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Committee on ICANN Evolution and Reform - Links to Relevant Documents
and Resources
http://www.icann.org/committees/evol-reform/links.htm
Domain company owes $900,000
INTERNET Name Group has gone into administration, leaving more than
2000 customers without the domain name registrations they paid for.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4950077%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
ICANN Approves Waiting List Service
VeriSign's controversial call for a waiting list service was passed
by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
late last week, despite objections raised earlier by one of its
supporting organizations.
http://www.internetnews.com/isp-news/article.php/1451891
DreamWorks threatens legal action over web domain name
Hollywood entertainment studio DreamWorks is threatening an India
internet design firm with the legal action for registering the domain
name webdreamworks.com.
http://www.screendaily.com/story.asp?storyid=9249
Judge Tosses BT Hyperlink Case
British Telecom loses its bid to collect fees from its alleged patent
on hyperlink technology. "The Internet is, in short, an entirely
different beast from the system described in the (BT) patent," said
Judge McMahon in dismissing the case.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54721,00.html
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1366570
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2212203.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Hyperlink-Patent.html
http://www.law.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/View&c=LawArticle&cid=1029689057140&t=LawArticleTech
http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/02-07733.PDF
"Junk fax" lawsuits seek $2.2 trillion
A coalition of California activists filed a jaw-dropping $2.2
trillion set of lawsuits against facsimile marketer Fax.com Thursday,
saying millions of "junk faxes" are clogging the nation's fax
machines, jamming communications and possibly endangering lives.
http://news.com.com/2100-1033-955002.html
The Pop-Up Ad Says You've Won a Vacation. Then Come the Bills.
WHILE scanning the Internet last fall, Susan Hacking came across a
pop-up ad that caught her eye: she had "won" an eight-day cruise for
two to the Bahamas. All she had to do was call a toll-free number.
She quickly signed up, even after being told that she would have to
pay $348 for the accommodations, which she did by giving out her
credit card number. "The price was good," she said. "I thought it
would be a nice thing to do for my husband for Christmas." But when
her vacation package arrived in December, Mrs. Hacking, 63, said she
was disappointed to find even more hidden costs, including air fare
and port charges. She decided to cancel but said she has yet to
receive a refund or even a response from the Florida-based company
that sold her the package.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/business/yourmoney/25TRAV.html
Tribunal orders Web site to be shut down
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ordered a Web site that
equates gays with pedophiles, bestiality and sexual predation shut
down, saying it violates federal hate laws.
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/GAMArticleHTMLTemplate?tf=globetechnology/TGAM/NewsFullStory.html&cf=globetechnology/tech-config-neutral&slug=UNATS3Q-1&date=20020822
http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/decisions/docs/schnell-e.htm
Hate groups find virtual haven in Argentina
Argentina has emerged as the location of choice for Web sites set up
by the world's ultra-nationalist and neo-Nazi political groups.
http://www.nando.net/technology/story/510809p-4058953c.html
Japan faces internet sex crimewave
Sex crimes linked to Japanese internet dating services have more than
doubled in six months according to police figures.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1134580
Anti-piracy alliance to protect Japanese content
Japan’s entertainment industry has come together to form an
anti-piracy alliance in the fight against the illegal copying of
Japanese content in other countries.
http://www.legalmediagroup.com/default.asp?Page=1&SID=10864&CH=5&CN=&CountryName=Japan&Type=News
Educators seek to measure Internet's impact on learning
Although U.S. government efforts to connect public schools to the
Internet have been highly successful, they have failed to result in
an increase in student achievement on standardized tests, a recently
published study says.
http://www.nando.net/technology/story/510360p-4054526c.html
Seattle Lawyer to Challenge FBI in Russian Sting
In a criminal case in which the borderless Internet has collided
head-on with global law, a Seattle lawyer is set to charge that U.S.
officials illegally hacked into computers of two Russians to get
evidence to prosecute the pair on computer crimes.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=1366774
Russian Coding Firm Back for More
The company that employed the Russian programmer jailed last year for
breaking an American law has a new product out ... and it deals with
the product that got it in trouble in the first place.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,54712,00.html
The Ecommerce Regulations now in force
The Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002, which
implement the E-commerce Directive, came into force today (21 August
2002). Accordingly, businesses providing services over the Internet
now need to ensure that they comply with the requirements of the new
Regulations.
http://www.foxwilliams.com/article.asp?id=319
EU surveillance of communications: data retention to be "compulsory"
for 12-24 months - draft Framework Decision leaked to Statewatch -
revised 21.8.02 with press coverage: Special report
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2002/aug/05datafd1.htm
UK: Home Office publishes Codes on "Covert Surveillance" and "Covert
Human Intelligence Sources": Report
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2002/aug/02codes.htm
FBI Raids Firm After Hacking Claim
The FBI raided the offices of a consulting firm after a newspaper
trumpeted the company's claims that it found security loopholes in
U.S. military computers.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50628-2002Aug22.html?referer=email
Scottish case sets out principles under which jurisdiction can be
asserted in web cases
The Scottish courts have addressed jurisdictional issues posed by the
World Wide Web in a case brought by a Swedish company (Bonnier Media
Limited, formerly Business Media Limited) against a Mauritius
registered company, Kestrel Trading Corporation, and its managing
director (a Greek based British ex-pat), Greg Lloyd Smith.
http://www.foxwilliams.com/article.asp?id=317
Lib Dem rift over reform of porn laws
Moves to liberalise the sex trade and sales of pornography have
caused a rift among senior Liberal Democrats in the run up to their
annual conference.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=327390
Linux, the Cheap Chic for Computer Fashionistas
Linux was created as the people's software, free and open for
everyone to use, in an attempt to thwart the commercialization of
technology. But now the decade-old operating system is getting as
corporate as button-down shirts and PowerPoint presentations.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1368220
Palm Owners See Red Over Colors
Irked customers who bought Palm's low-cost color m130 PDA seek to sue
Palm for misleading them about its screen technology. They want their
money back, but so far all Palm has offered is an apology.
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,54727,00.html
Microsoft warns about security holes
Millions using popular Microsoft programs are at risk from security
holes that could allow malicious hackers to get into their computers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2211571.stm
Game industry eyes online experiment
After years of churning out mutant chimps and killer robots, the
video game industry is set to embark on a whole new kind of adventure
next week. Sony on Aug. 27 will begin selling network adapters that
will let its PlayStation 2 game consoles tap into existing Internet
connections, pushing video games into an uncertain online future.
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-954972.html?tag=fd_top
China and Hong Kong launch joint crackdown on piracy
In an unprecedented move, government bodies from China and Hong Kong
have agreed to cooperate in the protection of intellectual property
rights.
http://www.legalmediagroup.com/default.asp?Page=1&SID=10862&CH=6&CN=&CountryName=China&Type=News
And something we should all be concerned about...
Devastated by our hunger to consume and discard
Forty years ago a series of articles appeared in The New Yorker
magazine warning the world of an impending ecological disaster. The
author, a minor-league scientist called Rachel Carson, published her
thesis later that year as a book called Silent Spring. In it she
spelled out the dangers posed to the environment of the new
generation of agro-chemicals being used to boost food production
around the world.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=327069
James D Wolfensohn: To save the world from itself, we must act now
Last spring, the UN summit in Monterrey, Mexico, spurred poor
countries to commit to improve policies and governance in exchange
for promises by rich countries to deliver more aid and open their
markets. The World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg
next week gives us the chance to put those words into action.
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=327033
A summit that must succeed
It's been hammered by the media, savaged by squabbling eco-groups,
and hijacked by self-aggrandising politicians. But the Johannesburg
meeting holds the future of life on Earth in its collective hands.
http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,780528,00.html
60,000 delegates, 100 world leaders, one aim: saving the planet
Britons are using at least three times as much of the Earth's
resources as the planet can stand, two new official reports show.
They demonstrate that if everyone in the world lived as wastefully as
the people of this country, we would need two more identical planets
moored next door in space.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=327419
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