bring on the clones

[David Honig]

Next week: the RIAA tries to make portscanners as criminal piracy tools,
and activity on port 6699 as 'probable cause'




SINCE MONDAY, the Recording Industry
                          Association of America, the main trade group
representing
                          record labels, has sent about 60 legal notices to
the
                          Internet-service companies that provide Web
connections
                          for “Open Napster” servers. These are computers
that run
                          Napster-like software, but aren’t associated with
the
                          Redwood City, Calif., company’s service.
                                 Numerous free programs, such as one called
                          “Napigator,” can be downloaded from the Internet and
                          used to locate Open Napster servers. Napigator
author


http://www.msnbc.com/news/535001.asp
                          Chad Boyda said there are about 350 such machines
                          operating, though the number varies daily. 
.......
Unbeknown to the latter, Marks had already cracked General de Gaulle's
private cypher 
in a spare moment on the lavatory.