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It's still going on. After much hemming and hawing over the Turrentine, Mobley, Jazztet and Stitt sets, I opted for the Miles Columbia '65-'68 quintet vinyl box instead. Maybe it was the $21 discount that prompted me to pull the trigger on that.

My order came out to be £8.93 (even cheaper) + £3.08 shipping = £12.01 total from the UK to San Francisco for the Monk box. This is weird. Almost a "too good to be true but possible" scenario like the Sly box set / Best Buy fiasco except this is even loonier.

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9791383-7...?tag=nefd.pulse October 4, 2007 3:20 PM PDT RIAA wins key victory; accused file sharer must pay $220,000 Posted by Greg Sandoval UPDATE at 8:46 p.m. PDT: A Minnesota woman must pay $220,000 to six of the top music labels after a federal jury found on Thursday that she violated their copyright. Accused of encouraging the illegal sharing of more than 1,700 songs, Jammie Thomas, 30, elected to fight it out with the recording industry instead of settling out of court for far less money. The ensuing legal battle marked the first time the recording industry has argued a file-sharing case before a jury. Since 2003, many of the 26,000 persons sued by the Recording Industry Assoc. of America (RIAA) have avoided litigation by agreeing to pay a few thousand dollars. Thomas, who could not be reached for comment, has always maintained her innocence. Accused of sharing music through the use of peer-to-peer service, Kazaa, she told the jury that she didn't even own a Kazaa account. The jury didn't buy her argument. Thomas was ordered to pay $9,250 for each of the 24 songs that the RIAA concentrated on. She was initially accused of sharing 1,702 songs. The decision is important in that it sends a message to file sharers that Internet anonymity won't protect them from lawsuits, said Chris Castle, a copyright attorney and longtime music industry executive. Castle said the Web makes it simple to hide. Proving who was sitting at a computer at any given time is very difficult for copyright owners. What is precedent-setting about this case is that the jury decided it doesn't matter who was sharing music on Thomas' computer. "The answer that the court gave was 'It's your account, you're responsible,'" Castle said. "'It's your screen name. You pay the bills. It's in your house. You are on the hook for it.'" This is likely not the end of the case, according to Fred von Lohmann, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that advocates for Internet users. Late Thursday evening, von Lohmann said that he had heard from several copyright attorneys who had expressed interest in representing Thomas should she want to appeal the decision. "There are a lot of copyright lawyers who would be interested in helping her if she wants to continue this," von Lohmann said. "I'd imagine that she doesn't want to pay $200,000. We'll see what she wants to do." The recording industry has claimed that Internet piracy has cost the industry billions of dollars. Ever since the original Napster emerged in the late 1990s, the RIAA has been playing--and some say losing--a game of cat and mouse with file sharers. The RIAA has always said that suing individuals is a last resort. The group battles file sharing through a combination of tactics, including educational programs and taking legal action against sites that help file sharers locate unauthorized music files. When the RIAA does sue individuals, any money it receives from settlements and judgments are generally reinvested into the group's antipiracy program, said Jonathan Lamy, an RIAA spokesman. "This is not a money-making venture," he said. About the judgment Lamy said: "This decision affirms what we've said all along. This kind of action is illegal and when people break the law there can be real consequences." Cindy Cohn, EFF's legal director, called the verdict "heartbreaking" and said it was proof of how out of step damages for copyright law have become. "The laws were written for pirates, guys pressing scores of DVDs," Cohn said. "I think this judgment is a clear indication that damages for copyright laws need to be adjusted to reflect today's reality. A mom in her home isn't the same as a pirate, but the copyright law doesn't see any difference." On the question of an appeal, Ira Rothken, who has defended dozens of companies accused of encouraging copyright violations, noted that the jury made its decision without finding that Thomas had actually shared files. Jurors ruled against Thomas based on the fact that she had only made files available. "That may be a basis for an appeal," said Rothken, who is currently defending TorrentSpy, a search engine accused by the movie industry of violating copyright. "There are lots of people who theoretically make things available unintentionally. It happens all the time, whenever you deep link and there is something out there that you are not aware of. Availability alone may not be enough to show copyright infringement." As to whether the court's decision will discourage file sharing, people from both sides of the copyright argument, said "no." "This lawsuit campaign is misguided," Cohn said. "I would predict that this would have zero effect on the people using file sharing networks. The record industry has sued over 20,000 so far and there's been no slow down. We may see a temporary drop in the near term but I would predict that the levels would be back within six months." But that's not the point, said Castle, the attorney and former record-industry executive. He said the music industry has no interest in bankrupting music fans but has a duty to curb the theft of its property. He predicted that the RIAA will not require Thomas to pay the full amount of the jury award. He then called on EFF and other file-sharing supporters, who he accuses of egging Thomas on, to help pay the damages. "This woman found lawyers who tried to make her the Joan of Arc of illegal downloading. And are they going to write the check?" Castle said. "This woman doesn't know the law. What she knows is she was downloading and someone comes to her and says 'Let's fight back.' You find some lawyer to take the case and all of a sudden the music stops and there's no chair for her. This person has been hoodwinked by people who don't have her best interest at heart." Angered by Castle's statements, Cohn responded that any suggestion that anyone affiliated with EFF tried to convince Thomas to do anything is "a lie." She also said that it isn't EFF trying to get $220,000 from Thomas. "We help people get lawyers and we tell people they should make those decisions with their lawyers," Cohn said. "We're on the side of the people being sued."

With the Sly box BB debacle, I just printed out my receipt w/ the cancelled order for two of them and took it to the nearest store. After at first refusing and some haggling, the clerk at BB customer refunded 80 bucks (they were 50 each) and tax back.

Ah, perhaps I should try "Barry Bonds is a damn nigger" and see if that comes up with any hits. I'll say it flat out: I don't know of any racist comments about Barry Bonds anywhere, though I will admit that I have not gone and done any searches on the Klan's BBS. What I do know is that certain people, lining up these facts: Bonds isn't much liked by a lot of people Bonds "set" the season and career home run records Bonds is black and have come to the conclusion that criticism of Bonds is, in some undetermined proportion, driven by racial animus. I say bull shit. Whether the race card is played with a broad stroke or the phrase "shades of", its simple an effort to deflect the legitimate criticism and factual basis for a belief that he cheated. I have neither the time nor energy to get pulled into your extreme anti-Bonds obsession, so sermonize and rant all you want. I really doubt that you are omniscient and know all the facts. If he is guilty, then the judicial system and nature will have their day with him. So friggin' what if he did use steroids? How does that affect your well-being and why the supreme level of anger? And don't you dare insinuate that I am playing the race card. You don't know me at all to start launching personal attacks. You have your view and I'll have mine, capiche? Let's leave it at that.

My thoughts exactly.

How silly. Your comment suggested that most sports fans (or at least the anti-Bonds ones) were racist. I never said none of them were, but to paint the whole crowd with your broad brush was absurd. How does me saying there are "shades" of racism and having seen a few hateful comments here and there qualify as painting most sports fans with a racist brush or make all Bonds-haters racists? Are the majority of them purely against him because of the fact that he allegedly used steroids and is insufferable? More than likely. When I made the tongue-in-cheek comment about "Oh I forgot, all sports fans are non-racist" --- I was replying to Jazzmoose's suggestion that racists were separate from the witchhunt. Talk about a straw man.

Agreed, I was at the game last night. The crowd was electric and for a moment there, the last at-bat looked like a final HR.

You may want to try something called a Google search. I am not going to post hateful remarks on here. Can you refer to these specific "racist" comments? I've missed anyone who called him "gorilla" or "monkey" or the N-word. If Bonds were less of a contemptible asshole, he probably would get less derision. But take a completely unsympathetic character and add overwhelming evidence of cheating, and you might get derision that doesn't have a damn thing to do with race. As for Clemens, the fact of the matter is that his fastball has declined steadily for many years. He threw in the mid and even upper 90s when he was young but has not for several years. There was commentary about this when he signed with the Yankees and returned to the AL. He has succeeded because of his splitter and his ability to spot his fastball. And I say that as someone who would love to find out that Clemens' post-Red Sox success was steroid driven. "...doesn't have a damn thing to do with race." Hmm... you would think he was a murderer or child molester the way he is "dissed" in the media and elsewere and I am in total agreement that the guy is not the most gracious fellow. As for Clemens, the radar guns in the Bronx must be lying then. He was in the 90s in the game I saw. Dan, seriously, you seem to have an unhealthy fixation with Bonds. Let it go, my man. Find some hobbies for a change.

Yes, because I loved and followed that great white player, Hank Aaron... Now THAT is hysterical! *slaps knees* Well, duh, of course the racists in our country don't like him because he's black. What the hell does that have to do with anyone else's reaction? Oh I forgot, all sports fans are non-racist.

Um... I said "shades" of racism. Did he bring a lot of this on himself by being an arrogant asshole? Of course. But if you guys have read some of the comments about him that I've seen, the sheer venom towards him is just pure racial hate. IMO, both O.J. and Vick are guilty as hell and the way O.J. constantly is able to dodge responsibility is sickening. Just because a black man held the record before Bonds doesn't mean anything. In the eyes of a racist, the real HR king is Babe Ruth. It's just another black man breaking the record again that galls 'em so much. Personally, I've never understood the investment of time and energy that Bonds-haters use to deride him. He gets it like no other athlete I've seen. If he's on the juice, more likely than not, he will pay for it when his body breaks down and turns against him as he ages. Meanwhile, Roger Clemens' head and shoulders continue to expand every year and his fastball gets better every half-season he plays. I haven't heard any outcry about that. Just my 2 cents.

I'm going to the game tonight. He is the greatest IMO. This witchhunt has shades of racism in it, if you ask me.

Yes, I had to "supervise" the transaction with both coupons. Good luck! EDIT: BTW, nice choices TF! If you haven't heard the Miles yet, let us know what you think. I've been listening to it repeatedly and I think it's outstanding! Yep, the Joe and Newk were things I never got around to adding to my collection and at 7 bucks a pop, couldn't pass up... got my credit back and also used the $9.99 coupon to get Ornette's "Sound Grammar" and the Sam Cooke "Portrait of a Legend" hybrid SACD. The Miles sounds great so far. Tony is smoking on this one.

Just used the 40% off coupon to get: Miles Davis - Live at The 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival Joe Henderson - Inner Urge RVG Sonny Rollins - The Bridge (Bluebird remaster) ... and was in such a hurry to get back to work that I realized he only took 40% off one title, so I need to go back there again after I get off.

E-mail sent then. Always a sucker for the "pitch".

Dude - everybody past the age of...13 or 14 has baggage. Everybody. If you get somebody who's not revealing their baggage to you (and I assume you're not talking raving-lunatic Psycho level baggage), you're getting somebody who is not being their true self. That certainly makes for Fun Dating but it also is a recipe for piss-poor intimacy. Ain't no such thing as a free lunch, my friend. Sorry. The last 2 relationships have been "raving-lunatic" types whose true personalities didn't reveal themselves until later on.

Just bought the "What It Is" box on sale for 35 bux at Virgin Mega right now. Great deal for those who don't have it yet.

Wise words indeed, Mr. Ptah. Trust me, I am the most "hands-off", let things take their natural course person when it comes to dating. Women can smell desperation from miles away. I'm pretty much happy in my own skin and am just looking for the missing part of the puzzle, so to speak. It's just that the women I date, for the most part, always have some underlying psychological baggage that does not reveal itself until at least weeks into the relationship. If there's any genuine "real connection" at all, I'm going for it. I'm hardly superficial (a good heart and personality are of the most importance to me as long as she doesn't look like Ms. Elephant Man) and no, I'm not a member of the Top 10 Most Attractive People in the World (take away makeup and who is?), Top 25 maybe. Seriously though, finding that match is difficult, even when you are not exactly looking for Ms. Perfect.

You guys may find this odd considering my username, but I've always found this album to be very ehh at times. Not bad, but not the perennial classic it's held up to be either.

The Max Roach Mosaic exploded all of a sudden after going for moderate prices the last few times. http://tinyurl.com/26fv8x

Thanks, folks, for all of your stories thus far. Believe me, I'm as open-minded as they come and am exploring all my options in my continuing quest. Guess I've just been meeting the wrong people. Good luck to you all both in relationships and those in the same boat as me.

This is quite an unusual question indeed for a jazz message board, but I'll give it shot. I'm at an age (31) where thoughts about settling down arise. After my most recent dating experience (which started off very promising, but became a nightmare) of 2 1/2 months abruptly ended this week (let's just say this particular woman had a nasty side to her that erupted), I'm seriously losing hope that I'll find my better half. How did you folks meet your partner/spouse? Just wondering... And... have any of these online dating sites ever worked for you fellow O-heads? Sorry for sounding like a softie.

I loved "A Wrinkle In Time" when I was a kid. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070907/ap_on_re_us/obit_l_engle ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Author Madeleine L'Engle dies at 88 By CARA RUBINSKY, Associated Press Writer HARTFORD, Conn. - Author Madeleine L'Engle, whose novel "A Wrinkle in Time" has been enjoyed by generations of schoolchildren and adults since the 1960s, has died, her publicist said Friday. She was 88. L'Engle died Thursday at a nursing home in Litchfield of natural causes, according to Jennifer Doerr, publicity manager for publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The Newbery Medal winner wrote more than 60 books, including fantasies, poetry and memoirs, often highlighting spiritual themes and her Christian faith. Although L'Engle was often labeled a children's author, she disliked that classification. In a 1993 Associated Press interview, she said she did not write down to children. "In my dreams, I never have an age," she said. "I never write for any age group in mind. When people do, they tend to be tolerant and condescending and they don't write as well as they can write. "When you underestimate your audience, you're cutting yourself off from your best work." "A Wrinkle in Time" — which L'Engle said was rejected repeatedly before it found a publisher in 1962 — won the American Library Association's 1963 Newbery Medal for best American children's book. Her "A Ring of Endless Light" was a Newbery Honor Book, or medal runner-up, in 1981. In 2004, President Bush awarded her a National Humanities Medal. "Wrinkle" tells the story of adolescent Meg Murry, her genius little brother Charles Wallace, and their battle against evil as they search across the universe for their missing father, a scientist. L'Engle followed it up with further adventures of the Murry children, including "A Wind in the Door," 1973; "A Swiftly Tilting Planet," 1978, which won an American Book Award; and "Many Waters," 1986. ___ Associated Press writers Polly Anderson in New York and John Christoffersen in New Haven contributed to this report.

So glad I got the old 16-disc box in the blowout sale. Some of the finest early CD era mastering I've ever heard.