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More links for you. Of note today is that Prosecutors Dismiss Xbox-Modding Case Mid-Trial<\/a>, which basically means that they couldn’t intimidate the poor guy into paying a fortune and\/or making a plea deal … so they dropped the case. The legal merits of the case were pretty flimsy to begin with – after all, this is a guy with a soldering iron & some electronic components who was able to make the XBox do things that the Evil Empire (i.e., Microsoft) didn’t want it to be able to do. So, break out the high-pressure tactics, the prosecutors who “lost” evidence, etc. My guess is that they didn’t want this case to ever go to a jury trial, because, hey, really, he (or his clients) owned the XBox<\/b>. If it were to have gone to trial, the jury would have been hard-pressed to say what wrong had been done, and the DMCA would have been under pressure for some of its more idiotic clauses. So, they let it go. Evil creatures.<\/p>\n

There are lots more of interest, of course, including the odd idea that Yellow-Bellied Marmots May Inherit Social Victimization<\/a>. Yep: the kid who’s always picked on, at least amongst the marmots, has inherited<\/b> that role. But bullies don’t inherit being bullies. Truly odd, this has some interesting possibilities for how we as humanity function. Enjoy!
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