In what’s definitely a “News of the Weird” piece the RIAA is going to actually sue the deceased. Couldn’t make that one up if I tried.
RIAA defendant dies, heirs given 60 days to grieve before depositions

Ever see that nifty law that states you can’t sell someone a Bill of Sales? I can’t recall which one it is right now (if you’re aware, please share it). I’m assuming there might be laws against selling someone a document stating you’ve sold them nothing in other places, too.
Anyway. How’s this relate […]

Crypto (a friend) showed me an excellent WoW Dragostea Din Tea (aka Numa Numa) choreography. Produced by the fine human directors over at the WoW Film Actors Guild (used to be filmactorsguild.tk) the choreographed bits they pull off in the confines of a commercial game are pretty astounding. If you’re wmv non-able (like […]

Justice is blind, right?  It’s perpetrated on the citizens evenly, if not fairly, regardless of who does what.
Unless you’re Sony BMG.  In that case, you get a slap on the wrist for distributing computer software that hacks into your customers computers.  Ditto for the company that provided the
software for distribution.
By comparison you or I would […]

Looks like AllofMP3 (popular, legal Russian music download site) suffered some downtime over the weekend.  It’s come back up now, but there’s rumors floating of a Russian crackdown on anything the IP markets don’t like.  Civilizing or somesuch, I’m sure.
At any rate, El Reg is covering the story and promises to update once they’ve got […]

Manray. Still apparently not coming back. The once icon of the Boston synthpop/Industrial music scene still hasn’t announced a re-opening. Although even without being open, they’re holding the B&D Ball somewhere I’ve never heard of, Cyclorama.
Thinking on it, that sounds suspicously like a bicycle shop. I wouldn’t be terribly surprised.
They do […]

Looks like the French caught wind of the fact that DRM doesn’t impinge on copyright infringment, only lawful use.  They’re proposing to allow DRM circumvention to transfer files between devices.
Also in the bill is a measure to make Apple open up their iTunes store for competitors.  Apparently they’re starting to look a bit too much […]

Since getting back from Katsucon (TTilley brought me there for my birthday and I got to visit an old friend down in DC. Go to the Brick Skeller. Excellent selection, 100s of beers) and listening to Synthpop Club Anthems 4 released on the A Different Drum label I can say that it […]