internet news - 1 Oct

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

auDA publishes list of unallocated com.au ‘generic’ names
auDA has today published the list of com.au names that were
not allocated in the generic auction process. The names
will become available for registration on Thursday 3
October 2002 at 11.00am AEST. 
 http://www.auda.org.au/about/news/2002100102.html

Hammer falls on .au domain name auction
About half the domain names included in an auction of
.com.au generic names weren't allocated, and will be
available on a "first come first served basis" in an
upcoming auction.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000024981,20268564,00.htm

DNC rules domain names must be transferred
The Domain Name Commissioner Debbie Monahan has reached a
decision on the .maori.nz name ownership row, but has
muddied the waters by claiming she has no jurisdiction over
the matter.

http://www.idg.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/CB1733387E1188AACC256C3F001303CC!opendocument

Domainz updates terms after .maori.nz problems
Domainz, the domain name registry company, has amended its
terms and conditions following problems with the launch of
its new second level domain, .maori.nz.

http://www.idg.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/D8B80A26A39A3180CC256C4000170998!opendocument

Washington Post battles domain claim 
The Washington Post Co. threatened an anti-abortion
activist with legal action on Friday for registering a
similar domain name and snatching e-mail messages intended
for reporters.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-959992.html

Domain registry criticised by Thus
Thus, a UK telecoms and internet provider, has declared
that a move by Nominet, the UK registry for internet domain
names, to publish the contact addresses of all domain name
registrants not classified as "individuals" was illegal. 
 http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=12783

Strategies for International Domain Name Enforcement (reg
req'd)
What follows is a checklist of issues and a summary of tips
and resources for those involved in international domain
name enforcement. The materials are presented in outline,
rather than discoursive, format. They do not include case
summaries or strategic recommendations. In addition, the
materials presume a basic familiarity with the terminology
of domain name disputes. Useful summaries of nearly every
significant U.S. court decision on internet-trademark
topics can be found at our website www.finnegan.com.

http://www.mondaq.com/article_preview.asp?a=18005&p=5&c=1373&e=on

Register.com renewal strategy responsible for loss?
Register.com Inc may have shot itself in the foot to an
extent when it introduced a controversial customer
retention system in January 2001, writes Kevin Murphy. The
company reported yesterday that it will make a loss for the
first time in over a year, and its SafeRenew system seems
at least partly to blame.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27297.html

Anyone Using AAA For .us Disputes? - from UDRPlaw.net 
It has been nearly seven months since NeuStar announced the
American Arbitration Association (AAA) as the first dispute
provider for .us. The National Arbitration Forum (NAF)
became the second .us dispute provider on April 10, 2002.
Since then, the NAF has issued 10 .us decisions and 11
other cases are pending. AAA has not posted a list of cases
or decisions and currently refers visitors to NeuStar's
website. So is anyone using them? 

http://www.neustar.us/press/pr_archives/dotus_pr_03.07.02.pdf

http://www.arbforum.com/domains/caseresults2.asp?CaseNo=%25&CaseName=%25&Domains=%25&CommenceDate1=%25&Complainant=%25&Respondent=%25&Status=%25&Sort=DecisionDate&RulesetID=5

No Limit In Odd Decision - from UDRPlaw.net 
In one of the more strangely written decisions to be
released in a while, NAF panelist Tom Arnold ordered the
transfer of thenewnolimitrecords.com to well-known rap
mogul Percy Miller, better known as Master P. While Arnold
declined to transfer PMillerCollection.com to Miller, he
also refused to transfer p-miller-collection.com and
pmiller-collection.com to the Respondent as it had
requested in a counterclaim. Miller, the driving force
behind underground label No Limit Records, had recently
renamed the company New No Limit Records after moving from
Priority to Universal. Warning: This is a difficult
decision to read.  
 http://www.arbforum.com/domains/decisions/114771.htm

Comments on ICANN Zone Access Policy
Historically, all Internet zones were available to retrieve
using the AXFR protocol without restriction. In earlier
name server implementations, in fact, there was no
provision to limit the distribution of zones to a
restricted set of name servers.
 http://www.centr.org/news/ICANN-Zone-Access-Comments.html


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What the net is doing to you
One of the world's first research centres dedicated to
studying the social, political and economic effects of the
net has opened in Oxford.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2288598.stm

Secret web bans in FOI changes
WEBSITES protesting against November's World Trade
Organisation meeting in Sydney could be secretly banned
under proposed laws.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5200940%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Call for comment on content
THE Federal Government has released an issues paper seeking
public and industry comment on the regulation of internet
content in Australia.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5197919%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Porn Spam: It's Getting Raunchier 
Naked women performing oral sex with guns pressed to their
heads, naked women with large dogs clutching their backs,
naked women in pigtails pretending to be daughters having
sex with fathers.  
 http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,55420,00.html

Dutchmen held over child porn charge
Police arrested two Dutch nationals accused of publishing
child pornography, the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo
reported yesterday.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/30/1033283427728.html

Court rules voyeur cams legal
In a ruling that could change fashions in Washington state,
the supreme court there has ruled that "up-skirt cams" do
not violate voyeurism laws.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-960151.html

How Future Computers Will Change E-Commerce
Gartner research director Whit Andrews said companies could
save significant dollars by avoiding merchandise returns
that might otherwise have resulted from incorrect assembly
or use of products. 
 http://newsfactor.com/perl/story/19534.html

What's New on the Open Source Front? 
The early days of the open source movement saw the
introduction of such widely used products as Sendmail,
Apache, Perl and Linux. Since that time, many new programs
either have been developed as open source or have been
released into the open source community by software
vendors, and still more projects are in the works. But the
direction of the open source movement is far from clear.
 http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19532.html

Court OKs Student Expulsion Over Derogatory Web Site
The Bethlehem Area School District did not violate a
student's First Amendment rights under the U.S.
Constitution when it expelled him for creating a derogatory
Web site, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled. 
 http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1032128621859

College Questioning Site's Link 
Officials at the University of California at San Diego are
reconsidering a recent decision that would have forced a
student activist group to remove from its website a link to
a guerilla group accused of being a terrorist organization.
 
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55450,00.html

Iraqis allowed to use Internet, but with limits
There's no instant messaging, no wireless networks and
definitely no private Hotmail accounts. But the Internet
has finally arrived in forlorn Iraq.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/4178590.htm

Extremist uses Net to bypass anti-racism laws 
RIGHT-WING extremist leader Jack van Tongeren used the
internet to bypass Australia's tough anti-racism laws
within a day of his release from prison. 

http://www.thewest.com.au/20020924/news/perth/tw-news-perth-home-sto72790.html

FTC unleashes Dewie the e-Turtle 
The Federal Trade Commission's new campaign to help
consumers keep their personal data safe online includes its
very own Internet mascot.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-959625.html
 http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/infosecurity/

Raids lift lid on child porn
The net has closed in on thousands of suspected paedophiles
across Europe who have paid to view child pornography on
the Internet.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2122965,00.html

Government reviews internet content
THE Federal Government has released an issues paper seeking
public and industry comment on the regulation of internet
content in Australia. 

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5179297%5E15342%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html

Council of Europe targets child sex abuse, online racism
The pan-European rights body Council of Europe on Friday
passed resolutions against child sex abuse and Internet
racism but said the battle to fight them will be tough
because of huge financial interests.

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/554722p-4372464c.html

STRIKING A BALANCE: the control of children's media
consumption
The BBC, the Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC) and
the Independent Television Commission (ITC) have today
published the results of research undertaken between
November and December 2001 that looked at the mechanisms
parents use to control their children's media consumption.

http://www.itc.org.uk/latest_news/press_releases/release.asp?release_id=632

Web filters too complex to protect children online
UK parents don't see the need for web filtering software to
protect their children from innappropriate material,
according to a survey.
 http://www.vnunet.com/News/1135397

Host pulls satire site after police 'incitement' claim
A satirical Web site that attempted to parody concerns over
child safety has been shut down following the intervention
of police. Thinkofthechildren.co.uk was pulled on Monday
after officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's
Obscene Publications and Internet Unit contacted the site's
hosts alleging that that it could incite others to
violence.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27281.html

Pro-Israel Web site stirs controversy in academia
A pro-Israel organization has set up a Web site to monitor
professors and universities for pro-Arab, anti-Israel bias
- a move some academics are decrying as campus McCarthyism
and attempted intimidation.

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/553947p-4369605c.html
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/27/education/27COLL.html

Violent games 'good for kids'
A group of academics is urging a US appeals court to strike
down a law restricting children's access to violent video
games.
 http://www.vnunet.com/News/1135410

Study: New mums apt to alter Web habits
A new study has revealed that women change their Web habits
more than men when they become parents. While Mums opt for
child-related sites, dads prefer to surf sport and porn.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2122997,00.html

E-mail marketing on the rise
The number of messages in your inbox could be about to
dramatically increase with most firms likely to try out
e-mail marketing in the next year.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2284889.stm

State Prosecutors Trying to Delete Spam
State prosecutors are taking their first swing at
curtailing the daily barrage of unwanted e-mails received
by California residents.
 http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-spam28sep28.story

Canadian Privacy Commish Rules On Courier Signatures (from
BNA Internet Law News)
The Canadian Privacy Commissioner has issued an interesting
ruling involving the common practice of courier companies
obtaining electronic signatures upon delivery of parcels
and then posting the signatures on the company Web site
without consent. The Commissioner ruled the practice
infringed on both the use and collection provisions of
Canada's privacy legislation and the courier company agreed
to alter its practice to allow for the removal of the
signatures. Decision at:
 http://www.privcom.gc.ca/cf-dc/cf-dc_020905_e.asp

You've got mail: 60 billion a day by 2006
As if the strain that spam and email alerts are putting on
in-boxes weren't enough already, expect even more in the
coming years as the overall number of email messages
doubles from 31 billion a day now to 60 billion a day by
2006, market researcher IDC predicts.

http://www.idg.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/2FC7C564232FDF3BCC256C41000D6755!opendocument

Greece lets the games begin again 
It's game on again for Greek computer buffs who had been
banned by the government from playing electronic games.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1040-959365.html

Mobile phone game titles denied rating  
The Korea Media Rating Board (KMRB), a government agency in
charge of filtering out harmful materials in movies, music,
video games and advertisements, yesterday decided not to
give a rating to a mobile game, marking the first such
ruling for mobile phone digital content.

http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2002/09/26/200209260017.asp

Cybercrime code ready
INTERNET service providers are preparing for a new
cybercrime code of conduct that will detail how much data
they should keep on subscribers in order to co-operate with
police and other law enforcement agencies.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5153729%255E15306,00.html

China: Just Say No to Hacking 
Responding to accusations that China's government tried to
break into the Dalai Lama's computer network, a government
spokeswoman said Wednesday that Beijing opposes all
computer hacking.
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55382,00.html

Bill may give webcasters reprieve from royalty rates
Webcasters could potentially get a break from what they
claim are overly burdensome copyright fees if a new bill
introduced into Congress late Thursday is approved.
 http://virus.idg.net/ic_952753_1794_9-10000.html

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=1505993

Court OKs Student Expulsion Over Derogatory Web Site
A student's First Amendment rights were not violated by his
school when he was expelled for creating a derogatory Web
site, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled. Although the
court determined that the student's list of reasons why one
of his teachers should die did not constitute a "true
threat," it said the site created a significant enough
disturbance at the school that the expulsion was warranted
punishment.

http://www.law.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/View&c=LawArticle&cid=1032128621859&t=LawArticleTech

Prince suing Internet site
Prince's production company is suing the operator of an
Internet site that allegedly offered pirated recordings of
the rock star's live performances from his "Xenophobia"
concert series in June. 

http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2002/09/28/prince/index.html

Julia Gash: There is nothing sexist about pornography
Earlier this week, at the Liberal Democrat Conference in
Brighton, I delivered a speech in support of a motion to
regulate pornography. As someone who works in the sex
industry, I was speaking from the front line. Seventy-two
per cent of the customers at my designer erotica store in
Sheffield are female. I continually meet women who feel
comfortable with their own sexuality and, in choosing to
buy something that is designed exclusively to bring
pleasure, they feel empowered.

http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=336992

Microsoft gets hands-on with Tablet PC
Microsoft has made much of its Tablet PC vision over the
past two years. ZDNet UK brings you a hands-on preview of
what the devices are really like.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2122964,00.html

Illegal Campaigning Rampant Online 
Online negative campaigning against other presidential
candidates is becoming nastier with the election getting
closer. The venues for the new breed of the campaigning are
the electronic bulletin boards of government agencies and
media companies. That way, the campaigners target a
particular candidate or systematically hinder the
campaigning of another candidate.

http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=040000&biid=2002092428188

Buying Your Pills Online May Save You Money, But Who's
Selling Them?
WHEN Lori Levine went online last November to order two
prescription drugs for preventing seizures and treating
depression, she was pleased. Ms. Levine, 49, then a
registered nurse in El Sobrante, Calif., whose insurance
did not cover the $200-a-month cost of the drugs, found an
Internet pharmacy, Canadameds.com, that sold them at half
the price. She was a satisfied customer — until a few
months ago.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/29/technology/circuits/29PHAR.html

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