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- 10 / 03 / 00 -

Emmanuel confronts Jack Valenti in person at a debate in Boston, another Ralph Nader rally draws more than 10,000 with virtually no media coverage, the Napster trial begins, a new website focuses on greedy TV stations, the 2600 website is taken down by Verizon for five days, Guinness threatens 2600 with legal action for its www.guinessrecords.com parody site, the Nader campaign is sued by Mastercard for a parody ad, Harper's reprints some of the Valenti deposition.

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October 3
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- 10 / 10 / 00 -

Corporate rip-offs are the theme. Examples include Cisco and Microsoft not paying a penny of federal income tax, AT&T wanting to charge a commission for sales on its broadband network, phone companies that sneak fees into low long distance rates, Verizon charging customers rent on long obsolete equipment, the recording industry wanting to collect fees for Internet broadcasting without benefiting musicians. Ralph Nader to appear at Madison Square Garden, New York Senate candidates Rick Lazio and Hillary Clinton both fall for a fake Internet tax bill during a debate, a microbroadcasting station is shut down, a five cent a minute long distance plan is scrutinized.

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October 10
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- 10 / 24 / 00 -

Emmanuel is stuck in Mets traffic during the Subway Series, leftover H2K material is offered, Lazlow details the massive ownership of radio stations by Clearchannel and Infinity, an excerpt from Jello Biafra's keynote address at H2K, Phiber appears out of nowhere, Emmanuel describes a Ralph Nader rally at Madison Square Garden and a midnight march to the post office by over a thousand people that went completely unreported in the mainstream media, a call to challenge commercial radio licenses, an excerpt from the H2K social engineering panel, Emmanuel explains why it's necessary to support the station even as controversy is raging within Pacifica, an excerpt from Robert Steele's question and answer session at H2K, preliminary plans for the next HOPE conference in 2002. This show is in two parts and includes fundraising.

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October 24

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- 10 / 31 / 00 -

A Halloween contest, the DMCA gains even more power as it becomes illegal to even write a program like DeCSS, a recording of the confrontation between Jack Valenti and Emmanuel, the fallacy of the MPAA argument, WIPO makes a ruling concerning misspelled names, General Motors threatens 2600 over a critical domain name, the touch tone fee is finally voted out in New Jersey, Verizon tries to double New Jersey phone rates, ominous legislation from Europe, the legality of port scanning, the possibility of licensing fees being charged for MP3s, the story of Microsoft being hacked is spun in different ways, Ralph Nader speaks out in support of Low Power FM, ShapeShifter trial set for November 14, a 2600 hat appears on "Felicity," an interesting choice on a company's phone number, 2600 asks hackers who they want to be president, Phreaknic is set for next weekend.

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