March 4, 2004
WIRED: Some Like It Hot.
Lawrence Lessig.This doesn't mean that there are no questions raised by the latest piracy concern - peer-to-peer file-sharing. But it does mean that we need to understand the harm in P2P sharing a bit more before we condemn it to the gallows.
Technology Review: Losing Control of Your TV.
Simson Garfinkel. Even though I don’t watch much broadcast TV, I am still strongly opposed to the broadcast flag. The first reason is “mission creep.” Having successfully lobbied a regulatory agency to put anti-consumer copy protection technology into the television set, what’s to stop a greedy content industry from asking for more?
InfoWorld: Intel's CTO to meet Chinese government over WAPI.
Pat Gelsinger, chief technology officer of Intel Corp., is to meet with Chinese government officials during the next few days to discuss Intel's concerns over China's national wireless LAN security standard and an impending June 1 deadline for compliance with the standard.
News.Com: Microsoft wants to know who your friends are.
Inner Circle, Cheng believes, is one answer to that. It's not really a breakthrough in computer science as much as it is an exercise in cultural anthropology. Many people have folders today for their most important contacts, but they often drag e-mails in one by one.
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