Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 25, 2009 at 9:05:00 AM CEST
Pirate Bay via Twitter vorgeladen
Die schwedischen Behörden allerdings, behauptet der oberste Piratenjäger Tim Kuik, könnten die Angeklagten nicht finden. Deshalb will er sie über das Internet auf den Prozess aufmerksam machen: "Man kann die Angeklagten auf Facebook und Twitter finden. Das Internet dient Strafverfolgern genauso wie Rechtsverletzern. Jetzt wissen sie von der Gerichtsverhandlung in den Niederlanden", sagte Kuik.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 25, 2009 at 8:59:00 AM CEST
The Pirate Bay Founders Summoned To Court Via Twitter
The Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has summoned The Pirate Bay’s founders to court through Twitter and Facebook. Emboldened by recent events in Sweden, BREIN is demanding a total blackout of the site in the Netherlands and has scheduled a court hearing for July 21st.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 25, 2009 at 8:55:00 AM CEST
Rapidshare Ordered To Filter Content
TorrentFreak reports that the Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany, has ruled that file-hosting service Rapidshare must proactively filter certain content. Music industry outfit GEMA asked the court to ban Rapidshare from making 5,000 tracks from its catalogue available on the Internet.
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Topic: ART - on June 25, 2009 at 8:53:00 AM CEST
Banksy mural defaced with paint
A picture painted by the artist Banksy has been vandalised with blue paint pellets fired from a paintball gun.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on June 25, 2009 at 8:43:00 AM CEST
Newspaper exposes Church of Scientology
High-ranking defectors provide an unprecedented inside look at the Church of Scientology, its leader David Miscavige, and the Lisa McPherson case. Expose from the newpaper in Clearwater, Florida, the "worldwide spiritual headquarters" of Scientology, in three parts.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 25, 2009 at 8:39:00 AM CEST
World Drug Report Preface majors on legalisation
Below is the text from the Preface to World Drug Report 2009 - dominated by a detailed rebuttal of the growing calls for a debate on legal regulation of drug production and supply. We have deconstructed these kind of critiques so many times before, we won’t be doing it again here - other than to observe it is the same confused mix of misrepresentations, straw man arguments, and logical fallacies that we have been used hearing from the UNODC's drug warriors. The particularly strange thing here though is that some of the analysis of the problem, the critique at least, is actually fairly good - its where it leads that is so extraordinary....
transform-drugs.blogspot.com UN Backs Drug Decriminalization In World Drug Report
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 25, 2009 at 8:33:00 AM CEST
Prozess beginnt am Mittwoch: Tonnenweise Marihuana in Deutschland angebaut
Wegen des Anbaus und Verkaufs von schätzungsweise 14,5 Tonnen Marihuana müssen sich ab heute drei mutmaßliche Drogenbosse und zwei ihrer Helfer in Koblenz vor Gericht verantworten.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 25, 2009 at 8:32:00 AM CEST
Five "Dope" Albums That Changed the World
It’s unclear exactly when the word “dope” jumped from its negative noun form (as a euphemism for idiot or dummy) to its positive adjective form (as in, “so-and-so’s new record is dope!”) We here at Crustcake suspect it was right around the time illegal drugs and rock n’ roll reached an equal foothold in youth culture. As an unsurprising result, the word in its current form stands out significantly in the glossary of rock and metal’s gruesome grimoire.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 25, 2009 at 8:29:00 AM CEST
420 help is here - Police: Man advertised pot sales on Craigslist
Drug dealers take note: Potheads aren’t the only ones who know what 420 means.
Quincy police arrested a man advertising his wares with the words “420 help is here” on the online classified site Craigslist. Drug detectives knew that in the cannabis culture, 420 means getting high on marijuana.
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