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...Winklevoss ’04—are asking a United States District Court to shut down facebook.com and have the site cover their losses. In their subpoenas, attorneys for the plaintiffs are asking the newspaper to provide them with all drafts of articles pertaining to the suit. They say that any lost, discarded, or destroyed material must be accounted for by The Crimson. The Crimson’s president, Lauren A.E. Schuker ’06, said yesterday that the newspaper would not comply with the subpoena. She added that The Crimson planned to fight the subpoena on three...
...page for i2hub, which closed down last week under pressure from the recording industry, has been replaced with a simple memorial reading “Remember i2hub. R.I.P. 03.14.2004-11.14.2005.” And then there’s the Grokster, notable for its role in a recent suit by MGM that went all the way to the Supreme Court, which now observes on its page that the use of its service to trade copyrighted material was, as “unanimously confirmed” by the Court, illegal. Grokster wasn’t shut down...
...handover of Hong Kong to China--subtitled The Great Chinese Takeaway--in which Charles calls Chinese diplomats, including then President Jiang Zemin, "appalling old waxworks." The paper claims that the journal was never private--the Prince reportedly distributed copies to friends and relatives--but last week Charles' lawyers filed suit against the Mail's publisher for breach of copyright and confidentiality. Just goes to show that even decades of making small talk can't teach a person to keep his mouth shut...
When RUSSELL CROWE arrived at a Manhattan criminal court last Friday, he had the remorseful-celebrity look down pat. Funereal black suit and dark sunglasses to convey solemnity and sorrow? Check. Supportive wife (DANIELLE SPENCER) at his side, suggesting family-man stability? Check. Checkbook? Check. Crowe, who hurled a phone at a hotel clerk in June, was initially charged with a felony, which could have kept him from working in the U.S. But having paid the clerk, Nestor Estrada, a widely reported $100,000 to avoid a civil suit, Crowe pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge...
FOUND LIABLE. ROBERT BLAKE, 72, irascible TV actor of Baretta fame; in the wrongful-death civil suit filed by relatives of his wife Bonny Lee Bakley, 44, who in 2001 was shot to death outside a restaurant in Studio City, Calif.; eight months after being acquitted of murder charges in a criminal trial; by a jury in Burbank, Calif. Blake was ordered to pay Bakley's four children $30 million...