February 9, 2001
Salon: The Napster parasites.
Peer-to-peer networks in which Net-connected individuals make the contents of their hard drives available to the general public are no longer being used just by music fans to swap illicit MP3s; they are also increasingly being used as a savvy promotional tool and a market research database...
Washington Post: Patently Ridiculous Claims.
Ian Jacobs, with the W3C's communications team, put it simply: "The Internet and the Web grew up and have been successful in part because a lot of the technologies have been royalty-free." Anybody and everybody can experiment on and improve the Web without hiring lawyers or paying licensing fees.
PC World: Three Minutes With Michael Dertouzos.
It's a call for a radical shift in the way that we design and use computers. It's aimed at normal people who could have a lot more if they asked for it. And it's aimed at normal designers who could do a lot more if they focused on human beings.
News.Com: Complaint site wins court victory.
Filing the lawsuit was the only way that Egghead could find out who was running Eggheadsucks, Stanton said. A lawsuit enabled the company to subpoena records from Eggheadsucks Internet Service Provider for information on its operators.
Boston Globe: A minor leap for the Internet.
The Brandeis faculty unanimously approved a minor in the nascent academic field, which weaves classes in computer science, law, economics, and other disciplines into an education of how Web-centric Americans work, play, and learn.
BBC News: Chinese webmaster on trial for 'subversion'.
A webmaster is to go on trial in China for subversion next week in the country's first-ever prosecution case of an internet content provider, court officials said on Friday. Huang Qi, 36, who published articles on human rights on his website, will be tried next Tuesday at an open court in Chengdu...
InfoWorld: German record industry takes on Web piracy.
Germany's record-manufacturing companies want to use sniffing and blocking technology to tackle illegal music downloads from the Internet. The system would be installed at key Internet junctions, blocking users in Germany from accessing such sites, whether domestic or foreign.
Editor & Publisher: Online News Association To Study Journalism.
Howard Finberg and Martha Stone will direct the study, which will develop principles and guidelines for online journalism. Those guidelines will focus on the proper relationships between editorial content, advertising, and e- commerce. The study will also examine ethical standards and hyperlinking.
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