When I feel like writing... I'll let you know: News

Today 26th of June 2007 and for the whole day internet radio will go silent

to draw attention to an impending royalty rate increase that, if implemented, would lead to the virtual shutdown of this country’s Internet radio industry.

What for? Copyright Royalty Board will raise royalties from per-song rate to per-person rate!!!

RIAA sued back, lovable -Directly from Slashdot

Washington Woman Sues RIAA for Attorneys Fees

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday June 23, @11:40AM
from the time-and-recompense dept.
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "A Washington woman sued by the RIAA has asked the Court to award her attorneys fees, after the record company plaintiffs (Interscope Records, Capitol Records, SONY BMG, Atlantic Recording, BMG Music, and Virgin Records) dropped their case against her after two years of litigation, in Interscope v. Leadbetter. The brief submitted by her attorneys (pdf) pointed out the similarity between Ms. Leadbetter's case and Capitol v. Foster. In the Leadbetter case, as well as Foster case, the RIAA sued the woman solely because she had paid for an internet access account, and then later in the case attempted to plead 'secondary liability' against her without any factual basis for doing so. This tactic had been repudiated by Judge Lee R. West in Capitol v. Foster as 'marginal' and 'untested' in his initial decision awarding attorneys fees, and in his later decision denying the RIAA's motion for reconsideration."

and...

RIAA, Safenet Sued For Malicious Prosecution
Today at 3:34 πμ
DaveAtFraud writes "Tanya Anderson, the single mother from Oregon previously sued by the RIAA — which dropped the case just before losing a summary judgement — is now suing the RIAA and their hired snoop Safenet for malicious prosecution. (Safenet was formerly known as MediaSentry.) Anderson is asserting claims under the… Read more
DaveAtFraud writes "Tanya Anderson, the single mother from Oregon previously sued by the RIAA — which dropped the case just before losing a summary judgement — is now suing the RIAA and their hired snoop Safenet for malicious prosecution. (Safenet was formerly known as MediaSentry.) Anderson is asserting claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act. A reader at Groklaw has already picked up that she is seeking to have the RIAA forfeit the copyrights in question as part of the settlement (search the page for '18.6-7')."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.

German Bundestag passes it's new Internet surveillance law

Most of the news are from the German Newspaper Spiegel.

The story is just a fragment of the EU plans to control-track conversations, personal data and more, by forcing companies to keep a record of at least 6 months in their databases of every kind of traffic information.

The Good Part of this new wannabe law is the that Greece ONCE MORE has proven to be a step ahead in violation of personal rights. Do you remember the scandall with VODAphone regarding rather crusial data leaking out to "unknown" receivers?

and don't forget...

Parties in Greece tend to move theirs sorry butts to work only a few months before elections. Those are the days of milk and honey cause after they will turn to be the days of rape and honey (to rephrase the titles of two albums).