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• Napster model: ISPs to subsidise record labels

  At the core of Napster's proposed subscription model is an idea so simple the record companies should fall all over themselves adopting it: Make other people pay for millions of dollars in costs the labels pick up today.

• 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.

• File-swapping police lean on ISPs

  Record companies have joined the movie industry in trying to root out post-Napster file trading, putting new pressure on ISPs to clamp down on subscribers' actions.

• Piracy battles have ISPs stuck in crossfire

  As Napster's heyday fades into Internet mythology, its influence is being etched in an increasingly tense game of cops and robbers that has Internet service providers caught in the crossfire.

• ISPs: Napster is bandwidth hog

  Resentment is beginning to build inside the Internet Service Provider (ISP) community about Napster as the ultimate bandwidth hog, but small operators are worried that their efforts to conserve cash could land them in 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?

• Blame the computer

  Is it just me, or are you also tired of technology copping the blame for what are obviously people problems?

• In the trenches of techno-rebellion

  Activist programmers are developing protection against intrusive ads, tracking software, and other mechanisms that piggyback on free software and quietly co-opt consumers' computers.

• 2002 predictions get a low grade

  Columnist Tim Landgrave reviews his 2002 predictions and how they fared. While he believes the sluggish economy was a major reason for his poor prediction grades, he's still pretty bullish on a few expectations.

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