How traffic shapers are used to prevent Napster and similar bandwidth hogs from overwhelming campus and corporate networks.

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]

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

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

German media conglomerate Bertelsmann said Tuesday that it has formed an alliance with online music-swapping service Napster, signaling a significant shift in the so far hostile face-off between the major record labels and the start-up. [News.com]

RIAA asked the courts to block all major-label content from being traded through Napster. [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]

Discusses the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). [The Register]

Report on some of the first statistics to reflect the effects of the popular MP3 software Napster, on retail CD sales. [News.com]

About one in three students would be willing to pay for an online music subscription service such as the one proposed by the file-swapping company, a report says. [News.com]