ase of the website whitehouse.com which is a hard-core, sexually explicit site. Not only is the name of the site controversial, the fact that a person can stumble upon it accidentally without knowing that the actual address is whitehouse.gov brings up other questions. If that were not enough, browsers are automatically configured to, when given a word without a .com, or other postfix, check for .com, .net, .org, .edu, and .gov domains in that order consequently, a person looking for the White Houses web page would find a most likely undesirable site. This question does not only deal with pornographic sites. Commercial companies, name brand corporations, and even famous individuals find their names bought up on the Internet. Many companies, such as Coca-Cola, have found that someone else beat them to registering their domain name, and have had to pay individuals millions of dollars for the rights to use their own name on the Internet. The music format MP3 has been under fire for several years. This format of audio is high quality, yet small enough to allow mass distribution. MP3.com, whose main product lets users listen to tunes located in a music locker on the companys severs, is one of the companies that has been under fire by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). This product made listeners of the tunes put a CD into their computer to prove that they owned the music before they could listen to it online; however, the RIAA stated that the locker had been assembled illegally and the service was shut down on court decision. Recently, however, the RIAA has realized the importance of the MP3 format and the uses it has. The RIAA is working now with Michael Robertson, the CEO of MP3.com, to enable consumers to listen to their music anywhere, to listen to CDs they purchase online, immediately, and to enjoy music they dont even own by paying a monthly subscription. Another similar service, Napster, allows users to share MP3 fi...
