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Remember those really old education or propogada videos from the 40's and 50's? Now you can download them from the internet. Stuff like
"'Atomic Alert' - Frightening civil defense procedure film aimed at Cold War-era elementary school
students."
And on the subject of remember old thing, Project Gutenburg puts
old books whose copyrights have expired up on the internet for reading. So if you ever wanted to
read Shakespeare or Dickens, but don't want to trek out to the library, you can now read it on your
computer screen. I personally could never read a whole book on a regular computer screen, I'd much
rather curl up in bed with a paperback. But those handheld readers sound really interesting, and
eventually I think electronic books will become commonplace. They probally won't ever totally
replace regular books however.
Napster announced how they
would change Napster to a pay scheme yesterday. They will encrypt the songs so that you can only
trade them with Napster. The change is scheduled to take place in June sometime, assuming Napster is
still alive by then and not sued into oblivion.
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