CNN: Jesus and the FDA  [Medley] 

CANINE I.Q. TEST  [Dog News] 

Hollywood chases down campus pirates.  Trade groups for the movie and recording industries are putting new pressure on universities to crack down on file swapping by students using high-speed campus networks.  [CNET News.com]

In a letter sent to more than 2,000 university presidents, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and other copyright owner trade groups told university officials that large numbers of students were using college resources to violate federal law.

"We are concerned that an increasing and significant number of students are using university networks to engage in online piracy of copyrighted creative works," the trade groups wrote in a letter sent to universities this week. "We believe there must be a substantial effort, both disciplined and continuous, to bring this piracy under control."

I am against piracy, too, but this go-after-everybody approach is getting old.  Now, all computer-literate college students are criminals - even the ones who aren't pirates.  And what about issues like privacy and turning university network personnel into "policemen" for the almighty entertainment industry? 

Davezilla:  "Remember Hubzilla? It seems that Charismac has changed the name of the product to Firewire Dino. I wonder if Toho served them a C&D..." 

Doc Searls has a much improved feed (XML)  [via gRadio] 

Loyd Schutte:  "I could just read everything in my News Aggregator you say. 'Yes' I reply. 'I do get the feed from their sites.' But actually visiting the site gives you the story in the context to which the author meant it to be read. If we just wanted to have text for people to read and not worry about the images we use to construct our sites, we'd still all be using KayPro's." 

>>  "We will feature the work of one artist everyday for a year.  Help us to strengthen the global design community."  [Coolstop Daily Pick 10/10/02] 

Toilet paper novels hit German stalls  [Exploding Cigar] 

Globe of Blogs  [the dailywebthing - daily pointers] 

Hypertext Links: Whither Thou Goest, and Why  [Binary by Accident] 

Will Cox:   "I noticed something extremely odd last night. See if you see what I saw. Notice a pattern? It's not readily apparent on the first page of links. (If you have more explicit links to your pages, you may not see the same pattern.)" 

October 2002

 


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