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Last week's column, without which this week's column makes no sense at all.

Text of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Penalties can be found in section 1204.

About the only loophole in the DMCA can be found in the exemption process. Here's where to start if you want Microsoft to be denied the fruits of their USB effort. It won't work, of course.

It is possible that what's bad for USB is good for FireWire, but if you think the 1394 standard is royalty-free, you are wrong. Many readers seem to think the words "Open Standard" mean "free." They don't. That'll be 25 cents, please.

Don't expect Microsoft to dominate China the way it does the rest of the world.