Past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4970986

Starwave postscript - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starwave

And of course the author postscript - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Naughton

Naughton went on to pioneer a new legal defense and I vaguely remember he had his sentence shortened post-9/11 so he could aid our cyberdefenses against the terrorists or some such thing.