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Trent Reznor paid $5080.00 for Radiohead's In Rainbows:

I bought the physical one, so I spent a whopping $80. [Pauses] But, then I re-bought it and paid $5,000, because I really felt that I need to support the arts, so people could follow in my footsteps.

if you live in utah, now is the time to join the Pirate Party. sign as a statement of support, or volunteer to collect signatures. here's your chance to tell Orrin Hatch how you feel about having your computer remotely destroyed by copyright holders.

voters in Utah are now one step closer to being able to voice their opinions on the key issues our party stands for.

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It seems like almost everyone is taking creative liberties with intellectual property these days. One of my favorite abuses of the system is the "patent troll." A normal person (or corporation) will obtain a patent to protect their own manufacturing or research interests. But a special subset of patent owners, known as "patent trolls", enforce patent rights against supposed infringement, even though they don't manufacture products or supply services related to the patent. Their entire business model is based on broad enforcement of intellectual property rights that they don't even use.