Word: outlaw
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...mainstreaming of Napster - and the capitulation of Big Music to the looming future of a music business without $15 plastic discs - began Tuesday with a surprise deal between the online free-music outlaw and German publishing giant Bertelsmann (home of BMG, one of music's Big Five). The upshot: Napster just changed the "free...
...cause of one America. A leader must stand up against the forces of bigotry and make national unity a top priority. Vice President Al Gore '69 has led on civil rights and he will continue to lead with a new Civil Rights Bill for the year 2001 to outlaw racial profiling and increase the enforcement of laws against hate crimes...
Clearly, the fact that it is so easy to copy digital material makes it hard to outlaw doing so, and people seem inclined to do what is easy and fun. Theft in the digital world, whether of software or of songs, does not seem to carry the moral freighting of theft in the material world--of shoplifting a CD, for example. Yet the fact that we may not be able to prevent theft on a small scale does not mean we should condone it on a large scale...
...diamonds from Angolan rebels and has since scrambled to burnish its public image. In March, De Beers began selling stones with guarantees that they had not originated in war-torn areas. With its London announcement, the company went further, demanding that clients sign assurances not to buy diamonds from outlaw producers...
...attended horror movies, read vivid comic books, gorged on a diet of rock 'n roll. (And what was the most extreme TV genre of the decade? Wrestling.) Somehow I survived; miraculously, so did my parents, nice conservative Catholics who monitored but chose not to restrict a boy's outlaw tastes...