Friday, April 12, 2002

SJ Mercury: Andreessen: Copy protection efforts are doomed. As film studios and recording studios urge Congress to extend copy protection to every home entertainment device, Andreessen said the entertainment industry need look no further than the software industry's own expensive, failed attempts at encryption to realize it is ineffective at stopping piracy. [Tomalak's Realm] 10:47:04 PM

DaveNet: Google is just the juice.  [Scripting News] 10:31:33 PM

Congrats to Dan Gillmor on winning the EFF Pioneer award.  [Scripting News] 10:28:32 PM

Microsoft (Still) on Trial [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 7:37:57 PM

Microsoft and Trust [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 7:34:59 PM

Expert Lists Goals of a Microsoft Penalty. Sanctions against Microsoft should seek to repair the damage the company's conduct did to competition in addition to preventing a repetition of its misdeeds, an economics expert told a federal judge. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: Technology] 7:29:18 PM

Bush stonewalling continues. The Department of Energy releases more papers on the Bush energy task force, but environmentalists say it's hiding the most important documents. [Salon.com] 7:25:59 PM

Microsoft's mythical man-years. The company boasts that it's making Herculean security efforts -- but throwing more people at software problems rarely solves them. [Salon.com] 7:17:15 PM

Go, Gateway [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 6:38:15 PM

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