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general internet news - 5 August
us: JibJab Asks for Court's Help
JibJab Media, a small Web animation outfit, on
Thursday asked a California district court to declare
that it did not violate the copyrights of Ludlow
Music, the owner of Woody Guthrie's song "This Land Is
Your Land," which is the basis of a satirical JibJab
cartoon lampooning the presidential candidates.
http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64428,00.html
And to see the wonderful parody, go to:
http://jibjab.com/
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CENSORSHIP & CONTENT REGULATION
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Vietnam sets up force to police net
A special police taskforce will begin operations next
month to fight cyber-crime in Vietnam, the Ministry of
Public Security says.
http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/04/1091557884053.html
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=115&art_id=qw1091592183812B213
http://beta.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=2147
China steps up fight against net porn
China plans a multi-pronged approach to its fight
against internet porn, employing both high technology
and sex education to stop young people from visiting
lewd websites, state media say.
http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/02/1091298612770.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/02/china_porn_crackdown/
ir: Taking tougher line on Internet, authorities try
cyber-dissident and draft harsh bill
Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about
increased efforts by the Iranian authorities to gag
the Internet, including the trial of a theology
student at the end of July for a message posted on a
news website and a proposed law that would throttle
online dissent.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11066
Teherán endurece su línea en relación con la Red
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11067
Téhéran durcit sa ligne vis-à-vis du Réseau
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11065
us: FBI wants to eavesdrop on fiber links
The FBI wants to force Verizon Communications to make
sure that its broadband-over-fiber service can be
easily wiretapped by police and spy agencies.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5295560.html
us: Libraries install filters
To filter or not to filter: That was the question
facing the Four County Library System as it debated
whether to comply with federal requirements.
http://www.thedailystar.com/news/stories/2004/08/03/fil.html
us: Using the Web to Sound an Alarm on Missing
Children
NEW Internet-based system for issuing child-abduction
alerts is being introduced in 13 states this summer
and is expected to be adopted by more states soon. The
system is intended to speed the process and get the
alerts out to more people, including ordinary citizens
who can receive text messages on their cellphones.
http://nytimes.com/2004/07/29/technology/circuits/29howw.html
uk: AOL casts doubts on BT's child-porn protection
Around 230,000 attempts to reach paedophilic Web
content have been blocked by BT's Cleanfeed, but AOL
says this content blocker may not be the answer
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39161185,00.htm
Porn Blogs Manipulate Google
When Google bought blogging software pioneer Blogger
last year, it probably didn't expect that its new
technology would be used to goose the page rankings of
porn sites.
http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,64422,00.html
Jugendmedienschutz: Alterskontrolle per PostIdent
reicht nicht
Nach einer Entscheidung des Oberlandesgericht München
genügt es nicht, wenn ein Versandhändler beim Vertrieb
pornografischer Medien über das PostIdent-Verfahren
sicherzustellen versucht, dass der Empfänger der
Bestellung volljährig ist. Vielmehr müssten die Medien
per eigenhändig übergebenes Einschreiben versandt
werden. Dieselben Grundsätze können auch für den
Versand anderer jugendgefährdender Inhalte eine Rolle
spielen, worunter beispielsweise indizierte
Computerspiele fallen.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/49724
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ONLINE CRIME & ILLEGAL CONTENT
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au: Aust cracks down on 'net suicide advice
New measures to make it a criminal offence to use the
Internet to counsel or incite suicide were introduced
to federal parliament today.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/0,2000061791,39155378,00.htm
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10340811%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
ph: Unicef raises alarm on child pornography in RP
Child pornography has become widespread in the
Philippines and the government should take measures to
curb its growth, Unicef said Wednesday citing initial
results of an extensive study it is funding.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/net/2004/08/04/unicef.raises.alarm.on.child.pornography.in.rp.(4.10.pm).html
nl: Police raise child porn alarm, urge crackdown
Dutch police chiefs have called for a national
co-ordination point to be set up to combat the sexual
abuse of children, raising alarm over an enormous
increase of international child pornography on the
internet.
http://expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=10197
Study: Online sex offenders rarely lie about age,
plans
Sex offenders who target youth using the Internet do
not generally deceive their victims about their age or
intentions, and few used force or coercion, a
University of New Hampshire study has revealed.
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showfast.html?article=41606
uk: Rogue net diallers prompt review
The regulation of premium rate, 090, phone services is
to be reviewed by the communications watchdog Ofcom,
in an attempt to cut fraudulent activity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3531082.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=547723
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/03/premium_rate_icstis/
http://dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=2483
uk: 'Tip of the child-porn iceberg'
The biggest operation ever mounted to crack down on
Internet child porn only highlighted the "tip of the
iceberg" one of the most senior officers involved said
yesterday.
http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=832964
Child porn
The question of what constitutes child pornography is
extraordinarily complex. Standards that are applied in
each society or country are highly subjective and are
contingent upon differing moral, cultural, sexual,
social, and religious beliefs that do not readily
translate into law. Even if we confine ourselves to a
legal definition of child pornography, the concept is
elusive. Legal definitions of both "child" and "child
pornography" differ globally and may differ even among
legal jurisdictions within the same country.
http://crime-research.org/news/03.08.2004/537/
Strip protection from online predators
It is increasingly apparent that our laws must meet
the challenge of protecting our children in the face
of new threats and new technology.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2004/08/03/m15a_foley_0803.html
Fraudsters search Google for credit-card numbers
Simple searches can reveal stolen card details,
including names, addresses and phone numbers.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39162557,00.htm
us: Google and Yahoo sued over gambling ads
Major Web sites' advertisements for gambling are
illegal in California, claims a lawsuit
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39162562,00.htm
Murderous texts send pastor to jail
A minister in a Swedish sect has been jailed for using
text messages to incite his lover to murder his wife
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39162366,00.htm
us: Problem for cops on eBay beat: Crooks keep getting
smarter
One of eBay Inc.'s official tenets is that "people are
basically good." George Fawrup wants to find the eBay
users who are altogether bad.
http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/business/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?f0024_BC_WSJ--Fraud-eBay&&news&newsflash-financial
Phishing attacks on the increase
Phishing rose by almost a fifth in June, with 1422
unique attacks reported to the Anti-Phishing Working
Group.
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1157086
us: Online scams pose as Kerry campaign fund-raisers
Scam artists posing as fund-raisers for Democratic
presidential nominee John Kerry are trying to trick
Internet users into sending them money, an Internet
security firm said Tuesday.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2004-08-04-democrat-phishing_x.htm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5581739/
http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=5863259
us: John Kerry's real tech agenda
The Democratic National Convention is over, some $65
million has been spent on a week-long party in Boston,
and what do we now know about John Kerry?
http://news.com.com/2010-1028-5291476.html
us: Attorney scolded for phony Net posting
A district attorney candidate claims to have been just
joking when he impersonated a high school teacher on
the Classmates.com Web site and "confessed" to having
sex with his female students.
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5293401.html
ca: Painful lesson learned on eBay
Tim Leslie knows there's nothing he can do now. A
government employee based in Ottawa, he's still
stinging from an experience he had using online
auction site eBay — the kind of experience you hope
others can learn from.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1091358064768&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851
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Warning: Cancer sites could pose health risk
Web sites are recommending unproven complementary
medicines for cancer that could interfere with
conventional treatments and be dangerous or deadly, a
leading expert said on Monday.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023_3-5294101.html
us: Google accused of age discrimination
A lawsuit filed last week by a fired Google manager
says the company has created a culture that
discriminates against older workers and fosters morale
problems. The civil complaint filed in Santa Clara
Superior Court says Google, the online search engine,
fired Brian Reid, 54, from his post as director of
operations in February 2004 because he did not fit the
company's culture emphasising "youth and energy".
http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=2448
eu: 7th European Ministerial Conference on Mass Media
Policy: Integration and diversity: the new frontiers
of European media and communications policy
At a meeting of the Council of Europe's Steering
Committee on the Mass Media (CDMM) on 11-14 May 2004,
it was decided to organise the 7th European
Ministerial Conference on Mass Media Policy in Kyiv,
Ukraine, on 10-11 March 2005. The main topics of the
Conference will be 1) freedom of expression and
information in times of crisis, 2) cultural diversity
and media pluralism in times of globalisation and 3)
human rights and regulation of the media and new
communication services in the Information Society.
http://www.coe.int/T/E/human_rights/media/7_Links/consultation_announcement_E.asp
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Net virus posing as Berg video
A virus purporting to show video of Nick Berg alive
has been released on the internet, warn security
experts.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3531252.stm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/03/trojan_poses_as_berg_video/
Web addiction gets Finnish conscripts out of army
The Finnish Defence Force has excused some conscripts
from serving the full term of their military service
because they are addicted to the Internet.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200408/s1168945.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/03/internet_addicts_finland/
http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=5858764
Los finlandeses libres del servicio militar por su
adicción a Internet
http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/109161481551176.shtml
Mozilla puts bounty on bugs
A string of high-profile flaws in browser software
prompted the Mozilla Foundation to announce on Monday
that it would offer US$500 for every serious bug found
by security researchers.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39155226,00.htm
Get a life
Online fantasy games are booming - with up to four
million players worldwide. As there popularity grows,
a new economy has emerged - in which a good player can
sell his 'avatar' for hundreds of pounds to a less
skilful one. James Meek steps into the virtual worlds.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1274712,00.html
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WSIS
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Governing the Net
Part two of the ITU's grand World Summit of the
Information Society (WSIS) takes place in Tunis in
November 2005. In case you missed it, WSIS 1.0 was
held in Geneva last November. Intended to be a summit
of global leaders akin to the Rio and Kyoto
environmental summits, it hosted telecoms notables
such as King Letsie III of Lesotho, North Korean vice
president Kim Yong Dae and Liechtenstein leader Otmar
Hasler.
http://telecomasia.net/telecomasia/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=106801
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uk: Arrests in piracy crackdown raids
Police arrest 57 people in connection with music, film
and computer game piracy after a series of UK raids.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3534364.stm
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uk: Why politics must connect
Will Hutton: Powerful pressure groups have emerged
from the internet and mobile phone revolution. But who
will take responsibility?
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1273775,00.html
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au: au: Murder accused on pornography charges
A SINGAPOREAN student accused of bludgeoning to death
his two flatmates in Sydney is now facing 11 new
charges including possession of child pornography.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10330582%255E26462,00.html
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,264990,00.html
http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/03/1091476462239.html
nz: Teacher faces child porn charges if he returns to
NZ
A former Northland teacher who fled the country while
facing child porn charges will be arrested if he ever
returns.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=3582171
uk: Councillor to fight child porn charges
A CONTROVERSIAL councillor has vowed to fight
allegations linking him to child pornography.
http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/haverhill/story.asp?StoryID=59042
us/jp: Child pornography ends petty officer's career
The long arm of the law reached halfway around the
world Monday to pluck a once-promising petty officer
from the Navy for viewing and possessing child
pornography.
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=23602
us: Police arrest B'ville man accused of possessing
child pornography
A Bartlesville man remains behind bars in the
Washington County Jail after his arrest Friday on
charges of possession of child pornography.
http://www.examiner-enterprise.com/articles/2004/08/03/news/571.txt
us: Authorities Investigate 2 Sussex Men For Child
Pornography
Videos, books, pictures, computers and computer disks
are among the evidence taken from two homes in Sussex.
http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/3611983/detail.html
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040803/lo_wisn/2315767
http://jsonline.com/news/wauk/aug04/248236.asp
us: Army Sergeant Caught With Child Pornography
An Army Sergeant in San Antonio has been caught with
child pornography.
http://woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=5BF2EE3B-BFB7-408D-8F55-C38E34F2F8C1
us: Jewelry Designer Arraigned on Child Porn Charges
A costume jewelry designer who has his own boutique at
Bergdorf Goodman was arraigned Tuesday on child
pornography and drug charges.
http://1010wins.com/topstories/winstopstories_story_216135731.html
us: Man pleads guilty to child sex abuse, having kid
porn
A Tucson man faces up to 49 years in prison after
pleading guilty yesterday to molesting a girl,
conspiring to molest another girl and having child
pornography on his computer.
http://tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=local&story_id=080304a4_ngan_brief
us: Fallon senior accused in child-pornography sting
Fallon police arrested a senior citizen Thursday who
is accused of 13 counts of possession of pornography
depicting children under the age of 16. His arrest is
linked to an international child pornography
operation.
http://nevadaappeal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040801/NEWS/108010022/-1/rss02
us: Appeals court orders re-sentencing for child porn
case
A federal appeals court overturned a 30-year prison
sentence Monday for a truck driver who distributed
child pornography over the Internet.
http://gazetteextra.com/childporn080304.asp
us: Assault investigation leads to child-pornography
arrests
When Clovis Police Detective Matthew Solari tried to
find out who nearly shot and beat Staff Sgt. Rockey
Fleming to death, the airman remained silent. But
Fleming's reticence has led Solari into a sordid
investigation of child pornography.
http://amarillonet.com/stories/080304/new_pornography.shtml
us: More charges filed in child sex case
A Shaler man used a Web camera to show nude images of
his 4-year-old daughter online and then offered her
for sex to a West Mifflin man who is under arrest for
his role in another sex case involving a 2-year-old
girl, according to the FBI.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04216/355801.stm
us: Pair face luring charges
Two Grand Forks men were arraigned Monday in federal
court on charges of using the Internet to lure an
underage girl to have sex.
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/9306846.htm
us: "America's Most Wanted" To Help Hunt Mid-South
Child Pornographer
The network television program "America's Most Wanted"
may produce a show to help find fugitive child
pornographer Stephen Joesph Yurick.
http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=916465
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