If it gobbles up Hulu, too, the recent detente is history and Netflix is back to being Public Enemy No. 1.

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That is because Linda Tripp, the shadowy confidant of the former White House intern who surreptitiously taped more than 20 hours of private phone conversations is public enemy No 1.

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Between Monday and Thursday alone, the blueprints were downloaded by more than 100, 000 people from the website Mega.com.nz, run by Kim Dotcom, considered by U.S. authorities as public enemy No. 1 when it comes to internet piracy.

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New Labour's commitment to understand what the public thought and felt came from a time, not long before, when the public were too often considered the enemy, and where it was even said that there should be "no compromise with the electorate".

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