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Teen Accuses Record Companies of Collusion

Posted by samzenpus on from the sue-me-sue-you dept.

evilned1 writes "A 16-year-old boy being sued by five record companies accusing him of online music piracy, accused the recording industry on Tuesday of violating antitrust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats."

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  1. Re:in other shocking news... by Lithdren · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Aww crap, 25?

    Fantastic. Im overdue for a midlife crisis. This hardly seems fair, how do I wig out, buy a sports car and divorce my wife, when im young, unmarried, and so broke I cant even afford the junker im driving now?

    Stupid early midlife crisis. Takes all the fun out of life. Twice!

  2. Re:This puts a grin on my face. by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There is more FLOSS than the major parties.

    Consider hunting down smaller [but ultimately still productive] projects and paypal'ing the author some money [more than $5 or whatever, cuz frankly if it's less than $50 or so what's the point, not likely that they'll get hundreds of donations to make it matter].

    When I was a young scrapper I was always poor, going from cheque to cheque. I had users for my software ranging from all walks of life, including several billion dollar industries. You think they could donate some rent money or something? HELLS NO. I had to get a regular 9-5 [sw development] job and I'm bitter and pissed off as a result.

    But you'd do future generations of FLOSS developers a favour by not just donating to the popular projects...

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  3. Re:This puts a grin on my face. by tomstdenis · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I may be biased, but the LibTom Projects do have a small [but dedicated] FLOSS following. Yet not a single article, review, or anything exists anywhere on the web to talk about them. That they're used by projects like OLPC, Dropbear, Tcl and the like makes no nevermind appearently. /. only reviews the projects that will get ad impressions. If they feature one or two smaller FLOSS projects a week we'd probably be better off and know about dozens if not hundreds of useful projects we wouldn't otherwise hear about.

    Fortunately, I don't care anymore as I'm a complete and utter burn out. I went back to studying piano and I leave development to my 9-5 job. My free time is "my time" now and I don't work on my projects anymore.

    Tom

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