Interesting info

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--- In ExtractStream@y..., "The Nonesuch" <nonesuch773@y...> wrote:
> > sonnikinno> In only 18 hours of being available for
> > sonnikinno> download at http://pvrhack.sonnik.com,
> > sonnikinno> extract stream has been downloaded 146 times
> 
> On a related note, in the first 24 hours of this groups existence,
> over 330 people have subscribed to the mailing list. That is a good 
> measure of the interest in actually using the software.
> 
> I take no credit for the popularity of this list, credit goes to the 
> author of the PlayStream software, and to Nick Hull for sacrificing 
> his AVS forum account to release ExtractStream.
> 
> "Justin" <bounce2070@y... wrote:
> > At least some of that is hoarding. Some people
> > are grabbing it while they can, in case it
> > becomes unavailable again -- whether or not
> > they plan to actually use the software.

Even hoarding denotes some base level of interest.

> That's part of a long tradition on the Internet- when a
controversial 
> piece of source code becomes available, people download and mirror
> the software- not because they intend to use it, but to make it all 
> but impossible to eradicate.
> 
> As Internet pioneer John Gilmore once said, "The Net interprets 
> censorship as a defect and routes around it." (Time Magazine,
> December 1993). John has interesting things to say about the social 
> structure of the Internet and information sharing, at 
> http://www.toad.com/gnu/
> 
> Nonesuch