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IDT Energy Snookering Queens Residents After Blackouts
Looks like IDT Energy reseller is still up to its old tricks. This time they’re targeting Queens residents after the recent ConEd blackouts, sometimes even posing as ConEd workers.
UPDATE: RIAA Sucks Own Loogie Off File-Sharer’s Grave
Apparently mortified by the negative publicity they have received for suing the children of a dead man who is accused of file infringement (and obviously in no position to defend himself), the RIAA has declared a “temporary suspension” of the “productive settlement discussions” they were having with the grieving.
eBay Feedback Destroys Businesses
When Kiel Sturm, an online stone retailer, sold a piece of smoky quartz over eBay for $2.33, it turned out to be a business destroying transaction. “F MINUS MINUS MINUS MINUS! WOULD NOT DO BUSINESS AGAIN!” was the gyst of the feedback left.
UPDATE: Circuit City Flouts The DMCA For A Tenner
Despite the sign we posted on Friday, Circuit City says they are not offering a copyright-breaking DVD to iPod service.
Circuit City Flouts The DMCA For A Tenner
Well, well, well! Look who’s violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act! For only a couple of fins, Circuit City will take your DVD and an iPod and flagrantly breach copyright at your behest.
The Real Dope on Recording Customer Service Calls
It’s totally legal to record conversations across state lines and you don’t have to tell the company at all.
In Which My Mother Consumes Five Gallons of Marshmallow Fluff
Summary: Massachusetts Senator Jarrett Barrios introduced anti-Marshmallow Fluff Legislation. It was widely ridiculed, then opposed by a measure to make the Fluffernutter the official State Sandwich. The proposed legislation has been withdrawn; Boston’s children again are safe to engorge themselves on the sticky, diabetes-inducing paste. Malden’s pornographers are similarly relieved. All is well with the world.
DoJ Files To Dismiss AT&T Lawsuit… It’s Top Secret!
Bad news for those of us who don’t want the long-distance sex calls we made to our Canadian girlfriends shouted mockingly at us when we’re tied to a chair with a burlap sack over our face in between a knee-thwacking with a length of hose. The Department of Justice has filed a motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit by the EFF against AT&T for illegally complying with NSA wire-tapping of citizens’ lines.
BREAKING: Little Girl Molested By Wal-Mart Sex Offender, Gets Jack Squat
A Jury found Wal-Mart was not negligent in hiring a convicted sex offender who molested a 10 year old girl in a Wal-Mart electronics aisle six years ago.
