2020 Hindsight LinkBack 6/12/2000; 10:54:20 AM I'm proud to add 2020 Hindsight to the LinkBack program. (the page)

Napster use survey takes heat off college students Music & MP3 6/12/2000; 10:09:57 AM "In spite of the recording-industry hype decrying the legions of spoilt college students rapaciously downloading MP3 content and thereby contriving to take food from the mouths of starving artists like Metallica and Dr. Dre, a recent survey funded by the Pew Charitable Trust finds that the majority of those illegally downloading music are actually males between the ages of thirty and forty-nine.

Do 'Dissed' Teachers Have Case? Free Speech6/12/2000; 10:06:47 AM Teacher Review gathers feedback from college students about professors and allows other students to read it, providing a forum for student communication.Looking at reviews like this, one can well imagine that the teachers are trying to sue the people writing these reviews.Mostly I 'blog this because this shouldn't be an issue in Wired. This is just a forum for students to talk.

Dan Gillmor: Technology creates threat to economy General IP Issues6/12/2000; 8:08:20 AM "`If we can't figure out how musicians and movie creators can make money in an era of widespread, unlimited copying, how will we prevent our entire economic system from collapsing when there's molecular manufacturing and even physical objects can be copied cheaply and widely?' says John Gilmore, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation."It pays to remember the endgame.

iCraveTV to re-launch in Fall Boundary Breakers6/12/2000; 7:39:27 AM (see previous stories on ICraveTV)"Internet broadcaster William Craig says some channels will still be offered free of charge, but the main focus of the service will be specialty channels like YTV, MuchMusic and ESPN... Viewers would pay $8 or $9 a month for packages of specialty channels."They'll also make more certain you're coming from Canada, where it is legal to re-broadcast public television signals.

Richard Stallman -- The Anatomy of a Trivial Patent Patents6/12/2000; 7:33:43 AM I missed this story while I was gone, but I think this article is vital for a non-technical person to understand why the techies get all upset about how obvious ideas are being patented. Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and highly respected spokesperson for the Free Software movement (a subset of the Open Source movement that concentrates on freedom and not just free-in-price).

X-Ray & Defenestration LinkBack 6/12/2000; 7:28:39 AM My apologies to X-Ray Net for not being more prompt on the announcement, but it now has a page on the LinkBack system, and Defenstration Corner just joined and got a page today. Cool 'blogs!

WWW Creater Slams Common Ad Practice Content Integrity 6/11/2000; 3:54:13 PM Speaking at the International Advertising Association in London, [Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web] also slammed the practice of designing ads to look as if they are computer system messages. And he was positively scathing about the practice of attaching ads to email sent by users of Microsoft-owned Hotmail. "This either perverts or distorts the message"

Parenting: Is Aol Worse Than TV? Technology & Sociology6/8/2000; 2:35:01 PM "As innocuous as [the accidental Instant Message] exchange [with my 11-year-old daughter's friend] been, it suggested a disturbing new truth: We no longer live alone. My wife and I and our two -- I like to think -- reasonably well-bred daughters have been joined by a supporting cast of dozens who have access to our home whenever the computer is turned on, thanks to such technological marvels as instant messaging and Buddy Lists.

Recording Industry Near Deal In [MP3.com] Suit Music & MP36/8/2000; 1:57:09 PM "Several major record companies are close to a deal that would end a copyright-infringement lawsuit against online music site MP3.com in return for a cash payment of more than $100 million, sources said yesterday."File that one under "expensive mistakes".Later in the article, In a speech to members of Congress yesterday, Walt Disney Co. chief executive Michael Eisner urged lawmakers to consider requiring computer makers and Internet service providers to include in their products technology that would protect intellectual property from pirates.