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...Hedgepath, president of Pegasus Originals, was vacationing in the Rockies last summer when he got a tip-off via e-mail. Internet users were flocking to a new website and furiously downloading his artists' copyrighted work for free. The site shut off the downloads when Hedgepath threatened to sue. But within days the same bootlegs were circulating on an underground, members-only site. All this easy Internet piracy made Hedgepath despair for the future of his craft. "Many artists have gone, and many more will go," he sighs. "I've talked to a lot who are looking for something else...
...online. Large banks like Chase Manhattan pay millions of dollars a year in premiums to insure against a rogue trader like Leeson. Your best protection against a rogue Internet hypster is just not to listen. Most pump-and-dump schemes involve micro-cap stocks. That's your first tip-off. Often they hype them as likely to double or better in weeks. If you have questions, the SEC has a brochure, "Pump&Dump.con," with tips for avoiding scams. It's available at www.sec.gov...
...though they batter and bruise their customers into submission. What's with all the culinary S&M? Even I can't muster up a hypothesis to explain this trend-o-rama. All I know is you best behave yourself-and just try leaving anything less than a 20 percent tip...
...more than two decades now, the sports books, as they are called in Nevada, have been an integral part of casinos large and small. Walk into any casino and you will see an area carved out for sports gamblers. There the legal gambler may spread his sports pages and tip sheets across one of the rows of desks usually found in college libraries, each individually lighted, or sit back in one of the dozens of plush chairs and, while being served drinks by a cocktail waitress, study the giant electronic board that covers the wall in front, offering information...
...Hollywood, still fearful of actual musicals, is coming up with new ways to relabel them. Q-Tip is working on a hip-hop musical called "Prison Song." But Tinseltown can't hide the truth. "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut," was a musical. Sorry to burst your bubble...