CIA attorney fears overload of spying info.  WASHINGTON - Broad new surveillance powers granted the Justice Department come with a risk for investigators: There may be such an information overload that agents could overlook a critical fragment of information that would prevent a terrorist attack, a senior CIA lawyer said Thursday.  [Arizona Daily Star] 

>>  Janet got her digital camera in the Spring of 2001 and it looks like it opened a door to a world in which she's a natural...  [Coolstop Daily Pick 11/22/02] 

Music United Makes a Blunder
Plagiarizes material from University of Chicago

The RIAA's anti-file trading PR website, otherwise known as MusicUnited.org, found itself with egg on its face yesterday as the site posted peer to peer disabling instructions belonging to the University of Chicago. The mistake has now been corrected, but Google's cache record of yesterday's site tells the tale. They tried to disguise it, but closely compare the two sites instructions on how to disable I-mesh.

[via Freedom To Tinker] 

The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution (.DOC format)  [The Register]

We investigate the darknet - a collection of networks and technologies used to share digital content. The darknet is not a separate physical network but an application and protocol layer riding on existing networks. Examples of darknets are peer-to-peer file sharing, CD and DVD copying, and key or password sharing on email and newsgroups. The last few years have seen vast increases in the darknet's aggregate bandwidth, reliability, usability, size of shared library, and availability of search engines. In this paper we categorize and analyze existing and future darknets, from both the technical and legal perspectives. We speculate that there will be short-term impediments to the effectiveness of the darknet as a distribution mechanism, but ultimately the darknet-genie will not be put back into the bottle. In view of this hypothesis, we examine the relevance of content protection and content distribution architectures.

Related:
Efforts to stop music piracy 'pointless'. Record industry attempts to prevent the swapping of pop music over the internet will never work¸ say Microsoft experts.  [BBC] 

November 2002

 


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