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Two MIT students have written a 7-line program that unscrambles protected DVDs. It’s downloadable. The legal issue is whether source code deserves protection on par with freedom of expression.

Better be a bit careful about online payments. A Russian hacker stole from 40 companies. Amazon’s subsidiary was hit. And IBM’s Net.Commerce is buggy.

Some press clippings about the IIM-B convocation (and me).

I’m graduating today, and there’s a live webcast of the IIM-B convocation starting 6:15PM IST.

Adobe lets you create PDF files on the Web without using any software.

IBM has been accused of aiding Nazis during WWII.

With the Internet economy booming despite the collapse of dot-coms, the OECD countries are getting ready to tax the Internet.

Human Spell Check tosses out some glaring spelling mistakes at famous websites — which presumably would have run a spell-checking software on their site. Mind you, I personally do not.

Warner Brothers are making a Harry Potter movie.

I can’t seem to locate the access log (which used to be on unix2 at /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log). So, sorry — can’t give any more statistics on the hits.