I always wondered if making music or other types of files would constitute piracy in the U.S. Well here is an answer from a Boston Judge:

“As we mentioned yesterday, a New York court in Elektra v. Barker gave a boost to the recording industry by ruling that an offer to distribute a file on a P2P network can infringe the distribution right, even if no one ever actually downloaded it from you. Well, on the same day, a Massachusetts court in London-Sire v. Doe ruled just the opposite, holding that “merely exposing music files to the internet is not copyright infringement” (we just received the ruling today).

EFF filed an amicus brief in this case (formerly known as Atlantic v. Does 1-21), and our arguments appear to have found a more receptive audience in Boston that they did in New York City (the judge thanks us for our participation on page 11). The 52-page ruling is the most extensive analysis yet of the recording industry’s “making available” argument, which claims that you infringe copyright merely by having a song in your shared folder, even if no one ever downloads it.” [EFF]

I bet that this fight is not over….

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It appears that some bits of western culture is definitely reaching Afghanistan. On March 13 mainstream media reported that a woman from the conservative Pashtun belt, that’s the Afghan version of the U.S “bible belt”, is one of the top three contenders in the country’s version of “American Idol.” I wonder if members of the Canadian Army based in Afghanistan to protect big oil companies interests watched it.

Bridget Johnson says, “Isn’t the point that 11 million Afghans — a third of the country’s population and 90 percent of the TV-watching population — eagerly tune into Star each week, that 300,000 votes were text-messaged in for the recently aired finals, and that music is filling homes and hearts again despite clerical objections?

Being an American Idol junkie, I considered myself the perfect journalist to delve further into Afghan Star. So I watched all of the episodes put on YouTube by Tolo TV, the network that has raised so much of that clerical ire. The audition tapes were the best: As Idol begins each season by showing the good — and the very, very bad — performers from audition cities, Star also had audition shows from Kabul, Kandahar, Mazar-e-Sharif, and more; more than 2,000 hopefuls tried out for a chance to win $5,000 U.S. and a record deal. The audition shows opened with catchy music and fast-paced shots of the host city and its people — with production values equal to that of American TV, and some of the landscapes resembling Barstow.” [PAJAMA MEDIA]

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Paul Mc Cartney’s ex wife (not the one who died, the other one, the crazy one with one leg) Heather Mills wanted half of his fortune because she was  married with him during 4 years 35 years after he made the said fortune.

A British court awarded her $50 millions US.

“She’s the best paid one-legged hooker in the history of mankind.”

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We just found out that Larry Norman the “father of Christian Rock” passed away at 2:45 am a Sunday morning on February the 24th. For those who don’t know it yet Christian Rock is a form of lame rock music played by bands whose members are incessantly talking about Jesus.

Larry Norman is dead and gone to heaven, which means Jesus will have to put up with his shitty Tennessee music. 

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