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Internet Freedom Also Victim of Sept. 11…

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020905/wr_nm/ france_internet_dc Internet Freedom Also Victim of Sept 11, Group Says Thu Sep 5, 2:15 PM ET PARIS (Reuters) – Security measures have curbed cyberspace so much since the September 11 attacks...

Napster Goes Unmourned to the Grave

Morpheus got slammed because it installed “GATOR”. Gator is evil. It tracks your web surfing, “sells” unused cycles on your computer, and targets banner advertising. As an added bonus, it’s buggy, is a memory pig, and the company is run...

Napster Goes Unmourned to the Grave

The death of Napster is not so much a signifier of the victory of the RIAA over the infidels as it is of the defeat of companies which had no identifiable business plan.. -Ian. ———–...

Open Source Warfare

http://www.e-sheep.com/spiders/ This one from Tim Hardy. I was pretty confused at first, but the author seems to be positing the notion that America has the technology to conduct what could be called “participatory warfare” and thereby could accomplish two...

Survey: Europeans Say U.S. Partly to Blame for 9/11

Of course, France — the country that brought us popular existentialism — thinks that the US brought September 11th upon themselves. Perhaps that’s an overstatement , but it does seem to be widely felt in places other than the US that such an attack...