A US federal appeals court panel on has heard arguments and responded with numerous questions about a far-reaching case over the rights of online publishers to link to controversial material.
The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.
Can you stop the digital music? Even if Napster is stopped in its tracks, Gnutella has made that legal battle irrelevant, say attendees of the Hacking on Planet Earth 2000 (H2K) conference.
Are computer codes a form of free speech? A US federal judge says no, barring the publisher of a hacker e-zine, '2600', from republishing code to unscramble DVDs. Universal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Time Warner should be happy.
What will be the next hacktivism target? Inspired by the Seattle protests, hackers and activists make plans at H2K after a political awakening, of sorts
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