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Even when you've mastered the tricks of trading peer to peer, there are all sorts of hidden pitfalls. Files can take forever to download. Servers can crash or go offline before you finish. Files advertised as containing one song may hold another. Or they may contain a so-called cuckoo egg--a gotcha message posted by anti-Napster activists. Last week Napster users downloading the new Barenaked Ladies single, Pinch Me, and got a version implanted with a "Trojan horse": a spoken message from the band telling fans to buy the song instead. Worse still, P2P files may harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Crisis of Content | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...them clean the toilets and let them scrub the floor") and another verse against "the media, those mighty millionaires/ Who weave their little fictions sitting on their derrieres" and the chorus, of course, about truth marching on. The rabble got highly aroused, and some people could hardly contain their joy as they sang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exile On Main Street | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

Unlike Brown last week, Lafayette comes into this game looking to contain Morris and Rose...

Author: By Mackie Dougherty, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Football Looks to Outshoot Leopards | 9/29/2000 | See Source »

Christina Aguilera seems too small to contain her voice. The 19-year-old singer's bare waist--so thin you'd think it could fit between two parentheses--looks too tiny to support the strong, soulful melismata that flow from her lips. In fact, Aguilera's talent seems to require more space than the teen-pop world can provide. While Mandy Moore and the like go comfortably about the business of churning out plastic pop--and Britney Spears manufactures successful distractions like her strip tease at the recent MTV Video Music Awards--Aguilera's vocals strain and flutter against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Inner Visions | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...find anything about the Forbidden City or the Great Wall in the section on China, but the guide does contain useful advice about navigating the Beijing subway and bus systems. It also contains tips on drinking in Australian pubs (never leave your glass on the bar upside down unless you're prepared to duke it out with everyone in the place) and on early-morning bird watching in Sydney. And where else could you learn to navigate your way between two locations in Antarctica? "From personal experience gained while drunk and freezing, I would like to mention that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Sci-Fi Meets The Net | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

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