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Induce vomiting: banning peer-to-peer networks

LAST YEAR A U.S. district court in Los Angeles held that Grokster, a peer-to-peer file sharing network, could not be held responsible for copyright...
Reason, 12/01/04 by Hanah Metchis · More from publication
Secession fever: live free … or in Vermont

RESIDENTS OF Killington, a ski town in Vermont, were so mad about their high state taxes that in March they approved a plan to secede from the...
Reason, 11/01/04 by Hanah Metchis · More from publication
Judge, jury, and cop; the Border Patrol's new powers

SINCE 1996 THE U.S. Border Patrol's "expedited removal" procedure has allowed it to ship illegal immigrants home from airports and seaports without...
Reason, 11/01/04 by Hanah Metchis · More from publication
Subway searches: your baggage, please

MOST PEOPLE ARE resigned to being searched every time they enter an airport. Now baggage searches are spreading to light rail, subways, and buses....
Reason, 11/01/04 by Hanah Metchis · More from publication
Cleaning up e-mail: an end to spam?

THANKS TO THE ingenious CAN-SPAM Act passed by Congress last year, junk e-mail in the United States has been drastically reduced, rendering many...
Reason, 10/01/04 by Hanah Metchis · More from publication