Update: Are You A Criminal? Check Here
Further to my earlier post about the RIAA on your tail, you can check whether they are, courtesy of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. This episode in the progress of digital copyright could prove interesting.
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Mail: Piracy and Poverty
This in response to my posting about file sharing program Grokster offering an ad-free version, in which I asked: I don’t want to get into the ethics and legality of MP3 swapping, but it strikes me that if folk are exchanging music for free online, they’re not likely to be the kind of folk … Read more
Q&A: X1 and The Future of Finding Stuff
Full text of email interview with Mark Goodstein of X1 (see my column in WSJE and FEER this week) — Who are you aiming at with this product? Not to be too simplistic, we’re aiming at two groups: consumers and professionals, specifically those who have a lot of email and files and … Read more
Column: USB and the CIA
Loose Wire — How to Steal CIA Secrets: It’s as easy as USB; Universal Serial Bus drives are getting small enough to hide in coffee mugs, and you can attach them to most computers and all sorts of other gadgets By Jeremy Wagstaff from the 5 June 2003 of edition of the Far Eastern … Read more
Column: the paper mountain
Loose Wire — Conquer That Paper Mountain: It’s time to get organized; Here’s some software to help you scan and locate photos and documents; But perhaps you shouldn’t ditch the filing cabinet just yet By Jeremy Wagstaff from the 29 May 2003 edition of the Far Eastern Economic Review, (c) 2003, Dow Jones & … Read more