And I thought pop-up windows were annoying....

While Napster was easy for college campuses to block, this years crop of students will have easier access to file-trading as the variety of Napster clones may prove to be too difficult to police.

Once you install Uplister, you may not be able to get rid of it.

A new RIAA press release says that CD sales are down and CD-Rs are to blame.

The MPAA takes advantage of a clause in the DCMA that holds ISP's responsible for copyright infringements by their customers, forcing ISP's to suspend customer accounts before any proof is given. Just one more reason why we need to re-eveluate the merits of the DCMA.

As Microsoft steps up efforts to stop license infringement in schools, some districts are starting to cut thousands of dollars from their budget by implementing Linux.

The beta release of Ogg Vorbis sets up a possible showdown between proprietary vs. open source audio formats.

Invisible Data-Collection Tool Poses Threat to Established Brands Arlington, Va., August 14, 2001 - Cyveillance�, the leading provider of automated Internet intelligence, today announced the results of a study revealing that the use of Web bugs, or online hidden information collectors, has increased 488 percent in the past three years. The results indicate that, on average, a Web page is nearly five times more likely to contain a Web bug today than in 1998. or visit the NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/14/technology/ebusiness/14WEB.html

Another FastTrack licensee, Grokster, has emerged, showing that Morpheus/KaZaA growth at Gnutella's expense is continuing.

"Given this attack, we believe that 802.11 networks should be viewed as insecure. We recommend the following for people using such wireless networks:

Assume that the link layer offers no security."