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Posted by GeeTee at January 15, 2003 07:23 PM | TrackBack 0

Over two years, Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat bought 158 used hard drives at secondhand computer stores and on eBay. Of the 129 drives that functioned, 69 still had recoverable files on them and 49 contained "significant personal information" -- medical correspondence, love letters, pornography and 5,000 credit card numbers. One even had a year's worth of transactions with account numbers from a cash machine in Illinois.

Posted by GeeTee at January 15, 2003 07:07 PM | TrackBack 0

Its filing would inject Bush into a high-profile civil rights debate complicated by fallout from recent comments seen as supporting segregation that cost Republican Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi his job as Senate majority leader.

Posted by GeeTee at January 15, 2003 11:21 AM | TrackBack 0

A contrary ruling would have cost entertainment giants like The Walt Disney Co. and AOL Time Warner Inc. hundreds of millions of dollars. AOL Time Warner had said that would threaten copyrights for such movies as "Casablanca," "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind."

Fuck.

Posted by GeeTee at January 15, 2003 07:58 AM | TrackBack 0

Economic theory dictates the best solution is for companies to drop prices to near what consumers are willing to pay for quality downloads. Not the price companies ideally want, but near a price consumers, who have an alternative, will pay. That would create price equilibrium and a functioning market in which recording companies could play a major, ongoing role. This is proper application of the price mechanism. Economics 101.

Posted by GeeTee at January 15, 2003 07:48 AM | TrackBack 0

An old Senate Republican hand explained to me why the senators are upset: ''Rumsfeld's behavior toward senators is dismissive, barely civil, bordering on rude. He has no interest in us other than to get the money, no interest in our opinions.'' Rumsfeld spent more than six years in the House, but that was 44 years ago.

Posted by GeeTee at January 15, 2003 07:45 AM | TrackBack 0

What Creative Commons lets you do as an author is label your stuff before you flush it down the toilet. If you don't want the sewage treatment plant to filter your stuff and sell the water on its usual terms, Creative Commons lets you have your way. If you think that publishers are stealing your crap, you can stop them.

Posted by GeeTee at January 15, 2003 07:43 AM | TrackBack 0

The religious cant that will send American troops into battle is perhaps the most sickening aspect of this surreal war-to-be. Bush has an arm-lock on God. And God has very particular political opinions. God appointed America to save the world in any way that suits America. God appointed Israel to be the nexus of America's Middle Eastern policy, and anyone who wants to mess with that idea is a) anti-Semitic, b) anti-American, c) with the enemy, and d) a terrorist.

Posted by GeeTee at January 15, 2003 07:40 AM | TrackBack 0

It represents, in other words, a kind of classic Washington compromise. Tech firms won't argue for legislation providing Americans with more "fair use" rights, an idea the music industry opposes--and the recording industry won't call for new government regulations designed to limit piracy.

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