Android – Iphone – Applications

Fresh from losing a battle against the music industry causing Jammie Thomas-Rasset to be liable for paying $1.9 million in copyright infringement, lawyers Joe Sibley and Kiwi Camara has decided to sue Scribd. Scribd has “built a technology that’s broken barriers to copyright infringement on a global scale and in the process have also built one of the largest readerships in the world,” according to the two attorneys. “The company shamelessly profits from the stolen copyrighted works of innumerable authors.”

It is interesting to note that in Camara and Sibley’s last trial, they were defending a client from copyright infringement and now they are pursuing after a company that violates copyright. Camara and Sibley were interviewed back in July about whether they would ever defend copyright and they said yes assuming that they believe in the issue. The lawsuit was filed by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Plaintiff Elaine Scott said that she found an unauthorized copy of her book “Stocks and Bonds: Profits and Losses, A Quick Look at Financial Markets” on the website. Scribd prides themselves as being the “YouTube for documents.”

Scribd said that they remove content when required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Scribd has built an automated filtering system that prevents unauthorized materials from being published too. “The West Coast technology industry has produced a number of start-up firms premised on the notion that commercial copyright infringement is not illegal, unless and until the injured party discovers and complains of the infringing activity, and (the) infringer fails to respond to such complaints,” states the complaint written by the lawyers.

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After the jump is a sample spam e-mail that is sent to millions of e-mail addresses. The spam e-mail mentions that a bank in Nigeria wants your contact information since no one has claimed the rights to the account. Given that millions of spam e-mails that are sent use the country of Nigeria as the basis, the spam e-mails are often used in a punchline. That includes a new Sony commercial.

“You can’t believe everything you read on the Internet. Otherwise I’d be a Nigerian millionaire by now,” stated a faux Sony company spokesman in the commercial embedded above. In response to the commercial, the country of Nigeria demands an apology. The Nigerian government claims that the commercial is harming the reputation and image of the country.

Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 08:58:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Moses Odiaka [[email protected]]
To: [email protected]
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL PROPOSAL

My name is Mr.Moses Odiaka.I work in the credit and accounts department of
Union Bank of Nigeria Plc,Lagos, Nigeria. I write you in respect of a
foreign customer with a Domicilliary account. His name is Engineer Manfred
Becker. He was among those who died in a plane crash here in Nigeria
during the reign of late General Sani Abacha.

Since the demise of this our customer, Engineer Manfred Becker, who was an
oil merchant/contractor, I have kept a close watch of the deposit records
and accounts and since then nobody has come to claim the money in this a/c
as next of kin to the late Engineer. He had only $18.5mllion in his a/c
and the a/c is coded. It is only an insider that could produce the code or
password of the deposit particulars. As it stands now,there is nobody in
that position to produce the needed information other than my very self
considering my position in the bank.

Based on the reason that nobody has come forward to claim the deposit as
next of kin, I hereby ask for your co operation in using your name as the
next of kin to the deceased to send these funds out to a foreign offshore
bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself and you. At this point I am the
only one with the information because I have removed the deposit file from
the safe.By so doing, what is required is to send an aplication laying
claims of the deposit on your name as next of kin to the late Engineer. I
will need your full name and address telephone/fax number,company or
residential, also your bank name and account,where the money will be
transfer into.

Finally i want you to understand that the request for a foreigner as the
next of kin is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and for that reason alone a local cannot represent as next of kin. When
you contact me, then we shall discuss on how the money will be split
between us and others we shall also speak in details.I am currently in
europe for a six months course,you can reach me on this number for further
discussion 0031 623 866 723.Kindly send your reply to my private email
address stated below [email protected] or [email protected]

Trusting to hear from you,

I remain Respectfully yours,

Mr Moses Odiaka.
[email protected] or [email protected]
(0031 623 866 723)

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The Hajime 33 is an athletic robot that can play soccer. Hajime Sakamoto built the robot and it can operate by using a Sony PlayStation 3 controller. The Hajime 33 can walk and kick soccer balls. The Hajime 33 weighs 44 lbs. and has a height of 6′5″. The reason why the robot has a low weight is to that it would be better able to balance and walk easier. One day Hajime hopes to build a large GUNDAM robot.

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Rumor has it that China Telecom and Access are in the midst of developing a new phone called the CPhone. The CPhone has a custom version of Google Android 1.5 running the phone. Pictured above is a leaked screenshot of what the phone is expected to look like. The screen appears to be a 3.5″ incher. There is also support for China CMMB TV using the China Telecom networking technology.

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Henry Ross Perot started a company called Electronic Data Systems in 1962 and then sold it to General Motors. EDS was responsible for General Motor’s IT services. Then EDS was bought out by Hewlett Packard for $13.9 billion in May 2008. Another one of Ross Perot’s company has been acquired today called Perot Systems. Perot Systems was founded in 1988 and has been sold to Dell Inc. for $3.9 billion.

All of the biggest PC manufacturing companies has a strong branch of consulting arms. IBM Global Services makes about $58.9 billion. Between HP and EDS’ collective business services, they made about $38 billion as of 2007. And Dell’s Perot Systems made about $2.8 billion in 2008 revenues.

Based on how many shares Perot Systems has on the market, Dell will be buying them each at $30 per share. This is a 67% premium based on Perot Systems’ stock price on Friday of $17.91. The deal is expected to close during Q4 of Dell’s fiscal year. Perot Systems will continue to operate in Plano, Texas. Dell itself is based in Round Rock, Texas which is less than 250 miles away.

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