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Jun 30 2001

How the NSA (government) is monitoring you

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. [...]

Jun 29 2001

HP forced to pay cd-burning fees

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

Jun 29 2001

Napster upgrade clips some clones

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.

Jun 28 2001

Scientist finds fungus that eats through compact discs

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

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  • Lethal: 1337x.org is owned by a two faced, retarded, 55 year old child molester named "Mustangx". He will promise you ...
  • malcolm hume: The times are getting shorter though, used to be forever before a video release and now it's a couple of months. So...
  • malcolm hume: The whole release schedule thing is annoying, but it helps them pay for the movies and minimize the risk. Most of the m...
  • malcolm hume: They're not trying to stop piracy altogether. They know there's a few people who will go to the trouble to do ...
  • malcolm hume: The other thing is, the basic system we have is Capitalist. Trying to change that by making artists conform to a seperat...
  • malcolm hume: Well, the first one is mob rule and I think if we go down that road we'll have a lot more probelms than not being a...
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