bulk of Bootleg
Films (AP) 01/02/2005 09:02 AM
AP - In not-too-secret online forums, Wesley Snipes' latest movie, "Blade: Trinity," is the subject of intense discussion and evaluation.

Archive.org hosting every Grateful Dead
bootleg

Archive.org hosting every Grateful Dead
bootleg 05/21/2004 07:08 AM
the complete live catalog of the Grateful Dead .. Dead shows in .shn format .. 96 shows from 1979 .. there

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eBay Today: Vintage Bootleg Boardgame

eBay Today: Vintage Bootleg Boardgame 04/01/2005 02:50 PM
Most Star Wars collectors will be familiar with the Turkish "Uzay" figures, but how many have seen this other Turkish bootleg?

Online Groups Behind Bulk of Bootleg
Films

Online Groups Behind Bulk of Bootleg
Films 01/02/2005 11:00 AM
AP via Newsday Jan 2 2005 2:06PM GMT

MTV's new mashup bootleg TV show "MTV
Mash"

MTV's new mashup bootleg TV show "MTV
Mash" 05/10/2004 06:55 PM
French DJ/producer duo Loo & Placido tell BoingBoing:

We've been doing bootlegs / mash-ups for a few years now. For the last several months, we've been working with MTV on exclusive bootlegs for a new show called ""MTV MASH" which is broadcast all around Europe 3 times a week. We already made12 tracks for the show so far. If you want to listen to our bootlegs, check out our website, it's still under construction, but there's already a lot of tracks to listen to.

Link to the L&P site. The MTV out-takes you can listen to here are terrific, and if this is what ended up on the cutting room floor -- the show should be amazing. I'm particularly fond of the Missy Elliot meets Green day track "get your green on," as well as the Goldbug meets ODB number "Golden Bastard."

Bowie asks fans to bootleg songs

Bowie asks fans to bootleg songs 04/26/2004 06:05 AM
David Bowie asks bedroom DJs to bootleg his songs to create a new track for an internet competition.

MSFT won't Sasser-patch bootleg Windows

MSFT won't Sasser-patch bootleg Windows 05/07/2004 03:35 AM
Microsoft's anti-Sasser-worm patch can't be applied to copies of Windows with serial numbers associated with bootleg or fake copies. It's an interesting dilemma for MSFT: the more unpatched copies of Windows (whether legit or not) the worm infects, the worse it becomes for all unpatched users, including those who paid their license fees. It's like denying smallpox vaccinations to known crooks, then having to pay the social cost of the smallpox outbreak that infects everyone who hasn't had a shot (including honest cits). Link< /a> (via /.)

David Bowie invites fans to bootleg his
music

David Bowie invites fans to bootleg his
music 04/26/2004 08:22 PM

A trip to LA's bootleg paradise: Santee
Alley

A trip to LA's bootleg paradise: Santee
Alley 06/05/2005 11:42 PM
Xeni Jardin: This morning I went to the LA garment district knockoff haven known as Santee Alley, with pals Jeff Koga and Sean Bonner. We found lots of neat-o bootleg crap, including these awesome framed pirat e gangsta artworks (bad unauthorized photocopy of a still from Scarface on one side, and little diorama of toy machine gun, fake money, and blinged out bullets on the other side). Other finds included scrol ling digital LED belt buckles, clothing stores promising plus size fashions for "Phat Women", toy laptops running pirated warez, and much more. The best we can't blog yet... stay tuned for a report on the best booty of pirate-town, slated to run in Wired News on Tuesday (with photos shot by Sean and Jeff).
Link to my Santee Alley Treo snapshot flickr set. Here are more snaps from today's li'l field trip, from Sean: Link< /a>

Online Groups Behind Bulk of Bootleg
Films (& Games)

Online Groups Behind Bulk of Bootleg
Films (& Games) 01/03/2005 10:22 AM

Teen arrested in alleged effort to
bootleg ``Spider-man 2''

Teen arrested in alleged effort to
bootleg ``Spider-man 2'' 07/06/2004 01:45 AM
Night vision goggles foil Chatsworth teen's effort to bootleg Spiderman 2

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Finn ordered to pay Alanis Morissette
for Internet bootleg spreading

Finn ordered to pay Alanis Morissette
for Internet bootleg spreading 02/11/2004 04:26 PM
AFP via Yahoo! Feb 11 2004 7:56PM GMT

UK's youth boards pirate ship to bootleg
island

UK's youth boards pirate ship to bootleg
island 08/10/2004 10:58 AM
Hoist the Jolly Roger

Finn ordered to pay Alanis Morissette
for Internet bootleg spreading (AFP)

Finn ordered to pay Alanis Morissette
for Internet bootleg spreading (AFP) 02/11/2004 03:01 PM
AFP - A Finnish court ordered a 24-year-old man to pay Canadian rock star Alanis Morissette 7,000 euros (8,965 dollars) for spreading unauthorized recordings of her concerts on the Internet.

Kids, when you buy a bootleg DVD, you
may be supporting people who might
sympathize with a terrorist group that
hasn't actually attacked us

Kids, when you buy a bootleg DVD, you
may be supporting people who might
sympathize with a terrorist group that
hasn't actually attacked us 06/05/2005 10:53 PM
Want to justify getting really vicious with enforcing some law or other in today's America? Claim that offenders are supporting terrorism

"The Shadow Internet ? They start with a
single stolen file and pump out bootleg
games and movies by the millions ?
Inside the pirate networks that are
terrorizing the entertainment business"

"The Shadow Internet ? They start with a
single stolen file and pump out bootleg
games and movies by the millions ?
Inside the pirate networks that are
terrorizing the entertainment business" 01/02/2005 11:37 PM

broadband » News » Pirated
Windows and Worms - Should Microsoft
supply patches for bootleg copies?

broadband » News » Pirated
Windows and Worms - Should Microsoft
supply patches for bootleg copies? 05/08/2004 03:46 AM
Should these infected PC's be allowed to grab timely critical updates, simply to help lessen the impact of worms web-wide? .. Pirated Windows and Worms: Should Microsoft supply patches for bootleg copies? .. bei DSL-Reports .. DSLReports .. discussion

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DVD Jon Strikes Again

DVD Jon Strikes Again 08/15/2004 03:04 PM
Wired News Aug 15 2004 6:23PM GMT

SBC Strikes Out

SBC Strikes Out 05/20/2004 12:56 PM
Will the phone company's good relations with workers soften the blow of a strike?

PG&E Strikes Again

PG&E Strikes Again 08/30/2004 12:04 PM
Well, they're back. I shot the picture at the right a few minutes ago. With no warning, PG&E shut off power to do some repair work from last night's outage. Here's the thing. They know that I was one of the affected folks yesterday because I called twice requesting information. Why the hell didn't they call me this morning to warn me? I'd have moved my car out of my garage (the one with the electrically operated door) and...

Marathon Strikes 10

Marathon Strikes 10 12/27/2004 01:22 AM
Marathon, a classic Mac FPS which was said to have rivaled the Doom series, reached its tenth anniversary this week. The official game has been long dead since Microsoft purchased Bungie, but a thriving community has enhanced the popular title and kept it up-to-date. This year, celebrate Marathon's tenth anniversary by playing Marathon: Aleph One. If you don't currently own a copy of the original game, don't forget to download the demo files as well (available on the Aleph One page).

[Links from this story may be found on MacMerc.com. Click the title to delve deeper.]

RIAA Strikes Again

RIAA Strikes Again 01/22/2004 02:27 AM

RIAA sues another 532 people for illegal song-swapping: This is more than double the last batch of lawsuits.

The nation's record companies Wednesday sued another 532 people for illegally distributing copyrighted music over the Internet, stepping up their attack against online music piracy.

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IBM strikes at SCO claims

IBM strikes at SCO claims 08/16/2004 05:58 PM
SCO Group's faltering attack on Linux faces another threat as Big Blue files motion seeking dismissal of contract claims.

Strikes Loom Over SBC

Strikes Loom Over SBC 04/22/2004 01:25 PM
A strike at SBC could send customers and investors scrambling for the exits.

IdiotMedia Strikes Again

IdiotMedia Strikes Again 12/11/2003 03:50 AM
Austin IndyMedia Center .. Zionist puppets .. design

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Two strikes for Eolas

Two strikes for Eolas 08/18/2004 06:40 PM
Patent Office hands Microsoft second victory, scraps browser patent claims that could roil Web if upheld.
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