www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,50688,00.htm
The Spudmeister feels like he's cheating a bit here, directing you to a mere article, but it may foretell the next step in digital piracy. The tool tomorrow's pirates are using today is the iPod.
www.sho.com/alt/index.cfm
When the Net was young, investors stupid, bandwidth narrow and watching streamed video was like staring into a strobe light, free entertainment was always a couple clicks away. And so much of it was high quality -- at least the frames we could actually see. Fast-forward to 2002 and you don't have to look very hard to find an irony in the fact that today's streaming software catches all the frames, but all the early content providers have gone out of business. The sites aren't coming back, but the corporate sector is beginning to see the void as a business/marketing opportunity. Here's another irony: You have to pay your cable company to get Showtime, but Showtime is offering these cool shorts for free.
www.EnronOwnsTheGOP.com
Time was when you could shaft your employees and not even the media would give them a sounding board for more than a 24-hour news cycle. Nowadays all your new unemployed enemies can rake you over the Internet. These pages detail the Enron debacle so well, the authors have already been sued by the company's bankrupt remnants.