If the answer to this is “yes”, Is Yahoo Shutting Down Del.icio.us? then if you are familiar with CURL, here’s how you can backup your bookmarks (from one of the comments in the post linked to above):

You can do a CURL on the command line: https://{your username}:{your password}@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all > bookmarks.xml to get the bookmarks as bookmarks.xml – then you can put them in a spreadsheet.

is here: Gwynne Dyer: The accusations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (Straight.com). Great analysis: just what I have come to expect from Dyer.  (Thanks to Doug Saunders for tweeting about this.)

According to this BBC News story,

A man has admitted being involved in a £500,000 fraud in which he used stolen credit card details to buy his own songs on iTunes and Amazon. … They allegedly downloaded the songs 6,000 times in 2008 and 2009. Johnson admitted being responsible for about 2,000… (he) used “compromised credit card details” in order to gain royalties from the sales of the songs he posted on the websites.

It’s a novel form of theft: repeatedly buy something you own the rights to. It’s easier to do in this digital age, and one, I suspect, we will see more of.