Next week: the RIAA tries to make portscanners as criminal piracy tools,
and activity on port 6699 as 'probable cause'
SINCE MONDAY, the Recording Industry
Association of America, the main trade group
representing
record labels, has sent about 60 legal notices to
the
Internet-service companies that provide Web
connections
for �Open Napster� servers. These are computers
that run
Napster-like software, but aren�t associated with
the
Redwood City, Calif., company�s service.
Numerous free programs, such as one called
�Napigator,� can be downloaded from the Internet and
used to locate Open Napster servers. Napigator
author
http://www.msnbc.com/news/535001.asp
Chad Boyda said there are about 350 such machines
operating, though the number varies daily.
.......
Unbeknown to the latter, Marks had already cracked General de Gaulle's
private cypher
in a spare moment on the lavatory.
