Commercialization Of The Internet

Anonymous Coward writes "For those anti-corporate tech-heads out there, Excite is running an article about how companies are taking over the net through the use of the courts, trademarks and deep pockets. From the article, 'Big corporations have a significant and growing presence on the Internet. In March, just 14 companies controlled 60 percent of users' online time, down from 110 companies two years earlier, Jupiter Media Metrix found.' A final thought from the article, 'This is the last remaining communications medium that allows the small person to participate,' said Barbara Simons, past president of the Association for Computing Machinery. 'To lose that would be a great tragedy.'"

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Cantor & Seigel have the last laugh....

[jpellino]

They say sex is a virus that infects every other endeavor.
Sounds like there's another.

In other news...

[tunah]

It was announced that hell was actually "quite warm", even "uncomfortably hot". J Random Condemned was heard to say "There is often talk about hell freezing over, but that's not likeley. [Hell] is really hot!". Satan was not available for comment.