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70 Million File Sharers? Time To Build More Prisons! Following up from yesterday’s News.com article, Wired News reports that “The government is preparing a national crackdown on file traders that would crush the rogue swapping networks in the same manner hackers were pushed underground 12 years ago…. Washington lawmakers have been crafting bills that would…

Infoshop’s News Kiosk has discovered that the Italian newsmagazine Panorama has identified anarchist and Indymedia websites as aids to terrorists, including Infoshop.org and Indymedia.org. Chuck0 sizes things up pretty accurately: “This article would be pretty amusing, if it wasn’t for the long history of the media’s practice of defaming, lying, and misrepresenting radical groups. It…

And when thinking becomes illegal, all but the stupid will become criminals… News.com reports that the Dept. of Justice is prepared to begin prosecuting people using peer-to-peer networks to swap copyrighted material, like music, movies and software. Apparently, the DOJ intends to use a little-known law called the NET Act, that says ” it is…

Aj “Low Hug” Michel now has a blog — A Low Hug ‘Blog. Listen to her latest zine review segment on the radio show — it’s all about mini-comix!

Court Decides To Listen to Citizens in ReplayTV Case Per ZDNet News: ” U.S. District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper granted permission to combine a copyright lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation on behalf of the device owners and one filed by consumer electronics manufacturer Sonicblue, maker of ReplayTV….according to the judge’s ruling, the question…

Zine & Comix Info for the 8-16-02 edition of the mediageek radio show My guest A.j. Michel reviewed a pile of mini-comix and zines on the mediageek radio show. Click here for a page full of info and examples on these publications.

Gov’t and Politics Are Still a Media Trump-Card, Sold to the Highest Bidder Fast Company has this insightful little analysis by John Ellis, entitled “The Internet Power Grab.” In it Ellis argues that the new economy heroes of Silicon Valley were unduly dimissive of politics, and when that new economy slowed down, paid the price.…

So, now FCC Chairman Powell is putting on his regulator’s hat, with the Commission deciding today — with a 3 to 1 vote — to require that all TVs 36″ and bigger be digital capable by Spring 2004. I don’t know that I can hail this as a good thing, since the whole digital TV…

The folks at Lumpen reminded me of their existence. Lumpen’s a great scathing and often hilarious political magazine out of Chicago, that actually got its start here in little ol’ Champaign.

The second article in Wired News’ series on Clear Channel tackles the problems with automation: “But they also warn that stations run on automatic pilot will occasionally have accidents. That’s what happened at 9 a.m. on Sept. 11 when it took four hours for a cluster of automated Clear Channel stations in Harrisonburg, Virginia, to…