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...RIAA will only succeed in driving file-sharing services offshore, where it can’t touch them. It would be better off filing suits only against services that explicitly encourage the sharing of copyrighted materials. The RIAA’s campaign against file-sharing services is only a sideshow, however, to its ongoing, two-year-old initiative to sue individual copyright violators. Though the RIAA has sued only about 13,000 of the estimated 60 million Americans using file-sharing software, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, these 13,000 people are disproportionately students. Settlements for affected students range...
...Most of my maturity and my different perspective comes from the last year,” Blake said, though he is also encouraged by his loyal cheering section, “The J-Block,” whose T-shirts and chants have become something of a sideshow on the grounds these days...
...which director Steven Shainberg calls his "fairy tale for adults," a fictional take on three months in the provocative photographer's life. The Bewitched star's "subtlety and mysteriousness" (not, this time, her nose) channel Arbus, says Shainberg, who directed Secretary. Arbus was most famous for her photos of sideshow freaks. Did we mention that Robert Downey Jr. also stars...
...economy they want, they are united in believing that they should be allowed to decide for themselves instead of having a one-size-fits-nobody solution imposed from above. The constitution would remove power from national governments in almost all policy areas, making national elections little more than a sideshow while decisions are made elsewhere by an unelected politburo. Not surprisingly, the people voted to keep their right to choose who governs them. Roger Mortimer London...
...anything," Ditka says, "made people think, 'Hey, these guys are having fun.' It was kind of flukish, the way it happened." If the Perry thing gave a sort of melancholy life to that smoky old carnival bark, "Monsters of the Midway," the Perry person made the mood of the sideshow bright. "Everything has been a thrill to me," whistles this cheerful man through his ventilated smile. "The whole season. It's funny to see me doing TV commercials. My wife and I sometimes look over at each other and just laugh. One day somebody won't ask you for your...