I was particularly bemused by the Toywar. etoy vs. eToys. The concept of the infowar, warring states in cyberspace is fascinating. Though no casualties resulted from the war besides the bankruptcy of the eToys entity, it showed that big companies can't just waltz into a given territory and take it over with fancy concepts such as the law. This silly online battle showed that online territory should still be treated with sovereign attitudes. It's quite impresseive that members of the etoy community were able to come up with such strategy to villainize the corporation suing them in order to raze their web domain.
Hackers and crackers on the internet are both awesome and deplorable, depending who is being cracked. Piracy is a great and terrible, when you consider the amount of media being distributed without cost - the internet is a place you can get any-digital-thing if you know where to go. Today's pirates are perhaps youths desensitised to the damage that piracy deals to the markets as it is so easy to acquire anything you like if you know where to look online. The future probably holds punishments severe enough to outlaw online piracy to the point it actually demonstrates on traditional maritime piracy seen today - legendary and terrible.
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