We'd Like To Have Our Cake And Eat It Too: 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." but it might as well have been.

A new section: Glossary, starting with definitions of Deep Linking and Scraping. New problem need new words, or at least new meanings, but that can keep people who don't know them out of the coversation.

Would appreciate details if anyone knows... please leave a message in the Discussion area.

If they're just bowing to pressure, then be worried if you're not an American. Apparently, you're subject to our laws as well as your own copyright laws.

Original Poster of DeCSS Arrested: 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?: 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."

More bad news for DVD defendents: The 21 defendants have to take the code in contention down from their sites. Meanwhile, the rest of us aren't under the order. Of course, I don't have a copy...

Kevin Mitnick is banned from using computers for three years. I think my fiance (who's not even a computer person) summed it up the best: "You know, murderers get to hang out with people."

Upstart Says Hello to AOL's ICQ: Odigo has been extended to work with ICQ's network. Odigo has earned a "Boundary Breaker" entry, which is pending my completion of my discussion of web pages, and my use of the software. Stay tuned!