Just days after punk band The Offspring began selling unauthorized Napster merchandise through its website, the two parties choose collaboration instead of litigation. [Wired News]

An industry-backed group of musicians has launched a high-profile ad campaign against online music piracy, hoping to persuade fans not to use Napster and other similar Net tools. [News.com]

The drama of Napster's legal death-sentence has catapulted its site into the list of the Internet's most popular destinations. [News.com]

Madonna's new unreleased single found its way into the music-swapping Napster community and onto a few MP3 Web sites. [News.com]

Alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins released what is being called its final album on vinyl and the MP3 format last week, forgoing a CD release through its record label, Virgin Records, according to postings on the band's Web site and published...

Napster has fired its final legal salvo before meeting the record industry in appeals court, accusing the big labels of trying to hijack the beleaguered music-swapping company's technology. [News.com]

Napster's legal pain has become the computer industry's financial gain as millions of people download digital music to burn onto CDs or transfer to portable players. [News.com]

If Napster really wants to bury the hatchet with the Recording Industry Association of America, it may have to eat crow and issue a personal apology. [News.com]

A pseudonymous hacker has launched a Web graffiti spree, defacing Web sites ranging from NASA to the Communications Workers of America with a pro-Napster message. [News.com]

Napster's appeal of a court-ordered shutdown has granted the company more time but little room to maneuver in its ongoing clash with the recording industry. [News.com]