RIAA: We see dead people

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RIAA Sues 477 More People

RIAA Sues 477 More People 04/29/2004 05:00 AM
The music group continues its lawsuit blitz, targeting dozens more college students and hundreds of other computer users. The industry has now filed 2,454 suits since last summer, although none of the cases has yet gone to trial.

RIAA sues another 493 people

RIAA sues another 493 people 05/25/2004 07:05 AM

Seems the RIAA has to make payroll as they have sued another 493 people for copyright infringement with the total coming to nearly 3000. They have become one of the most hated organizations in the United States by users of File Sharing when will the madness end. [DesignTechnica< /a>]

The RIAA Sues 482 More People

The RIAA Sues 482 More People 06/22/2004 08:46 PM

RIAA Sues the Dead

RIAA Sues the Dead 02/05/2005 09:41 PM

Nearly 1500 people have been sued by the
RIAA

Nearly 1500 people have been sued by the
RIAA 02/18/2004 02:21 AM
When will the madness end. It seems the RIAA filed another 531 John Doe lawsuits against individuals that they are...

RIAA sues the dead | The Register

RIAA sues the dead | The Register 02/07/2005 02:03 AM

RIAA drops P2P case against dead
non-computer user

RIAA drops P2P case against dead
non-computer user 02/05/2005 09:26 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: The Recording Industry Association of America is getting soft. RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy announced that they will drop their lawsuit against a woman who died last month at the age of 83 and didn't own a computer.

A group of record companies named Walton as the sole defendant in a federal lawsuit, claiming she made more than 700 songs available for free on the Internet.

Walton's daughter, Robin Chianumba, lived with her mother for the last 17 years and said her mother objected to having a computer in the house.

"My mother wouldn't know how to turn on a computer," Chianumba said.

Link (Thanks, Henry!)

Dead, Non-Computer Owner Sued By The
RIAA For Swapping 700 Songs

Dead, Non-Computer Owner Sued By The
RIAA For Swapping 700 Songs 02/05/2005 09:49 PM
There have been plenty of stories about the entertainment industry threate ning completely innocent people, but now they're getting even worse. According to Broadband Reports among the people sued in the latest batch of lawsuits from the RIAA was an 83-year-old woman who is now deceased. Even when she was alive she never owned a computer, let alone had the username "smittenedkitten," or shared over 700 songs online. The RIAA responds, oh so politely, by saying they'll now dismiss the case. However, that's not the real issue. All of these examples show that the RIAA doesn't really know who's doing what -- and yet they're filing tons of indiscriminate lawsuits. Every time a screwup like this happens, they apologize and remove the lawsuit, but shouldn't they be punished for filing frivolous lawsuits? It's clear that they really don't have the right tools to be able to tell who actually committed a crime. A smart lawyer should use these cases to show that the industry has no real evidence that any of these lawsuits are valid.

Clay Shirky talks about the RIAA forcing
people to adopt Encryption

Clay Shirky talks about the RIAA forcing
people to adopt Encryption 12/18/2003 02:28 PM
I have always been intrigued with encryption and use PGP on select e-mail from time to time and understand the...

"I sue dead people..."

"I sue dead people..." 02/05/2005 09:26 PM
The RIAA has done some MIND BLOWINGLY stupid things in the past, but this one actually had me baffled! According to a report from Ars Technica, it seems that the RIAA has gone after a deceased woman in order to get what they feel they have coming to them. Yes folks, these idiots actually tried to sue someone who has already passed on. Worst part was, I have seen no evidence of an apology for…

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Dead People Server

Dead People Server 02/11/2004 07:52 AM
Dead People Server
http://www.DeadPeople.info/

The Dead People Server is a database of interesting celebrities who are long dead or newly dead. Interesting resource that only the Internet could offer ...... as it is up to date and current!

Do You See Dead People? Want a Million
Bucks?

Do You See Dead People? Want a Million
Bucks? 04/09/2004 03:55 PM
Do you see dead people? Do you believe in ghosts? Extrasensory perception? UFOs and alien abductions? Can faith alone heal what modern medicine cannot? Do you fear demon possession or live in fear of crossing paths with Bigfoot on some dark and lonely road? Do you believe in lucky numbers or that the wandering stars and planets hold dominion over your destiny? Do magnets exhibit mysterious healing qualities? If your answer to one or more of those questions is yes, then take heart: you're far from alone.

Flickr sees dead people

Flickr sees dead people 06/24/2005 10:03 PM
These two pictures are of a dead man right outside the Helsinki Central Railway Station. Snapped with a cameraphone, and uploaded to Flickr with GPRS, the pictures spread with RSS and tags to people who sit comatosely with their aggregators and browsers, and feed on the information stream.

This is what street journalism is[1]. Whether it is a good thing, or a bad thing, I cannot say. That is up to everyone to decide for themselves.

But you saw it first in the blogosphere.

5 People Found Dead in 2 N.Y. State
Homes

5 People Found Dead in 2 N.Y. State
Homes 12/25/2003 01:58 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 25 2003 12:40PM ET

Calif. Plane Crash Leaves 5 People Dead

Calif. Plane Crash Leaves 5 People Dead 12/24/2003 08:11 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 24 2003 6:36PM ET

"Dazzling, full-color shots of people
long since dead, landscapes long since
paved, and an empire long since
overthrown."

"Dazzling, full-color shots of people
long since dead, landscapes long since
paved, and an empire long since
overthrown." 01/17/2004 11:07 PM

St Peter's Square - The Pope is dead -
People mourning the Pope at Saint Peters
Square Rome - QTVR photos from
panoramas.dk

St Peter's Square - The Pope is dead -
People mourning the Pope at Saint Peters
Square Rome - QTVR photos from
panoramas.dk 04/05/2005 04:07 AM
St Peter's Square - The Pope is dead - People mourning the Pope at Saint Peters Square Rome .. The Coolest Thing On the Web .. Panoramic view .. panorama

panoramas.dk/fullscreen5/f14a-pope.html
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Pilot wants to know if people flying in
his plane are "Christians" - asks people
to raise their hands

Pilot wants to know if people flying in
his plane are "Christians" - asks people
to raise their hands 02/10/2004 09:18 AM
CNN.com - Passengers: Pilot promotes faith on flight .. Pilot's proselytizing scares passengers .. FLYING THE PLANES!!!!

cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/02/09/airline.christianity/index.html
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"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions"

"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions" 04/06/2005 03:07 AM

Correspondences - News By the People For
People: Who captured Saddam Hussein?

Correspondences - News By the People For
People: Who captured Saddam Hussein? 12/22/2003 07:54 AM
Well, the cat is out of the bag so to speak. Saddam Hussein was captured by Kurds, not US forces. 12/22 .. (even more) .. more

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"Correspondences - News By the People
For People: Who captured Sad..."

"Correspondences - News By the People
For People: Who captured Sad..." 12/22/2003 04:17 PM

There are lots of bright people out
there but only so many Bryght people

There are lots of bright people out
there but only so many Bryght people 08/27/2004 01:47 PM

Congrats to Roland and Boris and.....

They've just launched Bryght - a Drupal hosting service. I hung out with these guys a bit when I was in Vancouver and they're certainly a compelling reason for moving there.

Vancouver is hot.

Here's Roland's post....

Our latest venture is Bryght, a hosted Drupal service, "the Salesforce.com of community content". I am working with Boris, Richard, Adrian and James on this one. Yes, we are all Bryght guys :-) !

We have taken Drupal and combined it with web hosting and email to give you a one stop shop for your community content. No IT required, no muss, no fuss! Check out The lights are on at Bryght for more background on how this started. And if you know of an individual, organization or company that could use a Bryght site, please contact us.

Whither StreamLine you might ask? StreamLine continues and it will continue to resell Blogware blogs because we still believe that Blogware is the best individual blogging platform.

[Roland Tanglao's blog]

An attempt to evaluate the actual power
of brands by making Austrian people draw
a total of twelve logos (nine
international, three typically European)
from memory, 25 people per brand

An attempt to evaluate the actual power
of brands by making Austrian people draw
a total of twelve logos (nine
international, three typically European)
from memory, 25 people per brand 01/03/2004 07:05 AM
monochrom Brandmarker

monochrom.at/markenzeichnen/index-eng.htm
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Dead, Dead, Dead. Someday Soon We'll All
Be Dead.

Dead, Dead, Dead. Someday Soon We'll All
Be Dead. 12/02/2003 10:13 PM
I had a 120gig SATA Hard drive in my G5. It died. Dead blocks all over. My last full backup...

""We're saving more people than should
be saved, probably," Lt. Col. Robert
Carroll said. "We're saving severely
injured people. Legs. Eyes. Part of the
brain.""

""We're saving more people than should
be saved, probably," Lt. Col. Robert
Carroll said. "We're saving severely
injured people. Legs. Eyes. Part of the
brain."" 04/29/2004 03:19 AM

[etech] People-to-People (Microsoft)

[etech] People-to-People (Microsoft) 02/11/2004 09:36 PM
Lily Cheng from Microsoft Research is talking about how people represent themselves on line. The closer the friends, the fuzzier they want the representations. We need to make social tools fluid enough to account for the way people's lives change. We need easy access to friends and people important to us. We want sponatenous interactions. Lily's group went to a mall and asked people to draw their social interactions, and gots lots of circles and lines. Microsoft studied this and built a "personal map" that clusters people based on who they send email to (TO and CC) and how...

"You thought these people were saying
that the fight against Iraq was part of
the fight against the people that
attacked us on 9/11? Psych!"

"You thought these people were saying
that the fight against Iraq was part of
the fight against the people that
attacked us on 9/11? Psych!" 06/19/2004 04:26 PM

""Pat isn't with God,'' he said. "He's f
-- ing dead. He wasn't religious. So
thank you for your thoughts, but he's f
-- ing dead.''"

""Pat isn't with God,'' he said. "He's f
-- ing dead. He wasn't religious. So
thank you for your thoughts, but he's f
-- ing dead.''" 05/05/2004 09:39 AM

Dead pixels instead of dead trees

Dead pixels instead of dead trees 12/22/2004 01:49 AM

I love books, I love browsing stacks, I love libraries, I love Powell's in Portland, I like collecting books, I always have a stack nearby to read, I love looking through picture books, and I love books even though I didn't really become much of a reader until the end of my college years (I never read for fun until then). Plunging into the Internet fed my book addiction further, as I had to read dozens of computer classics to get up to speed and stay ahead of the curve. Every computer desk I've had until recently was flanked by bookshelves loaded with titles.

Earlier this year, I remember hearing Cory Doctorow give a talk about how ebooks were going to rule the world and folks would abandon the printed page for the laptop screen. I thought it was a good talk, but I felt the thesis was a bit ahead of its time. There's really no comparison between curling up with a book and a blanket in front of a fireplace, versus trying to read thousands of words on a screen.

Last weekend I was doing some house cleaning and I kept finding stacks of books. A stack next to the reading chairs. A stack on the coffee table. A stack beside my bed. All these stacks contained books I bought in 2004, but never read. Some, I got halfway through, but even more I got maybe ten pages in. A few I never even cracked open.

When I think back to the last three books I enjoyed, they were all heard on my iPod, while on a road trip. I can't recall the last book I finished in my hands.

I'm going to take a holiday trip soon to a fairly remote location where there's not much to do besides read. I'm going to sit and read the only book I've wanted to read this year, and I have a feeling it might just be one of the last dead tree books I read for a long time.

As much as I didn't agree with Cory back during his E-tech talk, I'm finally realizing it's coming true in my own life. I read thousands of words everyday on my monitors and I rarely take time to read anything on the printed page, and there's no sign of reversal on that trend. The scariest thing for the bookfan inside me is that I don't think it's bad thing, either.

Long live the ebook. Long live the audiobook. So long, dead trees.

People hurting other people for fun.

People hurting other people for fun. 08/06/2004 04:54 PM
Is phonebooking illegal? No. Well...yes. Assault is assault. Just don't get caught.

Dead Like Me - Dead or Alive?

Dead Like Me - Dead or Alive? 02/01/2005 09:59 PM
In television these days, there is hardly a show that doesn’t have the blood flowing or the boobies showing. It is hard to find a show that makes it on wit alone. Till a few weeks ago, I thought I had found the saving grace with Showtime’s original show, Dead Like Me. I guess a few executives didn’t share my opinion. The fight is far from over though. In the past shows would have died…

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Guns don't kill people, bongs kill
people

Guns don't kill people, bongs kill
people 12/18/2003 01:01 AM
Tommy Chong in prison. 3 months into his 9 month prison sentence for selling bongs, the LA City Beat talks to Tommy Chong and the LA Weekly talks with his family about the details of his case. [Via Drug WarRant.]

"RIAA wants your fingerprints"

"RIAA wants your fingerprints" 06/05/2004 09:07 AM

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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RIAA wants your fingerprints

RIAA wants your fingerprints 06/04/2004 05:20 PM
Biometric iPod ready for market

RIAA sues... (again)

RIAA sues... (again) 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
RIAA sues... (again): The RIAA has just issued a new lawsuit against 532 more "illegal filesharers" only this time, they're also using the "john doe" approach meaning that they dont have to have ascertain your name by strongarming ISPs, but by suing your IP address, they let the judicial system take care of that little detail.

ISPs to RIAA: "go away!"

ISPs to RIAA: "go away!" 01/19/2004 04:17 PM
ISPs are refusing to cooperate with the RIAAs latest strategy in clamping down on file-sharing.

Message for the RIAA

Message for the RIAA 11/13/2003 01:52 AM
As time goes on people are awakening to the real tragedy being played out daily by the companies that pay...

'We're just like the RIAA,' says SCO

'We're just like the RIAA,' says SCO 03/06/2004 02:04 AM

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