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...Torture is foreplay, rape is romance, snuff is climax," reads the preface of a sexual fantasy posted on the newsgroup `alt.sex.stories' by Jake Baker, a sophomore at the University of Michigan...
...newsgroup posts, Lopez providedinstructions for students to create their own homepages...
...sophomore, has just learned that a little creative writing on the Internet can lead to jail -- at least, when it's a fantasy about raping, torturing and murdering a real person. Baker, 20, was arrested in Ann Arbor for having posted a lurid sex-murder fantasy on the Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.stories last November. "Torture is foreplay, rape is romance, snuff (killing) is climax," one of Baker's messages read. Ordinarily, the story might never drawn outside attention, but Baker got into trouble for giving his fictional victim the name of a real female student in one of his classes...
Many students involved with computers atHarvard said they know this information isavailable. One student even posted a message tothe "harvard.general" newsgroup last semesterwarning of the danger of the command...
...judging from the traffic on the Usenet newsgroup called alt.fan.bill-gates (but hardly a fan club), the last person in the world to whom Internet users would willingly yield control is the chairman of Microsoft. "The Net has a culture," says John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Everyone who goes there takes on some of it. And that culture has a strong immune response to Bill Gates and Microsoft...