25 Feb 2006
Are Usenet fans vulnerable to copyright lawsuits?

The Web couldn't kill it, SPAM couldn't kill, even ignorance of it by the vast majority of today's netizens hasn't made it go away. But now the lawyers are going to give it a shot, and I fear for the future of the oldest operating network service...

Newsgroups predate P2P by 20 years or so, but they're finally being targeted by Hollywood. Who should worry?

(link) [CNET News.com]

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Emmy-winning comic actor Don Knotts dies at 81

One of the classic comics of his (or any) generation... RIP.

Reuters - Don Knotts, who won five Emmys for portraying the bungling deputy Barney Fife on the hit television program "The Andy Griffith Show," has died at age 81, a spokesman said on Saturday.

(link) [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

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