http://dog.beckament.net Kono kanji... Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:14:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://dog.beckament.net/2010/06/08/us-recording-industry-asks-for-15-trillion-dollar-judgement-against-limewire.html http://dog.beckament.net/2010/06/08/us-recording-industry-asks-for-15-trillion-dollar-judgement-against-limewire.html#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:09:07 +0000 Chris http://dog.beckament.net/?p=782 Now that judge Kimba Wood has ruled that the popular filesharing software Limewire infringes on copyright, the recording industry lawyers have asked US courts to order LimeWire owner Mark Gorton to pay $1,500,000,000,000 (that’s 1.5 Trillion) for 200,000,000 alleged downloads of the Limewire software as reported by the P2PNet news site (go there and read ]]> http://dog.beckament.net/2010/06/08/us-recording-industry-asks-for-15-trillion-dollar-judgement-against-limewire.html/feed 0 http://dog.beckament.net/2009/03/14/jailtime-for-copyright-violation.html http://dog.beckament.net/2009/03/14/jailtime-for-copyright-violation.html#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:01:08 +0000 Chris http://dog.beckament.net/?p=345 According to a recent Wired article; Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles are seeking 6 months in prison for a man who pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of uploading pre-release Guns N’ Roses songs. I know it is making available and not downloading, but I always thought that copyright violations were (and should be) a ]]> http://dog.beckament.net/2009/03/14/jailtime-for-copyright-violation.html/feed 0 http://dog.beckament.net/2008/09/12/america-may-create-copyright-police.html http://dog.beckament.net/2008/09/12/america-may-create-copyright-police.html#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:33:05 +0000 Chris http://dog.beckament.net/?p=173 ARS Technica reports the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008 (s3325) got approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee by 14-4 vote. If passed into law this empowers the Justice Department of the USofA to litigate civil suits (and seize property) on behalf of IP owners (corporate interests). ARS Technica reports “Critics have blasted ]]> http://dog.beckament.net/2008/09/12/america-may-create-copyright-police.html/feed 0 http://dog.beckament.net/2008/09/09/voting-machine-hacked-video.html http://dog.beckament.net/2008/09/09/voting-machine-hacked-video.html#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:19:17 +0000 Chris http://dog.beckament.net/?p=164 Watch the videos and read the article, I am really too busy to summarize this one, but if you live in the USofA it is important. This has to do with vote swapping on modern voting systems]]> http://dog.beckament.net/2008/09/09/voting-machine-hacked-video.html/feed 0 http://dog.beckament.net/2008/08/02/barack-obama-fisa-and-voting.html http://dog.beckament.net/2008/08/02/barack-obama-fisa-and-voting.html#comments Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:00:19 +0000 Chris http://dog.beckament.net/?p=81 Ok, I was going to vote for Barack Obama, he seemed like the ‘big-time’ candidate that had more of my interests at heart. Then he voted for the recent FISA Amendments Act of 2008 that grants telecoms immunity for helping the government break the law. This floored me… A law that protects lawbreakers. This just ]]> http://dog.beckament.net/2008/08/02/barack-obama-fisa-and-voting.html/feed 0