Slashdot Mirror
XM+MP3 Going to Trial
fistfullast33l writes "A federal judge has ruled that Music Companies can take XM Radio to trial over the XM+MP3 device that allows users to record songs off the Satellite Radio Company's network for playback later. The lawsuit, which was filed last year, asserts that XM is violating the Music publishers' sole distribution rights. From the article: 'XM has argued it is protected from infringement lawsuits by the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, which permits individuals to record music off the radio for private use. The judge said she did not believe the company was protected in this instance by the act.'"
Courtesy of Cursor
The next two years are going to be "a rolling constitutional crisis," predicts Paul Krugman, arguing that a "purge of U.S. attorneys" by a president no longer able to count on Congress to do his bidding is a sign that he is more determined than ever to "claim essentially unlimited authority."
During testimony that Sen. Patrick Leahy likened to "Alice in Wonderland," Attorney General Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee that "the Constitution doesn't say that every individual in the United States or every citizen has or is assured the right of habeas corpus."
Patriotically,
Kilgore Trout, ACTIVIST
Twofo Is Dying
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Twofo is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleagured University of Warwick filesharing community when ITS confirmed that Twofo market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all file sharing. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Twofo has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Twofo is collapsing in complete disarry, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Student comprehensive leeching test.
You don't need to be one of the Hub Operators to predict Twofo's future. The hand writing is on the toilet wall: Twofo faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Twofo because Twofo is dying. Things are looking very bad for Twofo. As many of us are already aware, Twofo continues to lose users. Fines and disconnections flow like a river of feces.
N00b Campus users are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their total share. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Twofo sharers fool_on_the_hill and Twinklefeet only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Twofo is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Sources indicate that there are at most 150 users in the hub. How many filelists have been downloaded? Let's see. 719. But 1621 Ip addresses have been logged, and 1727 nicks have been sighted connecting to one user over the last term. How many searches are there? 600 searches in 3 hours.
Due to troubles at the University of Warwick, lack of internet bandwidth, enforcements of Acceptable Usage Policies, abysmal sharing, retarded leechers, clueless n00bs, and ITS fining and disconnecting users, Twofo has no future. All major student surveys show that Twofo has steadily declined in file share. Twofo is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If twofo is to survive at all it will be among p2p hardcore fuckwits, desperate to grab stuff for free off the internet. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Twofo is dead.
Fact: Twofo is dying
Saskatoon, the once-important town on the Wampum frontier, is a small hamlet where the Grand Micksupp of the Order of Shad-Elks once rode a unicycle in the Meat-Packers Union parade to protest the unfair treatment of people with peg legs, including those from nearby Winnipeg (or Losapeg depending on your luck).
The meat packing industry had a real problem with the peg legged. For instance, if a peg got jammed in a meat grinding machine, the machine was often damaged whereas if a normal let were to get caught in the gears, well... free meat!
The Curling League was formed July 4th 1833 after a hard day's packing and a heavy night's drinking and half-hearted game of Guess-The-Willy. Like most drunken ideas, it seemed like a good one, and no one really had anything better to do anyway.
When the citizens of Saskatoon couldn't find anyone who could explain what the sport of Curling actually was, the League disbanded and its members joined the local Adventure Club instead.
The Adventure Club, single-mindedly searching for the most extreme place to drink tea, had everyone move to the Yukon territory where they would adventurously smear whale blubber on their foreheads and shout mild obscenities at the elderly Inuit in addition to drinking tea.
Entirely appalled by the crudeness of the white men, the Inuit adopted an typical stance on these odd intruders: they would trade them ikiliki, frozen walrus dung pressed into tiny packets resembling ancient slices of sausage.
Of course, adventurous people (tourists) gladly accepted this crap and regarded the Inuit as "amazingly advanced.. you know... considering".
Later the Curling League of Saskatoon reformed and almost won a championship, but not quite.
--
I particularly enjoy rubbing your noses in my towering intellect. On a personal note, I am an avid mustard enthusiast.
Satelitte radio sucks and it will fail ... deliver the www to my car ... and i'll pay for that ...