Monthly Archives: July 2000

I have finally succeeded in signing up for a public, at-large membership at ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, after multiple attempts to get through to the organization’s overloaded membership server. You should sign up, too. ICANN … Continue reading →

Clay Shirky: Blurring the Lines (Business 2.0). With Napster, you register a name for your PC and every time you connect, it makes your current IP address an alias to that name, instead of the other way around. This inversion … Continue reading →

The Recording Industry Association of America is thumping its collective chest about beating Napster in court. But it hasn’t really changed the landscape very much. More in my Friday column. British Government to Everyone: We’re Listening The infamous Regulation of … Continue reading →

The infamous Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) bill has now passed (Industry Standard), and an unprecedented level of surveillance of online communications will haunt anyone using e-mail in the U.K. Once again, the British government has shown its absolute contempt … Continue reading →

The Recording Industry Association of America is thumping its collective chest about beating Napster in court. But it hasn’t really changed the landscape very much. More in my Friday column. Comments

Bob Metcalfe: What’s next for TCP/IP? Instead of HTML over HTTP over TCP over IP over ATM over SONet (Synchronous Optical Network), how about some real protocol disintermediation — like Napster directly on the lambdas of DWDM (dense wavelength division … Continue reading →

Dave Winer, who writes the Scripting News page and has been a big supporter of Napster, emailed me these questions: Has the newspaper industry suffered because they’re giving away their copyrighted content on the Internet? Can the experience in this … Continue reading →

Dave Winer, who writes the Scripting News page and has been a big supporter of Napster, emailed me these questions: Has the newspaper industry suffered because they’re giving away their copyrighted content on the Internet? Can the experience in this … Continue reading →

This is the best piece of spam I’ve received in a long time: Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 3:25 AMTo: dgillmor@sjmercury.comSubject: Horse Chiropractic Seminar Learn how to adjust horses. Dr. Daniel Kamen, D.C. is offering equine chiropractic seminars around the … Continue reading →

(Note: This is a revised, and shortened, version of a piece I originally posted here. A response from a trusted colleague who was in court prompts me to rethink a few things. I’ll be updating in this space.) Napster looks … Continue reading →