There are lots of cool topics covered here, and it seems to be updated regularly…
The Site is called Darknet.com (from his book by the same name) and you can visit it at:

http://www.darknet.com/

A quote from whatsnextonline.com describes the site’s concept:
“Darknet, Lasica writes, is “the vast, gathering, lawless economy of shared music, movies, television shows, games, software, and porn.” Howard Rheingold, the new media visionary and author of Smart Mobs, who wrote the foreword to Darknet, says it’s a “comprehensive look at the restrictions being placed on our digital freedoms by the major media powers.”

The technology is outpacing the law, it’s outpacing what kind of conversations are happening in Congress today, where there’s an impulse to crack down on this kind of behavior, rather than to enable or to celebrate digital creativity, says Lasica.” [ http://whatsnextonline.com/wno/current.html#4367 ]

5/25/2005 11:16:40 PM – The Digital Music Weblog

The FBI, in cooperation with the U.S. Customs Department, the MPAA, and several other agencies, has shut down the Elite torrent site and targeted 10 content providers with warrants. Here’s an interesting quote from a customs official, as reported in the FBI press release: “Internet pirates cost U.S. industry hundreds of billions of dollars in lost revenue every year from the illegal sale of copyrighted goods and new online file-sharing technologies make their job even easier.”

http://www.technologyowl.com/p239-nc93-ni3090877

ok, i couldn’t help myself. i was reading your posting about star wars and downloading and then i was thinking, I wonder how many movie theatres there are in Iraq?

That would be a fun reference question.

The answer is … about 30. But only 10 if you’re Kurdish. And only 10 are open – and then only if you like gay porn.

http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-310/_nr-162/_p-1/i.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-04-25-movie_x.htm

Good to know.

A.