This morning, a coalition of privacy advocates led by the Center for Democracy & Technology formally took on the behavioral targeting industry with a proposal for a so-called do-not-track list.

Just a few weeks ago, the prospect of new legislation enshrining net neutrality principles looked dim. But recent revelations about Internet service providers appear to have rallied the pro-net-neutrality forces.

The RIAA won a minor skirmish in its war against piracy late last week, when a federal district judge in Knoxville ordered the University of Tennessee to turn over the name of a student whose computer allegedly was used to share files.

Infamous adware purveyor Direct Revenue appears to have shuttered for good. Visitors to the Web page of its most recent brand, BestOffersNetworks.com, are now being greeted with the message that Direct Revenue has ceased operations. The page also offers instructions for removing the company's software, which serves pop-up ads to people as they surf the Web.

Verizon Wireless this week agreed to pay $1 million to settle an investigation by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo about the company's practice of cutting off consumers who made "excessive" use of their supposedly unlimited Web access plans.

A decision by Comcast to impede traffic to peer-to-peer sites sheds light on what's at stake with net neutrality far more vividly than many policy wonks have done so far.

In an effort to boost demand for Hulu, its new joint Web TV venture with News Corp., NBC has removed its content from YouTube.

While the music and movie industries have long been concerned that Web piracy cuts into their profits, file-sharing hasn't appeared to present as significant a problem for book publishers. After all, the general public hasn't yet taken to e-book readers the way it has to iPods or digital music.

Showdowns between newspapers and the courts have tended to be centered on whether reporters need to turn over notes or information about sources, but a battle now unfolding in Arizona is far broader. In that dispute, which resulted in the arrest last night of Phoenix New Times owners Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, a grand jury subpoena was issued for information about the online readers of the paper. <

After pulling all clips from YouTube in February, Viacom is making skits from Comedy Central's "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" available on its own Web site.