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...best be described as laid-back libertarians--they don't like laws encroaching on their territory, but they're usually too busy to care. Sklyarov's arrest changed all that. Since the DMCA makes it a criminal offense merely to make the tools that some hacker might use to crack security on a copyrighted document, hundreds of programmers suddenly feared they might also fall afoul of it. "I've been a programmer for 10 years, and this is the kind of thing you have to do all the time," says Evan Prodromou, one of the organizers of the Free Sklyarov...
...Last week Argentina moved closer to defaulting on its $128 billion in debt, an amount equal to about half its GDP. "Argentina's domestic financial shield may be beginning to crack," observes international economist Shandra Modi of IDEAglobal, a consulting firm in New York...
...bring SUVs up to miles-per-gallon snuff. And while the House Energy and Commerce Committee has passed a compromise proposal to tighten the standards by about 1 mpg (theoretically saving 5 billion gallons between 2004 and 2010), House Democrats - joined by their Senate counterparts readying for their own crack at energy legislation - are pushing for a much more ambitious measure...
...Local police around the nation--particularly in the Southwest and along the East Coast--were taught to profile these couriers. In 1999, Donnie Marshall, then No. 2 at the DEA, proudly told Congress that Operation Pipeline had led to seizures of 116,188 kg of cocaine, 748 kg of crack and 872,777 kg of marijuana, and that half a billion dollars in drug money had been seized...
...foreign broadcasters might play along, and possibly even self-censor their programs, to keep the Chinese monopoly happy. Far less clear is whether Beijing has the power to control the 1,200 municipal cable operators scattered across the country or to crack down on those who pirate encrypted signals. "I don't think it really changes the present situation for receiving unauthorized programming," says William Wade, an executive at Hong Kong-based satellite operator Asiasat. For one thing, the satellite programs now being received in homes are relatively uncensored and subscriptions for illegal cable service are dirt cheap?the government...