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Which helps explain why corporations from IBM to General Motors are falling over themselves to do deals with the Web auction giant. Disney auctioned off the "D" from the original Disneyland sign. Technology titan Sun Microsystems sold server hardware on the site with million-dollar starting prices. Yet despite such big-league partnerships, it's still the little guy that counts. Unlike your local mall, eBay would not survive for a second without mom and pop operations. Its entire success is predicated on extreme diversity. And you can forget about the pernicious influence of Madison Avenue. In this hypermodern arena...
Davis said the reason why traffic-shaping causes such problems is that it gives priority to well-known network traffic, such as web-browsing, Telnet and FTP traffic. Any outgoing information that is not so well known by the server is sent into a pending cue, where it waits until there is a lull in overall network traffic...
...Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) had already sent more than 60 letters to ISPs of servers running OpenNap, an open-source program that uses the Napster protocol to provide similar peer-to-peer indexing. A user of OpenNap first employs any of a number of client programs (like Napster's MusicShare) to open up a hard drive for outside access; a list of contents are then uploaded to the OpenNap server, which does nothing but publish a directory of connected clients and offer a means of searching them. Any downloads are conducted between users, and the files--any file...
...category of fair use does not take care of the conflicts between free speech and contributory copyright infringement, which the Supreme Court has never addressed in a non-commercial environment. OpenNap isn't engaged in any commercial activity: it merely reports on the status of connected servers. If a newspaper reported that "A large pile of CD's ready for copying have been sighted on a park bench on 53rd St.," no one would dream of taking them to court--but if it wrote that "The file foo.txt can be found on a server at 140.247.83.245," this might constitute contributory...
...Internet, as a medium, is inherently two-way. Hosting a private server so that I can access my personal files remotely, running a public video game server so that I can shoot virtual rockets at my buddies and placing a webcam to show streaming video of my roommate's goldfish--these are all as much part of "the Internet" as browsing the web or leeching music. Indeed, these days, new personal computers come with free space to host a website. The Internet's potential as a means of obtaining information is great, but its potential as a means of self...