The Newspaper Shop -- Wednesday edition

[walktalker]

News time

Napster crawls through the loopholes
More than two weeks have passed since U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel issued her modified ruling on the injunction in the RIAA v. Napster lawsuit. Patel's re-write came as a bit of a surprise to some, considering it's leniency. Enter Aimster, Pig Latin, alternate spellings and a handful of other encoders and schemes, and it appears that Judge Patel's order has not only had little effect on Napster's operations, but may have created a monster.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/co...700952,00.html

Napster leads march on Washington
Napster is bringing its message of sharing to Washington, D.C., scheduling a 1960s-like "teach-in" and free concert next month to accompany a planned congressional hearing on online copyright issues.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...701326,00.html

Is TiVo watching you?
You're watching TV, but is someone watching you? On Monday, the Privacy Foundation released a report accusing digital video recording company TiVo of misleading subscribers. The Denver-based nonprofit group claims that TiVo's service can gather more information about its subscribers' viewing habits than the company is letting on.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...080167,00.html

Hackers claim DoubleClick security holes
Data-collection company DoubleClick returned to the privacy spotlight on Monday after a French Web site uncovered evidence indicating several of the company's servers had security holes and may have been breached.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...080159,00.html

No surprise: PC demand to remain weak
The bad news for the PC industry keeps rolling in. Market researcher Dataquest on Monday warned of continued slow PC sales, with worldwide sales growing 10.7 percent this year, or about four points lower than 2000. Sales in the United States are projected to be downright dismal with--at best--flat year-over-year growth.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...080119,00.html

Strategic confusion, internal politics lead to failures online
In the summer of 1998, Walt Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner visited the headquarters of Infoseek bearing the promises of a savior: The search engine would become the heart of the Go Network, promoted on ABC, ESPN, videotapes, movie trailers, theme parks--everything Mickey's white glove touches.

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201...html?tag=tp_pr

Scour Exchange back in legal revival
The reincarnation of Scour Exchange, the file-swapping program that once rivaled Napster in popularity before facing a lawsuit for alleged copyright infringement and going bankrupt, is back online.

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=mn_hd

Singing hosannas for Linux
The co-author of IBM's first strategy papers on both Linux and open source made a persuasive case, ultimately convincing CEO Lou Gerstner to put this on the company's strategy agenda. Indeed, Gerstner last November announced IBM's intention to invest $1 billion on Linux in 2001.

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1014-201...html?tag=bt_pr

Oracle builds "digital hospital"
Hospital and rehabilitation chain HealthSouth and software maker Oracle are teaming up to build a "digital hospital" intended to improve patient care and eliminate maddening paperwork, company executives said Monday.

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200...html?tag=cd_mh

Up for sale: Privacy on the Net
If you are reading this article about privacy, you most likely use the Internet to gather information about topics that interest you. You may also go online to e-mail your friends, look for a new job, check out your investment portfolio and/or shop for such items as books, clothes, plane tickets and pharmaceutical products.

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201...html?tag=ch_mh

Bluetooth demonstration flops
It was meant to be a crowning moment for a long-promised technology designed to create a wireless link among devices around the home or office. But instead, the Bluetooth demonstration at the world's biggest computer and electronics show turned into an embarrassing flop when 100 transmitters equipped with the short-range radio technology failed to transform a convention hall into a wireless data network for visitors with handheld computers. Ouch !

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200...html?tag=cd_mh

Library Card Catalog, R.I.P.
Browsing through the shelves is one of the great joys of visiting the library. But when the shelves get too tall and threaten to take away precious study space, books are relegated to warehouses, sold, given away, or worse -- retired to the circular file.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,41905,00.html

Anti-Spam Bill's Second Wind
House negotiators are meeting privately in an attempt to work out differences over an anti-spam bill before a scheduled vote on Wednesday. The House Commerce committee markup will start the "Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Mail Act" down the same uncertain path it trod last year, when House legislators approved it 427-1 but the Senate never voted.

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42630,00.html

Should Science Research Be Free?
Should all research papers in the biosciences be placed in one, free-access, web library? Yes, say 12,000 scientists. A row has broken out over whether all scientific papers in the biosciences should be placed in a single web library and made available free of charge to everyone.

http://www.newscientist.com/dailynew...p?id=ns9999552

CIA: Making Sense of the Deluge of Data
Every day, a digital monsoon engulfs the Central Intelligence Agency. Video and audio signals pour in from around the world as a million new pages pop up on the Internet. What's an intelligence agency to do about this "volume challenge of staggering proportion," as one CIA official called it?

http://www.washtech.com/news/govtit/8548-1.html

Life gets serious for Linux
Linux, the free computer operating system loved and tended by the T-shirt and beard geek community on the internet, has cast off its scruffy image and donned a corporate suit. From IBM to Nokia, from Sap to Sharp, the giants of the CeBIT technology fair in Hanover are all showing products based on the system which began life as a Finnish student's hobby.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/bus...00/1240626.stm

Sex, Drugs and Electronica
There's the usual array of panels, exhibits and lectures. But the real business of the Winter Music Conference -- the country's biggest, baddest electronic music gathering -- is to get down. "I've been going for five years, and I've never once gone to a single panel," laughs Bruno Ybarra, from the San Francisco "sexy urban dance music" label Naked Music. "This is definitely play before work."

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,42628,00.html

Cheap Magnets Equal Cheap MRI
Often the response to the bill from a hospital can be more traumatic than the visit itself. For those with post-bill trauma, a ray of light may be on the horizon in the form of a new magnetic resonance imaging scanner.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,42583,00.html

Fewer Using Napster
The number of Napster users has fallen by 25 percent since the music-swapping Web site began filtering out copyrighted songs, according to the survey firm Webnoize. But Napster Inc. says there has been no decline in users, even as the service has blocked more than 225,000 songs, accounting for about half the files available for sharing.

http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/163675.html

Just saving all this on the forum

[Dawn]

Thanks newsman! I'm off to read for a bit!!

[walktalker]

MTV's Young Audience, Once a Boon, Now Threatens the Network's Bottom Line
As Hollywood has aimed more and more of its movies at teens and young adults in recent years, it's had an enduring ally in MTV. All of those youthful eyeballs have helped make MTV an immense movie advertising force, accounting last year for an astounding one-fifth of all film spending on cable television. But now, in an odd turn of events, MTV's coveted kid demo is jeopardizing the network's lucrative relationship with Hollywood.

http://www.inside.com/jcs/Story?arti...6880&pod_id=11

K-Tel USA Files for Bankruptcy as Labels Dominate Compilation Business
Swiss parent will close the company responsible for albums containing your favorite artists, and much more. Once considered cheesy, such collections are wildly successful and being kept in-house.

http://www.inside.com/jcs/Story?arti...26622&pod_id=9

MP3.com in Round 2 Against TVT
In what looks like the last leg of MP3.com (MPPP) 's legal tangles, the online music company faced off against the independent music label TVT Records on Monday, the first day of a two-week trial to determine monetary damages owed to the label.

http://www.thestandard.com/article/d...,23122,00.html

Scrapped Dave Matthews Band Sessions Available On Napster
The unfinished Dave Matthews Band album that was shelved in lieu of the group's current chart-topper, Everyday, has been leaked on Napster. Although the group gave the controversial file-sharing service permission to carry the single "I Did It" back in January, a band spokesperson said the Dave Matthews Band is not responsible for the unfinished album's appearance online.

http://www.sonicnet.com/news/story.jhtml?id=1442181

Who is spying on your downloads?
The recording industry would love to keep tabs on every Napster trader or Gnutella user, but even the sneakiest software won't stop music piracy.

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...ker/index.html

Saudis ban Pokemon games, cards
Saudi Arabia’s highest religious authority has issued an edict banning Pokemon games and cards, saying they have "possessed the minds" of children, promote Zionism and involve gambling. It said the video game and cards have symbols that include "the Star of David, which everyone knows is connected to international Zionism and is Israel’s national emblem, as well as being the first symbol of the Freemasons."

http://www.msnbc.com/news/550130.asp?0nm=C13N

Public interest cited in DVD descrambler appeal
Lawyers representing 2600.com, which got into hot water for making a DVD descrambler called DeCSS available on line, have filed a brief with the appellate court rebutting claims made by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and others including the US Government.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/17892.html

'Universal' key claimed to disable MS Office XP security
Microsoft's vaunted Product Activation protection technology may not have been fully implemented in Office XP after all. Product keys claimed to be "universal" have been circulating on the Web for some weeks now, and a WinXP beta tester's newsgroup posting forwarded to The Register suggests that use of one of these keys circumvents the activation process.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17869.html

The Garfield comic strip of the day !
The Dilbert strip of the day !
The Boondocks strip of the day !

[RDixon]

Good work Walk. Always nice to click through your links.

[walktalker]

BUMP

[TankGirl]

Thanks again WT and BUMP for the news!

- tg

[TankGirl]

Originally posted by walktalker
Who is spying on your downloads?
The recording industry would love to keep tabs on every Napster trader or Gnutella user, but even the sneakiest software won't stop music piracy.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...ker/index.html

Had to pick this quote from the above article for you:

As Eben Moglen, professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, puts it, "Is the RIAA and its friends doing some kind of technology surveillance? Yes. Is it going to work? No. It's really dumb. It's another serious mistake by an industry going out of business in the stupidest way, bumping its head on the steps on the way down, because the record industry was always a bunch of thugs and that's what they still are."

- tg

[lezzbeefriends]

Originally posted by TankGirl


Had to pick this quote from the above article for you:

As Eben Moglen, professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, puts it, "Is the RIAA and its friends doing some kind of technology surveillance? Yes. Is it going to work? No. It's really dumb. It's another serious mistake by an industry going out of business in the stupidest way, bumping its head on the steps on the way down, because the record industry was always a bunch of thugs and that's what they still are."

- tg

LMAO Tank Girl!! The imagery is precious!! Hahahahahaha! Very well put!



Love to ALL the Napsterites!!!

[relic]

Originally posted by walktalker
BUMP

can't you guys just wait for me...

[TankGirl]

Originally posted by aaacbada
can't you guys just wait for me...

LOL aaacbada... you are such a sweetie!

- tg

[Floopster]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Love it - thanks TankGirl, and of course our daily correspondent, Walktalker

[relic]

Originally posted by TankGirl


LOL aaacbada... you are such a sweetie!

- tg

just in case you guys missed yesterday's news paper (and so others won't take my responsiblity ) here's a bump

[walktalker]

Bump !
This is an old issue of The Newspaper Shop, but I scheduled a real one for tomorrow evening (this is a promise )

[TankGirl]

You are already delivering good news, WT!

- tg