Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Wednesday, November 27, 2002

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A nest of pirates: "I was shocked to discover a nest of pirates yesterday, operating brazenly right here in my hometown. They were gathered in a large nondescript building, reading and talking quietly and in some cases listening to music. Some kind of social club, perhaps? Yes, but with a profoundly subversive theme: "sharing" content. This establishment houses large collections of books, magazines, audiotapes, videotapes, CDs, DVDs. And it "shares" these with its patrons. I watched in amazement as people left the building carrying armloads of these content assets, which they "borrow" without paying a nickel to the copyright holders. It's frightening, really. Who knew?..." [Jon's Radio]


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Mozilla update offers some Mac OS X tweaks: "Mozilla, the open-source Web browser, has been updated to version 1.2. [...] Java compatibility with Mac OS 10.2 ("Jaguar") has been repaired. There are also purportedly major improvements to Mac OS X IMAP mail header download performance." [MacCentral]