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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (168756)	7/26/2002 8:39:38 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: This is outrageous, and it's obvious that these greedy people have the news media at their fingertips. Well, they buy a lot of ads, so what they want shown is what the advertising supported media presents. Kind of like Intel and which benchmarks get presented to the public. I thought you supported that kind of arrangement....

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (168756)	7/26/2002 12:31:08 PM
From: tcmay	Respond to of 186894

"Tim and all, Bill Lets Music Firms Hack Napster-Like Systems "http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=3&cid... "For those of you who want a real nice one-sided story, by all means read this article. Funny how the ONLY people interviewed were from the RIAA and MPAA. "I'll bet these organizations already have spam tools, viruses, and denial-of-service attacks ready to be launched upon the bill's passage. This is outrageous, and it's obvious that these greedy people have the news media at their fingertips." Yes, I've been following this with amusement. A friend of mine, Declan McCullagh, writes for CNET/news.com. We in the hacker community are amused. Consider this: We all have copyright rights. This posting, for example, is copyrighted by me. I allow it to be posted on SI, but someone else publishing it would be violating _my_ copyright. (Note that there is no requirement that I file papers...the Berne Convention and later U.S. laws, such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, ensure that copyright attaches automatically to created works.) So, if I find one of my works on a Disney, or Time-Warner, or CNN site--however it got there! (ha ha!)--I may wish to drop a logic bomb on their site and do a smack down on them, knocking their computers out for a long while. And I'll be immune from prosecution, provided I concluded that my copyrighted works were being made available on a peer-to-peer network! As some of us read the law. But, of course, the lawmakers will scurry around and make it unsymmetric. They will ensure that Time-Warner can logic bomb me and thee, but that if we logic bomb Time-Warner or Intel or CNN we'll be prosecuted. This is corporate favoritism, the corporate state. A classical definition of fascism. As Mussolini defined it, "Fascism _is_ corporatism." Despicable. --Tim May