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title: Votes auctioned
date: "2000-08-24T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 2085
description: I highlight emerging digital age problems including RPI's vote auctioning site, free-riding on P2P networks like Gnutella and Napster, real-time video manipulation, and the rise of forged online reviews.
keywords: [gnutella, napster, vote auctioning, free-riding, video manipulation, digital ethics, online reviews]
---

A guy called Baumgartner at the RPI set up a site that lets people [auction their votes](http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38355,00.html). Users of Gnutella (and Napster) are [free-riding](http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/groups/iea/papers/gnutella/FreeRidingA.html). People are [faking videos real-time](http://www.techreview.com/articles/july00/amato.htm). Author's [reviews are forged](http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/12412.html). Life in the 21st century doesn't look promising ;-)