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...Even when you've mastered the tricks of trading peer to peer, there are all sorts of hidden pitfalls. Files can take forever to download. Servers can crash or go offline before you finish. Files advertised as containing one song may hold another. Or they may contain a so-called cuckoo egg--a gotcha message posted by anti-Napster activists. Last week Napster users downloading the new Barenaked Ladies single, Pinch Me, and got a version implanted with a "Trojan horse": a spoken message from the band telling fans to buy the song instead. Worse still, P2P files may harbor...
...despite talk of Internet "disintermediation"--the elimination of middlemen--there will probably still be agents, producers and even record companies to sign up new artists and market their work. Digital-music service providers--the much touted alternatives to traditional record companies--will probably have a harder time than major labels taking an album to gold or platinum. "We'll be fine," says Atlantic Records Group co-chairman Val Azzoli. "There will always be new music, and it's our job t o figure out what people want to hear and when they want to hear...
...even more is at stake than access to a song. The most promising 21st century technologies--genetic engineering, nanotechnology and robotics--are information technologies. They have the power to create wealth, but these bits of digital information can also be dangerous. If we can't muster the collective will to protect the rights of artists to their books and music, how will we ever control access to the dangerous knowledge provided by these powerful new technologies? Taking both individual and collective responsibility for the consequences of peer-to-peer sharing of digital material is essential preparation for what...
...them for four decades? Last week the question ricocheted through academia as scientists responded to charges of fraudulent research, intellectual vendettas, sexual misbehavior and unethical experimentation that has spread disease and death through the Yanomami. "This nightmarish story [is] a real anthropological heart of darkness beyond the imagining of even a Joseph Conrad (though not, perhaps, a Josef Mengele)," warned two professors, Cornell University's Terence Turner and the University of Hawaii's Leslie Sponsel, in a memorandum to the American Anthropological Association...
...raised in Tierney's book. Barbara Johnston, human-rights chair of the American Anthropological Association, finds Tierney's "90 interviews, Freedom of Information Act documents, audiotapes from film outtakes" significant. But she reaches no conclusion. "There is extensive documentation but a lot of room for argument," she says. "If even 10% of these allegations are valid, we must take a good look...