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Have a Happy Holiday ! And all the Best for the New Year : ) person-to-person, people-to-people, peer-to-peer, 'puter-to-'puter Every Weekend | Issue 7 | Vol 1 | December 14-15, 2002

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Johansen - v - Hollywood Many (most?) prosecutions started by the RIAA and MPAA on behalf of 'Hollywood' are farces, murky and badly scripted. And none is more so than the trial featuring Jon Johansen, the 19-year-old programmer from Norway who came up with DeCSS, an app Hollywood contends lets people pirate DVD content. Read more... Solving the p2p dilema P2p is swamping some broadband networks, says a new Canadian company. But it thinks it has a solution ... Read more... Give the wookie what he wants! Words of wisdom from Tom O'Reilly. Read more... Want to hear news every 10 minutes? Meet MPN, a Linux/Windows p2p app from Germany for delivering decentralized, personalized and independent news. Read more...

RIAA's Christmas Treats The RIAA enlists New York cops to help it out. Read more... Shaping the Future of the Next Internet One-day Oxford Union public conference. Read more... US Secret Service teams up with RIAA RIAA brags it's now roped in the US Secret Service. Read more... Issues: iMesh - standing the test of time "... 'clean iMesh' versions are available across the Net. But, "iMesh has taken a passive approach to this software." Tom M talks with iMesh boss Elon Oren. Read more... Wares: DVD player / Ethernet and DivX support "Users will be able to download files from the PC and watch movies ..." Read more...