A Reuters story at USA Today reports on Napster’s quest for allies in the music publishing industry, and its progress toward a pay-for-content model. The new service “is being built to enable all artists and songwriters to receive payments whether they’re on a major label or not,” said Napster CEO Hank Barry. The new premium service should launch this summer.

Slashdot: “Two IETF drafts were filed today which fire a shot across
ICANN’s bows. They say that anybody who introduces a new version of an existing TLD is
destabilizing the DNS–even ICANN. These are still only drafts, mind, not standards. They
both acknowledge input from Karl Auerbach, the member of ICANN’s board who was
elected by North America. The drafts are Alternative Roots and the Virtual Inclusive Root
and Root Server Definitions.”

Wall Street Journal (via ZDNet): “Amazon.com and its Alexa Internet subsidiary probably made
deceptive statements about their privacy practices, but shouldn’t be punished
because the problem has been addressed, the Federal Trade Commission has
concluded.”

When Attrition.org announced it would no longer mirror Web site defacements, the rumors started flying. That’s far from the case, says Attrition staffer Brian Martin (a.k.a. Jericho) in a Q&A session with Carole Fennelly.

From a press release at Businesswire: “Turbolinux, Inc., the leader in high-performance Linux for Internet infrastructure solutions, announced today the release of the Turbolinux Operating System 7
for the 64-bit Intel Itanium(TM) architecture. With this product, Turbolinux continues its commitment to fulfilling the needs of enterprise customers with the highest
level of computing power available.”

The Dallas Morning News covers IBM’s work on Next Generation Internet, a world where “data on the Web will be measured in zettabytes as computers get increasingly smart.” In an interview, Mike Nelson, Big Blue’s director of Internet technology and strategy, says that “In the future, many more of the technologies of the Internet will be built on Linux and open source software… which means it will be easy to put the pieces all together. That’s one of the big reasons we’re so gung-ho on Linux.”

The latest edition of the OpenNMS Update includes project status reports on Easy Installer, Sowmya, and news of coding projects underway. Posted at Linux Weekly News.

BSD Today: “Last weekend, R-KOM and the University of Applied Science (Fachhochschule, FH) Regensburg,
Germany, took their share of the Regensburg city marathon by putting a video and image of each runner
reaching the goal on the Internet. A cluster of 45 machines from the Fachhochschule Regensburg, each
running the NetBSD operating system computed over five-thousand films.”

LinuxPR press release: “Command Prompt, Inc. is pleased to
announce the release of DocParse. DocParse is an invaluable tool for
professional technical authors who maintain a large amount of HTML based
documentation. DocParse will take any valid HTML document and convert it into a
valid DocBook SGML document.”

“Suitware Inc. is proud to announce that the beta
version of Suitware Web Manager, for Linux x86, is available for immediate
download at http://www.suitware.com/htmlfiles/downloadform.html. Suitware Web
Manager provides a simple graphical user interface to administer Apache, the
world’s leading web server. Now, you can set up and manage Apache, with no
previous experience with it.” Full press release at LinuxPR.