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Pirate Bay Founders Lose Appeal: Jail Time Reduced, Fines Raised

Pirate Bay Founders Lose Appeal: Jail Time Reduced, Fines Raised

Three of the quartet had their detention period reduced from ten months, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, eight months and four months for Carl Lundstrom. Fines by contrast, have been raised (that's U.S. $ 6.4 million). It's the same deal for them, but unfortunately not quite completed. Looking to themselves, well known and incurred in the underside is generally recommended that first and get a lighter sentence. Whereas Gottfrid Svartholm was too ill at the time of hearing and the BBC says that criminal liability will be addressed later.

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Morning Links Questions Raised About Gary Coleman Life-support Decision

Morning Links Questions Raised About Gary Coleman Life-support Decision

Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch students last time American teenagers Natalie Holloway before her disappearance and presumed death, is now the prime suspect in the death of a Peruvian woman. Reports indicate that the woman who disappeared on Friday and yesterday was found brutally stabbed to death and wrapped in a blanket in the room of Van der Sloot. Stephany Ramirez Flores, the daughter of 21 years, a racing driver from Peru, was found dead in a hotel room registered van der Sloot. The victim's father, Ricardo Flores, told members of the Peruvian press, "I hope that this crime must not go unpunished." Van der Sloot has left Peru on Monday and believed that Chile

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More than $25 million raised for Haiti relief during two-hour telethon

More than $25 million was reportedly raised for Haiti relief between two giant telethons in the United States and Canada Friday night (Jan. 22) as stars flocked to entertain, encourage donations and man the telephones. The two-hour telethon, broadcast simultaneously on 25 stations in the United States, featured mega stars like George Clooney, Leonardo Dicaprio pleading for funds for Haiti as performers ranging from Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Sting, Mary J. Blige and Bono sang while such luminaries as movie producer Steven Spielberg and actors Julia Roberts and Mel Gibson manned phone banks for the two hours of the telethon. Continue reading “More than $25 million raised for Haiti relief during two-hour telethon” »