Music piracy/ INDUSTRY LOSES CASE TO TEEN
For the second time, a 17-year-old Swede on Monday beat lawyersrepresenting the international music industry when he was cleared ina Joenkoping, Sweden, appeals court of illegally downloading hundredsof recordings from the Internet and distributing them free of chargeto computer users the world over. Judges ruled the accused had notprofited from the operation and had not stored pirated computerfiles, even though his Web site contained links to sites containingthe illegal copies.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry iswaging a war against computer piracy of copyrighted music on theInternet. It estimates more than 1 million music files are availableillegally online and the world market in such files recorded onto CDsand other media for resale is worth $5.5 billion. IFPI claims to haveshut down more than 3,000 Web sites. www.techserver.com/noframes/story/0,2294,500147047- 500177381- 500706252-0,00.html
DOH!/ LEARNING FROM HOMER'S ERRORS
Homer Simpson has started all kinds of businesses, ranging fromselling salvaged sugar to starting an Internet company to managing asinger. He has started family businesses, done it on his own andtried to form a partnership with his best friend. Maybe all did notwork out just right (OK, so none of them did), but there are goodlessons to be learned from failures as well as success. About.comexamines the entire Simpson portfolio in a sort of lighthearted "hownot to" guide to small business. sbinformation.about.com/business/sbinformation/library/ weekly/aa092199.htm
The human touch/ SEARCH ENGINES GET TUNEUP
One of the most refreshing Internet trends of 1999 was a surge insearch engines' reliance on results compiled by human editors ratherthan software robots.
"This was the year that the humans won," said Danny Sullivan,editor of SearchEngineWatch.com. "If you look at the '95-96 timeframe, you had one major search service, Yahoo, that used humanbeings to categorize sites while the others were trying to usetechnology to do the same thing. But now six out of the top 10services (are using human editors)." news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1507039.html?dtn.head
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