My partner is Emily Zorn, and our topic is upcoming school events. :)

Joel Tenenbaum is a 25 year old, Boston University graduate student who is being sued in federal court in Boston, alleging that he used the KaZaA peer-to-peer network to infringe copyrights in 30 sound recordings that they own. Joel is only the second of about 18,000 similar cases against individual accused p2p users to have made it all the way to trial. This case affects people who illegally share and download music because the use of p2p networks to download and "share" music without permission or payment is illegal, and has serious consequences which will show people who

illegally gain music will stop in fear of getting caught, or people will be encouraged to see if they will be caught. This case will affect Apple and other distributors by gaining buisness from downloaders, because people won't want to be sued over thousands of dollars they'll just pay the small fee on Apple for the songs, and do it legally.

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Yes, I do think Liskula Cohen should be able to sue and find out the identity of the anonymous blogger who deframed her because in my opinion if someone says something about you, you have the right to know who it was to confront them or just to gain who your enemies are. I don't think Rosemary Port should be able to sue google, because google is a search engine that holds many files that should be open to the public and used at anytime to gain information their looking for. If Rosemary sued google this would mean that maybe google wouldn't be around anymore for me to use and thats not good cause I use google almost everyday.

3 things I wanna learn in this class.

1. more about wikis
2. iPhoto
3. iMovie