Articles By Michael Zara

Mike Zara is a student in the School of Law (Boalt Hall), at the University of California, Berkeley. This summer he is working in the San Francisco Bay Area with constitutional criminal defense lawyers, representing, among others, indigent clients, by appointment from the federal courts. His undergraduate degree is in Anthropology, with a thesis focusing on the evolution of the ideology and legal doctrine of "corporate personality." A firm believer in private property and capital, he thinks everyone should have some.

Trimming the Fat
New ways of paying for your MP3s?
6 June 2000

Lars Gets One Right!?! -- Limitations of Napster
Napster is ill-suited for anything BUT trading of known, signed artists music. It provides little to subvert the stranglehold of the music/recording/media industries on creativity.
27 May 2000

Public Enemy # MP3: Napsta rap?
napster as the new freedom from exploitation?
25 May 2000

I 'm NOT Gladiator...
"Gladiator" is no less a political film for its eschewing of relevant political content or commentary, and as such it falls short of the standard set by "Spartacus".
24 May 2000