Wednesday, June 26, 2002

Copyright holders would receive carte blanche to use aggressive tactics to stop the illegal distribution of their works on online services like Morpheus and Kazaa under legislation outlined today by Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.). Washington Post June 25th Argghhh - this has been a very bad week on the Internet Commons front. 8:59:50 PM    comment []

Glenn Fleishman: Warchalking...you were there: the birth of a meme. Warchalking is very fun. Of course Anchorage is not big enough, nor concentrated enough for Warchalking to really show up here. But it's still very cute. I'm waiting for the t-shirt! 8:25:22 PM    comment []

Several links and interesting comments regarding the WorldCom debacle: New WorldCom CEO John Sidgmore's letter to WorldCom employees. Sidgmore, who is highly respected, has been CEO just since late April. What a hideous position he now finds himself in. Dan Gilmour's commentary: Rational people are starting to assume something that isn't necessarily true. They're becoming convinced that the system is hopelessly, irrevocably rigged against everyday investors by a corrupt cadre of insiders in boardrooms and on Wall Street, willfully assisted by regulators and elected officials who are either corrupt themselves or simply blind. Great comment on Slashdot: God bless the technology we are blessed with. I am sitting in the lab after hours watching the collapse of a multi-billion dollar company real time on the net. I love it - any way time to go, the popcorn is done. I have always thought Bernie Ebbers was evil incarnate, but even I, never thought he would do something of this magnitude. 4:32:21 PM    comment []

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