17 Sep 2003
Petition Against Site Finder

Sign this. What Verisign is doing is bogus.

Petition Against Site Finder. We Internet users, who either own domain names or have an interest in the domain name system, wish to object to the VeriSign's Site Finder system. We believe that the system: 1) Breaks technical standards, by rewriting the expected error codes to instead point to VeriSign's pay-per-click web directory, and threatens the security and stability of the Internet; 2) Breaks technical standards affecting email services, and other Internet systems... [CircleID]

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Baby Bell to the Rescue

Of all the folks to stand up to the RIAA's idiotic subpoena campaign, I would hardly have expected a child of the Evil Empire (AT&T) itself to step to the fore. But they have! make of it what you will ...

SBC Refuses To Name File-Sharing Users [Slashdot]

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Orson Scott Card on Copyright

Another fine rant on the RIAA's crusade against it's customers.

Here's a snip:

...the people complaining about all the internet "thieves" are, by any reasonable measure, rapacious profiteers who have been parasitically sucking the blood out of copyrights on other people's work.

Orson Scott Card on mp3 File Sharing [Slashdot]

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