“Isn’t awfully nice to have a penis?”
Happy
Penis Song Doesn’t Annoy Canadian Regulator
“OTTAWA (Reuters) – A song lauding the joys of an ‘enormous penis’
is not obscene because the object of the lyric’s affection isn’t necessarily sexual,
a Canadian regulator ruled on Friday.”
If I stopped watching cartoons, would I get nasty withdrawal symptoms? 😉
Cartoons
act like cocaine
By Roger Highfield
“A search for the mind’s ‘funny bone’ has shed new light on the mysteries
of merriment, revealing that the reason humour is addictive is that it activates
‘reward centres’ in the brain.”
Child-proof medicine bottles are more complicated than this. First the Sony magic marker solution and now this. I can handle copy protection like this. BMI’s protection on the other hand…
Shift key breaks CD copy locks
By John Borland
“A Princeton University student has published instructions for disabling the new anticopying measures being tested on CDs by BMG–and they’re as simple as holding down a computer’s Shift key.”
No, I don’t really mean anyone should trust the RIAA. I’m referring to an anti-trust suit being brought against the buggers.
Small Webcasters sue RIAA
By John Borland
“A group of small Webcasters on Wednesday filed an antitrust suit against the Recording Industry Association of America, alleging that the trade association tried to push independent music stations offline.”
The Webcaster Alliance has been threatening to sue the RIAA for months, after Congress ratified royalty rates for Internet radio stations that many small operators said will drive them out of business. The existing rates were negotiated between a small, unrepresentative group of Webcasters and the RIAA and are aimed at eliminating competition, the alliance members said.