It's funny 'cause it's true.

So now we have shitty programmers implimenting a incomplete spec of a shitty and unmanageable protocol, all the while saying it isn't a tool for piracy while they are downloading mp3, porn, and DVDs. Makes me proud to share the network with them. :-P

In some sense, that's an advantage for free software like Linux; Linux has already adjusted to an economy where nobody pays for software. You can't pirate Linux.

Of course, such a low tech solution now-a-days would be of little use. Copy protection stopped because it ceased to be worth annoying the consumer; it might start being worth it again in the near future for commercial companies.

Random thoughts: Remember copy-protection on software? Will Gnutella and the like, making "piracy" a matter of opening a program and typing in the name of the desired software, rather then a 30-60 minute hunt on the web for a working FTP site, bring back the days of black print on dark wine red paper?

Me, I'd like a little Jefferson... But unfortunately I just made that one up, it's not a Zeldman... and it seems to violate the Zeldman principle, which I won't try to articulate.

In the Zeldman race, Privacy Digest grabbed the only decent icon IMHO: Nice grab.

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Misc: I've started removing the intermediate pages that Manila defaults to. You can log on from any page and log off from any page without going to an intermediate. Now I'm pushing that one step further: You can reply to my posts directly on the news pages. You'll need to be logged in, and you automatically get a title Re: [today's date]. If you read the backissues, you can reply to those and you'll get the correct title too.

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