general internet news - November 8

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

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Sponsored by the Singapore Internet Research Centre
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/
Internet in Asia blog: sirc.blogspot.com
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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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uk: IWF response to Child Safety Digital Manifesto
A manifesto released by CHIS today offers a summary of
recommendations to improve & develop internet policies
designed to protect children in the UK
 http://iwf.org.uk/media/news.92.htm

uk: More UK ‘Pinhead’ legislation
Our UK correspondent, Arthur Blair, reports on the
continuing expansions in the already draconian UK
child porn measures, and on their ridiculousness.
 http://inquisition21.com/article61.html

ir: Women's media, rights groups urged to take action
after second woman arrested on Internet-related
charges
Reporters Without Borders today called on women's
media and women's rights groups around the world to
rally to the defence of two Iraqi women journalists
who have been arrested in the past eight days in
connection with their work for pro-reform websites.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11793

cn: Cyber-dissident He Depu begins third year in
prison
Reporters Without Borders today deplored the continued
imprisonment of Chinese cyber-dissident He Depu,
arrested at his Beijing home two years ago today (on 4
November 2002) for signing an open letter to the
ruling Communist Party congress (which was posted on
the Internet) calling for democratic reforms. Six
other signatories were jailed in the weeks that
followed.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11775

Indymedia server grab - Home Office knew, but isn't
telling
Almost a month after Indymedia servers in London were
seized by agencies unknown working for states unknown,
a parliamentary answer suggests that the Home Office
does know who seized them, and under what authority.
But it's not telling.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/04/indymedia_flint_nondenial/

kr: South Trying to Block Access to 31 NK Web Sites
South Korea is requiring major Internet service
providers to block domestic access to 31 pro-Pyongyang
Web sites amid a political squabble over the abolition
of a controversial anti-communist law, officials said
Wednesday.

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200411/kt2004110319431911990.htm

ca: No such thing as harmless porn surfing at work
Employees who access Web sites unrelated to their work
during office hours have long frustrated employers,
but a Canadian software developer is working with both
public and private sector organizations to tackle
so-called cyber-slacking.

http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&lid=1&sid=57213&adBanner=Security

za: Child online safety in focus
Microsoft hosted a child online safety roundtable
yesterday, to commemorate National Children's Day.

http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/business/2004/0411041200.asp?S=Social%20Responsibility&A=SCR&O=FRGN

ph: Bangsoy: Pornography and child abuse
IT DOESN'T take a great mind to search and conclude
that pornography is one evil factor why child sexual
abuse happens. A children's song that goes, "oh be
careful little eyes what you see" holds more truth
than all the rationalizations and denials of adults on
the valid connection of pornography and child sexual
abuse and other kinds of sexual perversions.

http://sunstar.com.ph/static/bag/2004/11/03/oped/annabelle.bangsoy.html

Suffer the Children
The child sex trade is a global nightmare, but a
former Interpol agent and a Boulder nonprofit are
doing something about it.

http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2004/feat_2004-11-04.cfm

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LEGAL AND SECURITY
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uk: Raids net hundreds of guns bought on internet
Police have arrested 41 people in a series of raids
across London after an investigation revealed hundreds
of firearms and rounds of ammunition being purchased
illegally over the internet.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gun/Story/0,2763,1344880,00.html
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/05/met_guns_net/

us: DOJ Defends Crackdown on Internet Gambling
A Greenberg Traurig lawyer in Fort Lauderdale has sued
the U.S. Department of Justice on First Amendment
grounds to force the feds to back off their crackdown
on Internet-based gambling.
 http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1099528822652

us: FBI Pursuing More Cyber-Crime Cases
A former technology company executive charged with
hiring hackers to attack a competitor's Web site has
joined the FBI's most-wanted list, the latest sign of
the federal law enforcement agency's growing interest
in cyber-crime.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25579-2004Nov4.html

New kind of the Internet fraud represented by Russians
Russian “spammers” represented new kind of Internet
fraud. Thousands Australians received messages
proposing participate in two-week trainings on the
Internet payments. Trainings seemed to be organized by
the Credit Suisse Group for involving new potential
staff.
 http://crime-research.org/news/06.11.2004/771/

How zombie networks fuel cybercrime
So-called botnets, which can take down major websites
or mount massive spam attacks, are being rented out by
hackers

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996616
 http://crime-research.org/news/04.11.2004/767/

U.S. and Europe unprepared for cyber attack
Future widescale terror attacks will be executed by a
person sitting behind a computer, not necessarily by a
suicide truck bomber or plane hijacker, a United
States lawmaker predicted on Thursday.

http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6716768

Cyberterrorism is a misleading term, says expert
RSA Conference: Richard Clarke, who has advised three
US presidents on security, says talk of
'cyberterrorism' is misleading

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39172764,00.htm

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SPAM
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US duo in first spam conviction
A US brother and sister become the first people
criminally convicted of sending spam e-mail.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3981099.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1344459,00.html

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INTERNET USE
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Worldwide Internet Users will Top 1 Billion in 2005.
The worldwide number of Internet users will reach
nearly 935 million in 2004 and will top 1 billion in
mid 2005. The U.S. continues to lead with over 185M
Internet users forecasted for year-end 2004. There is
little Internet user growth in the developed
countries, but in the next five years many Internet
users will be supplementing PC Internet usage with
Smartphone and mobile device Internet usage. Internet
usage is growing strongly in China, which surpassed
Japan for second place in 2003. The growth of Internet
users will continue in the developing countries for
another decade.
 http://c-i-a.com/pr0904.htm

Ireland tumbles in global ICT rankings
New figures reveal that Ireland has declined sharply
in global information society rankings as countries
like Taiwan leapfrog ahead in ICT development.
 http://www.enn.ie/frontpage/news-9562976.html

India way down in global tech space
Despite big strides in the information, communication
and telecom (ICT) space in recent years, India lags
far behind its east Asian neighbours such as South
Korea and China in bridging the digital divide as well
as telecom penetration. Also, the cost of modern
communication technologies in India remains far higher
compared to these nations. But the silver lining is
that despite a late start, India is expected to catch
up with China in terms of mobile telephony by 2008.

http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=73205

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WSIS
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Does the Internet Need to be Governed?
In its earlier years, the Internet was simply a tool
for the research and education community to explore
new ways of sharing computing power, software, and
information by way of electronic mail (which became a
popular application around 1971 on one of the
Internet's predecessors, the ARPANET). The
approximately one billion users of the Internet today
have the same range of interests as the general
population in most countries. The side-effect of this
wide spread use is that abuses have arisen that are
not unlike the kinds of abuses one finds in other
societal settings. Fraud, misinformation, harassment,
illegal transactions, theft of resources, breaking and
entering (hacking into computers), copyright
infringement, and many other exact or approximate
electronic analogs of improper behavior can be found
on the Internet. Such problems plainly raise public
policy concerns among governments and stimulated much
interest during the many talks associated with the
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
 http://www.circleid.com/article/795_0_1_0_C/

Swiss National, Geiger, Heads New WSIS Secretariat for
2nd Phase
A Swiss national, Mr. Charles Geiger, has been named
the leader of the new team to organise the second
phase of the World Summit on the Information Society
(WSIS).
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200411050749.html

Africa's Information Society Hindered By Culture of
Secrecy
EVERYONE needs and wants to communicate, and they do
so with the tools at hand. Africa's needy urban people
are using the most readily available communication
technology for them, mobile phones, in innovative
ways.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200411040233.html

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ONLINE MUSIC & P2P
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Music's brighter future
The internet will eventually be wonderful for music
buyers, but it is still a threat to today's dominant
record labels

http://economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3329169

us: Movie Industry Preparing Suits on File Sharing
(reg req'd)
Hollywood's major movie studios said that they would
begin filing lawsuits against people who make
copyrighted films available for downloading over the
Internet.

http://nytimes.com/2004/11/05/business/media/05film.html
 http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5438931.html

http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6723221
Center for Democracy and Technology's Statement on
MPAA Lawsuits
 http://www.cdt.org/copyright/20041104cdt.pdf

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RESEARCH PAPERS
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The Need for a Two (or More) Tiered First Amendment to
Provide for the Protection of Children by KEVIN W.
SAUNDERS (Chicago-Kent Law Review)
This Paper addresses two problems that arise from
attempts to shield children from harmful media
influences. With regard to spillover problems, where
the law recognizes that children can be limited but is
concerned that restrictions spill over to limit adult
rights, the Paper argues that there are ways to limit
the effect on adults, even on the Internet.
Furthermore, some spillover effect is allowed and may
leave open the possibility of protecting children from
tobacco or alcohol advertisements. The Paper also
addresses areas in which material has been seen as
protected even for children, areas such as violence
and hate speech. The Paper argues for a two-tiered
First Amendment that would allow the State to protect
children from damaging material, unless their parents
want to provide it, while leaving open adult-to-adult
communication.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=578567

Congestion and Choice of Capacity: Should Competition
Exist between Internet Service Providers? MAXIME DE
MARIN DE MONTMARIN (Universities of Marseille)
We are interested in this model in Internet Service
Providers providing to their customers the use of the
resources of their own network which are obviously
subject to congestion. We show that the existence of
congestion can, when firms provide differentiated
services and choose initially their network's
capacity, totally eliminate competition. Indeed, the
only possible equilibria of the game are either
parallel monopolies situations where the market is not
covered or intermediate situations where the market is
just covered but never duopoly situations where the
market of each firm is limited by the existence of the
competitor.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=579642

Holding Internet Service Providers Accountable DOUGLAS
LICHTMAN & Eric A. Posner (University of Chicago Law
School)
Internet service providers are today largely immune
from liability for their role in the creation and
propagation of worms, viruses, and other forms of
malicious computer code. In this Essay, we question
that state of affairs. Our purpose is not to weigh in
on the details - for example, whether liability should
sound in negligence or strict liability, or whether
liability is in this instance best implemented by
statute or via gradual common law development. Rather,
our aim is to challenge the recent trend in the courts
and Congress away from liability and toward complete
immunity for Internet service providers. In our view,
such immunity is difficult to defend on policy
grounds, and sharply inconsistent with conventional
tort law principles. Internet service providers
control the gateway through which Internet pests enter
and reenter the public computer system. They should
therefore bear some responsibility for stopping these
pests before they spread and for helping to identify
individuals who originate malicious code in the first
place.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=573502

Downloading Music off the Internet: Copyright and
Privacy in Conflict? MEGAN RICHARDSON (Uni of
Melbourne Legal Studes Research Paper)
Since the development of cheap and simple tape
recording technology in the seventies and eighties of
the last century, copyright law has struggled to reach
a balance between persons wishing to tape copyright
material for their own personal use and owners of the
copyright material who claim that this is breach of
copyright. With the development of peer-to-peer
copying on the internet, which allows for the
downloading of perfect copies, the issue has become
more urgent and more complex. The article follows
developments in the battle by music companies in
particular to prevent private copying of their
copyright material from the internet and the threats
to privacy which have resulted. Recently, the
companies have targeted individuals who have been
involved in frequent copying and sued them for breach
of copyright with the aim of publicising the breach of
copyright involved in such copying and to deter
others. They have hoped that through successful court
actions they may be able to convince the public that
private copying off the internet is a serious breach
of their rights. Two threats to privacy have resulted
from the companies’ actions. First, they have
subpoenaed internet service providers to release
information about customers who have used the internet
to breach copyright. Secondly, they have sought to
publicise cases against those whom they have sued as
serious violators in order to shame them and to make
the case against private copying. The article
discusses the moral and legal arguments for and
against these threats to privacy, concluding that
compelling internet service providers to provide
evidence about the activities of their customers does
not infringe privacy rights to a disquieting extent
but that using evidence gained by such methods to name
and shame offenders may be a misuse of the discovery
process.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=597362

Perils of Publishing on the Internet: Broader
Implications of Dow Jones v Gutnick MEGAN RICHARDSON &
RICHARD GARNETT (U of Melbourne Legal Studies Research
Paper)
This article takes as its starting point the brief but
illuminating discussion of the transnational
phenomenon of the internet in Michael Whincop and Mary
Keyes' 2001 book 'Policy and Pragmatism in the
Conflict of Laws', and observes that the prospect of
internet publication will inevitably influence the
framing of choice of law and jurisdictional rules from
now on. This has already been shown by the High
Court's decision in the recent case of Dow Jones &
Company Inc v Gutnick where, in attempting to adapt
the previously certain lex loci delicti defamation
choice of law rule to the exigencies of the internet,
the court effectively transformed the rule into a more
fluid - and more reasonable - standard that only
allows for presumptive conclusions about the place of
the tort as ordinarily (but by implication not
inevitably) the place of downloading. Further, the
fact that the court stressed that the lex loci delicti
for other kinds of torts will depend on the 'essence'
of the tort suggests that policy is now central to
choice of law to an extent not previously
contemplated. We suggest that it is possible to
elucidate some relatively certain choice of law rules
for internet publications - being as much as can be
hoped for at this stage.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=603881

The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide: A
Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet
Penetration MENZIE DAVID CHINN (University of
Wisconsin) & ROBERT W. FAIRLIE (University of
California)
To identify the determinants of cross-country
disparities in personal computer and Internet
penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over
the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include
economic variables (income per capita, years of
schooling, illiteracy, trade openness), demographic
variables (youth and aged dependency ratios,
urbanization rate), infrastructure indicators
(telephone density, electricity consumption),
telecommunications pricing measures, and regulatory
quality. With the exception of trade openness and the
telecom pricing measures, these variables enter in as
statistically significant in most specifications for
computer use. A similar pattern holds true for
Internet use, except that telephone density and aged
dependency matter less. The global digital divide is
mainly - but by no means entirely - accounted for by
income differentials. For computers, telephone density
and regulatory quality are of second and third
importance, while for the Internet, this ordering is
reversed. The region-specific explanations for large
disparities in computer and Internet penetration are
generally very similar. Our results suggest that
public investment in human capital, telecommunications
infrastructure, and the regulatory infrastructure can
mitigate the gap in PC and Internet use.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=579216

Filters and Federalism: Public Library Internet
Access, Local Control, and the Federal Spending Power
by ANUJ C. DESAI (University of Pennsylvania Journal
of Constitutional Law)
Congress has passed laws aimed at sexually explicity
content on the Internet three times. Each time,
opponents have brought First Amendment challenges to
these laws, with varying success. In this Article, I
argue that the third law Congress passed, the
Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which
requires local libraries to filter Internet access in
order to receive certain federal funding, implicates
federalism as well as the First Amendment. My
principal argument, found in Part III, is that the
values of constitutional federalism suggest that the
Supreme Court should have invalidated CIPA on
federalism grounds but that it had no doctrinal tools
to do so. Such an approach would have provided a
compromise result that would have permitted local
libraries to continue to experiment with filters but
would have simultaneously preserved public libraries'
historical autonomy from federal control. In Parts IV
and V, I then explore spending power doctrine and
explain the historical origins and theoretical basis
of a prominent proposal to change that doctrine in
light of the new federalism. I suggest that changes to
spending power doctrine could have led to the result I
suggest but would not match my underlying
constitutional policy rationales. Finally, I conclude
with thoughts on the way viewing CIPA through the lens
of federalism helps us better understand other
conditional funding laws and also sheds light on the
difficulty of crafting constitutional doctrine when
both First Amendment and federalism concerns are
raised by the same law.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=613602

Social Contagion and Trial on the Internet: Evidence
from Online Grocery Retailing by DAVID R. BELL &
SANGYOUNG SONG (Wharton School Marketing Department
Paper)
For a traditional retailer, the size of the customer
pool can evolve over time but is largely bounded in
space. In contrast, an Internet retailer with the
appropriate shipping infrastructure can draw customers
from a wide-ranging geographical area (e.g., the
entire United States). We examine the trial decision
for customers shopping at an Internet grocery retailer
(netgrocer.com). Drawing on literature in economics,
marketing and sociology, we conjecture that the trial
decision may be subject to social influence or
contagion. That is, exposure to the actions of
proximate others - either through direct social
interaction or passive observation - influences the
trial decision of individuals who have yet to
experience the service. 

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=579547

How Employers can Protect Themselves from Liability
for Employees' Misuse of Computer, Internet, and
E-Mail Systems in the Workplace by Louis J. Papa and
Stuart L. Bass

http://www.bu.edu/law/scitech/volume10issue1/Papa-BassWeb.pdf

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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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us: Enhancing Security and Civil Liberties: An open
letter from Dave Farber, Esther Dyson and Tara Lemmey
As long-time civil liberty and privacy advocates, we
are concerned with any government program or new
technology that could lead to a loss of the personal
freedoms that all Americans have a right to. Thus, as
we consider how technology can help our government
more efficiently fight the war on terror, we are also
looking for ways that it can enhance rather than
constrain those rights, most particularly in limiting
the dissemination of information that is not relevant
to an investigation, and in supporting more monitoring
and accountability in the use of data by government
agents.

http://www.markle.org/downloadable_assets/letter_tf_members_100604.pdf

us: There is Security in Sharing
Today, our government still does not have the
information it needs to fight terrorism. And the
information it does have is isolated in different
agencies, and therefore we cannot see its
significance. While the discussion over how to
implement the 9/11 Commission's recommendations to
restructure the intelligence community is important,
another key commission recommendation, creating a
"trusted information network" to facilitate better
information sharing among our intelligence agencies,
needs immediate attention. Implementing such a network
would make America safer today.

http://www.markle.org/downloadable_assets/mercury_news_op_ed_8.16.04.pdf

us: Addressing Critical Public Needs in the
Information Age
The Markle Foundation has issued its 2004 report,
Addressing Critical Public Needs in the Information
Age. The report, which includes a letter from
foundation president Zoë Baird, highlights Markle's
current work in accelerating the use of information
and communications technologies to improve two
critical aspects of our society - health and national
security. The report also includes an overview of some
of Markle's major initiatives, projects and
contributions to public benefit over the past four
years.

http://www.markle.org/downloadable_assets/marklereport2004.pdf

us: Supercomputer breaks speed record
The US is poised to push Japan off the top of the
supercomputing charts with an IBM prototype Blue Gene
machine.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3983131.stm

16 candles for first Internet worm
The first significant Internet worm appeared on this
day 16 years ago, and online security has never been
the same, security professionals say.

http://news.com.com/16+candles+for+first+Internet+worm/2100-7349_3-5438291.html

German Firefox fans start fundraising campaign
Following the success of the New York Times campaign,
a Web site in Germany is raising money for a national
newspaper ad

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39172723,00.htm

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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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au: WA policeman admits possessing child porn
A 34-year-old Perth police officer has pleaded guilty
to possessing child pornography.
 http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1235884.htm

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11297166%255E2761,00.html

http://theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11294970%255E1702,00.html

au: Policeman faces dismissal over child porn
A 34-year-old Perth police officer is likely to be
dismissed from the service after pleading guilty to
charges of possessing child pornography.
 http://abc.net.au/news/australia/wa/default.htm
 http://au.news.yahoo.com/041105/21/rlvm.html

au: Computers porn probe
IMAGES from computers seized by police from Albury
homes as part of nationwide child pornography
investigations have been sent to Canberra.

http://www.bordermail.com.au/newsflow/pageitem?page_id=837074

ie/nl: Guilty plea in child pornography case
A Dutch national living in West Cork has pleaded
guilty at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to possessing
thousands of images of child pornography on his home
computers.
 http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/1102/daamsf.html

uk: Paedophile jailed for life for rape
A predatory paedophile was jailed for life yesterday
for raping a 13-year-old Warwickshire girl he groomed
in an inter-net chatroom.

http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=14830118%26method=full%26siteid=50003%26headline=paedophile%2djailed%2dfor%2dlife%2dfor%2drape-name_page.html

us: Pornography trial begins
Is Aric R. Sven a producer of child pornography or a
peeping Tom? For Sven, a 37-year-old resident of
Antioch Township, the difference, if convicted, could
be as much as several decades in prison.

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/newssun/top/w05sven.htm

us: Marion man convicted of possession of child
pornography
A 40-year-old Marion man has been convicted by a
federal jury of possession of child pornography and
receipt of child pornography.
 http://www.woi-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2528841

http://www.kcrg.com/article.aspx?art_id=92243&cat_id=123

us: Bauxite man gets three years in prison for
possessing child pornography
Clovis Tucker, 40, of Bauxite was convicted this week
of possessing child pornography and sentenced to three
years in state prison, Prosecuting Attorney Robert
Herzfeld said.

http://www.bentoncourier.com/articles/2004/11/06/news/50onews.txt

us: Local Priest arrested in child pornography case
Reverend Stephen Fernandes, a pastor at New Bedford's
Our Lady of Fatima Church, was arrested this afternoon
and charged with possession of child pornography.

http://www.wpri.com/Global/story.asp?S=2527933&nav=F2DOSoUI

us: Ex-Teacher Arrested, Accused Of Having Child Porn
A former Chula Vista high school teacher was arrested
Friday on suspicion of possessing and distributing
child pornography, authorities said.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20041106/lo_kgtv/2443336

us: Man arrested on child-porn charges
A county man was arrested this week on
child-pornography charges after a weeklong
investigation by the Prince George County Police
Department.

http://timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031778994743

us: N.Y. pediatrician gets home confinement for
possessing child pornography
In a show of leniency, a federal judge Wednesday
sentenced a former pediatric physician to nine months
of home confinement for possessing child pornography.

http://www.fresnobee.com/24hour/nation/story/1793284p-9660813c.html

http://rnews.com/Story_2004.cfm?ID=22262&rnews_story_type=18

http://www.showmenews.com/2004/Nov/20041104News025.asp

us: Priest Arrested Amid Child Porn Investigation
A New Bedford Catholic priest placed on leave by the
Diocese of Fall River last weekend has been arrested
and charged with possession of child pornography.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/3896183/detail.html

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/11-04/11-06-04/a01lo685.htm

us: Pierce pleads guilty to child rape, porn
Gregory Wayne Pierce, age 30, pleaded guilty to all 63
counts of combined child rape and pornography charges
against him in Smyth County Circuit Court this week.
Many members of the local justice system have said the
case is the worst they have seen despite decades of
experience with crime.

http://smythnews.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=SCN/MGArticle/SCN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031778982554

us: Priest Arrested On Child Porn Charges
A New Bedford priest was arrested Friday in Pembroke
on child pornography charges.
 http://www.turnto10.com/news/3896072/detail.html
 http://www.abc6.com/article.php?ID=6404

us: Woman who tries to keep neighborhood free of child
molesters may be married to one
An Ashtabula County man is charged with downloading
child pornography and the molestation of his daughter
all while his wife is trying to keep the neighborhood
safe from sexual predators.
 http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=25877

us: Kidnapping suspect had thousands of child porn
pictures
Police found 9,000 images of child pornography on the
computer seized from Richard Allen Dunn's Kirkland
apartment in 2001.

http://www.kingcountyjournal.com/sited/story/html/177593

us: LJ man handed 30 years in prison
A federal judge sentenced a Lake Jackson man Friday to
30 years in prison for possessing child pornography
and distributing it over the Internet.

http://www.thefacts.com/story.lasso?ewcd=c3214e93348f0851

us: Porn Arrests
Prince George County police have arrested a man for
producing child pornography and possessing marijuana.

http://www.wric.com/Global/story.asp?S=2527196&nav=0RcxSo9h

us: Pueblo Man Arrested
Pueblo police arrest a man Thursday for allegedly
trading child pornography over the internet.
 http://www.krdotv.com/DisplayStory.asp?id=8489

us: Bill Kamal arraigned on child enticement charge
Former television weatherman Bill Kamal will stand
trial in Fort Pierce on Dec. 2 on charges he tried to
lure a child -- someone he met in an America Online
chatroom and who he thought was a 14-year-old boy --
into having sex.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/10109915.htm

us: Man enters plea, gets 5 years for child porn
A Mooresville man has pleaded guilty in federal court
on charges that he possessed and distributed child
pornography. In September, agents searched the home of
Eddie Dean Proctor, 50, and seized a laptop computer,
two hard drives, 161 floppy disks and 12 CD-ROMs, said
Bryant Cromwell, assistant U.S. attorney of the
Western District of North Carolina.Proctor's plea
Thursday was part of a national investigation of a
Florida Internet company. Authorities searched the
company's membership list and found Proctor's name.

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