In the latest twist to the story of Kim Dotcom and his defunct file-sharing site Megaupload, the prime minister of New Zealand has publicly apologized to Mr. Dotcom after it was determined that the country's foreign intelligence service spied on him illegally.
Curiously, she noted that aside from "a few" tracks that she obtained through the now-defunct file-sharing service Kazaa, most were not "illegally" downloaded.
Another hefty payout for the now-defunct file-sharing P2P service LimeWire, and, perhaps more importantly, another nail in the coffin for P2p services: Merlin, a rights agency representing independent labels, says that it has reached an out-of-court settlement with LimeWire over copyright infringement — a settlement its characterizing as its first big win against a P2P company.
The workers, who had been employed at Mademoiselle Knitware, a sweater factory in Brooklyn that is now defunct, had filed the lawsuit against the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees, known as Unite, and two of its locals.
Dotcom, who is sought for extradition from New Zealand by the US on copyright charges relating to his now defunct Megaupload file-storage site, is hosting an event in Auckland on Monday called The Moment of Truth, which doubles as a rally for the Dotcom-founded Internet party.
But the documents from his now-defunct campaign, filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday night, show that this advantage eroded after Mr. Perry's poor debate performances and his uncertain handling of issues like immigration undermined his standing with Republican voters.
Some saw it as an apt symbol of a now defunct method of filing copy; others claimed it as a metaphor for Bath's ruffled composure.
Angry shareholders launched the now defunct richardliar.com and filed a class action, claiming they had been duped by a Stanford dropout.
Lisa Oppenheim prints damaged negatives from the files of defunct newspapers on newsprint; each is a scarlike forensic mystery with a highly specific caption, like "Jury of Clergymen to Try Insane".
It surely says something troubling about the security services and politicians in a member country if they block the release of secret-police files from a defunct dictatorship.
