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...arrest has sparked a firestorm of controversy over the as-yet-untested Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)--and over how far law enforcement should go to protect intellectual property like e-books. The case has provoked the first big showdown between two camps: the programmers who want to bypass security restrictions and the publishers who want to protect the words they sell...
...Even in Washington, Cold War victory has left an ambiguous legacy. An inevitable showdown with an "Evil Empire" is no longer the organizing principle of national politics. The symptoms of that absence are varied and often morbid, from the new depths of tabloid tawdriness plumbed in Washington's partisan battles over the past decade to the palpable absence of a sense of national purpose or global mission in the capital...
...mounting cameras under the menacing muzzels to show the world this latest indignity. As a reporter rounding up opinion back in Washington, I can recall the sense of real fear among many of the experts. Should we allow such an affront to humankind to stand? Should there be a showdown between East and West right then...
...arrest has sparked a firestorm of controversy over the as-yet-untested Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)--and over how far law enforcement should go to protect intellectual property like e-books. The case has provoked the first big showdown between two camps: the programmers who want to bypass security restrictions and the publishers who want to protect the words they sell...
...that if NATO troops are sent in to supervise the disarmament process and its breaks down, they could find themselves in the middle of a shooting war. Being forced to retreat would be a humiliating defeat for the West; trying to enforce the peace could force a bruising showdown with Albanian nationalists throughout the region...