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Another sad day has come for our comrades down in New Haven. Yale University has adopted new policies to severely restrict students’ use of Kazaa, a popular Internet file-sharing program. By limiting Kazaa connections to snail-like speeds and employing a private eye to spy on students’ music preferences, Yale is moving ever closer to the closed-minded, medieval mood that its architecture does so much to create...
According to the Yale Daily News, Yale officals say the university has “hired an agent to identify illicit file sharing.” The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act is cited as the motivation behind this move, though the act only requires service providers to remove or block access to copyrighted information after receiving notification from the copyright’s owner. To top it off, Yale has reduced the maximum possible Kazaa connection speed to a slothly 50 kb per second, allowing students to download a sizeable movie over the course of about a week...
Students can update their password-protected file at any time to track their most recent drinking habits and can also read up on articles such as “Beer Bellies: What really causes that not-so-cute tummy?” and “Having Sober Sex: Leaving the Love Light...
...basic legal premise that one is innocent until proved guilty seems to be ignored by the Wilmington, Del., police who are detaining innocent people on the street in high-crime areas and taking their pictures to file in a database [LAW, Sept. 23]. While police have the right to take photographs in a public place, they are on a slippery slope when it comes to searching and detention. It seems that being African American makes one a police target. And if the only cause for a search is being black, doesn't that mean any contraband found would be viewed...
...apparent suicide ambush on U.S. Marines on the Kuwaiti island of Failaka. After killing one service member, the Kuwaitis were shot to death by U.S. forces. The attackers had reportedly trained in terror camps in Afghanistan. Arab officials say that al-Qaeda leaders, in communications with rank and file, are using the potential campaign against Iraq to rally for a new round of violence. With the Pentagon planning to move as many as 250,000 troops into the region in advance of a possible invasion, some experts believe that al-Qaeda will call for a renewed jihad against...