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...David Boies, who's getting more accustomed to legal surrender these days than he'd probably like, announced in Judge Marilyn Patel's courtroom Friday that Napster would this weekend install a "filter" designed to prevent users from downloading any of the 6,500 infringed-by-Napster-users songs that the Recording Industry of America has been kind enough to provide. Negotiations will continue next week, but the war would seem to be over...
ISPs are already required to respond to requests to remove copyrighted materials--so copyright authors already have a remedy. Burdening search engines and other indexing services with a responsibility to filter their results through an RIAA-approved list would only slow their searches and dragoon their employees into the service of the copyright industry...
...Other connections between Diana and me may be more related to our matching DNA and thus more applicable to clones. My twin and I filter information in much the same way, and we think, perceive and interpret things similarly. When we're together, we often respond simultaneously with the same word or sentence. We have put on the same T shirt on the same day in different cities. We have friends who are twins, both doctors, who have similar experiences. They took a pharmacy class together in medical school but sat across the classroom from each other and took separate...
...stay alive, Napster will need the cooperation of the big record labels--the very labels it has tormented until now. And, oh, by the way, Napster also needs a major technological overhaul so it can sort through the millions of files shared on its site every day and filter out the illegal ones. "Welcome to my world," Barry says with a sigh...
Lint People, meanwhile, was merely cute, an animated trifle about characters made from those useless bits of fuzz and stuffing that come loose from your clothes in the dryer. If cleaning the lint filter is the highlight of your lazy Saturday, then the film’s final shot will make you break down and weep tender, knowing tears. Otherwise, don’t rush...