TheStar.com - MSN to shut chat rooms over child sex fears: "Microsoft Corp. is pulling the plug on its free, unsupervised Internet chat rooms in 28 countries and moving them to a subscription service in Canada, the United States and Japan over concerns the forums have become a haven for junk e-mail and sex predators.
'We're taking the responsible move to make our service a safer environment, especially for young adults and for children,' "