The guy who recorded the Yahoo! yodel has filed a 5 million dollar lawsuit against the company. They have not payed him all of these years for using his voice. He recorded the track in 1996, was paid $590, and was told it was to be used only the one time.
“I tried to resolve the matter with Yahoo informally for over three years without success,” Wylie Gustafson said. “I even sent a copy of my lawsuit to Yahoo before filing it, but Yahoo never responded to either me or my attorney”
Newsday.com has awoken from its apparent 2 year nap and realized that more websites are asking for cash for their services. The article dutifully points out that companies like CNN, Yahoo, Hotmail, Real (evil) Networks, are now charging for content. Many were concerned that newsday.com might not awaken in time to write the article but, they disproved all doubters.
“…We were thinking of doing a piece about the possibility of higher gasoline prices or, perhaps the coming influx of foriegn automobiles into the US market but, this is big stuff…”
Additionally, newsday.com soon will begin to charge monthly fees for explosive reports such as this in the very near future… So you just better be ready. Because there is no more free lunch!
Read the e-mail that Gary got yesterday. Not only is this the worst example of attempted fraud I’ve ever seen but, the most bold too. A quick google search on the senders name and selected text yeilds nothing. So, I thought I would put it up here in the hopes that readers may be able to recognize this and hopefully not reply to it. Click “MORE” below to read it.
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Today, Google has finally revealed the secret technology that is behind it’s success. The world gasps…
Norrath, the setting for the online game Everquest, has been found to be the 77th richest country in the world, sandwiched between Russia and Bulgaria.
The FBI says it expects to arrest at least 50 more people by week’s end as it busts up an Internet child-pornography ring that allegedly included two Catholic priests, six other members of the clergy, a school bus driver and at least one police officer.
The agency said Monday its “Operation Candyman” sweep already had resulted in criminal charges against more than 89 people in 26 states. The effort targeted members of three Internet discussion groups on Yahoo Inc.’s Web site, including one called “Candyman,” apparently named after a song in the 1971 children’s movie “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.”‘
Chilling… Priests, school bus drivers, cops… nasty business. The urge to profit from the internet is so strong that people will ignore the most basic morals.