Friday, April 17, 2009

NEWS 4-17-09

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/17/sweden.piracy.jail/index.html
Three founders and one patron of the file-sharing website, Pirate Bay, have been found guilty of violating a copyright law. They were sentenced to one year in jail and have been ordered to pay 30 million kronor, which is equal to 3.6 million US dollars.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/16/titanic.auction/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
The last known survivor of the Titanic, 97-year-old Millvina Dean, is auctioning off momentos from the accident. She was only nine weeks old when the ship sank in 1912. The auction is to pay off nursing home bills.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/16/us.torture.documents/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
Memos from the Bush-era have been released regarding torture. The memos said that to violate torture laws, they must have had to inflict severe suffering. No prosecution will occur related to the memos.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/17/ashton.cnn.twitter.battle/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
Ashton Kutcher beat CNN last night in a "Twitter battle"; essentially a race to see who could gain a million followers first. Kutcher had passed the one million park 30 minutes before CNN had gained a million viewers.

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