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+date: "2000-05-15T13:09:00Z"
+title: Witchhunts, Lawyers, and the RIAA... Oh My!
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+
+Well, I've been working on a bunch of small stuff.  I wrote a quick 
+bookmark wrapper for feh called cam, you can probably find more info
+over on <a href="http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/">Tom Gilbert's</a> (aka
+gilbertt on #e) page.  Oh yeah, I've also been reading
+<a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org">Kuro5hin</a> a lot lately; they're
+kinda like Slashdot, only smaller and easier to digest (ie less stupid
+people).  Oh yeah, I wrote a neat little auto-refresh JavaScript so
+raster's web cams would updated without a page refresh.  Check it out
+on <a href="http://www.rasterman.com">raster's page</a>.
+<br /><br />
+
+I found an
+<a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory&amp;sid=2000/5/13/222627/304">
+interesting article</a> that seems to ahve been lost in the all the
+RIAA vs. Napster noise.  Hey, if you're one of the
+<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,36290,00.html">300,000
+people who were banned from Napster</a>, don't let it get you down.  You
+can always <a href="http://www.paylars.com">pay Lars</a>,
+<a href="http://www.newgrounds.com/assassin/metallica/index.html">
+assasinate Metallica</a>, or just
+<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,36290,00.html">keep
+using Napster anyway</a>.  I prefer the latter; the
+<a href="http://www.riaa.org">RIAA</a> really overprices CDs
+(<a href="http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/05/10/1246256&amp;cid=304">here
+</a> is an excellent Slashdot post justifying my position).  Either way,
+this whole thing is silly; the RIAA and their lawyers will eventually
+put Napster down.  Unfortunately, they're fighting a losing battle: 
+<a href="http://www.bigredh.com/">Hotline</a> (and the unofficial 
+<a href="http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/947382039/">Linux client</a>),
+FTP, and <a href="http://www.icq.com">ICQ</a>  are here to stay, and 
+peer-to-peer search solutions are on the way (check out 
+<a href="http://gnutella.wego.com/go/wego.group.group?groupId=116705">Gnutella</a>,
+<a href="http://freenet.sourceforge.net/">Freenet</a>, and
+<a href="http://opennap.sourceforge.net/">OpenNAP</a>
+if you're interested).  And before I get a bunch of junk mail, this is
+__not__ about <b>piracy</b>:
+<a href="http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=piracy">piracy
+is theft, rape, and murder on the high seas</a>,
+not exchanging computer data (I'll reserve the discussion about 
+the effect of mass marketing memes effecting the connotation and 
+eventually the denotation -- as witnessed by the second definition under
+the first result returned by that link -- for another day).  I plan
+on writing a paper about
+this soon (I need to do somehting to the <a href="/bits/">Bits</a> page
+or remove it from my navigation bar), but the gist of the situation is
+this: people have been exchanging music via cassette tapes for almost
+20 years with little or no intervention from the RIAA (ie they have
+_not_ sued the makers of high-speed CD-to-cassette dubbing equipment),
+yet they prop up <a href="http://www.encycmet.com/">a cookie-cutter
+band with a lot of mind-share due to a musical fad from over 15 years
+ago</a> and use them to attack
+<a href="http://www.napster.com">a method of sharing music</a>  which
+is statistically insignificant when compared against to the method
+which the RIAA is implicitly condoning.  Why?  Because greed is a
+powerful motivator, the public doesn't really understand what's going
+on, and big corporations don't like technological innovations fucking
+with their distribution channels.  Whew, this news post is getting a
+bit hefty, so I'll stop there.
+<br /><br />
+
+<a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/05/06/1512219&amp;mode=nested">
+This Slashdot article</a> is a pretty funny discussion about Computer
+Support people: I like
+<a href="http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/05/06/1512219&amp;cid=14">
+this comment</a>, but
+<a href="http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/05/06/1512219&amp;cid=44">
+this one</a> takes the cake. In case anyone is interested, I
+added a <a href="/screenshots/">Screenshots</a> page, and I plan on
+adding a new shot every week or so.  Speaking of keeping things up to
+date, the <a href="/projects/">Projects</a> page is due up for an
+overhaul.  I have a ton of new goodies to add, and none of my active
+projects are currently up.  Basically, I've been spending all my time
+<a href="http://mindprod.com/unmain.html">writing code</a>, and
+playing <a href="http://www.quake3arena.com">Quake 3 Arena</a>.
+