P's Simpsons Appearance

[Ghetta Life]

Intrestingly, I found this blip on the Gnutella News website:

http://www.gnutellanews.com/article/9984

"Around that time, Frankel began tinkering with a new kind of software. 
Taking the name from an underground postal system in the Thomas Pynchon 
novel The Crying of Lot 49, Frankel created Waste: a "private workspace," as 
he calls it, that allows small groups of friends to trade files without 
being as conspicuous as those on the larger peer-to-peer networks.

Sometimes called a "darknet," it's a kind of mini-Gnutella, a small, 
password-protected file-trading network. Because you can't get in unless 
you're invited, even the most intrepid hackers -- or recording-industry 
lawyers -- would have trouble figuring out when or where a Waste system is 
running.

This time around, Frankel took the high road. He tried pitching Waste to 
AOL, but after the company dragged its feet for months, he got fed up. On 
May 28th, 2003, four years to the date that he was acquired, Frankel 
rebelled again -- uploading Waste as a way to force AOL to deal with it, and 
him, once and for all. "AOL as a company should not just sit on their asses 
and try to keep from losing as many subscribers as it can," he says. "I 
mean, I'm a stockholder of the company. I want them innovating. I want them 
doing things that are good for the world and being socially conscious."

AOL responded by taking the program down. (AOL had no comment about Waste 
for this story.) Days later, Frankel took it to the people one last time. 
"For me, coding is a form of self-expression," he wrote online late one 
night. "The company controls the most effective means of self-expression I 
have. This is unacceptable to me as an individual, therefore I must leav 
[sic]. . . . "


>From: "Ghetta Life" <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com>>
>
>>From: hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi
>>6.531 This someone else may come to us saying metaphysical propositions as 
>>'To download an episode of the Simpsons, install one of the Gnutella 
>>programs (LimeWire, BearShare, Gnucleus, Shareaza, Phex, XoloX etc.) and 
>>enter suitable keywords to find the proper file.'

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