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Information Technology Use in New Zealand
Thirty-six percent of New Zealand businesses operated a website in
2001, according to Information Technology Use in New Zealand, a new
report published by Statistics New Zealand. However, sales of goods
and services over the Internet represented only 0.3 percent of total
operating income in the year ended June 2001.
http://www.stats.govt.nz/domino/external/pasfull/pasfull.nsf/e17092639373f80b4c2567ed0009410e/4c2567ef00247c6acc256bc80076e345?OpenDocument
Rome busts child porn ring
AN Italian police operation launched against paedophiles using a
child sex website has resulted in dozens of arrests, according to a
Sicilian court.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4454387%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
Libraries Breathe Easy After Court Ruling On Internet Filters
Freed from the threat of losing millions in federal funds,
Washington, D.C. area libraries heaved a sigh of relief Friday after
a federal appeals court overturned a law that would have required
them to install Internet filters to block access to pornographic Web
sites.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51465-2002Jun3.html
Napster: Gimme shelter in Chapter 11
Napster, the struggling online music company, filed for bankruptcy
protection Monday.
The filing comes just weeks after Redwood City, Calif.-based Napster
agreed to sell its assets to German media conglomerate Bertelsmann
for $8 million. As expected at the time of that transaction, Napster
said Monday that it has filed under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy
Code with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-930467.html
Netscape Keeps On Pitching
Netscape isn't going to let a little thing like being in a
market-share coffin cramp its style. It's making Netscape 7.0
available for free preview.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52931,00.html
Solving Kid Porn's 'Real' Problem
In the aftermath of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that
computer-generated images of minors engaged in sexual acts are not
illegal and are in fact protected by the First Amendment, some
prosecutors and police investigators have found themselves at a loss
for how to proceed in child porn cases.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52945,00.html
Schools to bone up on technology
Public schools in the United States will spend $9.5 billion on
information technology by 2006, up almost 16 percent from this year,
according to a new report.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-928645.html
MEPs adopt rules for selling financial services through phone and
Internet (EurActiv/Quicklinks)
On 14 May 2002, the European Parliament adopted, in second reading,
the Council common position on the Directive concerning distance
selling of financial services. This Directive will regulate the
marketing of financial services, such as credit cards and pension
plans, through the phone, fax, Internet, and traditional mail. It
will ban the use of unsolicited e-mail and "inertia marketing", which
involves sending unsolicited financial services to consumers and
charging them for these before the consumer has agreed to buy them.
The Directive includes an opt-in rule that prohibits companies from
using unsolicited e-mail to sell their services.
http://www.euractiv.com/cgi-bin/cgint.exe/871080-985?targ=1&204&OIDN=1503416
Preserving Tomorrow's Memory - Preserving Digital Content For Future
Generations Council Resolution (via Quicklinks)
http://multimedia.ue2002.es/infografiasActualidad/20020523/1879Ing.pdf
EP plenary adopts e-communications Directive (Euractiv/Quicklinks)
The Parliament's plenary on 30 May adopted the draft e-communications
Directive in second reading, avoiding conciliation. The proposal is
the last element of the new telecommunications regulatory package to
be adopted. This draft Directive has incurred delay as parties could
not come to an agreement on especially the issues of unsolicited
commercial e-mail and data retention.
http://www.euractiv.com/cgi-bin/cgint.exe/?targ=1&204&OIDN=1503516
Panel recommends ICANN overhaul
The group that oversees the Internet's traffic system moved closer to
a complete overhaul over the weekend when a committee recommended
changes aimed at making the controversial body function more
smoothly.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-930275.html
VeriSign to Help Telecoms With Wiretap Orders
Security and Web address provider VeriSign Inc. Monday unveiled a new
service to help U.S. telecommunications carriers comply with
wiretapping regulations that have gained more prominence since the
attacks of Sept. 11.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51040-2002Jun3.html
The following stories are from BNA Internet Law News...
SONICBLUE DOES NOT HAVE TO SPY ON ITS CONSUMERS
A US federal judge has overturned a controversial ruling
that would have required Sonicblue to track its customers'
viewing habits and send the data to TV networks and film
studios. Sonicblue had publicly claimed that the initial
court order attacked consumer privacy, saying the
entertainment industry was trying to force the firm to spy
on its customers. Decision at
<http://www.fenwick.com/About_Fenwick/Privacy_Documents/Replay_Review_Decision_C
DCal_5-30-02.pdf>
Coverage at
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52934,00.html
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,52944,00.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-930548.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54180-2002Jun3.html
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/local/3396244.htm
COURT RULES COPYING STORED EMAIL DOESN'T VIOLATE ECPA
BNA's E-Commerce Law Daily reports that a federal court in
New Hampshire has ruled that copying email from a computer
hard drive does not fall within the interception provisions
of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. The case,
Thompson v. Thompson, involved a nasty divorce in which one
spouse copied hundreds of emails from the other. Decision
at
<http://makeashorterlink.com/?N63B24DF>
UDRP PANEL RULES NAF SUPPLEMENTAL RULES INCONSISTENT WITH
UDRP POLICY
An NAF three-member panel has reportedly issued an
interesting decision that provides important comments on a
NAF supplemental rule that permits parties to file
supplemental filings within five calendar days and pay $250.
The panel argued that the NAF rule was inconsistent with
the ICANN UDRP which grants panelists the discretion whether
to accept late filings. Report at
http://www.udrplaw.net/ExclusiveNews8.htm
DOT-NAME DOMAINS VIOLATE ICANN REGULATIONS
According to a new study by Ben Edelman at Harvard's Berkman
Center For Internet & Society, thousands of recently
registered .name domains violate ICANN regulations. Under
restrictions approved by ICANN, registrations of .name
domains must adhere to the format "firstname.lastname.name"
and must be "a person's legal name, or a name by which the
person is commonly known." Study at
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/name-restrictions>
Coverage at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51060-2002Jun3.html
NZ DOMAINS GETTING FRAZZLED BY AU SPAMMERS
New Zealand domain name registry Domainz has failed in its
attempts to shut out Australian spammers Internet Registry.
Like fellow registry Internet Name Group, which is under
investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer
Commission, Internet Registry has a copy of the Domainz
"Whois" database of .co.nz name owners, which they
cross-referenced against the .com database and use to send
spam.
<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=204471>
SALON FEATURES THE BATTLE OVER NISSAN.COM
Salon runs a story on the long-running battle over the
Nissan.com domain. The case pits Nissan the automaker
against Uzi Nissan, the owner of a computer company based in
North Carolina.
http://www.salon.com/tech/col/leon/2002/06/03/nissan/index.html
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