Noon News - Thursday July 5, 2007

Rock icon Morrissey has postponed another show as a result to illness, according to his official website. Following his walk-off at Boston's Bank of America Pavilion, he has canceled multiple shows citing throat troubles.

Outlooks were optimistic following a performance on David Letterman's Late Show and a performance in Virginia, but his voice worsened following those performances.

The next performance scheduled is the July 7th makeup date for the Pavilion show here in town. Tickets from last week's canceled show will be honored on Saturday's show.

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Former President Bill Clinton went on Iowa radio this morning criticizing President Bush's de-facto pardoning of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

Speaking of Libby's revealing of an undercover CIA agent for political purposes, "It's wrong to out that CIA agent, and wrong to try to cover it up -- and wrong that no one was ever fired from the White House for doing it."

Critics, including our former and Governor and Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, accuse Clinton of being a poor expert on the merits of pardons, following multiple last-minute pardons from the Clinton administration of questionable merit.

Following President Bush's commuting of Libby's sentence, an increasing number of people have come out criticizing Bush, including a substantial number demanding for his impeachment.

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The Recording Industry Association of America comes out of the July 4th holiday with another counter-claim from a previous defender of their now-infamous filesharing lawsuits.

Arstechnica reports that Ms. Crain, a grandmother who had never heard of filesharing until she received the RIAA lawsuit, has accused the association of "one or more overt acts of unlawful private investigation."

This accusation comes on the heels of the discovery of miivi.com, a website claiming to host downloadable television shows and movies, but actually owned by Media Defender, an anti-piracy group. The group hosted false BitTorrent files to learn IP addresses of alleged infringers. The legality of this move is still in question.

The Sony v. Crain counter-lawsuit claims the RIAA used unlicensed private investigators in the state of Texas to do their research. Texas law requires all private investigators to be officially licensed. RIAA's defense resources will be strained, as they are also defending against similar lawsuits accusing fraud, conspiracy, and extortion.