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more on well worthwhile document on the merits of the RIAA suit against the PU student
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 14:42:47 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: Brad Templeton <brad () templetons com> Organization: http://www.templetons.com/brad Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 11:30:14 -0700 To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: [IP] well worthwhile document on the merits of the RIAA suit against the PU student Dave, it is worth pointing out that Wake is technologically indistinguishable from Archie. Newcomers to the internet may not remember Peter J. Deutsch's Archie, but it was the internet's first search engine, one of the first new applications to strike it big. Archie traversed and indexed all open FTP servers on the internet, and let you easily search them. You could type in a file name, quickly see who had the file, and download it. Later Archie clients did it all automatically -- type in the file, point and click to download it. While archie did help people find "warez" most of its use was entirely legitimate searching for free software and documents. The important point is that Archie is the grandfather of Google. The whole concept of internet searching and a large part of the internet boom can point back to tools like Archie. To declare that writing it was illegal would fly against what built the net, and seems an unlikely course. ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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