Posts Tagged Breaking News
Grad student fined $675,000
Posted by ShopinJA in International News on August 3rd, 2009
Court orders Boston University student Joel Tenenbaum to pay $675G for illegally downloading music
BY Leo Standora | DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, July 31st 2009, 9:15 PM
A Boston University grad student was ordered to pay four record labels $675,000 Friday for illegally downloading and sharing songs on the Internet - but he’s not singing the blues.
Joel Tenenbaum, a graduate student, has been ordered to fork over $675,000 to four record companies for illegally downloading songs.
“I’m disappointed, but I’m thankful it wasn’t millions,” said Joel Tenenbaum, a 25-year-old doctoral student in physics. “To me it sends a message of ‘We considered your side with some legitimacy.’”
If the verdict stands after a planned appeal, Tenenbaum said he’ll file for bankruptcy to cut his losses.
A Boston federal court jury took just three hours to agree that Tenenbaum “willfully” infringed on the copyrights of 30 songs, including Nirvana’s “Comes As You Are” and Nine Inch Nails’ “The Perfect Drug.”
The jury awarded the labels $22,500 for each infringement.
But the songs at issue were only the tip of the iceberg.
On the witness stand Tenenbaum unapologetically admitted downloading more than 800 songs from 1999 to 2007 on his home computer in Rhode Island and at college in Maryland.
Often smiling at the jury, he explained he grew up in a family that loves and plays music - his mother is a professional harpist who appeared in court every day - and that music-sharing networks made it easy for him to get the songs he liked.
Green Day, the Ramones, Smashing Pumpkins and Aerosmith also were among his favorite artists.
The jury could have ordered him to pay as much as $150,000 for each of the downloaded songs - or $4.5 million total.
It was just the nation’s second music downloading case against an individual to go to trial.
A Minneapolis federal jury last month ordered Jammie Thomas-Rasset, 32, to pay $1.92 million for copyright violations involving 24 songs.
Daughter of famed boxer Mike Tyson dies
Posted by ShopinJA in International News on May 27th, 2009
Tyson’s daughter, 4, dies after ‘tragic accident’
Exodus Tyson was found hanging from treadmill cord by 7-year-old brother
Mike Tyson had been in Las Vegas but flew to Phoenix immediately after learning of the accident. Francois Mori / AP
The 4-year-old daughter of boxer Mike Tyson died at a hospital Tuesday, a day her neck apparently got caught in a treadmill cord at her Phoenix home.
Exodus Tyson was pronounced dead just before noon, police spokesman Andy Hill said. She had been on life support since the accident Monday.
Police said Exodus either slipped or put her head in the loop of a cord hanging under the console. Her 7-year-old brother found her and told their mother. She took Exodus off the cord, called 911 and tried to revive her.
Responding officers and firefighters performed CPR as they took the girl to the hospital.
Former heavyweight champion Tyson was in Las Vegas at the time of the accident and flew Monday to Phoenix, where he was seen entering the hospital.
Tyson spokeswoman Cynthia Schwartz said the family had not arranged a funeral yet and would release a statement later.
Source: NBC Sports
Did cops cause deadly fire?
Posted by ShopinJA in Breaking News on May 26th, 2009
Armadale girls insist tear gas canister led to blaze that killed 5
By OBSERVER SPECIAL COVERAGE UNIT specialcoverageunit@jamaicaobserver.com
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
SURVIVORS of the Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre fire insisted yesterday that the Friday night blaze that killed five of their fellow inmates was started by a police tear gas canister.
The girls told their side of the story to parents and counsellors who visited them at the Stony Hill HEART Academy, St Andrew, where about 45 of them have been housed since Saturday when Prime Minister Bruce Golding ordered the St Ann facility closed, pending an inquiry into the incident.
Pudence Doeman holds a photo of her daughter, Shauna-Lee Kerr, who died in Friday night's fire at the Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre (in background). (Photos: Alesia Edwards) Photos Digitally Enhanced by Rorie Atkinson
‘I Love New York’
Posted by ShopinJA in International News on May 26th, 2009
This story is all over the TV and inter-web blogs, It’s about a 19yr old soldier Zachary Boyd based in Afghanistan, apparently they came under attack and in a rush Zachary could only manage to put on his bullet proof vest and helmet, leaving him to fight war in a red t-shirt, slippers and a ‘I Love New York’ pink boxer shorts. On hand to snap the image was David Guttenfelder a photographer from the Associated Press.
Speaking in New York on Thursday at a ceremony aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, Mr. Gates said:
