they jump out of the blue and say “’sup?” — those hailstone friends from the past. (lousy distributed friendship models…) fortunately, you don’t lose track for too long. hail. why does everyone have to lead such interesting lives?
BigChampagne. Here comes the self-conscious, defensive, and more-than-slightly dodgy press releases from the RIAA-member states … er … labels. Who the hell else is really going to be flexing dollars on this service? (Thanks Wired!) Always interesting how these things come together: “The record industry’s lawsuits against file-sharing companies hang on their assertion that the programs have no use other than to help infringe copyrights. If the labels acknowledge a legitimate use … it would undercut their case as well as their zero-tolerance stance.”
