Once the archetype of underground, downtown style, the East Village is doing some soul searching (some might say "selling") these days.

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"I'm against underground homes, bunker-style homes, fortress-style steel shutters--it just attracts notoriety, " says Joel Skousen, author of The Secure Home and a number of other survival books.

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Broadcasters are certainly afraid that the existence of devices like ReplayTV and TiVo could lead to a Napster-style file-sharing underground.

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