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The mp3 generation on trial
How much is a stolen song worth? $22,500, according to a jury in Boston, in a copyright case with serious implications for the music industry. Joel Tenenbaum, a postgraduate student at Boston University, admitted sharing tracks online, during sworn testimony in which he acted as if the record business itself was on trial. He has been ordered to pay damages of $675,000.
Madoff pleads guilty
Barbara Karen Dweck had dipped her hands in red dye specially for the occasion. She had smeared it over the collage of press cuttings she carried, so that the headlines dripped blood. Her message was No Mercy For Bernie, although she hadn’t actually lost money herself.
© 2009 Andrew Purcell. 