Members of Green Day have denied being involved in the Network, however, Mike Dirnt revealed that they had a hand in the album.

This follow-up album started to be recorded in 2003 and was intended to be named Cigarettes and Valentines.

[9] The master tapes were stolen, however, and the band decided to scrap the project and start over.

Upon release, the album came with a DVD that featured seven music videos for the songs "Supermodel Robots", "Joe Robot", "Hungry Hungry Models", "Love and Money", "Spike", "Transistors Gone Wild", and "Roshambo".

[13] In 2004, The Network released another DVD containing live concert footage and the previous music videos, entitled Disease is Punishment.