News and Commentary about Law, Technology, and their Intersection. [read full post]
News and Commentary about Law, Technology, and their Intersection. [read full post]
Today’s Boston Sunday Globe tells the tragic tale of a musician who lost his job due to file sharing and was forced to take a dead-end office job for a do-nothing corporation.
It seems that the musician’s last CD sold zero — that’s right, zero — copies because “everyone downloaded it.” To make matters worse, the musician’s… [read full post]
Twenty years of ‘Weirdness,’ and he doesn’t seem to be slowing down.
Pop parodist ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic has been creating note-perfect spoofs of the best that the music world has to offer. Here’s a rundown of his work… [read full post]
If you log onto www.skyhighairlines.com, you can plan a trip from Rattlesnake, Fla., to Presque Isle, Maine, for $3,636.40. The journey would take 27 hours and 56 minutes and require changing planes in Juan Tomas, N.M., and Curry, Texas.
Making connections could be tricky, so SkyHigh advises passengers to hail a cart at each terminal and ask the driver to “floor it.”
[T]he nonexistent… [read full post]
It’s time to stop the insanity and insist on a better quality of life. Stop drinking tap water. Stop drinking well water. Refuse to touch water from desalination plants. And remember that mountain spring water is a disaster waiting to happen. Do you know how many people and animals urinated in your spring water, upstream? Yes, it’s disgusting to think about (perhaps even humorous), but it… [read full post]
The Neiman Marcus Group, Inc. has filed a domain name dispute to shut down the web sites NeimanCarcass.com, NeimanCarcass.org, and NeimanCarcass.net, which are critical of the company’s sale of fur products… [read full post]
Carol Kolb, the editor of The Onion, the satirical publication that bills itself as “America’s Finest News Source,” jokes that the Evening News might not have been too far off-base with its defense….
“People every single day think The Onion stories are real,” says Kolb… [read full post]
Brad Templeton — the long-time moderator of rec.humor.funny and host of the rhf archives — has received a cease-and-desist notice from AmEx’s lawyers over a 13 year old joke called “American Expressway.”… [read full post]
Dustin Diamond aka Screech from Saved by the Bell, loses dustindiamond.com domain name arbitration case to parodist.
See also:
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/04/13/dustindiamondsucksco.html
