Word: lawlessness
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...inglorious way for a princess--warrior or otherwise--to end her reign, but if nothing else, the series Xena: Warrior Princess seemed to come to a definitive conclusion. After six seasons, the show's final episode saw Xena, played by LUCY LAWLESS, being riddled with arrows and decapitated. Her corpse was later hanged from a tree and cremated. On the plus side, she did vanquish some evil spirits. But that wasn't enough to pacify fans of the show. An angry rabble has taken to the Internet, complaining on fan sites of the violent nature of Xena's death...
...needs its Robin Hood. Before we give a few pop stars a multi-million dollar pat on the back and put our tails between our legs, ashamed of our overflowing hard-drives, perhaps we should consider getting pissed off. Napster has been regulated and commercialized, stripped of its lawless integrity. Apparently a grass-roots industry was just too good to be true...
...choice advocates called it terrorism, illegal under the U.S. Supreme Court's description of "explicit threats of imminent lawless action...
...working too well. Usually, technology and business race ahead to new frontiers, while the rules necessary to constrain behavior in these areas struggle to catch up. In the 19th century, vagabonds and fools flocked west seeking their fortune, and in some places, like mining towns, they built a virtually lawless society. Only later, when sheriffs and judges arrived, did these areas begin to achieve a degree of civilization. In the 1980s, Wall Street invented new financial instruments like junk bonds and mortgage-backed bonds, only to abuse these Byzantine new securities because no one else understood them. When the courts...
...users proved that online music distribution was a feasible opportunity. Still, the chaotic interim period simply did not last long enough. The recording industry sued Napster within a year of its founding, and with the Patel ruling now on the books, the door has officially been closed on the lawless period of Internet music distribution. No one knows if Napster's model could even produce a viable business, as Napster has been a free service since Day 1, and now with the law firmly against Napster, we may never know...