Word: filing
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...Beach, was collecting statements from anyone who called his office. "All five lines here were lit up nonstop," he says. With union activists rounding up Florida notaries to take affidavits from the callers, Green figured that he would have 250 plaintiffs for the ballot-challenge suit he planned to file this week...
...expect that Rubalcava would find it embarrasingly hard to explain how the music industry's death is heralded by "the German giant of the media world" snapping up Napster, and promising to drastically change the way that the file sharing agent works. Rubalcava's ridiculous claim amounts to heralding the death of the home health care industry on the occasion of CVS buying out your local mom-and-pop drug store...
Rubalcava and others who see Napster's continuance under the supervision of BMG as a victory for the Napster file-sharing community are displaying their ignorance of what made Napster great in the first place. Rubalcava correctly identifies Napster's primary innovation: the peer-to-peer file sharing model...
...final footnote in the Napster story: If Napster is successful in becoming the enabler of the digital jukebox, it will most likely have to abandon the "special sauce" that made it so successful, P2P file sharing. Napster pioneered P2P as a workaround to the objections of the recording industry, which would have rather brought back disco than allow one Metallica track to be downloaded. Now that the industry has (belatedly) jumped on the musical broadband bandwagon, there's no reason for Napster to stay P2P. As users know, MP3's on Napster are often misidentified and of poor quality...
...been his court-ordered residence since June, just before a scheduled trip to the Los Angeles Criminal Courthouse to discuss his progress and treatment with a judge. After the Wu-Tang Clan rapper failed to show, a no-bail bench warrant was issued for his arrest. Jones' police file is the stuff of legend, even by rap-star standards. What makes this latest escapade particularly sad is that Jones, according to a friend, appeared to be getting clean and had been hoping to do publicity for the release of the Wu-Tang Clan's new album in November...