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...music downloads. Clearly this new wave of legislation marks a cynical attempt by the RIAA and the states to focus on college students rather than other offenders because of the ease with which enforcement can be outsourced to universities. More importantly, preserving the structure of current copyright law, a relic of the times before fast bandwidth made worldwide music sharing a possibility, is not worth the costs of enforcement. The current draconian restrictions on music sharing are too cumbersome and simply incompatible with age in which electronic transfer of media is the norm. This outdated business model relies on album...
...that, unlike Archie, no one thought she’d still be in the competition at this point. In fact, it was a surprise when she made it to the top 12 over similarly belty and beautiful contestant Asia’h Epperson, whose name already sounds like a relic of a past...
...Cold War ended almost 20 years ago, but its mark on international relations is still clearly visible. An outdated relic of that tenuous time, The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) no longer effectively serves its purpose of promoting peace and stability. Instead of encouraging international cooperation and peace, NATO undermines both by furthering the division of Europe into East and West. It has become an obstacle to the development of an independent and strong Europe because of its historical rivalry with Russia and its perpetuation of unnecessary U.S. involvement in Europe.The controversy surrounding membership proposals made at the NATO summit...
Early this decade, TV both profited from and stoked the obsession with real estate. TLC's Trading Spaces became a phenomenon. Real estate magnate and '80s relic Donald Trump reinvented himself as a prime-time star on The Apprentice. HGTV went from being an obscure channel to being one of the most popular destinations on the dial...
Alberto Cisterna, a Calabrian anti-Mob prosecutor, says new, counterintuitive thinking is needed to overcome both the Mob and bad governance. Organized crime, like the politics of favoritism, will wither in influence, he says, when people start viewing it as a relic of the past. "The Mafia, like the old way of doing politics, is no longer able to satisfy people's primary needs," he says. "The trash in Naples is the failure of both systems...