Internet advertising - Industry Worried About CD Burning (AP)AP - Music copied onto

Internet advertising - Industry Worried About CD Burning (AP)AP - Music copied onto

Music Industry Worried About CD Burning (AP)
AP - Music copied onto blank recordable CDs is becoming a bigger threat to the bottom line of record stores and music labels than online file-sharing, the head of the recording industry's trade group said Friday.

Bellsouth, Napster agree to marketing deal (Reuters)
Reuters - Online music service Napster Inc. andtelecommunications company BellSouth Corp. on Monday said theyagreed to a marketing deal linking sales of high-speed Internetwith a portable music giveaway.

Google Halts Scanning of Copyrighted Books (AP)
AP - Stung by a publishing industry backlash, Google Inc. has halted its efforts to scan copyrighted books from some of the nation's largest university libraries so the material can be indexed in its leading Internet search engine.

Napster Signs Music Deal with BellSouth (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - In an effort to boost its number of DSL subscribers, Atlanta-based BellSouth (NYSE: BLS) has announced an agreement with online music provider Napster. The pact offers BellSouth broadband customers legal music downloads while providing Napster with access to BellSouth's ever-growing subscriber list.

Sperm Web sites face curbs in UK legal review (Reuters)
Reuters - Internet Web sites supplying sperm tosingle women and lesbian couples face regulation underproposals to be unveiled by the government on Tuesday.

Net giants bet big on China's potential (SiliconValley.com)
SiliconValley.com - The Internet gold rush is on in China.

E-Mail Authentication: Holy Grail or Lost Cause? (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - E-mail as we know it today is a broken communications medium. Simply put, e-mail was never designed to be anything more than text messages delivered through multiple computer systems strung together. But like most things pushed onto the Internet scene in the early days, more functions were added to e-mail's fragile delivery structure. Each new bolted-on innovation created another risk for a crack in the system.