I’ve written for publication in a long time (I used to do quite a bit of freelance writing) is online now in Mindjack Magazine. It’s not an earthshattering treatise on the future of the world, but it was fun to get something out there regardless!
Archives for August 2000
Inside.com is running
and excellent “this is where we are” story today about Napster and the labels. BTW, there’s no such thing as a secure file format. I’m no crypto genius or anything, but it’s pretty clear to me that someone could “deCSS-ify” any such format – because at some point, the file has to be decrypted to play. Open is open, and may be intercepted by another program that could copy it.
Cool things about
Montreal on the web, exhibit A: an exhaustive study of Sushi in Montreal by Luc Devroye. I’ve been to several of the places mentioned, including Maiko last week, and he’s right on in his comments.
Wow – this is
amazing: Chile’s Pinochet Stripped of Immunity-Court Sources. I thought it would never happen in spite of the British/Spanish intervention a while ago. What a stunning development.
Since last week
, there have been several interesting articles that note the power of David Touretzky‘s testimony. The EFF noted it in their DVD Update [via Ed and Scripting News], Another take on it was published in a Wired News article explaining that the deCSS T-Shirt guys have been named defendants in the trial.
