] A journalist attends the World Economic Forum and writes
] her friends an email about the experience. Two weeks
] later, that email is on the Web, people she's never met
] are correcting her spelling, and the journalist is vowing
] to go back to longhand.
]
] Welcome to the world of accidental privacy spills.
] Compared with the problem of keeping personal email
] private, copyright and spam are easy. Full essay inside .
] . . .

This post is extremely long. The internet want poetry. The message conveyed as efficiently as possible so that we can all get on to the next one, as there are so many in the inbox. This doesn't fit the standard. However, it is a perfect explanation of the relationship between copyright and privacy, and also observes the conflict between the old and new journalism. How YOU think these questions will be resolved is an interesting exercise.

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