internet news - 23 January

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

Internet Providers Must Help Trace Online Pirates
Internet providers must abide by music industry requests to
track down computer users who illegally download music, a
federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Tuesday in a case
that could dramatically increase online pirates' risk of
being caught. The decision upholds the recording industry's
powers under a 1998 law to compel Verizon Communications to
identify one of its Internet subscribers who was suspected
of illegally trading music or movies online.
 http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1042568688756
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2129110,00.html
 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/22/technology/22MUSI.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24577-2003Jan21.html

Verizon Must Reveal Internet Song Swapper 
Recording companies won a victory in their fight against
online piracy on Tuesday when a U.S. court ordered Verizon
Communications to turn over the name of a customer
suspected of downloading more than 600 songs in one day
over the Internet.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=2084541

The Role of Information, Communication Technology in the
Fight Against Poverty - the Nigerian Experience 
A paper presented at the symposium on ICT and the society
of information, Algiers, 9th - 11th December 2003 by Dr.
Bello Haliru Mohammed, minister of communications. Nigeria.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200301200386.html

Courts Split on Internet Bans
If a person goes to prison for using a computer and the
Internet to commit a crime, can he be barred from using the
Internet after the sentence is served?
 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/21/technology/21MONI.html

Malaysia: Restriction of freedom of expression hits the
Internet
The police investigation of the independent internet news
site, Malaysiakini, under the Sedition Act calls into
question the pledge by Malaysian authorities not to censor
the internet, Amnesty International said today.
 http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/Index/ASA280032003

Mahathir targets internet press
A POLICE raid on the offices of Malaysia's only independent
news organisation, Malaysiakini.com, was part of a plan to
intimidate the online newspaper ahead of an anticipated
election in Malaysia this year, the company said.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5871101%5e16681%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Spam tops list of reported Internet threats 
Unsolicited email, widely known as spam, was the most
common incident reported to the Thai Computer Emergency
Response Team (ThaiCERT), which is run by the National
Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (Nectec),
between 2001 and 2002.
 http://www.bangkokpost.com/Database/22Jan2003_data54.html

Child porn complaints rocket
Complaints about child pornography sites on the internet,
such as that at the centre of the current storm over the
arrest of Who guitarist Pete Townshend, have rocketed in
the last two years.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,876191,00.html

Oz screwed on peering: Alston
FEDERAL Communications Minister Senator Richard Alston said
Australia is getting "screwed" by internet carriers’
peering arrangements and that he would be directing
competition and consumer watchdog the ACCC to do something
about it. 

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5875002%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html


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