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Wired News: Judge: If You Own Music, Prove It. On Friday, the tide dramatically shifted. Patel, who called both sides “dirty,” said that Napster’s misguided attempts to build a business using illegally obtained music paled in comparison to what could be massive misuse and heavy-handed tactics by the recording industry. [Tomalak’s Realm]

I just checked out the streams available in iTunes & found one I really like: w-une Ethno, under International. So far, they’ve played Super Rail Band, Alan Stivell, and Peter Gabriel.

Integrating AppleScript and Cocoa is an O’Reilly Networks piece by Brad Dominy digging into the ways that the two technologies intertwine. [Mac Net Journal]

Signs of Intelligence: Massachusetts Supreme Court Eases Up On Sodomy. It’s hoped that this will give less power to law enforcement to be prejudiced against homosexuals… [Morons Dot Org]

15021 ª February 22 5:55 PM. It’s official, streaming music is now 14 cents per song and retroactive to 1998. An update to an earlier thread, this new ruling would add $150,000 in monthly royalty fees to live365, and probably kill whatever streaming radio sites are currently out there. Of course broadcasting via AM/FM is half price, so maybe pirate radio stations will grow more popular. [MetaFilter]

It gets even more interesting. Right now the top user agent with 19.45% of the hits is Mazingo Windows CE.

I wonder why MacMegasite is suddenly getting lots of visits from microsofties. I usually see no more than 5 guests, but right now I see 15 and almost all of them are from microsoft…. hmmm….

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Libertarian Party Strikes Back at ONDCP Ads. You saw the ads during the superbowl, they featured stoic young faces calmly discussing how they supported terrorists and killed famlies in Colombia because they purchased illegal drugs. The next phase of this media campaign by the Office of National Drug Control Policy uses the print media. Examples of the ads the ONDCP will run in major newspapers can be found here. But now the Libertarian party plans to strike back with print ads that argue that politicians who support the war on drugs are the true reason that drug money is being funneled to terrorist organizations. [kuro5hin.org]

Current Editorials: Sensitivity Towards Hate Groups?. Traditional Values Coalition (TVC), an anti-gay hate group, wants National Public Radio (NPR) to offer sensitivity training aimed at alleviating “prejudices” towards fundamentalist Christians. [Morons Dot Org]

Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy!

I finally managed to fix a problem with URL Access that had me tearing my hair out for days. All I needed to do was add “Content-Length” to the headers. I had assumed that simply adding data to the body would set the content length.

I now have my application working with all 3 connection methods: direct IP, dialup, and URL Access (to support proxies).