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Writes the author, "I like to make the analogy of everyone receiving free satellite TV service and having it taken away and then us offering to sell them cable TV service instead." This is an interesting take - the internet was like a great party, but through the economic downturn, dot com failures and, of course, September 11, the great fin thing that was the internet is now gone, replaced by a set of cynical business propositions (and as an aside - though there will be many articles talking about how bad 2001 was, it was a very good year for me, proving that sharing information for free isn't a disaster in every case - I guess it depends on what you want to get out of it). CRLF

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