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Information Today March 14, 2013 George H. Pike	Copyright Alert System to Warn, Then Punish, Peer-to-Peer File Sharing After months of delays, a coalition of content providers and Internet Service Providers launched the Copyright Alert System, a "six strikes" structure that will notify, then potentially punish users for illegal file sharing.
CRM December 19, 2012 Judith Aquino	ICANN Reveals Results of Domain Name Auction New domain names like .food, .energy, .city, and others could be launched next year. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees the Internet's addressing system, is leading the expansion.
Information Today December 3, 2012 Paula J. Hane	The Fight for a Free and Open Internet Vinton Cerf fears forces are at work that threaten to undermine the free and open nature of the net. Some 42 countries filter and censor content out of the 72 studied by the Open Net Initiative.
IEEE Spectrum July 2012 Ritchie S. King	Will Unicode Soon Be the Universal Code? Three-fifths of all Web pages are in Unicode, up from zero a decade ago
Information Today June 21, 2012 George H. Pike	ICANN Releases List of 1,400 Possible New Internet Top-Level Domains With a range of possibilities from "AAA" through "Zulu," on June 13, 2012, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers released its highly anticipated list of potential new generic Top Level Domains for consideration and comment.
The Motley Fool January 9, 2012 Alex Planes	Who Will Control the Internet of Things? Will it be open-source or under patent lock and key?
Fast Company November 22, 2011 Dan Macsai	Foreign Countries Cash In On Obscure Domain Extensions Those cool, short domain names can come with a catch: crazy global dictators.
Fast Company November 22, 2011 Nancy Cook	Google Taps Palestine For New Business Development Only a small fraction of the Internet is in Arabic. But when that changes, the search giant will be ready.
The Motley Fool November 21, 2011 Evan Niu	Stop the Stop Online Piracy Act Now This legislation might just ruin the Internet.
The Motley Fool October 18, 2011 Evan Niu	Amazon Silk Goes to Washington Congress gets hot and bothered about privacy concerns over Amazon.com's Silk browser.
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