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In an effort to clamp down on illegal activity on the Web, the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) has sent new guidelines to Congress that would more severely punish people who use the Internet to distribute pirated copies of copyrighted material, steal credit cards, or solicit sex with minors ...

Penthouse.com disclosed this week that U.S. government officials have confiscated materials from the residence of a Usenet user, known as "Muad'Dib," who copied images and text from Penthouse.com's members-only section and posted them on Usenet newsgroups ...

As U.S. e-commerce spending moves toward a projected $2 trillion (US$) by 2003, the market for packaged e-commerce software is also expected to increase dramatically, according to Forrester Research ...

Keeping with its reputation for being tough on cybercrime, the State of Washington launched three initiatives last week designed to help law enforcement officials combat illegal Internet activities ...

Deputy U.S. Postmaster General John Nolan announced Thursday that a new United States Postal Service Electronic Postmark (EPM) is now available ...

Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) have joined forces to tackle copyright protection in the digital age ...

Phone.com, a pioneer in developing the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) for mobile phones, has filed a pre-emptive suit against rival Geoworks Corporation over its '529 patent ...

Bankruptcy, mergers, and acquisitions could swallow up as much as 90 percent of the current crop of online business-to-business (B2B) marketplaces, according to a new report from Boston, Massachusetts-based AMR Research ...

Andre Young, better known as multi-platinum rap star Dr. Dre, is suing Napster and several yet-to-be-named students and schools who allegedly used Napster's MP3 music swapping software to infringe upon his copyrights ...

A new IDC report indicates that despite a rapid increase in the number of small American businesses climbing aboard the Internet express, a surprisingly small percentage are actually selling their products or services online ...

After weeks of behind-the-scenes wrangling over remedies in the Microsoft antitrust case, published reports Monday indicate that the U.S. government and 19 states are inclined to seek a breakup of the company ...

According to published reports, primary Microsoft insurer Zurich American Insurance Co. has filed a lawsuit asking a federal court in the state of Washington to rule that the coverage it wrote for Microsoft does not apply to antitrust claims ...

Having apparently not received its fill of litigation over the past several years, Microsoft Corp. filed eight federal lawsuits alleging copyright and trademark infringement against small companies in North Carolina and Tennessee Wednesday. The software giant alleges that the defendants distributed pirated copies of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office...

When the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) released its "Internet Ad Revenue Report" earlier this week, the common misperception that "banners are dead" was shaken to its foundation ...

Online giant Amazon.com, which has already invested $30 million (US$) in California-based Internet startup WineShopper.com, announced Tuesday that it has forged a partnership with the newly-launched e-tailer ...

U.S. shoppers will likely spend over $61 billion (US$) online this year, according to a new report by the Boston Consulting Group ...

A Microsoft engineer reportedly included a back door in the company's Microsoft Internet Information Server software that could enable hackers to break into hundreds of thousands of Web sites around the world ...

In a decision that could have a chilling effect on online auctioneers, Internet Service Providers and e-commerce companies, a German judge has ruled that AOL Germany violated copyright law by taking no action to prevent subscribers from swapping pirated digital music files ...

In a rare show of bipartisan unity, 42 U.S. governors attacked the final report of the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce (ACEC) Wednesday in a scathing letter to Congress. The governors say that if accepted, the recommendations would have the potential to reduce state and local tax revenues by more than $30 billion (US$) per year ...

The International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) filed a lawsuit against Yahoo! in Paris Tuesday, charging the Internet giant with illegally hosting auctions of Nazi-related paraphernalia. Selling or displaying any items that incite racism, including Nazi artifacts, is strictly illegal in France ...