Havn't made a new blog in awhile (don't feel like posting teh news, and nothing interesting going on in my life...) So why not make a pointless level up blog
Reached Lvl 20
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.....eh, to keep this blog from being compleatly pointless (And to give me something to blog about every so often), going to copy Zeromus1337's blog idea (band spotlight)Mostly sticking to lesser known bands..
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Anyway, band is
Skyfire
Genre: Melodic death metal
Info:
Skyfire were formed in the town of Höör, Sweden in 1995 by Andreas Edlund (guitar), Martin Hanner (bass guitar), Jonas Sjögren (guitar) and Tobias Björk (drums). The four were friends since high school and had similar tastes in music. The band recorded two demos Within Reach and The Final Story. On the second demo, the vocals were performed by vocalist Henrik Wenngren. Skyfire got in touch with band members of Thyrfing who helped them find a record label with Dutch label Hammerheart Records. During two weeks in August 2000, Skyfire recorded their first album Timeless Departure in the Abyss Studio.
In September 2002, the band recorded their second album Mind Revolution, again in the Abyss Studio with new drummer Joakim Jonsson. Mind Revolution was released in 2003 and showed the band's $tyle evolving and branching off into many different genres. The third album Spectral was recorded at Los Angered and Studio Underground and released on May 10, 2004 by Arise Records.
The vocalist Henrik Wenngren has left the band and was replaced by Joakim Karlsson.
On January 7, 2008, Skyfire announced on their official MySpace page that they have signed with Florida-based label Pivotal Rockordings on a three-album deal and the band has now entered the recording studio to begin recording their fourth untitled album. Mixing will be done by Scar Symmetry's Jonas Kjellgren at Black Lounge Studios.
Skyfire have set Esoteric as the title of their fourth album, which is supposedly due at the end of 2008 via Pivotal Rockordings. The cover art was created by Pär Olofsson, who has previously worked with Brain Drill, Psycroptic, Spawn of Possession, and Persuader.
Some of their best songs:
Site: http://www.myspace.com/skyfiremusic
One of the longest running file-sharing lawsuits has come to a close, as Denise Barker and the RIAA have mutually agreed to settle a three-year-old lawsuit for $6,050. Barker has been represented by Ray Beckerman, known for his Recording Industry vs The People blog, who used the case as a platform to attack the foundations upon which the RIAA has built its legal campaign.
Barker had admitted to using KaZaA, but argued that the statutory damages sought by the RIAA were unconstitutionally excessive with damages. Instead, Beckerman argued that damages should be capped at no more than $3.50 per song—five times the amount the record labels would have made from a legal download. Barker also accused the RIAA of using an unlicensed private investigator (MediaSentry)—a charge which has been cropping up with some regularity in other contested cases—and was one of the first cases to argue that simply making a file available over a P2P network was not copyright infringement as defined by the Copyright Act.
The last argument didn't go over very well with Judge Kenneth M. Karas, who in March agreed with the RIAA's position that making music available over KaZaA was indeed infringement. Subsequent rulings have been far less favorable to the RIAA, and the Jammie Thomas case appears headed for retrial over this very issue.
With discovery over and a trial looming, Barker decided it was better to settle and "pass the torch to others" in the fight against the RIAA, Beckerman told Ars. The case had been a part of her life for three years, and she faced the possibility of a long and even more expensive fight. "None of these defenses have been litigated before, so it would have taken a lot of work, and a lot of time," Beckerman said. Barker will make monthly payments of $110 per month for the next four-and-a-half years, is required to delete all unlawfully acquired music from her hard drive, and is permanently enjoined against infringing the record labels' copyrights.
Stretching out the litigation proved costly to both parties. Barker could have settled the case for $4,000 once she received one of the RIAA's infamous prelitigation settlement letters. Instead, she's paying $6,050 plus attorneys' fees—a bit over $750 per song. And while the settlement can be construed as a victory for the RIAA, it's something of a pyrrhic one as the organization certainly had to pay far, far more than that in attorneys' fees, underscoring the RIAA's assertion that its legal campaign against P2P users is a money-losing proposition.
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Ok, first off, KaZaA? 
you might as well just go download viruses since thats all you'll get
Anyway, RIAA is so stupid, they spend 3 years, and only get $6,050. How much moeny did they spend? Something tells me they lost out big on this one
Plus there are millions of us that have plenty of unlawfully acquired media on our hard-drives >_>, RIAA can only dream of getting rid of us all, oh sure they'll make a few examples, but it dosn't do them a damn bit of good
A toddler whose remains were found inside a suitcase was starved to death by religious cult members - including his mother - because he refused to say 'amen' after meals, police said today.
Ria Ramkissoon and three other members of the group have been charged with the first-degree murder of her son Javon Thompson, whose body was found in April.
U.S. police and the family of Ramkissoon say that the group, based in Baltimore and called 1 Mind Ministries, is a cult.
Javon's food was stopped in December 2006 - when he was about 15 months old - partly because he refused to say 'amen' after dinner, investigators were told by two children who had been taken away from the cult by Philadelphia police.
Members viewed Javon as 'a demon', the children said.
No medical care was sought for the toddler when he stopped breathing, and he died in his mother's arms, according to court records of police interviews with the two children and another informant.
The anonymous informant told police that cult member Queen Antoinette then left the boy's body in a room for more than a week, claiming 'God was going to raise Javon from the dead,' court documents show.
Afterwards, Antoinette burned the clothing and mattress and placed his body in a green suitcase, which she would periodically open and spray with disinfectant to mask the stench, police say.
The group members allegedly left Baltimore early last year for Philadelphia, stowing the green suitcase and other luggage in a shed belonging to a man they had befriended.
Officers found the suitcase, containing the remains of a small child, in April after a tip-off. They are now waiting for DNA tests to confirm the boy's identity.
Ramkissoon, 21, was awaiting a bail review today while being held in custody in a psychiatric ward.
The three other people charged over Javon's death - Antoinette, 40, also known as Toni Ellsberry or Toni Sloan; Marcus Cobbs, 21; and Trevia Williams, who turns 21 on Tuesday - are already in custody.
They were arrested in May in New York on warrants charging them with failure to appear in court after a scuffle with police in a child custody dispute.
A fifth alleged cult member, Steven Bynum, has also been charged with first-degree murder but remains at large, police say. He is believed to be in New York.
Ramkissoon's family said she should not be held responsible for her son's death.
'She had no control over that situation at all,' said her stepfather Craig Newton.
Her mother Seeta Khadan-Newton says Ramkissoon was not behind the decision to stop feeding the boy.
'My daughter was a victim, just like my grandson,' Ms Khadan-Newton said.
'Somebody made that decision to not feed that child, and my daughter had to follow instructions.'
According to court documents, Ramkissoon joined 1 Mind Ministries after Javon was born.
Ms Khadan-Newton last saw her in April 2006; she later sued for custody of her grandson, writing in a letter to a judge that 'the cult leaders' were preventing her from contacting her daughter.
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"Ramkissoon's family said she should not be held responsible for her son's death.
'She had no control over that situation at all,' said her stepfather Craig Newton."
I could have sworn people had something called brains and free will....guess that dosn't apply to these people 
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