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general internet news - September 16
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CENSORSHIP & CONTENT REGULATION
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uk: LECTURE - Can The Internet Survive? Internet
Security, Technology and Governance: Problems and
Solutions
October 2004
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/collaboration/?rq=lectures/20041011
uk: CONFERENCE - Promoting Mobile and Internet Safety:
Meeting the Responsibility to Protect Children and
Young People
http://neilstewartassociates.com/kd108/agenda.html
uk: Govt Campaign to Warn of Internet Dangers
The Government is planning to mount a major new
campaign to raise public awareness of computer
security and internet safety risks.
http://egovmonitor.com/newsletter/zwr140/wiln01.html
UK gov seeks safer web for kids
Home Office minister Paul Goggins said today that he
wants to make Britain the safest place for kids to be,
online and offline, and announced a new campaign to
promote online child safety.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/14/online_safety/
uk: MAKING BRITAIN THE BEST AND SAFEST PLACE FOR
CHILDREN ON AND OFF-LINE (news release)
Britain continues to lead the world in internet and
mobile safety as a result of the collaborative
approach and shared understanding of stakeholders
working together to keep young people safe, Home
Office Minister Paul Goggins said today.
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/n_story.asp?item_id=1073
Diary of 'gross' sex acts spells jail for pedophile
(reg req'd)
A "persistent pedophile" who was exposed by the words
he used to detail his exploits in a diary could be out
of jail in nine years.
http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/12/1094927437772.html
China gets tough on Internet pornography
China will improve its long-term mechanism to combat
Internet pornography, according to a senior official
of the Ministry of Information Industry here Thursday.
http://english.eastday.com/eastday/englishedition/node20872/userobject1ai439340.html
sg: Bullies move online
More complaints of cyberbullying are emerging from
youngsters in Singapore than any other country except
the United States, an international safety group said
in a report on Monday.
http://iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=qw1095054121488B252
Web site killings raise ethical dilemmas
A terrified-looking man, rocking back and forth in his
chair with his hands tied behind his back, appeals to
the United States to leave Iraq and spare him death.
Then a hand with a knife appears to slice off his
head.
http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6213680
Behind the surge in girl crime
The headlines pull no punches: "Girls getting
increasingly violent," "Violent crime by girls
rising," "Girls not all sugar and spice."
http://csmonitor.com/2004/0915/p16s02-usju.html
us: High-tech forms of bullying can be far more
psychologically damaging
To grown-ups, the word "bully" may evoke the memory of
a sixth-grader who looked old enough to vote or a
13-year-old who advertised a classmate's phone number
"for a good time" on the girls bathroom wall.
http://www.starbeacon.com/index.asp?MC=NEXT&NID=6&AID=6167
Young cyber-bullies a menace in Singapore: report (reg
req'd)
High-tech Singapore has the highest incidence of
bullying among children via the internet of any
country outside the United States, a report said
today.
http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/13/1094927491121.html
Lithuania won't pull the plug on pro-Chechen site
Lithuania on Tuesday refused a Russian request to shut
down a pro-Chechen Web site that published a $20
million reward for assistance in the capture of
Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying it cannot
take action without a court order.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/world/2004-09-15-lithuania-baits-russia_x.htm
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040914.gtlithsep14/BNStory/Technology/
cn: Chinese Mobile Phone Carrier to Set up 3,000
Internet Cafes
China's second-largest mobile phone company plans to
open 3,000 Internet cafes by the end of the year,
exerting stronger state control over a sector once
dominated by private enterprise, state-run radio
reported Tuesday.
http://technologyreview.com/articles/04/09/ap_2091304.asp
tw: Teen held for setting up sex service site
A 13-year-old boy was arrested in Taiwan for allegedly
running an on-line sexual services site and recruiting
minors to join it, reports say.
http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/13/1094927473712.html
us: NSF Award Abstract: Surveillance, Analysis and
Modeling of Chatroom Communities
The aim of this proposal is to develop new techniques
for information gathering, analysis and modeling of
chatroom communications. First, the investigator and
his colleague consider graph-less models to capture
the structure of chatroom communications. In
particular, the investigators study how to develop a
multidimensional singular value decomposition approach
for component analysis of chatroom communication data.
Second, the investigators develop new visualisation
techniques to display the structural information found
in the first step.
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0442154
us: ISPs Not Liable for Blocking Pornography, Rules
Court
A Pennsylvania law which held ISPs liable for blocking
access to child pornography was struck down by the
U.S. District Court last week. The law created
criminal penalties for ISPs that failed to censor
child pornography on sites they hosted, but in
practice, the law resulted in wider suppression of
legal sites. According to this Washington Post story,
more than 1 million legitimate sites were blocked
because of 400 offending ones. The court declared the
law unconstitutional (and cited a this paper by
Berkman Professor Jonathan Zittrain in the decision).
Read the full decision and more about the Center for
Democracy and Technology's challenge to the law.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=566
us: Court's Ruling Against Anti-Porn Law Not
Surprising
A federal judge has voided a Pennsylvania law that
required Internet service providers to block access to
sites containing child pornography.
http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0033692.cfm
Keep kids safe on the Web
The Corvallis Police Department is fortunate to have
two police officers now assigned to the detective
division who are highly trained computer forensics
experts. They are fully prepared to investigate the
recent proliferation of computer crimes that affect
children.
http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2004/09/14/news/community/monloc07.txt
Immer mehr Pädophile und Perverse im Internet
Studie - Immer mehr Opfer von Sexualstraftaten werden
im Internet rekrutiert. Unter anderem auch der 15
Jahre.
http://newsbyte.ch/start.cfm?gruppe=news&rubrik=alle&startid=62446&action=1
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LEGAL AND SECURITY
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Brazil is world 'hacking capital'
Brazil has become the global capital for computer
hacking and internet fraud, according to experts
meeting in the country's capital, Brasilia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3657170.stm
http://brazzil.com/mag/content/view/177/2/
hk: Google news site hit by legal row over copyright
Google forged ahead with its news website despite
threats of legal action and allegations by local media
of copyright infringement.
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=14525
uk: Scottish newspaper settles internet defamation
case
Lord Robertson and the Sunday Herald have settled a
defamation dispute over allegations posted on the
newspaper's internet message board that accused
Robertson of helping Thomas Hamilton, the Dunblane
killer, to obtain a gun licence.
http://out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=scottishnewspapers1095169546
PayPal to levy fines for gambling, porn
PayPal, the online payments arm of eBay, on Friday
said it will soon fine people up to $500 for uses
related to gambling, adult content or services, and
buying or selling prescription drugs from noncertified
sellers.
http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-5362576.html
http://out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=paypaltofinegambl1095081852
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-paypal14sep14,1,5728135.story
us: Detenido tras vender una cráneo humano a través de
una casa de subastas en Internet
Y es que nada dejará de sorprendernos en lo que a
contenidos en páginas web se refiere. En Los Angeles,
Jerry David Hasson de 55 años, fue detenido tras poner
a la venta a través de eBay un cráneo de una mujer del
siglo XVIII. El comprador fue un agente federal que se
había hecho pasar por pujante para llegar al final de
la investigación una vez tuvo noticia de esta venta.
http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/109508991464827.shtml
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POLICY
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au: Labor announces IT policy
Federal Labor has launched a new policy aimed at
improving Australia's information and communication
technology sectors.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200409/s1199906.htm
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39159442,00.htm
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10773394%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
za: Government clamps down on child pornography
Child pornography becomes one of the most serious
crimes in South Africa from next week. Perpetrators
will face prison terms of up to 30 years.
http://iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20040912110803641C321553
Asia tops in telecoms, ITU says
The success of last week's International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) Asia Telecom 2004
conference and exhibition held in Busan, South Korea,
reinforces Asia's status as the world's leader in
telecommunications, the organization said Saturday.
"In many ways Asia is one step ahead of the world,
said Yoshio Utsumi, secretary-general of the ITU, in a
statement.
http://idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/815FBF9D623D22AD48256F0E00370CED
us: Grading Bush on tech
Declan McCullagh--No matter how hard you look, you
won't find much regarding technology mentioned in
President Bush's recent convention speech.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9589_22-5363216.html
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SPAM
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us: Bush v Kerry sparks spam deluge
The US presidential campaign has less than 50 days to
go and while we may already be growing tired of the
constant media coverage and war record debate, it is
in their inboxes that many computer users are seeing
one of the greatest downsides of the contest.
http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/thespamreport/0,39025001,39123943,00.htm
Microsoft's spam plan rejected
Attempts to fight spam by identifying e-mails have hit
problems over Microsoft's involvement in the process.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3655122.stm
http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=6235098
http://idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/159199B159FA744348256F100003AE6D
Spam taking a toll on China's Web surfers
Unsolicited Internet messages account for more than
half of all emails received in China, according to an
international spam expert.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=115&art_id=qw1094471462907B232
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INTERNET USE
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au: Feedback sought from E-crime victims and
investigators
Anyone who has ever been burned by an e-scam or been
involved in investigating one will have a chance to
talk about it online, for a survey about e-crime being
conducted by a University of Melbourne criminologist.
http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/articleid_1754.html
UK emailers the most prolific liars
Thousands are endangering their businesses and
relationships by consistently breaking email
etiquette.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1304830,00.html
http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6242050
Users Would Trade Privacy for Better Ads
A new study finds that 45% of those surveyed would
give up some personal information if it meant that
they would get more relevant pop-up and banner
advertisements.
http://technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1563
Internet is a victim of its own success
It is the news that internet users do not want to
hear: the worldwide web is in danger of collapsing
around us.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1304013,00.html
Ireland in "Internet slow lane"
High-speed access to Ireland's information
superhighway is being denied to many because their
telephone lines are simply not up to the task, critics
claim.
http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6233267
Ranking Economies by Broadband Penetration
An ITU report from their Strategy and Policy Unit on
The Portable Internet, the sixth in its series of "ITU
Internet Reports" originally launched in 1997.
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/2004/09/15.html#a720
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ONLINE MUSIC & P2P
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uk: iTunes under fire over UK pricing
Apple's iTunes music download service has been accused
by the Consumers' Association of overcharging UK
users. The group accused the service of charging
UK-based customers nearly 20% more than those with
addresses and payment details in France or Germany.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3658200.stm
us: 'F' Is for File Sharing
It's move-in day for freshmen at the University of
Maryland's College Park campus and the narrow lawn
outside Denton Hall is strewn with piles of suitcases,
bedding and Dell computer boxes. If recent history is
any guide, the smiling teens wandering amid the
makeshift encampments are primed to join the next
generation of hard-core music pirates who'll raid
Internet file-swapping networks for hundreds of
thousands of illegally copied songs over the next four
years.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8652-2004Sep9.html
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RESEARCH PAPERS
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Back to School II – Practical Lawyering and
Internet-Related Issues
The first session of Practical Lawyering and
Internet--Related Issues, a Harvard Law school seminar
taught by noted practitioners and Berkman Center
Clinical Program Co-Directors Jeffrey Cunard and Bruce
Keller, meets for its first session today (Tuesday,
September 14) from 2:20 - 4:20 in Lewis 202. The
seminar will use a variety of Internet-related case
studies drawn from recent, actual controversies, and
targeted readings and court papers to cover the
practical lawyering skills essential for the
successful, and satisfying, representation of clients
in areas including intellectual property, speech,
privacy, and other core Internet law themes.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=567
Property, Intellectual Property, and Free Riding
Courts and scholars have increasingly assumed that
intellectual property is a form of property, and have
applied the economic insights of Harold Demsetz and
other property theorists to condemn the use of
intellectual property by others as free riding. In
this article, I argue that this represents a
fundamental misapplication of the economic theory of
property. The economics of property is concerned with
internalizing negative externalities - harms that one
person's use of land does to another's interest to it,
as in the familiar tragedy of the commons. But the
externalities in intellectual property are positive,
not negative, and property theory offers little or no
justification for internalizing positive
externalities. Indeed, doing so is at odds with the
logic and functioning of the market. From this core
insight, I proceed to explain why free riding is
desirable in intellectual property cases except in
limited circumstances where curbing it is necessary to
encourage creativity. I explain why economic theory
demonstrates that too much protection is just as bad
as not enough protection, and therefore why
intellectual property law must search for balance, not
free riders. Finally, I consider whether we would be
better served by another metaphor than the misused
notion of intellectual property as a form of tangible
property.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=582602
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Firefox browser hits 1.0 milestone
If all goes well, the official Firefox 1.0 Preview
Release builds will be released on Tuesday afternoon
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39166539,00.htm
Critical flaws found in Mozilla, Firefox (reg req'd)
http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/15/1094927633954.html
Germans develop nasty case of IE jitters
Michael Dickopf, spokesman for the German Federal
Office for Information Security (BSI), has told the
Berliner Zeitung that internet users should switch
from Internet Explorer to Mozilla or Opera. Dickopf
says Internet Explorer is hazard-prone, attracting too
many viruses and worms. BSI already uses a combination
of alternative browsers, Dickopf told the paper.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/13/german_ie_jitters/
Simple Search Lightens Net Load
Researchers working on finding better ways to search
the Internet are increasingly turning to methods that
require individual nodes, or servers, to know a little
bit about nearby servers, but don't require servers to
look much beyond their own neighborhoods.
http://technologyreview.com/articles/04/09/rnb_091404.asp
Amazon unveils Internet search engine
Amazon.com has officially taken the wraps off its
Internet search engine, joining the contest to unseat
No. 1 provider Google.
http://news.com.com/Amazon+unveils+Internet+search+engine/2100-1024_3-5367133.html
http://dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=3201
Bloggers And Blinders
On the Internet, readers can easily limit their
exposure to news and ideas that they do not like.
http://forbes.com/2004/09/13/cz_sm_0913mcgookin.html
Microsoft and Sendo settle case
UK mobile phone maker Sendo has settled a lawsuit in
which it accused Microsoft of stealing its technology
and its customers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3651146.stm
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5363239.html
Microsoft's spam plan rejected
Attempts to fight spam by identifying e-mails have hit
problems over Microsoft's involvement in the process.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3655122.stm
au: NAB to send passwords via SMS
THE National Australia Bank is about to pilot a new
service delivering internet banking passwords via SMS.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10772497%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
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PROTECTION OF MINORS
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au: School teacher charged over child pornography
Police have charged a Central Queensland school
teacher with child pornography offences.
http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200409/s1199503.htm
uk: Child psychiatrist struck off register
A READING-based child psychiatrist who used his
computer to access child pornography was struck off
the medical register this week and branded a risk to
children.
http://icberkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200berkshireheadlines/tm_objectid=14626922%26method=full%26siteid=50102%26headline=child%2dpsychiatrist%2dstruck%2doff%2dregister-name_page.html
ie: Lawyers to put case for embattled judge
Lawyers representing embattled Judge Brian Curtin will
tomorrow appear before the Oireachtas committee
investigating his conduct.
http://212.2.162.45/news/story.asp?j=117456514&p=yy7457zzx&n=117457274
us: Belding city manager resigns following child
pornography charges
Belding's city manager, who is facing sentencing next
month on charges of possessing child pornography, has
resigned.
http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2298646&nav=0RceQt8H
us: Former Anchorman In Child Porn Case Enters Work
Release
Former San Antonio anchorman Gerry Grant was released
from prison Tuesday, two years after he began serving
a five-year sentence for possession of child
pornography.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040915/lo_ksat/2372148
us: Sending child porn over Internet earns sentence
A West Plains man received 12 years and seven months
in federal prison Tuesday for transporting child
pornography over the Internet.
http://springfield.news-leader.com/news/today/0915-AroundtheO-179764.html
us: Student is charged in child porn investigation
A 22-year-old student has been charged with possession
of child pornography after police searched his
parents’ home in Morris and allegedly found him
destroying computer evidence in his college dorm room.
http://www.registercitizen.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12924784&BRD=1652&PAG=461&dept_id=12530&rfi=6
us: Counselor arrested on pornography possession
charges
A long-time guidance counselor at Antioch High School
is facing charges of possessing child pornography
after he had files from an old laptop computer
transferred to disk by a local computer store.
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/newssun/top/w14pornguy.htm
us: Bail revoked for man charged with having child
porn
A former Douglass (Mont.) man awaiting trial on
charges he possessed child pornography at his
apartment last year saw his bail revoked recently
after New Jersey authorities charged him with a
similar crime, court documents indicate.
http://pottstownmercury.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12916564&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=18041&rfi=6
us: Fire Captain Accused Of Raping 14-Year-Old
A Lodi fire captain has been arrested and faces
charges of rape, sexual assault and child pornography.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040915/lo_kcra/2371915
us: Neenah man faces child porn charges
A Neenah man could receive a prison sentence of more
than 17 years after online tipsters alerted police
that he might be a source of Internet child
pornography.
http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/local_17783467.shtml
us: Sex charge stuns church members
Members of a church here say they are stunned by a
federal indictment against a former member who is
accused of producing and possessing child pornography.
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2004/09/15/news/state/sta02.txt
us: Man gets 87 months for pimping teenage girl online
An Oakland man was sentenced Monday to seven years and
three months in federal prison, having earlier
admitted he knowingly recruited a 13-year-old girl for
prostitution and then became her pimp.
http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10671~2400337,00.html
us: Teacher Charged with Child Pornography
On the cusp of the school year’s start, shock and
disbelief were two of the sentiments expressed by one
colleague of Monmouth Regional High School math
teacher Cecelia Schneider, who remains in jail on
child pornography charges.
http://crime-research.org/news/13.09.2004/630/
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