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general internet news - crime, spam, academic - 17 May - part 3/3
Convention on Cybercrime wins support in Ukraine
Science and Education Committee of Ukraine considered a
people's deputies' legislative initiative on an amendment
to the Criminal and the Criminal Procedural Codes of
Ukraine on responsibility for crimes in the sphere of
computer information.
http://www.crime-research.org/news/12.05.2004/262
us: Websites give terrorists little critical data
2004-05-10 09:49:49
The overwhelming majority of United States government
websites that reveal information about airports and other
terrorist targets need not be censored because similar or
better information is easily available elsewhere, a study
has found.
http://itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=115&art_id=qw1084172401940B221&set_id=1
cn: Court Pulls Plug on SMS Lottery Scammers
Two Chinese men have been jailed for using cell phone text
messages to swindle money from subscribers by telling them
they had won lottery prizes, Xinhua news agency said in a
report available on Tuesday.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=5106216
ACLU Was Forced to Revise Release on Patriot Act Suit
When a federal judge ruled two weeks ago that the American
Civil Liberties Union could finally reveal the existence of
a lawsuit challenging the USA Patriot Act, the group issued
a news release.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22404-2004May12.html
How Complying with 18 USC 2257 Protects Your Adult Business
What is 18 USC 2257?: 18 USC 2257 and CFR 75 are the
federal law requirements of record keeping of the proof of
age of models and required notices on products including
content.
http://www.internet-law-library.com/internet_law_library/articles/law_library_18usc2257_article.php
us: Man fined for downloading music
A US federal judge has ordered a Bristol man to pay more
than $US4,000 ($5,817) for downloading five songs from the
internet.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9558216%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
nz: Opt in, opt out - Government weighs options in war
against spam
It's the bane of our online lives, but New Zealand is
inching towards the creation of legislation against the
sending of "spam" email with the issue of a Government
discussion paper looking at the matter. The question is,
can legislation in any form stop the deluge of junk
messages?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3566610
Spam: An Examination of Private and Legislative Responses
to Unsolicited Electronic Mail in Australia and the United
States by Shirley Quo BComm, Associate Lecturer, Deakin
University School of Law
Abstract: The paper proposes a definition of spam and
discuss the problems caused by spam. Both private and
legislative approaches, which have been used to address the
spam problem are reviewed, that is, technical measures,
regulatory and self-regulatory strategies, litigation under
existing legislation, common law theories, and US anti-spam
legislation specifically targeting spam. The Australian
Spam Act 2003 (Cth) and the current legislative regime
relevant to spam control are also discussed, followed by a
summary of relevant Australian case law. Lastly, problems
of enforcement and jurisdiction are discussed. The author
concludes that current measures to counter the spam problem
are inadequate and an international approach is necessary
because spam is generally impervious to national
boundaries.
http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v11n1/quo111.html
ftp://law.murdoch.edu.au/pub/elaw-issues/v11n1/quo111.txt
us: Court stops anti-spam firm from blocking junk email
A Northern California District Court judge has issued a
temporary restraining order to prevent SpamCop, an
anti-spam operation, from interfering with messages sent by
alleged junk emailer OptInRealBig.com.
http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/thespamreport/0,39025001,39120619,00.htm
http://out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=antispamfirmorder1084369365
Canada eyes world treaty to deal with spammers
Countries may need international treaties to deal with
large-scale computer spam, because individual governments
cannot deal with the problem by themselves, Canada said on
Tuesday.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-05-12-global-spam-effort_x.htm
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=5108721
6 de cada 10 emails de spam provienen de Estados Unidos
Un informe llevado a cabo por Sybari Software revela que
spam proviene en su mayor parte desde Estados Unidos, ya
que 6 de cada 10 correos electrónicos comerciales no
solicitados vienen de allí.
http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/108452742825458.shtml
El uso personal del ordenador en el trabajo causa el
despido de una empleada
La Sala de lo Social del Tribunal Superior de Justicia de
Cataluña ha confirmado la sentencia del Juzgado de lo
Social número 4 de Barcelona. En dicha sentencia se daba
por procedente el despido de Soni B.M., auxiliar
administrativa, por el uso de Internet para fines
personales durante sus horas de trabajo.
http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/108443734554131.shtml
Detenido por mostrar fotos de una mujer desnuda en Internet
sin su consentimiento
Durante el día de ayer, 10 de mayo de 2004, la Policía
Judicial de Navalmoral de la Mata, población situada en la
provincia de Cacerés, procedió a la detención de R.G.V., de
23 años de edad, acusado de haber publicado en Internet
fotos de una mujer desnuda que previamente había amenazado
y coaccionado para que tuviera relaciones sexuales con él.
http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/108426811571418.shtml
Pirates and Hackers Roam in the Internet's Wild West
Two weeks ago, law enforcement agencies in 11 countries
announced an operation called Fastlink, aimed at shutting
down the activities of almost 100 people suspected of
helping to operate illegal software vaults on the Internet.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/33748.html
Controversial Web Patent Defended
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted to the
university in 1998 patent number 5,838,906, which covers
technology for the broad practice of embedding interactive
elements in Web pages.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116107,00.asp
IETF Mulling Changes to Secure TCP
A plan by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to
upgrade security in the widely used Transmission Control
Protocol (TCP) could prove costly because of Cisco's
patents.
http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3352941
Copyright and Peer-To-Peer Music File Sharing: The Napster
Case and the Argument Against Legislative Reform by Guy
Douglas
Abstract: This paper examines legal issues surrounding
copyright and peer-to-peer sharing of music files via the
Internet networks, such as Napster and its successors. The
author first describes how the US courts have responded to
litigation by the music industry which attempts to prevent
the large scale infringement of copyright by P2P network
users. Australian law as it applies to this issue is also
discussed. The author then considers this mass copyright
infringement as a problem for law reform. The author argues
that copyright is primarily intended to ensure that
sufficient incentive is provided to maintain an adequate
supply of quality artistic works and information. P2P
sharing does not necessarily threaten the supply of quality
music, and consequently copyright law should not be
expanded in an attempt to shut down P2P networks.
http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v11n1/douglas111.html
ftp://law.murdoch.edu.au/pub/elaw-issues/v11n1/douglas111.txt
Learning in Cyberspace: Succession Law Online by Lillian
Corbin BBus, Griffith University Law School
Abstract: The article discusses the use of on-line
facilities to teach a Succession Law class across multiple
university campuses. The author explains that a sound
teaching program can be offered if on-line tools are used
to complement and enhance the course. The starting point
for this course was constructivist learning theory, which
recognises that students are responsible for their own
learning and that teaching design should be
student-centred. On-line and traditional design features
were used, such as lectures, on-line forums and on-line and
real world assessment tasks. The author presents course
evaluations data to show students' positive and negative
comments about the course design, and reports that the
experience has been largely positive for both students and
teacher.
http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v11n1/corbin111.html
ftp://law.murdoch.edu.au/pub/elaw-issues/v11n1/corbin111.txt
OECD says rural broadband can be better than urban
Rural broadband is not lagging behind its urban equivalent,
says the OECD. In fact in some instances rural customers
get better service at less cost.
http://www.computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/04ACF490B8974181CC256E93001A2489
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/0,2000061791,39147579,00.htm
http://www.oecd.org/document/43/0,2340,en_2649_34225_31718315_1_1_1_1,00.html
EU users lead fast net take-up
European consumers are taking to fast, always-on - or
broadband - internet access more quickly than their
American counterparts, according to EU research.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1214783,00.html
Search engines take the stand
Fifteen years after his trial, a convicted drug dealer in
New York state belatedly got a chance to clear his
name--thanks in part to an Internet search.
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5211658.html
Yahoo boosts free e-mail storage to 100MB
The Web portal also will begin offering "virtually
unlimited storage" for its paid e-mail customers.
http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/personaltech/0,39001147,39179342,00.htm
http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=1794
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/47349 (Deutsch)
Google Mail: Virtue Lies in the In-Box
Google's new e-mail service offers huge in-boxes to those
who do not mind ads on their messages. Those who don't use
it, however, could be missing a wonderful thing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/technology/circuits/13stat.html
What Big Brother? Gmail from Google wins a fan, despite its
ads
How did a couple of dropouts build an outrageously
profitable billion-dollar-a-year company in only five
years?
http://iht.com/articles/520073.html
Critical 802.11 wireless flaw identified
A serious wireless network technology flaw that could lead
to the breakdown of some critical infrastructures in just
five seconds has been identified by Queensland University
of Technology's (QUT) Information Security Research Centre,
a finding that is likely to have worldwide ramifications.
http://infoworld.com/article/04/05/13/HNwifi_1.html
http://internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/3353721
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