Financial genius: US record industry turns $16M in legal spending into $391K cash – Boing Boing

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Financial genius: US record industry turns $16M in legal spending into $391K cash

The title of this Recording Industry vs The People post says it all, really: “Ha ha ha ha ha. RIAA paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 in 2008 to recover only $391,000!!!”: If the av…

via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/13/financial-genius-us.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

I’m excited to announce the Conscientious Portfolio Competition 2010, the second of its kind (after a great start last year). As before, the winner(s) will have their work featured here on this website, in the form of an extended conversation/interview. This year, two guest judges, Elisabeth Biondi (New Yorker magazine) and Susanna Brown (Victoria and Albert Museum), are joining me to pick the winner(s) – and there’s a twist.