One of the really fun projects that Andy did was to record an album called Kind of Bloop -- an 8-bit tribute to the classic Miles Davis album, Kind of Blue.

For the cover, the obvious choice was to do an 8-bit rendering of the original Davis cover, and he, Andy, got a friend to put it together.

Andy had a very strong argument to explain how what he did was legal... and still agreed to pay $32,500 for a fun little side project he was making no money on. He was chilled into paying up, because the fight is just too expensive.

While the police were searching and detaining the driver of the car one of the officers noticed that my friend was recording the whole incident.

Then the officer ordered us both inside the house. The woman calmly noted that she had the right to be on her own property and the right to observe the police activity unobstructed. The officer commented that he thought she was "anti-police" and approached the woman stating "are you seriously not going to obey my order?"

As we approached the porch, the officer said, "I'm just going to arrest you" and came onto the property to arrest the woman. She was put into a police car and taken away at about 9:55pm.

On Thursday, The Miami Herald spoke to the couple that saw the end of the 4 a.m. police chase on Collins Avenue, then watched and filmed from just a few feet away as a dozen officers fired their guns repeatedly into Raymond Herisse's blue Hyundai.

Shortly after the gunfire ends, an officer points at Benoit and police can be heard yelling for him to turn off the camera.

He raises his camera and an officer is seen appearing on the driver's side with his gun drawn, pointed at them.

"They put guns to our heads and threw us on the ground," Davis said.

Benoit said a Miami Beach officer grabbed his cell phone, said "You want to be [expletive] Paparazzi?" and stomped on his phone before placing him in handcuffs and shoving the crunched phone in Benoit's back pocket.

Benoit said the officers eventually uncuffed him after gunshots rang out elsewhere and he discreetly removed the SIM card and placed it in his mouth.

State lawmakers have passed a groundbreaking measure that would make it a crime to use a friend's login - even with permission - to listen to songs or watch movies from services such as Netflix or Rhapsody.

Stealing $500 or less of entertainment would be a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine of $2,500. Theft with a higher price tag would be a felony, with heavier penalties.

The music industry has seen its domestic revenue plunge by more than half in 10 years, from $15 billion to $7 billion, he said.

The unnamed writer allegedly named a footballer, who is accused of having an affair, known in court papers as TSE.

The alleged breach comes amid heightened scrutiny of gagging orders such as injunctions and so-called super-injunctions - court orders that prevent the media from revealing even the fact that an injunction has been granted.

The committee's report said super-injunctions were now being granted for "short periods" and only where "secrecy is necessary".

However, he warned that modern technology was "totally out of control" and society should consider other ways to bring Twitter and other websites under control.

Last year, Fitchette, who was 16 at the time, was riding a city bus in Newark, N.J., when two police officers got on to deal with a man who seemed to be drunk. Fitchette decided this would be a good moment to take out her phone and start recording.

The police erased the video from Fitchette's phone. She was handcuffed and spent the next two hours in the back of a squad car before she was released. No charges were filed.

"They need to move quickly, in split seconds, without giving a lot of thought to what the adverse consequences for them might be," says Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police.

In 2008, a few years after the Bush administration's warrantless-wiretapping program was revealed for the first time by the New York Times, Congress passed the FISA Amendments Act. That act authorizes the government to engage in dragnet surveillance of Americans' international communications without meaningful oversight.

The government doesn't want you to know whether your internet or phone company is cooperating with its dragnet surveillance program because you might get upset and file lawsuits asserting your constitutional rights.

Google removed Grooveshark's app from its open market last week, upon a complaint from the RIAA that the app violated the app store's Terms of Service.

For Android users who don't want to rely on the vagaries of a supposedly open app store, you can download the app directly from Grooveshark's mobile page. Unless, of course, you are using an Android device from AT&T, which locks down its supposedly open-source device so heavily that you can't install apps not from the Android market.

"Unfortunately, there are no reporting requirements for the modern surveillance methods that make up the majority of law enforcement requests to service providers and telephone companies," Soghoian wrote.

Citing a New York Times story from 2006, Soghoian wrote that AOL was receiving 1,000 requests per month.

In 2009, Facebook told the news magazine Newsweek that it received 10 to 20 requests from police per day. Sprint received so many requests from law enforcement for mobile-phone location information that it overwhelmed its 110-person electronic surveillance team.

Sony dropped its jailbreaking lawsuit against PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz on Monday in exchange for promises the New Jersey hacker would never again tinker with the game console or any Sony product, records show.

Riley Russell, Sony's general counsel, said in a statement that the console maker brought the litigation "to protect our intellectual property and our consumers."

Videogame consoles are still covered by the DMCA. Modding them can be either a civil or criminal offense.