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VIDEO: Cop Sprays & Arrest Teen Cashier for Wrong Change
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=oaHyuWgir8U
A police officer was cought on tape after going through a fast food drive-in and claiming the 17 year old female cashier did not give him the correct change. Eventually she was arrested and pepper sprayed. The tape shows she did him the CORRECT Change
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More china censorship headaches - china economics blog is censored
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http://www.chinalyst.net/node/10342
I like to keep tabs on censorship issues pertaining to the internet. China happens to be the major culprit of most of my postings, the definition of a police state is china in my opinion. They've just recently banned a useful blog "china economic blog" which reports on economics issues and to actively help Chinese students considering further education in the UK.
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Is the UK sleep-walking into a surveillance society? Duh.
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-i...
If you're a regular reader of Engadget then you don't have to live in the UK to know that they loves 'em some surveillance technology. Add me as a fan if you want to be kept intouch with issues around surveillance and free speech, i monitor all major posts on a day to day basis, this being on of them!
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DMCA Architect Acknowledges Need For A New Approach
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1826/125/
conference on music and copyright reform at McGill University and one of the speakers was none other than Bruce Lehman, architect of the WIPO Internet Treaties and the DMCA. He claims that that the DMCA has failed. Better yet, he says most of the blame falls on the RIAA for refusing to change their outdated business model.
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RIAA vs Trent Reznor: Round One
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http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?...
RIAA is going after websites that hosted his music, that he left for his fans.
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CD Sales Plummet, RIAA Gets Progressively More Emo About It
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http://consumerist.com/consumer/riaa/cd-sales-plummet-riaa-g...
CD Sales dropped 12.8 percent last year after dropping 8.1 percent in 2005. Digital downloads didn't pick up the slack, despite increasing 74.4%. All in all, the recording industry's sales dropped 6.2 percent.
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Bad news for the RIAA: Sweden Might legalize downloading
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http://torrentfreak.com/sweden-might-legalize-downloading/
Novel approach... Sweden may add charges to broadband subscriptions to, “compensate music and film companies for the downloading of their work, while legalizing the downloading of copyright-protected material,”
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Terrorism can’t be linked to any nation, culture or religion
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007/04/28/sto...
Spain and Pakistan on Friday rejected associating terrorism with any nation, culture, or religion.
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DMCA takedown backlash: EFF sues Viacom over Colbert parody clip
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070322-dmca-takedown-...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sued Viacom in federal court for improperly filing a DMCA takedown notice against a Stephen Colbert parody video by MoveOn
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Banning Cartoons in the Maritimes
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http://hereticallibrarian.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_hereticall...
Here is how UPEI's president justified his decision to ban the cartoon issue of the newspaper: university president Wade MacLaughlan says publishing the cartoons is "an invitation to trouble. "We still run the property," MacLaughlan says, "and we're not in the business of deliberately inviting people to be insulted to the point of causing an outrage."
This has to be one of the most pathetic examples of craven capitulation I have ever heard of. What a great way to tell Islamists that rioting and
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Submitted by Tamara
15 months, 1 week, 5 days, 18 hours agoTags: student journalism, University of Prince Edward Island, UPEI | |
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