This is ridiculous. Next they are going to tell us that when you buy a cd, you have to listen to it by yourself or you could be prosecuted for sharing.

Quoted: Now, in an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has fought back in court rather than write a check to avoid hefty legal fees, the industry is taking its argument against music sharing one step further: In legal documents in its federal case against Jeffrey Howell, a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on his personal computer, the industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer.

The industry's lawyer in the case, Ira Schwartz, argues in a brief filed earlier this month that the MP3 files Howell made on his computer from legally bought CDs are "unauthorized copies" of copyrighted recordings.

interesting study. Microsoft rocks the world.

Quoted: Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Nike are among the iconic American brands that suffered year-over-year declines in their "likeability" among global consumers, according to a new brand ...

Haha - Comedy Central as an example for news reporting. What is this world coming to?

Quoted: Craig Newmark might not be the most obvious choice for a speaker at a conference of newspaper publishers, considering that his Web site Craigslist is often seen as a rival to newspapers by siphoning away lucrative classified advertising.

This is really sad. Many of us have had this discussion before but I feel that the reason behind this is that workers feel that they are penalized for actually taking vacation and missing work.

Quoted: More than half of U.S. workers fail to take all of their vacation days, according to a survey released on Wednesday.

Of the 56 percent who don't take advantage of all their allotted time, a third use half or less of their time off, according to a survey conducted for Hudson, the staffing and outsourcing arm of Hudson Highland Group, based in New York.

Haha!

Quoted: Math anxiety -- feelings of dread and fear and avoiding math -- can sap the brain's limited amount of working capacity, a resource needed to ...

Eh ...

Quoted: AT&T Inc. will begin to absorb the Cingular Wireless name beginning Monday.