Friday, September 12, 2003
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several Internet music services and a disc jockey have offered to reimburse a New York woman who paid $2,000 to settle charges that her 12-year-old daughter illegally copied music online.
"Out of all the millions of people who have downloaded, some girl in a housing project in New York City has got to come up with two grand?" said Wease, who offered to help through his charitable children's fund.
"I just feel that these people are bullies," said Grokster President Wayne Rosso, a member of the P2P United trade group, which offered to pay Torres' bill. "They're like the show-business version of the Taliban."
The War on Ignorance: Target: The RIAA
Thursday, September 11, 2003
Today We Remember
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
THE PEACOCK FEATHERS ITS NEST
Sep 3, 1:27 AM (EDT)(Variety) NBC Universal, the media giant forged by NBC parent General Electric and Vivendi, will have assets worth $42 billion. A snapshot of the holdings:
FILM
Universal Pictures, home of summer hits "Bruce Almighty," "The Hulk" and "2 Fast 2 Furious." Key production partners include Imagine Entertainment, Kennedy/Marshall, Mandalay, Robert DeNiro's Tribeca shingle and Stephen Sommers ("The Mummy"). Has library of more than 5,000 films.
BROADCAST NETWORKS
NBC, home of Nielsen hits "Friends," "The West Wing" and "Will & Grace."
CABLE NETWORKS
USA Network, Sci Fi Channel, Bravo (which airs "Queer Eye), CNBC and MSNBC.
OTHER TV ASSETS
Universal Television, producer and distributor of TV programming worldwide with shows like "Law & Order" and "The Agency"; NBC TV stations
include 14 local affils, 10 of which are rated No. 1 or No. 2 in their markets; Spanish-lingo broadcaster Telemundo reaches 91% of Hispanic TV households in the U.S. with 15 O&Os and 32 affiliates.
THEME PARKS
Universal Studios Theme Parks in Hollywood, Orlando and Japan.
Mother f$#er!
Coming soon to Universal Studios....
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: The Ride.
Tuesday, September 09, 2003
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Londoners hurl taunts, eggs at illusionist Blaine:
Some Londoners do not want illusionist David Blaine to succeed in his bid to spend 44 days without food in a glass box suspended from a crane in the center of the capital.
Since the American showman began his stunt Friday he has been pelted with eggs, taunted with the smell of fish and chips and woken up by a man banging a drum.
Apperantly these brilliant Londoners forgot that Blaine is magic enough to trap himself in an ENCLOSED BOX, thus blocking any egg to human contact.
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a few stories to get the info regarding the Instant Messenger "inactive" scam that's been going around today...
Dave Barry's Humor Column No Joke to ATA:
Syndicated columnist Dave Barry's Aug. 31 article on telemarketers may have been in jest, but it's been no laughing matter to the American Teleservices Association, which blames the article for jamming up its toll-free number.
Barry's article, titled 'Ask not what telemarketers can do to you' in the Miami Herald where it was originally published, included the ATA's toll-free telephone number and invited readers to call and 'tell them what you think.' Hundreds of newspapers also published the article, which was distributed by Tribune Media Services.
The article generated thousands of phone calls to the ATA number, said Tim Searcy, ATA executive director. As a result, the association switched the number, which it formerly answered live, to a voice recording. The recording advises callers that the organization is unable to take the call because of 'overwhelming positive response to recent media' and asks that they leave a message.
Aww... Sniff, Sniff...
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Dave Barry's Blog:
Gosh, that must have been awful! Imagine! Receiving unwanted phone calls! Without warning! How could anyone DO such a thing?
Man ships himself to parents' house:
[Update from MSNBC w/Quotes:] Man Ships Self Home As Air Cargo:
Charles McKinley found a unique way to save a few bucks getting to his parents' house: He crawled into a wooden airplane cargo crate and succeeded in shipping himself from New York to Texas.
After hours of traveling, McKinley, 25, of New York City, pried open the crate with a crowbar Saturday morning. He popped up outside his parents' doorstep in the south Dallas suburb of DeSoto, shook the hand of a shocked deliveryman and walked away.
Officials said McKinley's crate was put aboard a pressurized Boeing 727 from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Fort Wayne, Ind. The crate was transferred to a second plane bound for Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
YAY FORT WAYNE!!!!!!
Think AOL is going to start charging for AIM?
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Inboxer Rebellion (Don't Kill The Messenger!)
Claim: AOL, MSN, or Yahoo! is about to start charging for its instant messaging service unless an Internet petition opposing the fee increase attracts a specified number of signatures by a named date.
Status: False.
TV case explores the bare facts
A judge in Grand Rapids will soon decide whether Tim Huffman had the right to tell jokes on TV -- using a dressed-up human penis.
:-o
You've gotta read it to believe it.
Naked Photographer Allegedly Makes Another Exposure
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Columbus area's "naked photographer" has reportedly struck again, WCMH-TV reported Friday.
The man ambushes women while wearing nothing but a baseball cap and a smile and snaps photographs of their shocked expressions. He has been at large for more than a year.
Really -- a bad choice of words there...
7 football players charged in hazing incident:
Seven Bellefontaine High School football players are facing criminal charges after a fellow player was injured during a hazing incident.
Six players, all 17 years old when the incident occurred, were charged with delinquency counts of complicity to unlawful restraint. An 18-year-old player was charged as an adult with complicity to unlawful restraint.
Police said the players are accused of trying to tape sophomore Zack Keller to a bench in the locker room after practice Aug. 14. Keller's hand was injured when he grabbed the metal mesh of an open locker and players tried to break his grip.
Football players...Need I say more?
WBIR-TV, Knoxville, TN:
Knoxville Police say people are having sex in city parks and now they're being caught on tape. There have been half a dozen arrests so far, and officers promise there will be more from this undercover high-tech sting operation.
Gives new meaning to getting caught red-handed...
Monday, September 08, 2003
Here it is, by request....
Dope-Seeking Teens Call Cops by Mistake:
Two teens accused of searching for a marijuana dealer dialed the ultimate wrong number they called the Mower County Sheriff's cell phone.
"Dude...."
Indiana governor in surgery after collapse
Indiana Gov. Frank O’Bannon was undergoing surgery for a cerebral hemorrhage Monday after he was found unconscious in his hotel room, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Uh-oh.
Well -- what a day!
After endless hours of work, StudCam is now back up online, as is my AIM, email, and other random computers tools.
Indeed - the StudTron 2003 is now in full operation.
We don't need lamps in here, ladies and gentlemen -- I got two flatscreens to illuminate my night. :)
Pictures up sometime soon....
sleep now!
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