Word: networked
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...Professional wrestling? It would be fair to say the report passed up the chance to observe that some of this "children's" programming is skeevier than anything in R-rated movies.) At the Senate hearings, McCain raised the example of Sony Pictures attempting to place ads on Nickelodeon, a network specifically created for kids, for the skull-blasting Bruce Willis film "The Fifth Element," which was rated PG-13. Nickelodeon refused...
Attorneys for heavy-metal band Metallica and rap artist Dr. Dre sent a letter to Harvard Sept. 6 asking the University to ban student access to the Napster music-trading service via the campus network. The letter, which carries the implied threat of a lawsuit and requests a reply by Sept. 22, asserts that Harvard has a "moral, ethical, and legal obligation" to block Napster access. Rather than accede to Metallica's demands, Harvard should make clear in its reply the University's commitment to open student access to electronic resources and its refusal to act as an electronic filter...
Harvard's network has so far withstood the onslaught, and so long as the bandwidth consumed does not interfere with academic use of the network, access to Napster ought to be maintained. The University does not have a legal obligation to block Napster. As an Internet service provider, Harvard should be protected by federal laws that properly rest responsibility for illegal actions with the user rather than the network owner. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences already prohibits intellectual property violations under its network policy; if Harvard were punished for violations of its own policies, it would feel pressure...
...cited by Metallica's attorneys are placed on the students, not the University; part of character education is to entrust students with the freedom to make wrong decisions, and Harvard has good reason to expect its students to act as responsibly online as on campus. Harvard does not scan network traffic for copied MP3's, but neither does it filter World Wide Web downloads for illegal pornography or conduct random searches of dorm rooms for the underage possession of alcohol...
This recommendation differs sharply from the Bush campaign's counter-proposal, which would have included at least two network-sponsored debates, one on NBC and the other on CNN. As a political calculation, such a proposal is understandable: It could be politically disadvantageous for an inexperienced debater to meet a four-campaign veteran head-on, and Bush may prefer to first meet Gore in front of a smaller audience...