Fail Moment of The Week: RIAA spends $58 Million suing file sharers, only get 2% back

The RIAA's "business plan" is even worse than I'd guessed it was.

The RIAA paid Holmes Roberts & Owen $9,364,901 in 2008, Jenner & Block more than $7,000,000, and Cravath Swain & Moore $1.25 million, to pursue its "copyright infringement" claims, in order to recover a mere $391,000. [ps there were many other law firms feeding at the trough too; these were just the ones listed among the top 5 independent contractors.]

If the average settlement were $3,900, that would mean 100 settlements for the entire year.

As bad as it was, I guess it was better than the numbers for 2007, in which more than $21 million was spent on legal fees, and $3.5 million on "investigative operations" ... presumably MediaSentry. And the amount recovered was $515,929.

And 2006 was similar: they spent more than $19,000,000 in legal fees and more than $3,600,000 in "investigative operations" expenses to recover $455,000.

So all in all, for a 3 year period, they spent around $64,000,000 in legal and investigative expenses to recover around $1,361,000.

via: Boxden

victory for the hackers...fail for the industry...

Fail Moment Of The Week: Lindsay Lohan going to jail (Busby Rant)

Judge Marsha Revel sentenced LiLo after an incredulous prosecutor, Danette Meyers, told the judge that Lohan has been thumbing her nose at the court.

The evidence was loud and clear today -- Lindsay violated probation by failing to attend her alcohol ed classes based on the schedule set by the judge. There were lots of excuses, but ultimately they didn't fly.

The judge said there was a pattern of violations since Lindsay was placed on probation in 2007 following her plea bargain in her DUI case.

Lindsay broke down as she addressed the court, telling the judge, "I did the best I could."

Lindsay dissolved into tears when the judge imposed the sentence.

Lohan must surrender on July 20 in Judge Revel's court.

UPDATE: Sheriff's spokesperson Steve Whitmore just explained ... generally, a female inmate in Lindsay's situation only serves 25% of their sentence ... which means LiLo will most likely spend around 23 days behind bars.

Via: TMZ

Talk about a whomp whomp..all this bitch had to do was go to her meetings and do her hours. But instead, she choose to party her ass off and keep doing the same old bullshit that she loves to do. But on the real through, Lindsay Lohan, daaaamn mami in 04-05 you looked hella goooood mami! the FUCK HAPPENED TO U?!?! On the real back in her Disney/Mean Girls days Lindsay Lohan used to look GOOD. She was BEAUTIFUL! Then she got introduced to the crack and there went her body. Now she looks like a skinny twig with big ass titties. Everytime I look on then news I hear some shit about her getting knocked out by a waitress or some warrant out for arrest for doing some stupid shit. Now karma finally came and bit her in the ass, 90 days in jail. Now let me make this clear, this is JAIL not PRISON! Shit if this bitch is a good girl she might just be out in a month. Whatever, hopefully she gets her act together after all this and gets that body back..