Economist.com | Illegal file-sharers under attack

Mar 24th 2005
From The Economist Global Agenda

The entertainment industry is taking its battle against illegal downloading to America’s Supreme Court. But attacking the technology behind file-sharing could stifle innovation without tackling the industry’s long-term problems
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Times Online – Newspaper Edition

By Caroline Merrell

EGG, the internet bank, said yesterday that it was still in talks with potential buyers over its 1.2 billion sale, as it unveiled worse then expected full-year losses.
The loss of 34.4 million was more than double the 16 million loss recorded for 2002.

The bank, majority owned by the Prudential, was put up for sale at the end of last year, in the wake of that online bank�s disastrous foray in to the French banking market.
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Yahoo! News – Risks Seen in Pentagon’s Internet Voting Plan

Wed Jan 21, 6:47 PM ET

By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government should abandon an Internet-voting system planned by the Pentagon (news – web sites) because hackers could easily tamper with election results, several computer-science professors said on Wednesday.
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