In The News

["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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On the Web, Research Work Proves Ephemeral: Electronic Archivists Are 
Playing Catch-Up in Trying to Keep Documents From Landing in History's 
Dustbin

By Rick Weiss, Washington Post.com, November 24, 2003; Page A08
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8730-2003Nov23.html

"It was in the mundane course of getting a scientific paper published 
that physician Robert Dellavalle came to the unsettling realization that 
the world was dissolving before his eyes."
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Senators ask P2P companies to police themselves
By John Borland, CNET News.com, November 21, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5110785.html

"A group of Washington lawmakers called on Friday for file-swapping 
companies to help stop distribution of copyrighted materials and 
pornography on their networks."
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University software knocks swappers offline
By Associated Press, Siliconvalley.com, Nov. 21, 2003
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/7320194.htm

"University of Florida officials say they're simply enforcing the law. 
But civil libertarians say the school has itself become an enforcer for 
the recording industry."
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Privacy commissioner slams music enforcers, cautions on DRM
By Julian Bajkowski, Computerworld, 24/11/2003
http://pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php?id=1749605766

"Federal Privacy Commissioner Malcom Crompton has attacked the tactics 
of the music antipiracy lobby, saying that those who ride roughshod over 
privacy in the hunt for pirates occupy the same moral ground as those 
they seek to have jailed."