The offensive has begun. After the Napster victory, the RIAA is now requesting ISPs shut down copycat systems like OpenNap. I wonder how they’ll get around Gnutella and OpenNap servers in countries they don’t have a stranglehold on.
Another Outlook security hole has been discovered. Those annoying Vcards (you know, the .vcf attachments no one looks at) can be used to crash or remotely control your computer.
Employees of Belgian ISP World Online have gone on strike and taken over the company’s website in protest at the job cuts being planned by Italian company Tiscali which recently bought them out. The long Belgian tradition of strikes has gone virtual, you can even watch the strike on a live video stream.
Now that Napster is on the brink of disappearing into the music industry’s vortex, take a look at zeropaid.com for all the alternatives available out there.
Opera for mac, public technology preview 1, is now available for download.
Your mother told you not to talk to strangers, but she should warn you about travelling half-way across the world to hook up with a young girl you met in a chat room on the internet. She might just turn out to be a pensioner with a corpse in the freezer.
