Japanese Woman Sentenced To 20 Months After Blasting Rock Music At Neighbor

Miyoko Kawahara, 59, was given a 20-month prison term after she was charged with inflicting injury on her neighbor by blasting rock music at her house for more than two years. Kawahara, a Japanese citizen, was sentenced by the Osaka High Court, revoking an initial ruling that had given her a one-year prison term, court spokesman Takanao Kawasaki said. Kawahara in Heguri, Nara Prefecture, Japan, was accused of causing insomnia and...

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2006 Vaporware Award: SpiralFrog

SpiralFrog has won our famed Vaporware Award For 2006. The company was supposed to debut a free music downloading service in 2006, but nothing has materialized. Even after the New York City-based company made a series of splashy announcements in the summer of 2006, when it boasted of big plans to distribute free music downloads via an ad-supported Website from Vivendi’s Universal Music Group, there hasn’t been anything...

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