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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Wed, 06 Sep 2000 12:00:00 GMT
Kevin Tuma - On Borrowed Time: cartoon commentary on the U.N. Millennium Summit. Not funny.

[new DeCSS story at end]

Gene Callahan and Stu Morgenstern at LewRockwell.com - Let's Get Serious About the War on Drugs: the real gateway drug. LOL! [lew]

Copyleft has been added as a defendent to the DVD-CCA case in California. Click on the OpenDVD T-shirt for a paragraph with links to images of the legal papers. [thinkhole]

Eun-Kyung Kim of AP via Yahoo News - Nader Speaks on Hemp Restrictions: Ralph Nader speaks out in favor of industrial hemp, the non-psychoactive cousin of marijuana. Bravo, Mr. Nader! [unknown]

The Drug Enforcement Administration and other federal agencies are greatly out of touch with the American public in enforcing their medieval rules regarding industrial hemp.

Stefanie Olsen at CNET - European pot site puts launch on back burner: iToke is delaying the launch of their Amsterdam marijuana delivery service. [script]

RSA Security - RSA Security Releases RSA Encryption Algorithm into Public Domain: Yay! [/.]

J.J. & Nancy Johnson at Sierra Times - Would you sign this petition? A constitutional convention to vote on a proposed amendment: [sierra]

The right of self-medication, to improve health or alleviate pain, shall not be infringed to persons of suffrage age, and Congress shall have no power to make law in regulation of Interstate Commerce or General Welfare to deny this right of the people.

WND Poll - Is the U.N. a good thing? so far 65% of the 3144 votes are for the option I picked: "U.S. should pull out" of the U.N. There are 9 options. [wnd]

Mary Jo Anderson at WorldNetDaily - Gorbachev proposes huge U.N. expansion: the fun has started in NYC. And the U.S. is set up to be the loser. [wnd]

Nicholas Petreley at LinuxWorld - Napster and DeCSS: Is it about free speech or free stuff?: if you want music to be free, create free music, just as the people who want software to be free are creating free software. Why DeCSS is not criminal even if you believe in intellectual property. It allows you to watch a DVD disk you've legally purchased. It does NOT make it easier to copy. [script]

Let me put this another way. If this is really about principles and not greed, then I would like to issue a challenge to you Napster advocates who insist that this is a matter of free speech. I suggest you create a new peer-to-peer networking system for software. I'll call this hypothetical system Crookster. I challenge you to make all your favorite commercial software applications freely available to anyone who downloads the Crookster client. But don't do this anonymously like the warez doodz and crackers do. Do it for the cause, because you believe that information truly wants to be free.

And here's a tip for those who genuinely want to draw media attention to your righteous cause. I suggest you start by sharing your copy of Windows 2000 with the world. I guarantee you'll get coverage on all the major networks.

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