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By Lolade Sowoolu
Welcome to 2010! There is no doubt that every new year brings its own surprises- positive and negative. This fact, however, does not dissuade pundits from making predictions stemming from their knowledge of the workings and on-goings in the Nigerian music terrain. In view of this, let’s look at the musical possibilities of 2010 and maybe a little of the ‘promise and fail(s)’ that befell 2009.
The first group of acts, ‘once upon a time’, had us humming their lyrics and winding our waists to their beats. We had our hopes high on them and then one after the other, incident after incident, they left us unsure of what to expect from them.
First stop is at the Ginjah master’s.
He was set free and then went on rampage. His marijuana and alcohol intake are open secrets, just like his recklessness on the microphone. Terry G advanced from writing other artistes’ hooks, singing their choruses and producing their songs to writing, recording, performing his own songs and releasing an album in 2009. Born Gabriel Amanyi, 23-year-old Terry seems to have shown ‘all’ that he can do especially with the word ‘swagger (swaggah)’.
The young producer will have to come up with fresh beats, new lingos and perhaps new habits, if he is not to be rendered obsolete in the new year.
Speaking of fresh beats, Darey seems to be having an early start. His last month release of the first single off his coming album, titled ‘Stroke Me’, is giving clues as to the new direction R N B may be heading. Produced by Don Jazzy, the naughty, fill-in-the-gap lyrics, well laid on a cha-cha-like beat with horns, casts minds back to the kind of beats that once held sway while also fingering the imaginations. His ‘Un.
Darey.ted’ album was one of the highly-rated and most-successful albums released in 2009. ‘Stroke Me’ tells us that there’s more where that came from and 2010 has the answers.
We hoped and prayed that she would bounce back. ‘Riranwo’ heightened hopes and she repeatedly reminded us that she wasn’t giving up on music and is only taking her time. But, alas, how much longer to wait? Rapper Adesola Idowu aka Weird MC easily makes the ‘promise and fails’ list having declined to deliver the come-back album she promised.
She sampled singles, ‘Riranwo’, ‘Gelegogoro’, ‘Happy day’and ‘Step Up’ with videos for the first and last songs. Though in her early forties, it is hoped that Sola’s long forthcoming album will be delivered this new year and that it adequately makes up for the wait. The anticipated album is titled ‘Broken Silence’ and Sola insists that her come-back is ‘absolute’ this year.
On the 30th of August, 2008, rapper Ruggedman announced in a newspaper interview, his intention to quit the music scene and focus on his clothing line, his yet-to-debut Tv show and record label. He quipped, ‘I can officially tell you that the album is going to be my last’. Between then and now, the rapper has released just one single (titled‘Banging’) from the third and ‘bow-out’ album.
Ruggedman seems to still be enjoying the scene and reluctant to quit.
When Showtime contacted him just to know if he’s having a change of decisions, the rapper said he’s still very much decided to make his next album the last. Also he said he’s playing around two titles, one of which he would pick eventually as album title.
On why the album’s taking so much time, he said, ‘I’m not rushing things. The album drops when I finish. If the soup is not done, you can’t taste it.’ Interestingly, he squeals that he’s recorded a track with M.I and Tu Face. Hopefully, a few other make-sense collabos just might upscale the album quality. Will it be an applauding bow-out? 2010 will tell.
Kween Onakala definitely makes this list what with her promise to return in April 2009, two months after childbirth. Up till now, there is yet a word from the raunchy mother of two. Kween left Nigeria late 2008 for London just before her tummy began to bulge from the pregnancy of her second son.
It was a crucial stage for her career since we were just warming up to her and her career was on the verge of taking shape again since her 90s release of the song ‘Oluronbi’ and 2005 release of ‘Mo fe Ba e’. Of all her single efforts, the most celebrated and most popular remains ‘Jebele’ which went as far as winning the ‘Best music video Female’ award at the debut edition of SMVA (Soundcity Music Video Awards) in 2008. Kween promised to bring us her kingdom in her first body of works. Will her ‘Kweendoncome’ in 2010?
On the brighter side, there are loads of new talents to look forward to in 2010. Some we know, and some we’ve never even heard of. However, of the few that we know, we can conveniently tip.
Jesse Jagz
Producer Jesse Jagz is one of them. Brother to rapper M.I and massively talented in the Rhythm Applied Poetry (RAP) and song production, this young dude’s beats have been tested to be on point and 2010 just might be his illuminating year.
SLK
Susan Ayo-Amu who goes by the stage name, SLK, has promised to deliver in this year too. The R N B singer is so optimistic she says, ‘I would probably be in trouble if I don’t release an album. That is how big the market is.’ Her song ‘Darling’ received high ratings from the on-line community, OAPs and radio DJs .
Tosyn Bucknor
And talking of OAPs, radio presenter Tosyn Bucknor has disclosed that her single will be on air soon. Before taking up a job with Top Radio, Lagos, where she handles the weekdays’ morning belt, Tosyn had been an entertainment writer, blogger, song writer and singer. Now, she’s ready to take the singing bull by the professional horn and God help radio stations that don’t play her song.
Remember, 2010 is just beginning and a lot can be achieved, especially if one starts on time. Once again, welcome to 2010.
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So we made it through another year and rather than do a skimpy Top 10 list of important events for the whole of 2009, I’m going to do a fairly detailed month-by-month roundup on the 1st day of each of each month.
For now, the only prediction I’m going to make is pretty obvious, which is to say ACTA, the entertainment industry’s Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, will be a key focus for anyone who’s concerned about freedom, on- or offline.
And with ACTA in mind, from the point of view online communities, IMHO the most significant happening in 2009 was the death of the RIAA as a relevant anti-P2P force, and the creation of the coalition between the major Hollywood movie houses, Disney, Universal, Fox, Warner Bros, Paramount, Columbia, and the Big 4 record labels which are, to all intents and purposes, the corporate music industry.
Having over six years, or so, permanently marred the lives of thousands of completely innocent American men, women and children with baseless sue ‘em all lawsuits, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has been de-fanged as the studios and labels individually and collectively strive desperately to regain control over what used to be cash-cow consumers’ but who have become once again, thanks to the net, customer power-bases who make their own decisions, ignoring the cartels.
Not at all incidentally, RIAA private eye MediaSentry, which provided much of the ‘evidence’ for the phony lawsuits, was fired. But that didn’t stop the extortion.
Now, as the entertaiment industry struggles convert its ACTA/Three Strikes anti-P2p, anti-sharing, anti-people business plan into law around the world, it’s hard not to imagine that somewhere, a coterie of lawyers and strategists are holding regular secret meetings to come up with schemes to keep the ball in motion, and the lamescream mainstream press corpse under corporate control.
January
1 The Platinum Parachute of Peter Kraus – Peter Kraus was hired by Merrill Lynch in May, but didn’t officially start until September. However, thanks to the first rumblings of the George W. Bush recession, he was out of a job, “but he didn’t end up sleeping in the park – Central Park,” we said. Instead, he used his $25 million — Yes, that’s TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS — bonus cash to go towards his new apartment at 720 Park Avenue for $36.63 million — Yes, that’s THIRTY SIX POINT SIX THREE MILLION DOLLARS.
1 7,550 SoundExchange lost artists, still unpaid. Nashville entertainment lawyer Fred summed it lie this: As of today, the first day of the New year, the SoundExchange “found” tally stands at 2,694. “Taken at face value, that means that in the five months since the Project wound down, SoundExchange has found FIVE artists out of 7,555 on the list. Five out of 7,555? Good job, UnSoundExchange.
2 Has the RIAA terminated MediaSentry? MediaSentry and Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA may soon be going their separate ways, p2pnet understood from confidential sources.
4 RIAA fires MediaSentry: confirmed. The Wall Street Journal confirms p2pnet’s original report that the RIAA has fired its not-so-private-eye MediaSentry, says Recording Industry vs The People.
5 Steve Jobs admits to ‘hormone imbalance’. It seems protestations from PR spokespeople notwithstanding, Apple Puffmeister-in-Chief Steve Jobs does, after all, have health problems.
5 Scientology tawt Tom Cruise to speel right. It, ‘kured my disleksia’
7 RIAA lawyer in top Obama government job. Everyone in the P2P community is hoping for a New Beginning with Barrack Obama as America’s new president. They’re hoping he’ll redress the grievous wrongs perpetrated by the entertainment industries on their customers, and help bring about a climate of trust instead of fear. They’re also hoping the appointment of Tom Perrelli, managing partner at Jenner & Block, one of the RIAA’s favourite law firms, and a former employer of Matt ‘The Dentist‘ Oppenheim, doesn’t signal a continuation of the bad old ways, and a sop to the Big 4 record labels, Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US). Perrelli, “regularly represents the recording industry [tread RIAA] in cutting-edge intellectual property, technology, and anti-piracy litigation,” says his bio.
7 ‘Don’t call me a skank!’ says Canadian model. Sues Google.
9 RIAA drops Atlantic Recording v Brennan. The RIAA has finally thrown in the towel and dismissed its own case in Atlantic Recording v. Brennan. The landmark Connecticut case features the first decision rejecting the RIAA’s ‘making available’ theory.
9 The EFF on Apple DRM CRAP. Apple is DRM. DRM is Apple. It has ever been thus, and ever more will be so. And they both equal CRAP. DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) consumer control could be better termed Content, Restriction, Annulment, and Protection, ZDNet executive editor David Berlind once said. He was talking about Apple because, “Once you`ve bought music or other content to play on one device, it won`t play on any other device because of the proprietary layer of CRAP.” The Free Software Foundation’s Richard Stallman modified CRAP to “Cancellation, Restriction, and Punishment”.
12 Coming soon – advertisers in your living room. Soon, advertisers will be lurking in your living room, secretly peering over your shoulder so they can see where you’re going and what you do when you get there. Comcast is trying to figure out how to keep track of viewing statistics from 16 million households across America and, “Charter is already tracking several hundred thousand boxes in its Los Angeles, while the Canoe venture is looking to eventually track viewing metrics for 32 million households so it can deliver Interactive TV and targeted ads,” continues Engadget.
12 Bono on ‘malt joy and ginger despair’. U2’s Bono decided it was time to give us all a taste of his literary efforts and the New York Times foolishly decided to give it space, printing his ravings without editing, from the look of it. “You’re better off reading the playlist of the guy with cancer,” said Bob Leftsetz. “That’s a lot more heartfelt and interesting … AND COMPREHENSIBLE!”
12 RIAA breaks ‘We won’t sue’ promise. Did anyone really believe the RIAA was really going to stop suing people? “The mass sue ‘em all campaign, run by Mitch and Cary and the other spinsters over at the RIAA, isn’t being halted because the executives who run the Big 4 have finally come to their senses, realising suing music lovers isn’t the best way to win customers and generate good will,”” said p2pnet recently. “They don’t give a damn about that. They believe they’re big enough and powerful enough and well established enough to do whatever they want.” With that in mind, on December 26, in a Massachusetts case, UMG Recordings v Briggs, “the RIAA served a summons and complaint on the defendant on December 26, 2008,” a mere eight days after announcing it was ending its sue ‘em all campaign, notes Ray Beckerman in Recording Industry vs The People.
13 DRM rears its head. Again. Thanks, Sony. Again. According to the BBC, “The future of digital entertainment rights could turn into a battleground for control in the coming months.” In one corner is Apple, it goes on, the largest music retailer in the United States. “And in the other is DECE, a US consortium of entertainment, retail and IT companies that want to set new standards to transform how consumers buy, access and play digital content.” DECE, eh? “This is setting up to be a war between DECE and Apple,” the story has MG Siegler of online news site VentureBeat.com stating. “It seems DECE is working on a kind of new generation of DRM (Digital Rights Management or copy protection) so that they will still be able to be in control of the content of their members,” he says, predicting, “this will result in a stand off with Apple, which is not a member of DECE.”
14 Bartz is Yahoo’s new boss: official. Goodbye Jerry, hello Carol
14 Scientology’s L Ron Hubbard: master musician. ‘Understanding of music’
15 Is Steve jobs seriously ill? Or isn’t he? Following official protestations that Steve Jobs has been looking peaky because of a hormonal imbalance, not because of a recurrence of the rare form of pancreatic cancer which afflicted him four years ago, in a sudden announcement, yesterday, he stated: “In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.”
16 Wanted: Do Not Call List violators. Ottawa law professor and Net expert Dr Michael Geist wants anyone who knows about companies which are ignoring Canada’s Do Not Call List, designed to stop telephone marketing spam, to let him know. Geist’s request follows a report by p2pnet’s Devil’s Advocate accusing Bell Canada, the supposed operator of the DNCL, as being one of the worst offenders. “Part of me … kept believing Bell Canada desperately needed to rebuild its public image (to restore some of its fallen customer base and sell the company), and would do the honourable thing for its own sake – operate the DNCL the way Canadians clearly demanded,” he said, adding: “Yeah, I know. What the hell was I thinking?!”
17 11 angry people against the RIAA. You know how the RIAA has supposedly seen the light and isn’t suing Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG customers on behalf of Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG any more? That’s just Big 4 PR BS for media consumption. In fact, the RIAA is still sneaking around in the dark. Far from finally treating the people who keep its masters in business with respect and decency, the corporate music extortion unit is still actively suing them, continuing to call them criminals and thieves.
19 New Zealand: official corporate copyright cop. The New Zealand government will officially commence operation as a Big 4 record label corporate copyright enforcement agency beginning next month, says the IFPI. It’ll become the, “first country in the world to implement a graduated response [three strikes and you're out] system,” boasts the IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) . Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US) don’t have a serious presence in New Zealand. But they organised the development. Behind closed doors and without the benefit of citizen input, of course.
19 Beating Bell Canada’s Throttle Monster. Three easy steps …
20 P2P file sharing good for Big Music: Dutch study. A major Dutch study has thrown another huge spanner into Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG claims that online P2P file sharing is responsible for massive devastation within the corporate music industry.
20 ‘Not guilty!’ says Winny creator Isamu Kaneko. “Looks like Kaneko-san plans to go through with his non-guilty plea for trial,” says Yuzawa in a Reader’s Write. The comment refers to Isamu Kaneko, the Tokyo University researcher who’s behind Winny, the Japanese P2P file sharing application. He pleaded not guilty, yesterday, to, “abetting copyright violation by his developing and publicizing of the Winny file-sharing software program … ”
21 AOL ‘privacy breach’ class action approved. In 2006 AOL, America Online that was, managed to leak the private and personal data of more than 650,000 users across the Net. AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein initially said, “Although there was no personally-identifiable data linked to these accounts, we’re absolutely not defending this.”But he later changed his tune, admitting there was, ” information that could potentially lead to people being identified”. Two unnamed Californians and Kasadore Ramkissoon of Richmond County, New York, asked for class action status so they could go after AOL and now, “Thousands of California residents can sue AOL in their home state for invasion of privacy despite agreements they signed requiring all legal disputes to go before ‘courts of Virginia’ and be guided by Virginia law,” said the Chicago Sun-Times.
21 P2P Open letter to Barack Obama Catflap has been p2pnet’s roving reporter since 2005. He’s an American living abroad and, “I felt a patriotic obligation to make our new prez aware of p2pnet and its readers’ concerns,” he says. “So I’ve decided to start with an open letter to president Obama and finish off with an Op-Ed. Hopefully it might get passed on to him somehow through his new director of new media, Macon Phillips. “Heck, I might even go overboard and email it to Macon personally.”
21 RIAA not owned by Big 4 labels In RIAA drops case against Michigan students, “Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA was finally forced to fire MediaSentry, its inept ‘private investigator,’ replacing it with Dtecnet, a Danish firm whose reputation is also less than sterling,” said p2pnet. The RIAA says it’s trying to get US ISPs to take over as Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG copyright enforcers in a ploy also picked up in other parts of the world, notably in the UK. Leaving aside the question why it would even need yet another private eye if, as it claims, it’s going to halt its sue ‘em all marketing campaign, a p2pnet reader says we’re wrong to add pos ’s’ to the RIAA. “I would like to make it clear that thousands of record labels are members of the RIAA and that it is NOT owned by only four of them, as you wrongly state in every story in which the initials RIAA appear,” s/he says, adding: “It is a trade organisation which acts for its members. It is not a subsidiary. “Thank you.” You’re welcome. But we beg to differ,” we responded.
22 Sweden bends to Big 4 labels. Swedish cops should be ordered to go after anyone suspected of “illegal file sharing,” even if the alleged infringement merely warrants a fine, says Svenska Dagbladet, quoted in The Local. As things stand, acting as taxpayer funded corporate copyright cops, police are only allowed information if supposed transgressors’ “crimes” are, “severe enough to be punished by a prison sentence,”‘ says the story. Behind the move is Swedish minister of justice Beatrice Ask (right) who, by promoting it, belies her statement that, “Sweden must be a country where everyone is safe and secure, no matter who they are or where they live.”
22 US vice-president Joe Biden. Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages, says the headline to Anne E. Kornblut’s Washington Post story on Day One of the shiny new Barack Obama administration. It’s especially ironic given the accompanying pic (clip on the right) shows Obama grinning up at Technological Dark Ager (and plagiarist) of the First Degree Joe Biden, his vice-president. Biden, himself a presidential candidate in 1988 and 2008, was accused of plagiarizing a speech by Neil Kinnock, at the time the leader of the British Labour Party. He was also said to have plagiarized five pages of a of a law review article, both instances cited by the Wikipedia.
22 The Great Music Hole of Yahoo ! Back in 2005 Robert Chapin (right) found Yahoo’s Yahoo! Music Unlimited rentals really were unlimited. And they weren’t rentals. He tried to tell the people who ran the ’service’. But they just plain didn’t want to know. Now, CBS Radio (formerly Infinity Broadcasting) is taking over the Yahoo! Music website next month, posts Chapin on his Chapin Information Services site. “All of the exclusive stations only available with a Plus subscription will soon be available to users for free,” he quotes the station as saying. “Additionally, a high bandwidth sound quality option will be available for free users as well. There will no longer be an option to listen to LAUNCHcast ad free.” Very nice. But unbelievably, the gaping hole Chapin uncovered in 2005 is still, well, gaping, making high-bandwidth music files available for free and without ads, “also bypassing any Digit Rights Management (DRM) software,” he says.
23 Tele2 fined for traffic throttling. Why not Bell?. Something stinks in Canada
23 RIAA goes after Harvard prof Charles Nesson. Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US) have for years used the international corporate press to vilify their own customers as criminals and thieves who are robbing the music industry blind by sharing music online with each other. But students and children aren’t their only targets. Their latest victim is American law professor Charles Nesson who, with his team of Harvard students, is defending Joel Tenenbaum, accused by the RIAA of being a massive online distributor of copyrighted music files.
24 Barack Obama in a ‘Googley way’. Thoroughly Googled.
26 Telemarketers love Do Not Call List. “An abuse of the do-not-call list is unconscionable, not to mention illegal, and I sympathize with those Canadians who are being harassed by unscrupulous telemarketers.” p2pnet’s Devil’s Advocate, perhaps? Or Ottawa law professor Michael Geist who produced his own protection application he calls iOpOut? Neither. It’s industry minister Tony Clement (right) who, quoted in the Globe and Mail, has apparently finally clued into the fact the Do-Not-Call-List is virtually worthless.
26 FSF expert funds for Jammie Thomas v RIAA. The one major element missing in virtually all the RIAA cases used to be the lack of examination of RIAA so-called expert witnesses, the notable exception being Ray Beckerman’s grilling of Dr Doug Jacobson, whose expert testimony he reduced to rubble. Jacobson had been using materials supplied by MediaSentry, the “private investigation firm” the RIAA was forced to fire, as p2pnet revealed. Then in late 2007 the Free Software Foundation launched its Expert Witness Defense Fund, aiming to at least partially level the playing field for the innocent men, women and even children across America who were under under attack by Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA. “Our concern was how the RIAA is trying to use this sledge-hammer against the poorest people in society to set precedents in copyright,” the FSF’s Peter Brown told p2pnet …
27 Warner Music defecates on own doorstep. “I’m furious right now,” says Juliet Weybret, 15, in a YouTube video. “See, you may have noticed that the video of me singing and playing on piano Winter Wonderland, that good old Christmas song that everyone loves – I love it, you guys loved it – it’s not on my channel anymore! It’s gone!” Then, “Check this out,”” says another angry YouTuber, Lisa Lavie, linked to under Juliet’s post. “My mum’s one and only video on YouTube just got removed!” She goes on, “Like Warner Bros removed your video?! Like, what does that mean for the rest of us who sing all of these songs all of the time?!” Check out her video (below) to find out. Meanwhile, that should, of course, be Warner Music, not Warner Bros. And that in turn means the former is also tarnishing the latter’s already seriously grubby image. It also means Juliet and the incredulous Lisa have already told all of their friends, who’ve told all their friends, who are now telling all of their friends
28 Mavis Roy takes on the RIAA “[...] the Recording Industry Association of America, which represents the major labels in the United States, has backed away from a nearly six-year campaign of litigation against individual file-sharers [...]” The statement comes in a New York Times article. So must be true. But it isn’t. Ask Mavis Roy, .
28 BayTSP goes after Canadian guitar maker. Internet Police.
29 Microsoft Songsmith. Unphuknbelievable. Like, are they deaf, over there? Stupid? What? It’s Microsoft’ s first (but, we’re sure, not its last) total PR/marketing disaster of the year It’s even worse than the bizarre Bill Gates / Jerry Seinfeld anti-Apple ad of 2008. If you don’t know what we’re talking about, just surf over to YouTube and enter Microsoft Songsmith which, according to MS, “generates musical accompaniment to match a singer’s voice”. Looks cool: “Just choose a musical style, sing into your PC`s microphone, and Songsmith will create backing music for you. Then share your songs with your friends and family, post your songs online, or create your own music videos.” But let’s not forget who we’re talking about, here. Microsoft.
29 Eircom caves in to Big 4 labels. In a first for Ireland and perhaps anywhere, Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG last year targeted Eircom, an individual ISP, demanding it, “take measures to prevent its networks being used for the illegal downloading of music,” said the Irish Times. Now, Eircom has without reservation caved in to the Big 4, not only leaving its customers wide open to attack, but also promising to provide the labels with ammunition.
30 BayTSP, Lionsgate, take on Wayne Nagy Wayne Nagy is a very ordinary guy. He lives in Mississauga near Toronto, Ontario, where he builds guitars and I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t be upset if I say he isn’t exactly loaded with money. And he’s definitely not a file sharer. But he had a notice from the Rogers EUA Management Team, and another from US online bounty hunter BayTSP, accusing him of downloading a movie, or movies, by some means or another. What means? What movie or movies? Only Rogers and BayTSP seem to know. Because Wayne says he certainly doesn’t.
30 ‘We won’t sue ‘em all’ ploy Cuomo’s idea: RIAA New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo, and not Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG, is the author of the RIAA’s new we won’t sue ‘em all ploy. We knew Cuomo is employed as front man for the new RIAA tactic, but we weren’t aware he’d actually originated it.
30 Judge Gertner still listens to MediaSentry For those of you who may think District Judge Nancy Gertner has finally recognized the RIAA’s cases are not based on sufficient evidence, sound legal theory, or proper pleading, I just want to let you know she continues to enter default judgments, based on the RIAA’s written submissions. I’ve never reported on default judgments, and don’t intend to start doing it now, but if anyone wants to check for themselves, they can go to Capitol Records v Alaujan, D. Mass., 03-11661, the consolidated case for all of Massachusetts, and see for themselves. It’s mind boggling to me that a judge, after learning the Massachusetts State Police have preliminarily determined that evidence upon which the RIAA’s cases rest was obtained illegally, would enter judgments based on that evidence without even conducting a hearing … Ray Beckerman
30 George W Bush shoe thrower honoured with statue A huge bronze shoe has been erected the Iraqi town of Tikrit, the late Saddam Hussein’s former home, to honour Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist became instant famous when hruled his shoes at ex-US president Scourge W Bush last year.
31 New Bell Canada outrage: double dipping. Check your bandwidth.
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