Phoenix, AZ – On Wednesday, March 5 at 2 p.m., the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge a federal judge in Phoenix to block the recording industry’s effort to sue two Arizona residents for simply having music files in a “shared” folder on their computer.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is seeking thousands of dollars in damages from the defendants in the case, Pamela and Jeffery Howell, for alleged unauthorized distribution of copyrighted digital music. However, instead of proving that the Howells actually distributed music files, the RIAA claims only that they had songs in the “shared” folder of peer-to-peer file-sharing software Kazaa — without any proof that anyone other than their own investigators actually downloaded the songs from them.
EFF’s Senior Staff Attorney Fred von Lohmann will argue at Wednesday’s hearing that the RIAA cannot take this shortcut in its lawsuit campaign.
“This amounts to suing someone for attempted copyright infringement — something the Copyright Act simply does not allow,” said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Fred von Lohmann. “If the RIAA wants to keep bringing these suits and collecting big settlements, then they have to follow the law and prove their case. It’s not enough to say the law could have been broken. The RIAA must prove it actually was broken.”
It seems like its a big day for classic anime. Trigun with a new movie and now Slayers having a new series. This was an anime series that I loved. With newer styles of animation it will be interesting to see how things change, since a lot of the drawing styles and hair styles were very influenced in the 90’s. I will be looking forward to this.
Page 24 of Fujimi Shobo’s Dragon Magazine’s April issue — which is officially on sale on February 29 but was previewed early — has announced that a new television anime project is in the works for Hajime Kanzaka’s Slayers fantasy light novels. The official title and the cast has yet to be revealed. The official Hajime Kanzaka Fan Club has confirmed the news and added that the project will feature an anime-exclusive story, split across two cours (two seasons of three months). Director Takashi Watanabe will oversee J.C. Staff, the same studio that worked with him on all three previous Slayers television series. Kanzaka also created the Lost Universe novels, manga, and anime series.
The fan club could not confirm who will be in the project’s cast or even if Lina, the popular character voiced by Megumi Hayashibara, will be featured in this project. The club’s news report did say that more details will be revealed in Dragon Magazine and anime magazines. Central Park Media and FUNimation Entertainment both released the three previous Slayers television series in English in North America.
One of my all time favorite animated series. A lot of the people who worked on the original series are coming back to do the movie so hopefully this will be good. I am though a bit surprised that there will be a movie made since the anime was not that popular in Japan.
The possibility of a Trigun movie first arose over two years ago in an interview with Madhouse founder Masao Maruyama and later at Tokyo Anime Fair 2006.
This is huge news. Yngwie Malmsteen is concidered one of the best guitarist living today. I am a huge fan of Tim Owens and always been a fan of Malmsteen’s guitar work. I will be buying this when it comes out.
As BLABBERMOUTH.NET exclusively reported earlier today, former JUDAS PRIEST/ICED EARTH singer Tim “Ripper” Owens has now officially joined YNGWIE MALMSTEEN’s band. The legendary Swedish guitarist announced the news to the Guitar World staff today when he came to the magazine’s New York headquarters for an exclusive interview and photo shoot.
Malmsteen and Owens are hard at work on a new CD, which is currently scheduled for a July release.
Owens and Malmsteen previously collaborated on a cover of OZZY OSBOURNE’s “Mr. Crowley”, which appeared on the “Flying High Again: The World’s Greatest Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne”, released in March 2006 via Magick Records. Listen to the track on YouTube.
Owens recently worked with QUEENSRŸCHE guitarist Michael Wilton on demo recordings for the new SOULBENDER album (Wilton’s side project). One of the demo cuts can currently be heard on the SOULDBENDER MySpace page.
Owens’s predecessor, Doogie White, was a member of Yngwie Malmsteen’s band for six and a half years. Doogie joined Malmsteen’s band in September 2001 and recorded two albums with the legendary Swedish guitarist: “Attack” (2002) and “Unleash the Fury” (2005).
“I had a long chat with Yngwie today and it is clear that he wants to move musically in a new direction,” Doogie said in a statement that was released to BLABBERMOUTH.NET earlier today. “It’s great news that he will be expanding on his undoubted talents both as a writer and guitarist. I just want to thank, publicly, Yngwie and the many band members past and present that I have worked with. It seems appropriate that we started our working relationship in South America in September 2001 and finished in South America in December 2007. Now, anyone need a singer??”
I read this and I just had to post this. For my love of legos as a kid and love of mp3 players, this just awesome. I just love the idea of this. You can buy the lego mp3 player, lego ipod dock, or lego ipod speakers athttp://www.homeloo.com/shop/index.php?cPath=31
Although not officially licensed, there’s little doubt where this little player got it’s design from. Most people have played with LEGOs at one point or another in their life, and with this player you can take it one step further and rock the streets with a player which brings new meaning to the word “bricked“.
Available in a variety of colors, the player seem to have no internal memory and rely on microSD (not microSDHC) cards to provide storage. Controls are hidden as raised dots on the front of the player, and there is no screen or other visible controls, so chances are that means no hold or shuffle mode etc. That and the fact the internal rechargeable battery will only give you about 6 hours on a charge makes this more of a novelty than a useful player, and with a price of $46 it’s not something you would buy for it’s music playback capabilities alone in any case.
This is huge news especially that Leonardo DiCaprio’s film production company has taken control of this, so it’s good news that this will actually get done.
After once acquiring the rights to produce an American live action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s manga series Akira then letting those rights expire, Warner Bros. has re-acquired adaptation rights, this time in conjunction with Legendary Pictures, the studio behind 300, and Leonardo DiCaprio’s film production company Appian Way. According to The Hollywood Reporter and Variety Magazine, first time feature film director Ruairi Robinson has been hired to helm the production of two live action Akira movies that will cover the first and second half of the Akira manga story. Relative newcomer screenwriter Gary Whitta will write the films. Leonardo DiCaprio will reportedly serve as one of several producers.
The setting of the movies will be changed from Neo-Tokyo to “New Manhattan.”
The first film is tentatively scheduled for theatrical release in the summer of 2009.
This is Children of Bodom’s newest Video Blooddrunk. The album titled “blooddrunk”will be released on 04/07/08 but wont be realsed in the U.S. till the 15th. Alexi Laiho (singer and lead guitarist) has stated that he has been feeling very aggressive while writing the songs, and that they will be faster and “thrashier” than the songs displayed on their latest release, Are You Dead Yet? He has also notified fans, however, that certain parts of the album will be more progressive.
If this as good as the article says that this is, then the big companies trying to get in the way and not letting us do what we want with the content we own are over and DRM will be dead.
Firmafest writes to let us know that ‘DVD Jon’ Lech Johansen’s company has released an open beta of DoubleTwist, a desktop application that allows the user to copy media to any device. There’s a Facebook app too. The software is available for download at Doubletwistventures.com. Currently only Windows is supported, but a Macintosh version is on the way.
Apple just announced a price drop on the screenless iPod Shuffle. So with this news, I thought that this would be the best time to put the iPod in the ring with a smarter choice and show you that despite the price cut, the iPod Shuffle is still an overprice shinny object.
Tommy cooper collapsed from a massive heart attack in front of millions of television viewers, midway through his act, on the popular itv variety show, live from her majesty’s. at first the audience assumed he was joking.
Jon-erik hexum, an american television actor, died after he shot himself in the head with a prop gun during a break in filming. hexum apparently did not realize that blanks use paper or plastic wadding to seal gun powder into the shell, and that this wadding is propelled out of the barrel of the gun with enough force to cause severe injury or death if the weapon is fired at point-blank range.
Natural disasters in 1984
Carolinas Tornado Outbreak
Late November 1984 Nor’easter
People who died on April 24 (various years)
2006 – Brian Labone, English footballer
2006 – Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi
2006 – Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and sports team owner
2005 – Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist
2005 – Ezer Weizman, President of Israel
2004 – Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur
2001 – Leon Sullivan, African-American civil rights leader and pastor
2001 – Al Hibbler, American singer
1997 – Eugene Stoner, American engineer and weapons designer
1997 – Pat Paulsen, American comedian and politician
1993 – Oliver Tambo, South African activist and politician
1986 – Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward, Duke of Windsor
1982 – Ville Ritola, Finnish athlete
1980 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer
1975 – Pete Ham, Welsh musician and frontman of Badfinger
1974 – Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian
1967 – Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut
1965 – Louise Dresser, American actress
1964 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined)
1960 – Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1947 – Hans Biebow, German war criminal
1947 – Willa Cather, American writer
1945 – Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician
1944 – William Stephens, U.S. political figure
1942 – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author
1942 – Karin Boye, Swedish author
1939 – Louis Trousselier, French cyclist
1938 – George Grey Barnard, American sculptor
1924 – G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist
1891 – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal
1852 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet
1779 – Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College
1736 – Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general
1731 – Daniel Defoe, English writer
1656 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist
1622 – Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint
1342 – Pope Benedict XII
1338 – Marquis Theodore I of Montferrat
709 – Wilfrid, English archbishop and saint
624 – Mellitus, third Archbishop of Canterbury
Approximately 141,850 people died worldwide on April 24, 1984
