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Google has strong words for legislators who are currently mulling over net neutrality issues: the company will take any perceived abuse to the US Department of Justice.

An antitrust lawsuit against four major telephone companies will be going to the Supreme Court next. The Bell Atlantic v. Twombly class-action suit, No. 05-1126, claims that Verizon, AT&T, BellSouth, and Qwest commit an act of illegal collusion by not competing with each other in local phone service markets.

The Holy Grail of online music sales is the ability to offer iPod-compatible tracks. Like the quest for the mythical cup itself, the search for iPod compatibility has been largely fruitless for Apple's competitors, whose DRM schemes are incompatible with the iconic music player.

[Check out Magnatune.com. I play in a band and if I sign with anyone, its going to be them.-Scott]

I have mixed feelings about so-called digital-rights management and its benefits. My concerns don't stem solely from DRM itself, but from the fact that it's not only illegal to crack DRM systems—it's essentially illegal even to think about cracking them. This, of course, stems from the onerous Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It and other laws and structures were pushed into play by lobbyists for the movie and record industries.

[It is hard to believe that I actually agree with Dvorak about something! - SamShazaam]

In the blink of a few recent news reports, using an Internet search engine has lost its innocence. For entrepreneurs like Roger Dingledine and others making Web anonymity software, that means basking in newfound attention.