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'Not for Resale' free stuff

Universal Studios sent out a bunch of free promo CD’s with a ‘promotional use only’ label to selected listeners. These CD’s arrived completely free through the mail.Troy Augusto, who decided to disregard that label and sell the disc on Ebay, is now fighting a lawsuit from Universal. The record company claims that the promotion use label [...]

Constitution? What Constitution?

Bush administration claimed that the 4th amendment doesn’t apply to them.
For at least 16 months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, the Bush administration believed that the Constitution’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures on U.S. soil didn’t apply to its efforts to protect against terrorism.

That view was expressed in a Justice Department legal [...]