Hollywood and the hacker
IN ONE of the more chilling scenes of George Orwell's “1984”, the citizens of Oceania gather in a cinema to denounce Emmanuel Goldstein, a political dissident, as “the Enemy of the People”. In New York, for the past two weeks, a team of Hollywood lawyers have been doing much the same to Emmanuel Goldstein, an Internet journalist.
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