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To: ztect who wrote (35630)6/17/2000 10:28:00 AM
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Clip and Paste, clip and paste......(off of RB)................

"...By this I don't mean that the real world has changed.
We live at a time when the market is the closest thing we
have to a civic religion. Money has rarely been as
important in determining prospects in life, and economic
inequalities are mounting. But the online world is
different. Admittedly, even dreamy start-ups like
Napster hope to make millions one day -- and the Web
promises to be an unparalleled way to buy, sell and market
products. But alongside this growth of e-capitalism,
and inextricable from it, is the tenaciously communistic
nature of the Web itself. What the Web is best at,
after all, is transmitting information -- and what the
fledgling years of the Internet have proved is that, in
this context, free information has an edge over its pricey
competition. Apart from pornography sites and a few
business sites, the Web is still largely free to anyone
with a modem and a phone line. Many information sites
that once charged subscribers (Slate.com [PNL]comes to
mind) have subsequently capitulated to dot-communism.
Moreover, virtually any site's content can be copied
and pasted by subscribers and sent immediately to
nonsubscribers in ways that destroy the tollbooth almost
as soon as it is constructed. Private property
in this world is about as fashionable as public
property outside it. ..." (by Andrew Sullivan, NY Times).
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