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...downloads is their tacit promises of protection. Take the RealPlayer shareware, a media streaming program so offensively retrograde that a million monkeys with a million keyboards with a million 1’s and 0’s could never devise it. During one illicit encounter with the RealPlayer.exe file brought on by a misbegotten attempt to watch “Bootylicious: In concert,” I responsibly unchecked all the boxes that would have signed me up for daily newsletters, news updates, update letters, dating news, upletter dates, and finally, that salacious e-menage-a-trois...
...regime in Pakistan, which insists on empowering some of its ethnic Pashtun brothers from the southern part of its ravaged neighbor, who make up most of the Taliban, as a counterweight to its foes in the Northern Alliance. A vestigial Taliban may also give any potentially disaffected rank-and-file members some alternative to going down with the ship. As Secretary Powell put it last week, "You can't ethnically cleanse Afghanistan after this is over. You can't export them." All you can hope for, perhaps, is that Afghanistan has a good, enduring reason to halt its most threatening...
...Later this year Napster will release a new version of its file-swapping software with built-in copyright protection. If all goes well, Bertelsmann will convert its loan to Napster into a 56% stake in the firm. MusicNet, which bundles the catalogs of BMG, Warner Music and EMI, plans to license music for online...
Representative Jarrett T. Barrios ’90 holds the soon-to-be-lost seat, which has fielded a minority winner for the past 25 years. City councillors are now preparing to file a lawsuit in hopes of regaining the district. And many are turning to Barrios to explain why the 28th was dismantled...
...School Professor Lawrence Lessig has written in Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, on the Internet, owners of intellectual property can enforce their one-user, one-payment dreams. They can architect the format and means of downloading such that you simply cannot e-mail or Instant Message an MP3 file to a friend. Even worse, they can extend the per-use model of the public performance companies to end users, forcing individuals to pay miniscule amounts—say 10 cents—every time they want to listen to an MP3. The enabling technology is called digital rights management...