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...downloading itself which excites. The ease and facility of these downloads, euphemistically labeled “shareware” (“blightware?? is more like it), has spawned a culture of what specialists (me) call “e-donism.” The e-donist downloads indiscriminately, with multiple and anonymous partners, sometimes for a two-minute quickie with a basic screensaver program, sometimes for an extended fling with one of the well-endowed Internet browser conglomerates. And for what? That fleeting moment of recreation which quickly dissolves into years of blinking icons and burning regret...

Author: By Couper Samuelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: System Tainted by Download | 10/30/2001 | See Source »

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