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- 04 / 03 / 01 -

A review of the I-CON conference where "Freedom Downtime" was shown twice, "Freedom Downtime" is accepted at a film festival in Ohio, how the film should be released on DVD, the dean of the Stanford Law School, Kathleen Sullivan, joins the 2600 legal team and will argue the appeal on May 1, why the other side will have ten extra minutes, the conflict between artists and the RIAA, Emmanuel's feelings on the Eagles, some history of a similar conflict involving Frank Zappa in the 60s, preregistration scams for new top level domains, a poll on Internet crime raises more questions than it answers, automation on the Long Island Railroad causes problems, Emmanuel demonstrates an exercise in frustration with American Airlines and their non-human technology, a disturbing new policy from Microsoft claims ownership of any copyrighted material sent through their systems.

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April 3
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- 04 / 10 / 01 -

New windscreens arrive in the studio, Emmanuel relates an adventure he had in his neighborhood while spying on people, a parallel between this and the spy plane crisis in China, Emmanuel offers his own personal apology to China to help end the crisis and extends it to the entire world, a debate with Izaac ensues, an exercise in frustration involving CompUSA on the phone, the debate over electronic textbooks, a clarification on an unlimited Verizon calling plan, a Verizon three-way calling scam, all the lights go out on the switchboard, a caller has an interesting problem with blocking.

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April 10
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- 04 / 17 / 01 -

The death of Joey Ramone and how it's still hard to hear his music on the radio, the new issue of 2600 is out with an interesting cover, the phone lines make mysterious noises, a new game entitled "Find The Operator" targets Priceline, Emmanuel tries to extend an "Off The Hook" winning streak of positive influence on world affairs by confronting the Pacifica crisis, the parallels to B92 in Yugoslavia as well as the differences, the need to establish dialogue, the hypocrisy of not speaking out, a look at a conflict inside a commercial station, an AP story on Amy Goodman, a call for volunteers and WBAI's unlocked door, an upcoming march over the Brooklyn Bridge for WBAI, reports of difficulty getting into Canada on the eve of the April 20 protest, the significance of that particular date, Emmanuel demonstrates the wide diversity of opinions that are tolerated at the station, an article in the Washington Post about the positive influence of 2600 meetings, an upcoming demonstration against the Children's Internet Protection Act, a proposal for banning certain "nonproprietary" names as domain names, 2600 registers a site to protest WIPO.

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April 17
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- 04 / 24 / 01 -

Emmanuel and Izaac are missing, Paul Williams, Mike, and John try to carry on with the show, FBI hacks into Russian computers allegedly for retribution, talk of upcoming conferences, an update on the live streaming of WBAI, speculation on Kevin Mitnick's restrictions, WBAI issues are discussed with listeners, Paul tries to bring the WBAI Interim Station Manager in on the discussion, Patty from wbai.net talks about being threatened with a lawsuit by Pacifica, the upcoming appeal of the DeCSS case next Tuesday, Macki reports on rumors of a new lawsuit facing 2600 concerning General Motors, commercial radio stations facing problems simulcasting on the net, Emmanuel reported to be dealing with an emergency, Bill Gates no longer the richest man, a listener reflects on what WBAI was like 30 years ago, debate on criticism of the station, a reason why there are so many empty payphone booths.

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April 24
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