stories about the deCSS ruling: DeCSS judge: Code isn’t free speech [Salon], Reactions to the DeCSS decision [IDG.net], Passionate reactions to the DeCSS decision online [Network World Fusion], Analysis: DeCSS Ruling Puts Free Speech At Stake [ZDNet], Judge in DVD-Hacker Trial Rules in Favor of Movie Studios [Inside].
I’m just catching up
to the story about the ruling in the 2600 case. If you haven’t been following it, well, industry won. I can’t figure out how the guy who was moved, some might even say shaken, by Touretzky’s testimony turned around and dismissed it out of hand when it came time to rule. Sometimes I’m convinced that there are pod people who step in when real humans look like they’re going to do something against the wishes of big industry.
My friend MJ and I
, among others, have been jawing about Napster and mp3 in general for months, usually over beers at our local watering hole. MJ has put it together in a great story in Hour this week. Ironically, as I read the story I decided I had to listen to Neil Young’s Thrasher. So I grabbed it – took but a minute.
The big news
while I was away (no, not the sub or DemCon2K) was that my friend Michael‘s company was bought by Peregrine Systems, which is really cool. Someday I want to start a business with Michael, or to work for him or something like that. He is a huge geek in a way that I am not nor will ever be – and he’s also deeply interested in the more personal, quotidian applications of networking and whatnot. I like people who can work the heavy steel end of networking and the web but also understand and appreciate the everyday, individual applications as well.
Speaking of home
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