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google being sued for copyright infringement – belgian publishers wants its €42m

Back in 2006 a bunch of Belgian news publishers (Copiepresse) successfully sued Google to stop the Google News Service from publishing the headlines from the Belgian newspapers.
 
The publishers were particularly upset at the fact that one was able to still read the headlines and first couple of sentences from Google’s site long after the news [...]

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cloak and dagger in the us of a’s pay-tv arena

Whoever said that one had to be a member of the mafia or the cia in order to dabble in stashing cash inside equipment to avoid detection, clandestine rendezvous, secret codes and pass phrases, certainly didn’t pay the USA pay-tv industry close enough attention!
 
One would be able to excuse the Californian judge reading papers filed [...]

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oj simpson, south africa style

I’m following, with interest, the case of murdered Matie, Inge Lotz for a number of different reasons, some of which include knowing Inge Lotz personally (was at school with her) as well as Fred van der Vyfer (was at Uni with him) and one of the assessors (South Africa’s version of a “jury”) on the [...]

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