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Original Message 1/19 29-Jan-03 @ 09:47 AM - Net Cafe Battle Over CD Copying
Sony, Universal and EMI are seeking £1 million in damages. Inverstigators found that hundreds of tracks had been downloaded without permission of artists or record companies.
I mean, copying music over the net is no different to videotaping a programme to watch later which is legal, isn't it?
Message 2/19 29-Jan-03 @ 01:51 PM - RE: Net Cafe Battle Over CD Copying
psy
Message 3/19 31-Jan-03 @ 11:13 PM - RE: Net Cafe Battle Over CD Copying
The bitch is going down.... I feel its my public duty to shop her.
What a load of arse, music companies are stupid. Perhaps if they released music worth paying for....
Message 4/19 31-Jan-03 @ 11:31 PM - RE: Net Cafe Battle Over CD Copying
account? you mean I can't even talk to my buddy about it? "That was a really nice pass McNabb threw.... oh shit, gotta go to jail now."
[sigh]
Message 5/19 01-Feb-03 @ 01:09 AM - RE: Net Cafe Battle Over CD Copying
but yeah..this shit is getting out of hand. Did you guys hear about the telemarketers groups suing to block the use of a "no call" list?
WTF?!?!?!?! These fuckers actually think they have a RIGHT to SELL to you?
uh...
Message 6/19 01-Feb-03 @ 01:32 AM Edit: 01-Feb-03 | 01:34 AM - RE: Net Cafe Battle Over CD Copying
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It's time once again to review the winners of the annual "Stella Awards."
The Stella's are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled coffee
on herself and successfully sued McDonalds. That case inspired the Stella
awards for the most frivolous successful lawsuits in the United States.
Unfortunately the most recent lawsuit implicating McDonalds, the teens
who allege that eating at McDonalds has made them fat, was filed after
the 2002 award voting was closed. This suit will top the 2003 list without
question. The following are this year's winners:
5th Place (tie): Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $780,000
by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who
was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were
understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little
toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.
5th Place (tie): A 19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000
and medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda
Accord.
Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the
car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.
5th Place(tie): Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a
house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able
to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was
malfunctioning. He couldn't reenter the house because the door connecting
the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on
vacation,
and Mr.Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He
subsisted
on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the
homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental
anguish.
The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000.
4th Place: Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500 and
medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door
neighbor's
beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. The award was
less than sought because the jury felt the dog might have been just a little
provoked at the time by Mr. Williams who was shooting it repeatedly with a
pellet gun.
3rd Place: A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of
Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, $113,500 after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her
coccyx
(tailbone). The beverage was on the floor because Ms. Carson had thrown it
at
her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.
2nd Place: Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully sued the owner of
a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to
the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred while Ms.
Walton
was trying to sneak through the window in the ladies room to avoid paying
the
$3.50 cover charge. She was awarded $12,000 and dental expenses.
1st Place: This year's run away winner was Mr. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma
City,
Oklahoma. Mr. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home.
On his first trip home, (from an OU football game), having driven onto the
freeway, he set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the drivers
seat
to go into the back and make himself a cup of coffee. Not surprisingly, the
RV
left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mr. Grazinski sued Winnebago for
not advising him in the owner's manual that he couldn't actually do this.
The
jury awarded him $1,750,000 plus a new motor home. The company actually
changed
their manuals on the basis of this suit, just in case there were any other
complete morons buying their recreation vehicles.
Message 7/19 01-Feb-03 @ 04:11 AM - RE: Net Cafe Battle Over CD Copying
oh my GOD, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
man. all in the US, too.
ok. thats it. we DO suck
Message 8/19 01-Feb-03 @ 06:48 AM - RE: Net Cafe Battle Over CD Copying
The guy that left the wheel of the motor
home to make coffee should have got life for being criminally insane.
Message 9/19 01-Feb-03 @ 07:47 AM - RE: Net Cafe Battle Over CD Copying
What about the robber who was awarded like a million dollars for falling on a butcher knife after breaking through a persons kitchen window ? Thats a classic too. And the woman who got a mil from spilling "Hot Coffee" on her self in mcdonalds, not knowing that the "Hot Coffee" would actually be...well...errrm...hot?
Message 10/19 01-Feb-03 @ 07:47 AM - RE: Net Cafe Battle Over CD Copying
Message 11/19 01-Feb-03 @ 11:47 AM - RE: Net Cafe Battle Over CD Copying
Message 12/19 01-Feb-03 @ 12:17 PM - RE: Net Cafe Battle Over CD Copying
When he got them home he insured them with an insurance company, only to make a claim a few months later saying they had all perished in '15 small fires'.
The insurance company paid up, only to counter sue the guy with 15 counts of destruntion on property by arson.
He is currently serving 4-6 years in a state penitentiary.
Nice.
Message 14/19 01-Feb-03 @ 01:45 PM - RE: Net Cafe Battle Over CD Copying
Message 15/19 10-Feb-03 @ 04:11 PM - RE: Net Cafe Battle Over CD Copying
The "Stella Awards" is a hoax.
Message 16/19 11-Feb-03 @ 07:53 AM - RE: Net Cafe Battle Over CD Copying
Message 17/19 11-Feb-03 @ 05:12 PM - RE: Net Cafe Battle Over CD Copying
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I had an idea for a script once. It's basically Jaws except when the guys in the boat are going after Jaws, they look around and there's an even bigger Jaws. The guys have to team up with Jaws to get Bigger Jaws.... I call it... Big Jaws!!!
Message 18/19 11-Feb-03 @ 05:26 PM - RE: Net Cafe Battle Over CD Copying
Does anyone else find that extremely funny and sad at the same time???
Message 19/19 12-Feb-03 @ 06:36 AM - RE: Net Cafe Battle Over CD Copying
Sad for the usual reasons
The happy is because i figured all of these shakey social constraint rules they keep pouring on are to do with limiting Joe Ordinary but allowing Jonny Rightstuff cos he has got lots of ca$h
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