Good news: Verizon stores open today!

Verizon actually sent out a press release to let everyone know that their stores will be open "all day" today -- and what's more, you'll be able to purchase and take home any of its 18 offered music phones! We guess we have to hand it to these guys for making an effort to draw some attention to themselves on iDay, though. Wait -- no we don't.

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Top 10 Funny Sign Pictures from Around the Internet

Heres my Top 10 funny signs, in no particular order, found from around the internet. Last one is a runner up from my old high school.

A bit about me...

Alright, I didn't really introduce myself in my first post. After my morning reading, I was so heated up I had to rant about it, so I made a blog. My names Keaton. I just graduated High School. I love having heated debates, and investigating theoretical situations. Politics, Drugs, Music, Religion, and War are some of my favorite topics to rant or even just talk about. Alright. Back to work. Maybe I'll eventually have some readers.

RIAA is Rediculous

RIAA and MPAA never ceases to amaze me. Their whole basis is that "we don't have enough money, so were going to get our money back from all the people downloading music and movies", but in order to get their money back, all they do is sue people. The real reason they don't have any money is because they use it all on lawyers and court fees and whatnot, and they are so wrapped up in suing anything with a pulse, that their never going to have any money. Not only are they focusing on the wrong group of "pirates", but they have the wrong approach all together. I base this off of two stories I read on Digg. The first( http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070619/091735.shtml ) is that p2p doesn't even make the biggest percentage of illegal file sharing. Thats not the article that I was looking for but its close enough. I found one on digg a few weeks back with a breakdown of file sharing by type of traffic, and p2p doesn't even make up the biggest percent of illegal files shared, its just the easies to target. The second part of this issue is their approach. I don't know what must be going through there mind, but it's probably something like this. "They have 500 songs, and we cant tell what ones are illegal or not, so were going to sue them for $150,000 for every song that doesn't have our ridiculous DRM on it. That should teach this poor, unemployed, and under the poverty level family not to listen to and enjoy their favorite music at their leisure. What they actually need to be doing is trying to work something out, and trying to persuade more people to download legitimate music. They could also ask nicely ( http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070619/091735.shtml), they may be surprised at how far showing a bit of kindness can get them. The last part of this, that I personally find hilarious, is the irony of how they handle potentially stoppable situations. Take for example the AACS encryption key. When it originally surfaced on Digg, and other sites, it was a pretty big deal, but still relatively unknown, at least to the non-tech savvy, average Joe of America. This is where it should have ended. The key would have been glorified for a few days, and then for the most part, forgotten and left behind, only to be remembered and used by the people who found it, and actually know how to use it. However, this is not what happened. MPAA immediately sent a cease and desist letter to Digg(and im assuming other sites that hosted it), and it was removed. This caused an outrage, a fight for our digital freedom. The key was reposted repeatedly, thousands of times on digg and all over the internet in various forms. Today, this would be relatively unknown key is now occupying over 1.5 million websites. It has shown up on T-Shirts and blogs, and in videos, pictures, and even one guys check book! Thanks to their "prompt and appropriate actions", that key is now scattered all over the internet, and more people know about it, and how to use it, than there ever would have been otherwise. Good Going RIAA/MPAA. You've done it again. Keep it up. Yes, you may win some of your lawyer money back, yes, you may be 10 cents richer at the end. You may even win a fight or two...but you will NOT win this war on data freedom. Its a classic case of organization vs. the world. You wont win. Not now. Not ever.