Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 04:14:46 -0100 (GMT)
From: anakata
To: Peter Pehrson - enya.com 
Subject: Re: For your information

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Peter Pehrson - enya.com wrote:

> Fredrik Neij
> PRQ Inet / SE 969700-4027
> Box 1206, SE 11479 Stockholm, Sweden
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> FOR YOUR INFORMATION
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Dear Fredrik Neij,
>
> it has come to our attention that a number of our works and trade marks now
> appear on your own website.
>
>
> http://thepiratebay.org/torrents-details.php?id=3215747
>  &hit=1
> Enya A Box Of Dreams - 886 transfers
>
> http://thepiratebay.org/torrents-details.php?id=3252776
>  &hit=1
> Enya - The Celts - 291 transfers
>
> http://thepiratebay.org/torrents-details.php?id=3252777
>  &hit=1
> Enya - Watermark - 316 transfers
>
> http://thepiratebay.org/torrents-details.php?id=3230233
>  &hit=1
> Enya - The Celts - 386 transfers
>
> As these albums are under Copyright and no EU or Swedish law allows
> unauthorized distribution of this ripped music, you are in violation of our
> Copyright.
>
> You are additionally in violation of Swedish and EU law as you are violating
> our Trade Mark by listing Trade Mark protected names (protected under
> Swedish law) on your web page without permission.
>
> You have 72 hours to completely remove the above links.
>
> After this you will receive 1 (ONE) legal note from GrayZone. You will
> receive no further notices.
>
> Also please note that making this email public or ridiculing it will result
> in immediate legal action and we are also contacting RipeNCC for suspension.
>
>
> Regards
> Peter Pehrson
> aigle music / warner music international

Dear whatever-you-are,
thank you for providing us and our users with such great entertainment.
I'm not talking about Enya (hey, Enya fucking sucks), but instead of your
nonsensical email.

You have
- confused us with our ISP
- no knowledge whatsoever about BitTorrent
- no knowledge whatsoever of the appliciable laws (trademark or copyright)
- made very entertaining threats (hey, go ahead and contact RIPE NCC,
please, I beg you)

You have scored 10 out of 10 points on our Legal Threats Entertainment
scale. You win the grand prize: A lifetime of ridicule on our legal
threats section (http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal/) !
Congratulations!

Please also note that I'm not currently out of toilet paper, so you may
wait a while before sending legal papers.

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Yeah, right...

new exhibit! Exhibit #5 Photographic Evidence

According to "Satanism In America" the Il Corduno or "horned hand" is a sign of recognition between practicing Satanists. Here is a picture of the salute taken from a Satanic manual. Notice how it is a one-handed salute, and that the palm of the hand faces outward. The following are a few examples among numerous times where Bush has been seen flashing this 'devil's salute'.

His lame explanation? According to Bush, what he is doing is not giving the internationally recognized sign for devil worshippers. According to him, he is really giving the sign of the University of Texas Longhorns. But this deception doesn't hold water for two very good reasons. #1 George W Bush never attended the University of Texas. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale University. The University of Texas law school turned him down because his record at Yale was so mediocre. Family connections enabled him to get into Harvard Business school instead. Let's face it - nobody in their right mind goes around continually flashing the sign of a college they never attended, a college that rejected him. I suggest that he picked it up at college all right, but while attending Yale, after joining a Satanic cult called "Skull and Bones". #2 There is another very good reason why his alibi just doesn't wash. Anybody who knows anything about the University of Texas knows that Bush isn't flashing the sign of the Texas Longhorns at all. This following is a picture of a University of Texas student giving the Longhorns salute. Notice how BOTH hands are used, and the back rather than the palms of the hands are facing outwards to better simulate Texas LonghornS. It is apparent from the evidence I've accumulated here, that Bush was definitely NOT giving the University of Texas Longhorns salute. He WAS giving the Satanic 'horned hand' salute.

http://66.135.33.70/bushisantichrist.com/

Not One Damn Dime Day Add your message to the petition Your responses (long list - be patient!) Responses in blog format (most recent comments first) Who set this up - and press contact information FAQs (for press inquiries) Additional Boycott info (What else you can do) Boycott flyer (To tell retailers what you're doing) Press clippings (news articles) Discussion Forum

NOT ONE DAMN DIME DAY

Since our leaders don't have the moral courage to speak out against the war in Iraq, Inauguration Day, Thursday, January 20th, 2005 is "Not One Damn Dime Day" in America.

On "Not One Damn Dime Day" those who oppose what is happening in our name in Iraq can speak up with a 24-hour national boycott of all forms of consumer spending.

[...]

http://www.notonedamndime.com/boycott/

So, someone somewhere is getting some braincel co-operation!

Now, the next step, spelt out for you:

"The good half

We the people of the good half, the half of America that represents the people that believe in the principles that this great country was upon, are going to boycott the US government this April 15th. Since it is impossible to alter the policies of our elected officials through the ballot box, and violence is againt the nature of good people everywhere, we choose simply not to finance this government in its headlong rush to invade Iran and cause more chaos and hatred towards Americans in the world.

We, the good half of America cannot with a clear concience, continue to finance the destruction of our country and the lives of other people in other countries..."

You get the picture.

Why should they just boycott the inaguration? After the inaguration, then what? Business as usual with the invasions and this false 'war on terror'?

The logical conclusion is that all the people who did not vote for The Neocon Cabal 'Bush' should withdraw their services, meaning their money, until such time as their government returns to its proper place. That means that on April 15th, they simply do not comply. 30 million people doing it should be enough to bring it all to a grinding halt.

You cannot be expected to finance the killing of innocents. You have a moral duty not to. They can do this with a clear concience. They MUST do this.

American Airlines Customer Relations
P.O. Box 619612 MD 2400
DFW Airport, TX 75261-9612Ê

14 January, 2005

To whom it may concern,

On Sunday, January 9th, I flew AA51 from London Gatwick to
Dallas-Fort Worth. At Gatwick, I was confronted with a security
check that exceeded sense and decency and, I feel, creates a
terrible potential liability for your airline.

At Gatwick, I was directed to a security podium before I checking
in for my flight. The security officer asked me a series of
questions, such as:

* Where are you flying?

* How long have you owned your luggage for?

* Have any of your electronics been serviced recently?

* Why are you flying this route?

This last one was a little weird: the route I was flying had been
selected for me by the computer running www.aa.com's reservation
system, but I answered anyway, wanting to be cooperative. Then
the officer asked me where I would be staying in the USA:

"I will be staying with a friend tonight, at a hotel near LAX
tomorrow, and with a different friend in Tarzana for the rest of
the week."

The security officer then handed me a blank piece of paper and
said, "Please write down the names and addresses of everyone
you're staying with in the USA."

I actually began to write this out when I was brought up short.
"Wait a second -- since when does AA compile a written dossier on
the names and addresses of my friends? Why are you asking me
this? Do you have a privacy policy and a data-retention policy I
can inspect prior to this?"

The security officer told me that this was a Transport Security
Agency (TSA) regulation. I asked for the name or number of the
regulation, its text, and the details of the data-retention and
privacy practices in place at AA UK. The security officer wasn't
able to answer my questions, and she went to get her supervisor.

After several minutes, her supervisor appeared and said, after
introducing himself, "Sir, this is for your own protection."

I think it's pretty hard to argue that making passengers produce
written dossiers on their friends' home addresses makes planes in
the sky secure. I asked again if this was really a TSA regulation
and what AA's privacy and data-retention policies are.

The officer said, "This is a TSA regulation."

I said, "Why didn't I have to provide this information when I
flew out of Gatwick on US Air in December then?"

He said, "Well, you know that American Airlines has had some
terrible things happen to it in the past."

I asked "So the TSA wrote a special regulation for AA? What is
the name of this regulation, and what is your data-retention and
privacy policy?"

He didn't know the answer and went off to fetch the terminal
supervisor for AA.

Several more minutes passed, and then the supervisor appeared. He
had looked over my documents and said, "Sir, I'm sorry, you are a
Platinum AAdvantage member and shouldn't have been asked this
question." I thanked him and asked him if he knew what AA's
privacy and data-retention policies were. He didn't.

In the past few days, I've told this story to many friends in the
US and the UK and they've all been shocked by it. It's really
stuck in my craw, and left me with three questions for your
airline:

1. What is the AA privacy and data-retention policy?

2. Do non-Platinum flyers have to provide dossiers on their
friends on demand from an AA officer? Why?

3. Is there a TSA regulation that requires you to gather this
information? What is the number or name of that regulation and
where can I get a copy of it?

Under the UK Data Protection Act, AA is required to be
accountable for the personal information it collects from the
public. On presentation of a nominal fee of ten pounds, AA is
expected to provide a reasonable accounting of what information
it has gathered from me and how it uses that information.  I
believe gathering these dossiers means that you incur this
liability not only to me, but to all of my friends, too -- in
other words, if you require me to give you my friends' name and
address, my friends also have the right to find out how you use
that information. This explodes your data-retention liability,
potentially by an order of magnitude.

I was told that I came under extra scrutiny at the podium because
I was flying from the UK to the US on a Canadian passport; that
is, a passport that doesn't come from either the origin or
destination of my flight. I fly a lot to the USA, and other
airlines don't seem to have this policy. Should I take this to
mean that if I continue to fly AA on this customary UK-US voyage
of mine, I can expect to be given a hassle every time I fly?

I'm cc'ing this note to my colleagues at the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, to my friend John Gilmore who is currently suing the
TSA over some of its regulations, and to the website I co-edit,
Boing Boing (boingboing.net), which has over 200,000 daily
readers. I will be very interested to hear your reply.

I would appreciate a response by February 1, 2005.

Thank you,

Cory Doctorow


AAdvantage Number: XXXXXXX

Clause 20 deals with antisocial behaviour orders and a new civil order—the intervention order—to be attached to an ASBO where the underlying causes of the antisocial behaviour relate to drug misuse.
[...]
In that context, the Bill deals with so-called magic mushrooms. The chemicals inside them are class A drugs; the mushrooms themselves are class A drugs, if prepared or in the form of a product. The Bill will end uncertainty by making it clear that all magic mushrooms, in whatever form, are class A drugs, and will make it an offence, to import, export, produce, supply, possess or possess with intent to supply magic mushrooms in any form.

Jon Owen Jones (Cardiff Central, Lab/Co-op)
That part of the Bill deals with an anomalous position, but it also raises other anomalies. [...] The drug grows widely naturally in this country and people could have it in their gardens without knowing it. Are they committing an offence? [...] What benefit will that bring?

Charles Clarke (Norwich South, Lab) We are looking in detail at the position on khat—

NL police massively fines citizens without ID

On 1 January 2005, a new law went into force in the Netherlands obliging everybody above the age of 14 to always show ID when asked. Dutch police has immediately started to use the new power by fining dozens of citizens for not being able to present a valid passport, drivers license or ID card. Most citizens were given double fines, for example for riding on a bicycle without proper illlumination, or hanging out in groups and thus presenting a possible threat to the 'public order'. In the city of Rotterdam alone, 20 fines were issued within the first 24 hours of the new obligation. Two of the first fines that became public have raised serious concerns about the actual intentions of the police with their new power.

The double fining is an indication of what will precipitate from a compulsory ID scheme, and why it will discriminate agianst ethnic minorities, who are most likely to be stopped by PCs anyway

A young man attended the new-year's reception of the municipality of Nijmegen, and held up a banner protesting against the policy to evict asylum seekers. He was arrested and asked to show ID. When he refused to do so, the police took him to the local police station and held him for several hours. In the end he was sent home without a fine, but his right to demonstrate was undermined completely.

A second incident was covered in the eight o' clock national TV news on 8 January 2004. A 14-year old girl in the municipality of Wijk en Aalburg was arrested in the very early hours of 1 January 2005 for not being able to show ID, together with 20 other kids. She spent 5 and a half hours in a police cell, without any indication of any possible misdemeanour other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Before 1 January 2005 a large majority of Dutch people supported the new law, in support for any measure that could help increase security. After 1 January, many people start to realise they have to bear the costs themselves, starting at 30 euro for an ID card, but amounting up to 100 euro in case of losing a card or passport. The owner of the website 'gelijkoversteken' (hand over simultaneously), calls on all citizens to demand to see the ID of any supervisor or police officer in return for showing theirs. He reports numerous incidents of coloured people being asked for their ID without any other apparent reason than the colour of their skin.

The Council of State, the highest legal advisory body in the Netherlands, strongly criticised the proposed law for the lack of any substantive evidence that it would help in the battle against terrorism. This criticism was bluntly ignored by Cabinet and Parliament. In a bold new year's speech the mayor of Wageningen, Mr Pechtold, spoke out against the new law and called it an example of The Hague idiocy to lure the general public into a false sense of security.

NOS news item (in Dutch, 08.01.2004)
http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/nos/nieuws/2005/januari/video/07...

Website Gelijk Oversteken (in Dutch)
http://www.gelijkoversteken.org

Is that what you want? Because that's what would happen.

File photo of Charlie Bell(L) and James Cantalupo(R).
The two former McDonald's CEOs, died within a year.
As people regret the early ending of their lives, their
death raises rumors and criticism of the security of the
company's food. (File photo)

Charlie Bell, CEO of McDonald, died of colorectal cancer at the age of 44 on Jan 17, 2005. McDonald's announced his death Sunday evening in the United States.

In May 2004, a few weeks after taking over from Mr Cantalupo, who died in 2004 April at the age of 60 after suffering a heart attack while attending a McDonald's franchisees convention in Florida, he was told he had colorectal cancer. Bell, who had surgery last May, resigned from his job in November 2004.

The Australian is an advocate of his own product who would eat McDonald's for breakfast. He worked for McDonald's at age of 15 and had hamburgers since then. [...]

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/18/content_2477136.htm

- About Streamline -

Streamline is a streaming media web application written in php. By taking advantage of the HTTP streming support in most modern media players, Streamline allows you to access your media library from remote machines in an on-demand manner. Unlike icecast/shoutcast iservers, which act like radio stations and do not let the user choose what they want to hear, Streamline allows users to browse their entire media library and, with a click of a button, listen to whatever they want. Simply choose a media file or set of files and they being to play immediately on your local media player.

Norah Jones ... HSS predicted her success despite industry scepticism

Sounds unlikely? It shouldn't. Because, while no one's talking about it, it seems that the whole record industry is already using just this process. From unsigned acts dreaming in their garage, to multinationals such as Sony and Universal, everyone is clandestinely using a new and controversial technology to gain an edge on their competitors. And just as with athletes and performance-enhancing drugs, there is a remarkable reluctance to talk about it. But the secret is out: the record biz, once that bastion of wayward creative flair, is succumbing to the plain old-fashioned science of statistical analysis. [...]

But its greatest usefulness might be, as Smith says, in "helping with that all too frequent record company problem - a band that has written an album without any hits on it. Using the technology they might be able to write the radio-friendly songs required for the album release." [...]

Ho hum, computer illiterates and imaginationless drones to the fore!

What this article predictably fails to understand are two things; firstly, the software itself will be cloned, and everyone will have access to the same facility. Secondly, the benefits of it will not be what was said in the second paragraph that I quoth; the REAL benefit will be to show statistically that what you are presenting has never been done before.

Of course, real record labels wont need to use this or any software to decide what is worthwhile or not, because the only software they require sits between the ears of the people who run the label.

And anyway, pop music is already dead you idiots!

President Bush faces Democrat criticism of his domestic agenda

US President George W Bush has said that the nation's social security fund is close to bankruptcy.

Mr Bush used his weekly radio address to warn that future generations of Americans may have to rely on private investments for a retirement income.

He urged younger workers to begin using private accounts to ease stress on the traditional state-run system.

Mr Bush has said reform is vital if big tax rises are to be avoided. Democrats and unions are opposed to the changes.

"If we do not act now, government will eventually be left with two choices: dramatically reduce benefits or impose a massive economically ruinous tax increase," Mr Bush said.

He said leaving such a situation to young Americans would be a "generational betrayal".[...]

George W Bush believes the US public are behind him on Iraq

President George W Bush has said his re-election has vindicated his administration's policy on Iraq.

Mr Bush said there was no need to hold any of his officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgements in pre-war planning or managing the aftermath.

In an interview in Sunday's Washington Post he said that his re-election was an "accountability moment".

The publication of the interview comes as Mr Bush prepares for the start of his second term on Thursday.

The newspaper asked Mr Bush why no-one had been held responsible for wrong information about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or mistakes made after the US-led war.

"Well, we had an accountability moment, and that's called the 2004 election," he replied.

When asked why the administration had so far failed to locate Osama Bin Laden, more than three years after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US, the president responded, "Because he's hiding."

U.S. calls off search for Iraqi WMDs

Bush stands by decision to go to war, spokesman says

Thursday, January 13, 2005 Posted: 0221 GMT (1021 HKT)

	Despite intensive searches, no banned Iraqi weapons were found after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Image:
	VIDEO Political implications of the end of the search for WMDs. PLAY VIDEO The U.S. ends its search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. PLAY VIDEO RELATED Interactive: The search for WMD • Insurgents may fear bin Laden • Thieves attack bank tru

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. inspectors have ended their search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in recent weeks, a U.S. intelligence official told CNN.

The United States is taking steps to determine how it received erroneous intelligence that deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was developing and stockpiling nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Wednesday.

"Our friends and allies had the same intelligence that we had when it came to Saddam Hussein," he said. "Now we need to continue to move forward to find out what went wrong and to correct those flaws.

The last one is so funny... I could cry.