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Profits from piracy
Sam Williams
Evidence is mounting that cracking down on software copyright infringement may not be good for business. Case study: Microsoft in China.
Talking during the movies
Mark Yarm
Now fan-boys can prattle on about "Spider-Man" and "Mulholland Drive" on their own DVD commentary tracks. Will anybody listen?
Hydrotopia
Katharine Mieszkowski
Say goodbye to fossil fuels. Author and environmentalist Jeremy Rifkin explains why hydrogen is the next great power source.
Mozilla rising
Farhad Manjoo
Netscape won't dislodge Internet Explorer from its hegemony over browser space. But its open-source sibling is aiming at even bigger game: Windows.
Meet Mr. Anti-Google
Farhad Manjoo
A crusading webmaster says the popular search engine's page-ranking algorithm is "undemocratic."
“0wnz0red”
Cory Doctorow
Programmers who hack their own bodies don't need exercise and never get sick: A new short story from one of science fiction's bright young stars.
Buy Linux. It’s the law
Farhad Manjoo
A San Diego lawyer says California's state government should be forced to dump Microsoft in favor of open-source alternatives. But can free software get into politics without getting dirty?
“You Send Me” by Patricia T. O’Conner & Stewart Kellerman
Jonathon Keats
Two former New York Times editors explain how to express yourself correctly when writing online -- but why should we listen to them?
Switcher’s remorse
Astrid Storm
An Episcopal priest goes from Windows to Mac but then has second thoughts. Is her computing soul at risk?
The media titans still don’t get it
Scott Rosenberg
Corporate America lost billions on the Net. That doesn't mean the medium has no value -- but the moguls remain clueless about where it lies.
Gnutella bandwidth bandits
Farhad Manjoo
The file-trading network's developers are discovering that even their wide-open, free-for-all technology might need a little policing.
The bot who loved me
Katharine Mieszkowski
Are those secret-admirer e-mails real -- or just the latest excrescence of an Internet marketing machine grown unfathomably sleazy?
Sour notes
Farhad Manjoo
The legal crackdown hasn't squelched MP3 trading -- it's just made it more of a pain. But the music industry would still rather fight than give its online customers what they want.
Lawmakers addicted to the quick fix
Greg Harrison
Drug legislation like the proposed RAVE Act does more to promote illicit drug use than discourage it.
Can we trust Microsoft’s Palladium?
Farhad Manjoo
Critics say Redmond's new security initiative will imprison users. But why would Bill Gates want to do that?
Showdown in cyberspace: Star Wars vs. The Sims
Wagner James Au
If online role-playing games are ever going to break out of the hardcore gamer ghetto, they'll have to do more than please the geeks.
Dot-com noir
Brian McWilliams
When Internet marketing goes sour: A sordid tale of spyware, "junk traffic," bodybuilding and a half-baked plan for Hollywood glory.
Stalker tech
Randy Dotinga
Students at the University of California at San Diego are tracking their friends' locations with PDAs.
Not the real Slim Shady
Dan Levine
Are the fake MP3s popping up on file-sharing networks part of the recording industry's war on piracy, or just the latest in music marketing?
Getting a lock on broadband
Jeffrey Benner
How the FCC is paving the way for a few big companies to control everyone's high-speed Internet access.
The Netflix way
Damien Cave
Will the success of the pioneering DVD-rental company convince a reluctant music industry to embrace its own subscription strategy?
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