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2007 Sat 29 Dec

RIAA Officially Gives Paying Customers the Middle Finger

Permalink | Comments (1) | Trackback | Filed in Social Issues Tags: Computers, Copyright, Fair Use, Music, Technology

Engadget links to a report that the RIAA is suing someone not for distributing digital copies of music, but for making personal digital copies of legally purchased CDs. Some of the quotes from the RIAA and their lawyers are amazing:
“If you make unauthorized copies of copyrighted music recordings, you’re stealing. You’re breaking the law and [...]

Posted by Chip Bennett 29 December 2007 at 9:47 pm
© 2007 | Licensed under a CC By-NC-ND 3.0 United States license.

2007 Sat 29 Dec

Rubin’s Most Recent Libel of ESC Opponents

Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback | Filed in Politics, Science, Social Issues Tags: Clone The Truth, Cloning, Media Bias, Missouri, Sanctity of Life, Stem Cells

There are lies, damn lies and anything uttered by Donn Rubin.
–Mark Twain, paraphrased
Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures (sic) chairman Donn Rubin has already proven himself to be a spin master, but his latest screed is downright slanderous.
In this op/ed piece (h/t Secondhand Smoke), Rubin lauds recent advancements in stem cell research, in which differentiated (adult) [...]

In collaboration with the Clone the Truth campaign, I am committed to ensuring that the truth about adult and embryonic stem cell and related research is made known. I am likewise committed to ensuring that the deceptively worded and ill-advised Amendment 2 is repealed.

Posted by Chip Bennett 29 December 2007 at 7:14 pm
© 2007 | Licensed under a CC By-NC-ND 3.0 United States license.

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