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.

Facebook has agreed to investigate complaints relating to harassment or pornography within 24 hours as part of a settlement of a probe by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

As promised in court this summer, Google has unveiled a new plan designed to weed out copyrighted clips from video-sharing site YouTube.

One of the last holdouts to digital music, classic rock group Led Zeppelin, has decided to makes its catalog available online starting next month.

The FTC appears poised to give the nod to Google's planned $3.1 billion buyout of ad-serving company DoubleClick, according to recent press accounts.

In another blow to the record industry, Madonna is poised to defect from Warner Music Group, according to a report in today's Wall Street Journal.