Another university bans Napster, claiming that 50% of the campus bandwidth was consumed by the program. "This was not a knee-jerk reaction," Bruhn said. "We started looking at this since the middle of January."

Cookies and the privacy invasions they've been used for (note: 'been used for', not 'caused') should be treated as all-new types of crimes that may, upon further inspection, happen to bear some relationships to old-style crimes.

Comments solicited. There's a Discussion group waiting.

Of interest is that I believe this provides an adequate explanation of why I am of the opinion that Third Voice is a direct assault on free speech of people with web pages. It's not as strange as it sounds, a pretty good case can be made for it.

The whole contents of the new piece could probably be summed up as "Sure, it seems harmless now... but it won't be so harmless later." Still, it can be sobering to take a survey of everything that's happening right now. Even if you know all of this stuff, it may still be worth reading for the perspective.

I've updated the Purpose of this site... not only does it still have the old purpose, which I'm now calling this site's Mission Statement, but it also includes my answer to the legitimate question, "Why should we care about the issues I talk about on iRights, when so many of them seem unimportent now?" in my new piece, State of the Web.

I disagree strongly... technical problems are not going to stand in the way of making a great website. There are other, bigger problems in the works.

Seybold Musings: The One-Person Web Is Dead: "If you're someone who just got used to the idea of making Web pages, saving them to your hard drive, and then uploading them to a Web server, I have begun to sound like I'm from Mars. But that's the whole point -- the whole process of creating Web sites is evolving into something really big. Been planning on mourning the day when the Web transforms from being a medium where regular joes can get their message out to the world to a medium totally dominated by big media companies with lots of expensive staff and technical experts? Break out the black frock, because the time is now."

More demonstration of why I don't find it impossible to believe that those who would trample our rights can win in the end: An article speculating (though I don't think too wildly) on the real motivations behind the DVD lawsuits. After all, the MPAA don't need to squash all other options, only prevent the public from ever thinking of them as real options.