Yahoo is running an interesting story on the governments electronic surveillance system. Echelon, if you don’t already know, is the National Security Agency’s (NSA) electronic surveillance system, designed to monitor telephone calls, faxes, and e-mails worldwide. The system looks for words or phrases that could be used by terrorist organizations to plot their next attack. [...]

A German court has ordered computer giant Hewlett-Packard Corp. to pay fees on all compact disc burners sold in the country over the last three years, upholding a new law meant to take a bite out of music piracy. As reported by AP

News.com reports that Napster has released a new version, screwing over the Napster clone industry. Says Kelly Truelove of clip2, “Napster with its new client has not only blocked access to Napster from its cloned client, it’s also made it impossible to utilize the Napster client to connect to the clone server” Oops.

check it out: the uk’s telegraph is reporting: “Friends complained that in the hot and sticky Central American climate, a CD had stopped working and had developed an odd discoloration that left parts of it virtually transparent.” Sounds like fungus to me