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FAQ: Respond to an RIAA Lawsuit

Here's a webpage with some answers to FAQs about being sued by the RIAA.

It's the kind of thing you want to have read before you need it, much like the ACLU reference card about how to handle being arrested by police.

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Thomas Paine Said This but He's Dead

Here's the text of Thomas Paine's Common Sense pamphlet.

Is it just me or does it still seem pertinent?

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One ICE Fits All

This seems a misguided but interesting project to be all things to all people in the realm of monitoring systems against intrusion attempts and alerting in response. I'm not sold on the concept but I do like to see new projects, especially ambitious ones.

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Peer to Peer Considered

This is a reminder for myself to go read this paper about P2P impact on a particular network when I have a spare moment.

You could go read it, too, but I haven't read it so I can't tell you if it's worth reading. YMMV.

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Invisible, Insane

I think I forgot to mention this when I first read about it, but I read about an improvement on the freenet project [which seems prudent, since when I attempted to run a freenet node, it thrashed my bandwidth and disk nonstop loudly enough that I couldn't sleep or be online on DSL with it present] named Entropy and it seems pretty cool.

I should also probably mention plausibly deniable crypto en passant, rubberhose.

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