From CNN: A federal judge has awarded an Internet service provider more than $1 billion in what is believed to be the largest judgment ever against spammers.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/12/18/spam.lawsuit.ap/index.html

Even though the guy will never see any of it, it is a way cool thing to see that courts are siding with the victims of spam. Also nice to see RICO used against the scum.

My buddy Jim Widner posted in a comment a link to a blogpage gushing over the BBC’s experiment in downloadable MP3 files. I thought perhaps I should counter with a few links I found in my bookmarks that I used after building the audio computer as a starting-point to the automated download/storage of the things I routinely listen to (or at least try to listen to, anyway). This is not to get everyone to run out and build a linux machine, only to show that this has been done before.
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