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general internet news - May 1
Internet Legal Borders Remain Hazy
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Monday to let stand a
ruling in an online defamation case will make it more
difficult to determine correct legal jurisdictions in other
Internet cases, legal experts said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54955-2003Apr29.html
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/5735957.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-04-28-web-legal_x.htm
Be Careful What You Ask For: Reconciling a Global Internet
and Local Law
As the Internet becomes part of daily living rather than a
place to visit, its rough edges are smoothed and its
extremes tamed by sovereigns wanting to protect consumers,
prevent network resource abuse, and eliminate speech deemed
harmful. The tools are now within reach to permit
sovereigns with competing rulesets to play down their
differences - whether by countenancing global privatization
of some Internet governance issues through organizations
like ICANN, coming to new international agreements on
substance and procedure to reduce the friction caused by
transborder data flows, or by a "live and let live" set of
localization technologies to shape the Internet to suit the
respective societies it touches.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=395300
FTC finally realises that spammers lie
The Federal Trade Commission, a US government agency has
officially woken up to the fact that most spam contains
'fraudulent claims'.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134105,00.html
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/871714p-6083873c.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54005-2003Apr29.html
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/04/spamrpt.htm
Do-Not-Spam Plan Draws Critics
The rising tide of unsolicited e-mail has attracted the
attention of the Senate, where two anti-spam bills were
recently introduced. However, those familiar with the
problem doubt these laws, if enacted, will help matters.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58655,00.html
Record industry warning, taking names of Kazaa, Grokster
users
The recording industry has tapped into two Internet
file-swapping services to warn people trading music they
were breaking the law.
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/872365p-6087120c.html
Chinese court jails two people for operating an Internet
cafe
A Chinese court sentenced two Internet cafe operators to
prison Monday for running the Beijing business without a
license last June when arsonists torched the shop and
killed 25 people, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5736362.htm
http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=4340&PHPSESSID=5fbdb29e164b191dc67724ccbfd12d92
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-030429jails,1,3650353.story
Internet more popular with men than women in Germany –
survey
Twenty-five per cent of German web surfers have cable or
DSL broadband access to the internet, according to a recent
survey from Atfacts, a joint venture of Lycos Europe, IP
Newmedia and SevenOne Interactive.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=16121
Computer sweatshop denials
INDIAN computer giants Infosys and Satyam have released
detailed salary figures in a move to refute claims they
employ Indian workers in Australia in "sweatshop"
conditions.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6349740%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
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