Troubled Internet service provider PSINet acknowledged providing access to a sender of bulk unsolicited commercial email, bolstering critics' claims that some of the world's largest ISPs knowingly do business with spammers in violation of stated anti-...

A mysterious hacker has come to the defense of much-hated junk emailers, allegedly targeting sites and people who are against spam. [CNET.com]

The law has caught up with "Pimpshiz, " the hacker allegedly responsible for defacing some 200 Web sites with pro-Napster graffiti. [News.com]

Six months after its recommendation as an Internet standard, a major privacy initiative is entering an awkward adolescence as software heavyweights adopt it and individual Web sites leave it to languish.

A group of open-source developers has created a new music format they say will be free and will equal or better MP3s quality. [News.com]

Article about the new open source program Gnutella which shares music files over the internet, similar to Napster. [News.com]

We have some idea where George W. Bush and Al Gore stand on health care, foreign policy and social security. But what about Napster and copyright claims, the issue that has taken the Net by storm? [News.com]

A California man was so appalled by the bogus sexual images of the First Family on the pornographic Whitehouse.com site that until Wednesday, he pointed about 400 Net addresses to the site, leading some unassuming surfers to nudity instead of content ...

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News brief about dispute. [cnet]