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Is “revealed they reversed a vasectomy” worth $12.50?

June 17, 2008 – 7:01 am

The Associated Press have jumped into the bandwagon with the RIAA and the MPAA in my opinion.
Over the weekend, the Associated Press sent seven takedown notices to the Drudge Retort (parody website, not a typo) because the site quoted between 33 and 79 words of AP stories.
The Associated Press’ response to this was idiotic:
The use [...]

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Bullshit: Universal Music Group

April 10, 2008 – 1:24 pm

Alternatively, Augusto testified that “a common way to dispose of them” is to give unsold promotional CD away, or he may throw them away. Both are unauthorized distributions.
That’s a real quote from a federal court filing from the Universal Music Group. I’m sure that you’ve seen CDs before either in used CD stores or maybe [...]

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