January 18, 2003

The father of Elian Gonzalez is on the ballot for Cuba's parliament in Sunday elections. Counting the ballots should be simple as the candidates run unopposed. 11:56:45 PM

In what may be an attempt to drive its favorables among the filesharing and anti-copyright crowd to zero, Microsoft is introducing its own CD copy-protection system. The Windows Media Data Session Toolkit enables music labels to lay songs onto a copy-controlled CD in multiple layers, one that would permit normal playback on a stereo and a PC but prevent copying of the PC layer. Universal Music and EMI are reported to be interested in this technology. 1:31:07 PM