more on the Internet freedom case, & more stories

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

Case tests internet freedom 
A LIBEL action by a Melbourne businessman Jospeh Gutnick against a
giant US publisher threatens to put the internet at the mercy of a
plethora of national jurisdictions, QC Geoffrey Robertson warned
yesterday.

http://australianit.news.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,2082612%5E442,00.html
 http://www.smh.com.au/news/0106/06/pageone/pageone6.html
 http://www.smh.com.au/news/0106/05/update/news07.html

ICANN Seeks Domain Delay
Some members of an Internet oversight body are calling for delays in
deploying non-English domain names, warning that the Internet isn't
quite ready to accommodate them.
 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Internet-Names.html

Nevada Approves Online Gambling
The Nevada Legislature voted yesterday to authorize regulators to
license casinos to offer gambling over the Internet, the first time a
state has moved to legalize the potentially lucrative but highly
controversial business of online gambling.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/05/technology/05GAMB.html
 http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6187548.html

Endgame for Cybercrime treaty
A few feel-good touches can't redeem the COE treaty, or the
closed-door process that produced it.
A few weeks ago, the Council of Europe's (COE) Committee of Experts
on Cyber-crime working group met in a closed meeting in Rome to put
the finishing touches on the ever-troubling "Draft Convention on
Cyber-crime". The touches were light: little more than a feather
dusting with a couple of feel-good changes thrown in for good
measure.
 http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/article.html?id=213
or 

http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/article.html%3Fid%3D213


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