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Thirty Songs Somehow Worth $675,000: BU Student Fined for Downloads

There are a few songs in history that might be worth $22,500 apiece. "Thriller," "Yesterday," "Layla," "Stairway to Heaven." "Come As You Are" might even make it into the group. But "The Perfect Drug," much as we love(d) NIN, does not. So it's extremely unfortunate that a jury recently ordered a BU doctoral student to pay $675,000 for downloading and sharing 30 specific songs, including the aforementioned Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails tunes.

Google Secretly Partnering with RIAA?

Imagine this: your blog posts mysteriously disappear. You didn't delete them, and your ISP or blog host didn't tell you they deleted them. Who could be the culprit?

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