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During the trial, Gertner recognized an "interregnum period," when listeners had no way of purchasing digital media legally before the advent of the iTunes Music Store in 2003. She noted that during this period, "unauthorized use" should be considered "more fair" since there was not yet a ready market in which users could pay for the files...
...Nesson argued that the court should consider the interregnum period to be extended until 2007. From 2003 to 2007, music files purchased online were protected with digital rights management technology, which prevents the files from being converted to different formats and transferred to other listening devices. The difficulty of converting DRM-protected files into different formats sufficiently differentiate these files from DRM-free ones, he said...
...with support for the sitcom, which follows a bunch of lovable misfits who find in their high school glee club both a home and ample opportunities to reprise mega-songs from stars like Madonna and Neil Diamond. Many Gleeks started sharing an online petition opposing the planned four-month interregnum. "I rearranged all of my classes so that I can watch Glee," writes distraught signatory Lisa Wright, a college freshman in Illinois. "For the love of God, don't put the magic on hold!" adds Shannon Smith, a fan in North Dakota. (See the top 10 TV series...
Meanwhile, mid-career gay activists who run the day-to-day gay movement from the East Coast - men and women in their late 30s to early 50s who slogged away at gay causes during the Bush interregnum - were rather dumbstruck at the idea that young gays wanted to march on Washington. "Pointless," one seasoned gay activist told me. "If Cleve and David Mixner have really inspired so many kids to work on our behalf - finally, by the way, because I think these kids spent the early part of this decade playing Nintendo or something - why don't they tell them...
...Endicott Peabody's support of Herbert Hoover did not, however, preclude him from asking the Lord to bless his former Groton pupil. Across Lafayette Square from St. John's Church, a bone-weary Hoover seethed with resentment over his successor's refusal to cooperate during the dreary four-month interregnum stretching back to Election...