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  • The Year 2000 in review

    The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.

  • Is this the way to fight copyright infringement?

    As traditional entertainment distributors line up against telcos in court, lawsuits lasting less than a week could jeopardize the stability and freedom of cyberspace.

  • Copyright-cops for Gnutella, others

    An ambiguity in a 1998 copyright law, has placed Internet service providers at loggerheads with copyright owners over the extent to which they must police their subscribers' peer-to-peer file-sharing activities.

  • Hollywood's new lesson for campus file swappers

    Hollywood is poised to up the ante in its war against file swappers, with new technology that could make it easier to remove suspected pirates from campus networks, CNET News.com has learned.

  • Unexpected twists in Internet law

    Internet law in 2003 was full of surprises.

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