MP3.com Fights Fire with Fire Music & MP3 5/2/2000; 4:18:01 PM Jan 27, 2000: MP3.com is providing a new service where you "beam" them the contents of your personal CD collection, and you are then allowed to listen to the content of that collection from anywhere on the Internet. The record companies are not amused. Says MP3.com, With each music fan that adds their CDs to My.MP3.com, our position against the record companies grows stronger.

Scraping Glossary 5/2/2000; 4:16:07 PM Scraping is the process of using a computer program to automatically extract content from a normal web page and re-package it for some other purpose.

Deep Linking Glossary 5/2/2000; 4:15:12 PM Deep linking is when you provide a link to a web site that goes directly into the structure of the site, possibly even pointing directly to a media source, bypassing the page structure of the site.

We'd Like To Have Our Cake And Eat It Too Music & MP3 5/2/2000; 4:13:23 PM Jan 26, 2000: Napster, in trouble for creating software to extremely easily distribute MP3's, is asking a programmer to take down documents detailing Napster's protocol, which he reverse engineered. The company was not quoted as saying "We believe that people's rights are being unduly constrained in this new Internet era, except those rights as regards to our own products.

Original Poster of DeCSS Arrested DVD & DeCSS 5/2/2000; 4:09:32 PM Jan 25, 2000: Norwegian police officers have arrested the original poster of the DeCSS software. Does anybody know anything about Norwegian copyright law? DeCSS would have been legal in the country (or at least less illegal) until a couple of years ago, when the DMCA was passed. Is it even remotely illegal in Norway? Or are they just bowing to pressure?

Excuse me, are you human? Misc. 5/2/2000; 4:07:54 PM Jan 25, 2000: Should it be a crime to command a program to mis-represent itself as a human? Sounds like a good topic for Discussion. "I don't mean to suggest that companies like Nike and J.C. Penney will resort to reach-out marketing in the coming years. But some companies will, and it won't take many companies adopting these technologies before the online community is irreparably poisoned.

Teen Hacker's Home Raided DVD & DeCSS 5/2/2000; 4:05:53 PM Jan 25, 2000: A full story from Wired on the Norwegian teen who is responsible for DeCSS's arrest.

Liars, Damn Liars, and Marketers Privacy from Companies 5/2/2000; 4:04:37 PM Jan. 25, 2000: DoubleClick, one of the largest providers of banner ads on the net, having merged with a company with a large database about people's activities, appear to have decided that there's too much money to be made doing the obvious. "This is a blatant bait-and-switch trick," says Jason Catlett of Junkbusters Inc., an Internet-privacy consultancy. "For four years they have said (their services) don’t identify you personally, and now they're admitting they are going to identify you.

OpenDVD.org DVD & DeCSS 5/2/2000; 4:03:36 PM Jan 24, 2000: For direct-from-the-source updates on the DVD trial(s) going on, go to OpenDVD.org.

OpenDVD.org DVD & DeCSS 5/2/2000; 4:01:19 PM Jan 24, 2000: For direct-from-the-source updates on the DVD trial(s) going on, go to OpenDVD.org.