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...techie turned Internet icon who at 18 began designing Napster in his Northeastern college dorm room--firing the opening salvo in what would become a revolution in the music industry--has launched a company to, of all things, protect intellectual property. Snocap aims to solve the very problem that file-sharing service Napster helped create, by identifying copyrighted music and preventing it from being swapped unless the user pays. And get this: 27% of Snocap's employees are Napster veterans; chief operating officer Ali Aydar was Napster's first employee. "I don't see it as moving from one side...
Fanning incorporated Snocap two weeks after the Supreme Court forced Napster into bankruptcy in September 2002 for facilitating copyright infringement. (Roxio bought the Napster name, and Fanning is no longer affiliated with it.) The June Supreme Court decision holding companies liable for illegal file sharing by their users suddenly gave the recording industry more negotiating leverage with illegal file-sharing services. And with more listeners eager to find legal ways to download music, Snocap offers a viable alternative...
...about 20,000 SEIU members who signed up and volunteered to make phone calls, knock on doors, drop literature. We had very few leave their homes [to campaign] in 2000. We just assigned some of our staff. This is the first time we asked rank-and-file members and paid them for the time away from their job to participate full time around electoral activity. That was a big change. We call them the SEIU heroes...
...Rahimi the new face of the basij? Not really. As the son of an adviser to the Defense Minister, he is drawn to hard-line politics out of family loyalty. But like many children of the revolutionary elite, class privilege sets his lifestyle apart from the basiji rank and file. He watches Fox News and discovers old friends on www.orkut.com. His favorite movie is A Beautiful Mind, and he lives in a well-heeled neighborhood of north Tehran rather than in the working-class quarter of Naziabad where his basij is based. "Not only do I like Eminem, I have...
...found that the evidence wasn’t as compelling as they’d thought originally, and the government of Kuwait told us they didn’t want to file silly claims,” Evans said...