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RIAA Fights to Avoid Attorney Fees in Dismissed Piracy Lawsuit

Paul

The Recording Industry Association of America taketh away, but must it also give?

The music-industry lobbying-and-litigation arm is protesting a federal magistrate’s recommendation that it cough up hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees for an Oregon woman. Tanya Andersen, 42, says she racked up the expenses defending against an RIAA infringement lawsuit that was ultimately dismissed for lack of evidence.

The RIAA dropped the case this summer against Andersen, months after concluding her hard drive didn’t contain any purloined music tracks. The RIAA sued her two years ago, alleging a Kazaa shared directory that linked to her internet-protocol address was unlawfully distributing thousands of songs — a case Andersen’s lawyers decried as “frivolous.”

I guess all that money the RIAA won they don’t want to loose. It seems to me they are just in it for the MONEY and nothing else.

The SATA HDD Stage Rack, at last

Paul

Now we’re talking! Meet the PC and Mac compatible USB 2.0 SATA HDD Stage Rack. The value of this 2.5- and 3.5-inch compatible dock is obvious if like us, you’ve got gigs of unused storage laying around after years of SATA disk updates. Just pop in that old disk for instant expansion without having to first wrap the drive in a clumsy enclosure.

There is a video on it at Engadget go check it out!!

she went downstairs, got Don’s claw hammer and said: “C’mon, honey, we’re going to Comcast.”

Paul

Sometimes truly American virtues arise in outlaws who — by dint of heroic but questionable endeavors — display the mettle of the national character.

For instance: The Dillinger Gang, robbing banks (and destroying mortgages) when banks were foreclosing on the poor. Stephanie St. Clair, matron of the numbers racket during the Harlem Renaissance, striking a (dubious) blow for both gender and racial equality. Junior Johnson bootlegging liquor during Prohibition (the benefits of which were self-evident).

Mona Shaw found just the tool to register her complaint about service, or lack thereof, at Comcast’s Manassas office.
Mona Shaw found just the tool to register her complaint about service, or lack thereof, at Comcast’s Manassas office. (By Richard A. Lipski — The Washington Post)

Fear not, fellow Americans! In these dark days of war, pestilence and Paris Hilton, a new hero has arisen. She is none other than 75-year-old Mona “The Hammer” Shaw, who took the aforementioned implement to her local Comcast office in Manassas to settle a score, and boy, did she!

So, after stewing over it all weekend, on the following Monday, she went downstairs, got Don’s claw hammer and said: “C’mon, honey, we’re going to Comcast.”

Mona Shaw found just the tool to register her complaint about service, or lack thereof, at Comcast’s Manassas office.
Mona Shaw found just the tool to register her complaint about service, or lack thereof, at Comcast’s Manassas office. (By Richard A. Lipski — The Washington Post)
Did you try to stop her, Mr. Shaw?

“Oh no, no,” he says.

Hammer time: Shaw storms in the company’s office. BAM! She whacks the keyboard of the customer service rep. BAM! Down goes the monitor. BAM! She totals the telephone. People scatter, scream, cops show up and what does she do? POW! A parting shot to the phone!

“They cuffed me right then,” she says.

Her take on Comcast: “What a bunch of sub-moronic imbeciles.”

Well at least we know what not to do when it comes to internet service, get something other than Comcast. I hope they figure out just how bad they are before it’s too late!!!