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    KISS

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    I wanna rock and roll all night and party everyday!

    I wanna rock and roll all night and party everyday!

    I wanna rock and roll all night and party everyday!

    I wanna rock and roll all night and party everyday!

     

     

    :D

    Happy Holidays

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    HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!

     

    Can someone lend me 1.5k+ for this beast here?

     

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    :(

     

     

    - THANKS EVERYONE!

     

     

    P.S.

     

    if you have a reissue jaguar or  fender telecaster i'll take that as well  :D

    thats a pretty nice ax. They don't offer it with a combo pack or whatever on musician's friend? Cause some times its cheaper like that.

     

    If not, why don't you go into make your own custom made guitars? Then you can add whatever the flock you want. Like one time I saw a dude who made his look like a toilet seat.

    thank you, I like the sound it puts out, I did find a combo pack for the jag but i don't have any money for that :P

     

    Also i was using FROOGLE "googles shopping search engine" fender telecaster for like 650$ USD :o

     

     

     

    -__________________--"""" SO BROKE

    Record Industry May Not Subpoena Providers

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    :P

     

    Hmmmm

     

     

     

    The recording industry can't force Internet providers to identify music downloaders, a federal appeals court said Friday in a major setback to the industry's anti-piracy campaign.

     

     

    The ruling does not legalize distributing copyrighted songs over the Internet, but it greatly increases the cost and effort for the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites) to track such activity and sue those swapping music online.

     

     

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned a trial judge's decision to enforce copyright subpoenas, one of the most effective tools used by the recording industry. The subpoena power was established by a law passed before the explosive growth of swapping music online.

     

     

    "It's an incredible ruling, a blow for the little guy," said Bob Barnes, a grandfather in Fresno, Calif., who was targeted by one of the earliest subpoenas from the Recording Industry Association of America but isn't among the hundreds who have been sued so far.

     

     

    The appeals court said the 1998 copyright law doesn't cover popular file-sharing networks used by tens of millions of Americans to download songs. The law "betrays no awareness whatsoever that Internet users might be able directly to exchange files containing copyrighted works," the court wrote.

     

     

    The judges sympathized with the recording industry, which has cited declining profits, noting that "stakes are large." But they said it was not the role of courts to rewrite the 1998 law, "no matter how damaging" the practice of swapping has become to the music industry or threatens to become to the motion picture and software industries.

     

     

    Sen. Norm Coleman, a prominent critic of the subpoenas, predicted that any efforts to broaden the 1998 law would "face some serious obstacles" in the Senate.

     

     

    "We clearly have to do a better job of getting law and technology and ethics into better sync," said Coleman, R-Minn.

     

     

    Legal experts said they did not expect the appeals ruling to affect 382 civil lawsuits the recording industry already filed since it announced its campaign six months ago. It also was not expected to affect financial settlements with at least 220 computer users who agreed to pay penalties from $2,500 to $7,500 each.

     

     

    But it will make identifying defendants for future lawsuits more difficult and expensive. The ruling forces the recording industry to file civil lawsuits against "John Doe" defendants, based on their Internet addresses, then work through the courts to learn their names.

     

     

    Cary Sherman, president of the recording industry group, said the ruling "unfortunately means we can no longer notify illegal file sharers before we file lawsuits against them to offer the opportunity to settle outside of litigation."

     

     

    Sherman promised to "continue to defend our rights online on behalf of artists, songwriters and countless others involved in bringing music to the public."

     

     

    Earlier this week, the recording industry sent letters to the 50 largest U.S. Internet providers asking them to forward written warnings in the future to subscribers caught swapping music.

     

     

    Details were still being worked out, but if Internet providers agree, subscribers who swap even modest collections of music online could receive the ominous warnings.

     

     

    The letters demanding an end to the practice would be forwarded without revealing subscriber identities to music lawyers. The warnings would be mailed directly to Internet account holders — potentially alerting parents or grandparents about illegal downloading in their households they might not know about.

     

     

    U.S. District Judge John D. Bates had approved use of the disputed subpoenas, forcing Verizon Communications Inc. to turn over names and addresses for at least four subscribers. Since then, Verizon has identified scores of its other subscribers under subpoena by the music industry, and some of them have been sued.

     

     

    Verizon's lawyer, Sarah Deutsch, called the ruling "an important victory for all Internet users and all consumers."

     

     

     

     

     

    "Consumers' rights cannot be trampled upon in the quest to enforce your copyright," Deutsch said.

    L.O.T.R.

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    i havent seen any of them. i dont like going to the theater unless i have to, and then, its rarely anything i want to see. i have been wanting to see the lotr films for a while now, to see what all the fuss is about, but havent had the time to rent or buy the dvds. i will be doing so, though, this week, when im out doing my holiday shopping. the third one i will wait for, when it is released on dvd.

     

    also, ive heard they are making a prequel, or multiple prequels based on the hobbit, which naturally, took place before the lotr. again, i probably wont be seeing them in the theater, either.

    aww come on, i'll pay for your movie ticket lets go! B)

    Christmas Wish List?

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    Posted · Edited by -VIOLENCE-

    Umm lets see... I would like...

     

    FENDER.jpg

     

    a 62' FENDER JAGUAR :)

     

    Also I would like...

     

     

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    a FENDER TELECASTER :(

     

     

    and umm... Some stretch leather pants, like K'

     

    and, CHOCOLATES

     

    AND and... a 25,000$ VIP Charge card to "Jean Paul Gaultier Clothes"

     

    and and, a new computer..

     

    and and a new amp, my crappy 60 watt practice amp is bailing on me B)

    *would like MARSHALL COMBOS :) *

     

    and and, i would like the ability to fly.

     

    and and ummm... I can't think of anymore at the moment :)

     

     

    MERRY CHRISTMAS PEOPLE!

     

     

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    Also, I would like cool customized K.O.F. PICKS

     

    Soft / Heavy Picks

     

    Soft Picks: Team Japan/Pyscho Soldiers

     

    Heavy Picks: Ikari Soldiers/KOF 99 Team

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