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  • Who will serve as Napster police?

    Tension is starting to build between copyright holders and Internet service providers over who should police other file-swapping networks poised to step in as Napster's replacement.

  • Post-Napster policing reopens ISP wounds

    Facing the prospect of a post-Napster world, tension is starting to build between copyright holders and ISPs over who should police other file-swapping networks that are poised to step in as replacements.

  • Net radicals seek safer territory

    While the first generation of file-trading technologies fights over Napster's leavings, more radical Net programmers are still committed to building a wholly anonymous, virtually untraceable way of communicating and trading files online.

  • Net radicals seek safer territory

    The fate of the free Net may rest in the hands of a university student in Sweden making less money than a coffee slinger at Starbucks.

  • AOL wins 'hostile code' ruling

    The ISP is not responsible for hostile code being sent by its subscribers, finds a US court.

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  • The war on file sharing hits Australia

    Cover the windows, stay indoors and bunker down the war on file sharing has reached Australian shores. Copyright owners have a fair claim to their content, but is it fair to saddle ISPs with the responsibility of policing their users? And should copyright enforcers be able to steal our privacy?

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