http://www.torrentprivacy.com/index.php?mod=news
A small archive of the RIAA’s quest to track down and sue people who have been illegally downloading songs off the internet. Reading some instantly made me drop my current download and delete the partly-finished files. I don’t feel like having a $360,000 lawsuit, really. I can buy a house down south maybe and a few computers and french horns. =]
Tags: laws, Lawsuits, music, RIAA
in what seems to be a parallel to the War on Obesity we have in the US, in a law that fails even to define what “extreme thinness” means, but nonetheless recommends fines of up to €30,000 ($48,000) for the promotion of it, whatever it is.
Anthony Gregory, at The Beacon:
Tags: france, laws, obesity, thinness, warIt’d be interesting to see if such policies escalate, along with the war on obesity we see in the West. One day, perhaps, only those with medium build will be allowed to show their faces in public.