general internet news - December 6

[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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au: Optus' secret deal with porn company
Now, to the other major telco in this country, Optus,
and its involvement in a secretive deal to sell
pornography over the internet. Details of the
arrangement came to light in a case before the New
South Wales Supreme Court, involving Optus and the
Gibraltar-based pornography agent Gilsan.
 http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2004/s1255882.htm
 http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200412/r36704_91775.ram
(audio)

nz: Airline staff sacked over internet porn
Eight Air New Zealand staff have been sacked for using
work computers to access internet porn sites.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=9001670

Net suicide pacts on the rise, warns doctor
Suicide pacts arranged over the internet in which
strangers agree to end their lives together could be
increasing, a psychiatrist said yesterday.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=589257

http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6985080

Web 'may fuel suicide pact rise'
The internet may be fuelling a rise in suicide pacts,
a leading psychiatrist has warned.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4061623.stm

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_technology_story_skin/462405?format=html

http://smh.com.au/news/Breaking/Net-fuels-risk-of-suicide-pacts-journal/2004/12/03/1101923315583.html

uk: Childnet Help Reuters Staff To “Mind The Gap!”
December 2004
As part of Childnet’s aim of working constructively
with the corporate community the charity has started
to run its special parent’s seminar “Mind the Gap”
with various companies to help quip their staff in
understanding the online safety dangers for children.
 http://www.childnet-int.org/news/articles/dec04.html

us: Law Requires Computer Technicians To Report Child
Pornography
They're trained to clear up spyware and viruses, but
computer technicians also have the responsibility to
turn in people who have child pornography on their
computers. That's exactly how Charles Helland was
arrested. When the Boy Scout master reported problems
on his computer at work, a technician came in to fix
it. The repairman ended up reporting a different kind
of computer problem to the Internet Crimes Against
Children Unit.

http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail4514.cfm?ID=22,36400

cn: Beijing accused of blocking access to Google News
site
An online news service recently launched by Google,
the world's leading internet search company, has been
hit by serious access problems in China that are being
blamed by some experts on government blocking.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/b6d6b522-4408-11d9-a5eb-00000e2511c8.html

http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6951948

China bestreitet Blockade von Google-Nachrichten
 http://zdnet.de/news/tkomm/0,39023151,39128247,00.htm

us: Don't Expect the Government to Be a V-Chip By
Michael K. Powell, chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission
TIME to take a deep breath. The high pitch at which
many are discussing the enforcement of rules against
indecency on television and radio is enough to pop an
eardrum. It is no surprise that those who make a
handsome living by selling saucy fare rant the loudest
- it drives up the ratings. The news media further fan
the flames, obsessed with "culture war" stories that
slot Americans into blue-state and red-state camps.
 http://nytimes.com/2004/12/03/opinion/03powell.html

ca: Internet played a part in teen's suicide
The bullying against 15-year-old Joshua Melo began
over the Internet. In the end, his mother says, the
Strathroy-area student who took his own life --
hanging himself from a backyard tree -- turned to the
same technology to learn how to end his torment.

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2004/12/05/766026.html
 
uk: Game warnings 'should be clearer'
Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt calls for
clearer labelling of violent video games.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4069107.stm

ru: Chechen separatist Web site resumed the operation.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russian Federation
requested clarifications from officials of Lithuania
concerning the resuming operation of the Chechen
separatist Web site “Kavkaz Center” in the country.
«The position of Russian Federation concerning this
web-site and our attitude towards its work are well
known to Lithuanian party”, - Department of Foreign
Affairs official statement says.
 http://crime-research.org/news/03.12.2004/823/

Microsoft blog service sparks censorship dodging
You can't register a blog with MSN Spaces if it
contains rude words. Or can you?

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39175985,00.htm

mv: Personal account : Fathimath Nisreen,
cyber-dissident imprisoned in the Maldives
Fathimath Nisreen was arrested in January 2002 for
contributing to a newsletter critical of the
government. Although she was sentenced to banishment
on a small island in the archipeligo, in August 2004
she was given permission to take up temporary
residence in the capital. The cyberdissident was
imprisoned yet again after taking part in a
pro-democracy demonstration. She describes her ordeal
in prison.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11994

ir: Online journalists Omid Memarian and Shahram
Rafihzadeh freed
Journalists Omid Memarian and Shahram Rafihzadeh have
been released from prison since yesterday, each on
bail of 500 million rials (€50,000), the Iranian
student news agency ISNA said.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11793

au: No child porn filters on net in Australia (reg
req'd)
The Federal Government has rejected mandatory
filtering of the internet to stop child pornography.

http://smh.com.au/news/Breaking/No-child-porn-filters-on-net-in-Australia/2004/12/02/1101923235794.html

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LEGAL AND SECURITY
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au: Net crimes solvable, says expert
THE internet may not be the haven for high tech crime
that it seems, an Australian criminologist believes.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,11575095%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

uk: Court battle on software that destroys cases
against paedophiles
INTERNET paedophiles who use software to destroy
evidence of child pornography on their computers could
face tougher sentences following a test case being
brought today.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1384981,00.html

us: Final Round in Cable-ISP Fight
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear whether
cable operators must give access to their lines to
third-party ISPs.
 http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,65924,00.html

http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/03/technology/court_internet.reut

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SCOTUS_INTERNET_ACCESS

http://news.com.com/Supreme+Court+to+hear+broadband+case/2100-1034_3-5477007.html

us: Supreme Court to Hear Case on Cable as Internet
Carrier (reg req'd)
The Supreme Court stepped into one of the most heated
debates over the future of the Internet: how to
classify Internet cable service for purposes of
federal regulation.
 http://nytimes.com/2004/12/04/business/04scotus.html

us: Terror Net
Ever since the September 11 terrorist attacks, federal
agencies have been wishing for a system capable of
issuing a nationwide alert at the first sign of a
chemical, biological, or radiological attack. Now such
a system is undergoing trials in Tennessee.

http://technologyreview.com/articles/04/12/innovation31204.asp?p=1

us: Fight for Public Domain Goes On 
Digital archivists aren't giving up on their efforts
to free out-of-print books, movies and music from
overreaching copyright laws, despite a recent setback
in court.
 http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65898,00.html

us: 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://crime-research.org/news/05.12.2004/826/

us: Gates says cyberterrorism could cripple U.S.
economy
Former C-I-A Director Robert Gates said today at a
conference in Houston that cyberterrorism could be the
most devastating weapon of mass destruction yet. And
he says it could cripple the U-S economy.
 http://crime-research.org/news/05.12.2004/825/

United States, Japan Must Cooperate on Cybersecurity
The United States and Japan should intensify
cooperative efforts to secure their information
networks and work toward the creation of "a global
culture of cyber security," according to Lincoln P.
Bloomfield Jr., assistant secretary of state for
political-military affairs.
 http://crime-research.org/news/02.12.2004/822/

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POLICY
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EU Parliament to fund net antiporn program
Members of the European Parliament are set to give a
€45 million (NZ$83 million) boost to efforts to fight
child pornography on the internet.

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/702AEEC43B47FE0DCC256F5F0007C823

za: Convergence Bill Before Cabinet in January
The second draft of the long-awaited Convergence Bill
will go before Cabinet in January, says communications
minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200412020627.html

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&ao=126444

za: SA joins worldwide crackdown on child porn
Efforts to curb the international scourge of child
pornography have begun in earnest in South Africa with
the establishment of an ad hoc committee to police
this form of child abuse.

http://iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20041202062230263C175947

cn: A Long March From Maoism to Microsoft (reg req'd)
The metamorphosis of a Communist Party expatriate to
business consultant mirrors China's shift from a
closed-door state to a freewheeling money-making
society.

http://nytimes.com/2004/12/05/business/yourmoney/05mao.html

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SPAM
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Aust scheme targets spammers
The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) has
enlisted the help of Internet users to dob in
companies that bombard them with unwanted emails.
 http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1255638.htm

Anti-spam plan overwhelms sites
A plan to bump up the bandwidth bills of spammers
seems to be getting out of control. Earlier this week
Lycos Europe released a screensaver that bombards spam
websites with data to try to increase the cost of
running such sites.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4061375.stm

ca: Spam-fighters agree on best practices
Federal-private sector group delivers interim report
on efforts to stem the tide of unsolicited commercial
e-mail

http://globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041203.gtspam1203/BNStory/Technology/

Freeze on anti-spam campaign
A campaign by Lycos Europe to target spam-related
websites appears to have been put on hold.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4065751.stm

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INTERNET USE
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eu: Broadband challenges TV viewing
The number of Europeans with broadband has exploded
over the past 12 months, with the web eating into TV
viewing habits, research suggests.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4065047.stm

nz: Maori stereotypes 'reflected' by internet use
Myths about Maori being music lovers and players of
games are being bolstered by research showing many
visit entertainment-based websites.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=9001460


za: SA Site Passes Million-Mark
News24.com has reported more than a million unique
users in November, saying it is the first local Web
site to break the seven-figure mark.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200412030419.html

us: 'Connected' young people light years ahead of
their elders in Internet travels
Even when he's asleep, Scott Kearnan is hooked into
the Internet. He just turns down the volume on his
computer, so he's not awakened by the "brrring" of a
late-night instant message.

http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031779515325

us: Generation Raised With Internet Grows Up
Young people are now the savviest of the tech-savvy,
as likely to demand a speedy broadband connection as
to download music onto an iPod, or upload digital
photos to their Web logs.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/ALWAYS_ONLINE?SITE=FLTAM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36655-2004Dec5.html

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/12/04/generation_raised_with_internet_grows_up

Netcraft December 2004 Web Server Survey
In the December 2004 survey we received responses from
56,923,737 sites. The gain of 808,722 sites continues
the Internet's powerful growth as a medium for
communications and commerce, which has continued at
near-record pace in 2004 despite a steady drumbeat of
security threats.

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/12/01/december_2004_web_server_survey.html

"END OF EMAIL IN KOREA": Two-Thirds of Students in
Korea "Rarely Use or Don't Use E-mail at all"
HatTip to Doug Yeum. When I came back from Korea this
past May, I remember SMSing my friends about whether
they were going to play basketball one night. One of
them called back and told me that he didn't know his
cellphone could receive text messages. I was surprised
since I was so accustomed to SMSing my friends in
Korea about everything.

http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=7279_0_5_0_C

European broadband access up 60% on 2003
The largest broadband growth in Europe in the last 12
months has occurred in Italy (120 per cent) and in the
UK (93 per cent), according to figures from internet
research firm Nielsen NetRatings.
 http://dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=4779

The phone call is dead; long live the phone call
Who wins and who loses as phone calls move on to the
internet?

http://economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=3446429

UK firms 'embracing e-commerce'
A government-commissioned study ranked the UK third in
its world index of use of information and
communication technology (ICT). The report suggests
69% of UK firms are now using broadband and that 30%
of micro businesses are trading online.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3995311.stm

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ONLINE MUSIC & P2P
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Music sharing continues to thrive
The number of people illegally sharing music on the
internet has remained steady - despite the success of
legal download services, say analysts.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4056201.stm

au: Spies trace music swappers (reg req'd)
Hundreds of thousands of Australian users of Kazaa are
being stalked online by a company that tracks down and
then remotely enters home computers.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/12/02/1101923273799.html

au: Spotlight on Oz Web song swapper
U.S. technical experts will fly to Australia to
examine whether song files swapped by users of Kazaa,
the world's most popular Internet file-swapping
system, can be filtered, a judge hearing a copyright
case has ruled.

http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6994416

uk: Pupils to get anti-piracy lessons
Lessons on music piracy and copyright issues are to be
taught to secondary school pupils in the UK.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4055753.stm

ca: ISPs royalties
The Supreme Court of Canada recently held that
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are not liable for
the payment of royalties for copyrighted music
transmitted on the internet.

http://global.practicallaw.com/jsp/article.jsp?item=45463

Napster Star Changes His Tune
Napster creator Shawn Fanning is trying to make peace
with the music industry. His newest venture will help
the record labels and peer-to-peer networks work
together to create new digital music businesses.
 http://wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,65893,00.html

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RESEARCH PAPERS
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Bridging the barriers: knowledge connections,
productivity, and capital accumulation by Grafton, R.
Quentin and Kompas, Tom and Owens, P. Dorian
The paper explains the large differences in
cross-country productivity performance by modeling and
testing the effects of social barriers to
communication on productivity and capital
accumulation. In an optimal growth model, social
barriers to communication that impede the formation of
knowledge connections are shown to reduce both
transitory and steady-state levels of total factor
productivity (TFP), per capita consumption, and
reproducible capital. A ‘bridging’ parameter in the
growth model that lowers the disutility of forming
knowledge connections generates testable and dynamic
implications about the effects of social barriers on
capital, consumption, and productivity. Extensive
empirical testing of the theoretical propositions
yields a robust and theoretically consistent result —
linguistic barriers to communication reduce
productivity and capital accumulation. The findings
provide a theoretical justification and a robust
explanation for cross-country differences in TFP, and
fresh insights into how productivity ‘catch up’ may be
initiated.
 http://eprints.anu.edu.au/archive/00002838

Cultural quotas in broadcasting II: policy by
Richardson, Martin
This paper considers the application of ‘cultural
quotas’ to radio broadcasting: a requirement that a
minimum percentage of broadcast content be of local
origin. Using a Hotelling location model derived in
Richardson (2004) we show that, while the
laissez-faire solution involves less than (socially
optimal) maximal differentiation, a quota reduces the
differentiation between the stations even further.
While a cultural quota may raise consumer welfare, the
reduced station diversity and advertising levels
monotonically lower overall social welfare. We
consider two other policies – a limit on advertising
and a publicly provided non-commercial station – and
show that both also reduce diversity, compared to the
laissez-faire solution. An advertising cap is not as
effective as the quota in achieving greater airplay
for local content for least welfare cost but a public
station can be, depending on the magnitude of its
associated fixed costs.
 http://eprints.anu.edu.au/archive/00002856

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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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I.B.M. Said to Put Its PC Business on the Market (reg
req'd)
I.B.M., whose first PC moved personal computing out of
the hobby shop and into the consumer mainstream, has
put that business up for sale.
 http://nytimes.com/2004/12/03/technology/03ibm.html

He's gotta have it
3G phones aren't a must-have after all, it seems.
Steven Poole isn't surprised - new gadgets can be
wildly expensive, unreliable, and quickly obsolete.
But he still wants to be the first to own them:
Technological innovations are often, on the face of
it, quite stupid. The idea that you might want to walk
down the street holding a mobile phone in front of
your face, just to experience the wonders of video
calling, is clearly ridiculous: collisions and
alarming pedestrian injuries are the only possible
outcome. So it's no great surprise that Which?
magazine has informed its readers that the
much-vaunted 3G mobile phones, for which the operators
paid billions of pounds to the government in airwave
rights, are not a must-have upgrade after all. The
phones are "too bulky" and network coverage is
limited, Which? says, so don't buy one for Christmas.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1365214,00.html

Firefox Declares War in Germany 
Over 2,400 Firefox fans donated money to pay for a
full-page ad for the open source browser that appeared
Thursday in a German newspaper, spearheading the
battle in Europe against Microsoft's Internet
Explorer.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1416379,00.html

Firefox fans promote browser in Europe

http://news.com.com/Firefox+fans+promote+browser+in+Europe/2100-1024_3-5476608.html

The tangled Internet: Is it time for a new one?
By some counts, the Internet turned 35 years old this
fall. But far from entering middle age, it seems to be
growing into a rebellious teenager who has no idea
what he will be when he grows up.
 http://csmonitor.com/2004/1202/p13s02-stin.html

za: Speedy network a boon for SA researchers
The latest super-processing computer network, which is
faster and more efficient than the Internet, has made
its way to Cape Town - and South African researchers
are very excited about it.

http://iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=115&art_id=vn20041201023240282C821015

Firefox’s biggest obstacle is lazy programming
The biggest obstacle facing widespread adoption of the
Firefox browser is lazy programming – not from the
Mozilla Foundation but from corporates that have not
tested their applications with anything but IE.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39168780,00.htm

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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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au: Man jailed for child porn
A man convicted of distributing child pornography in
the Northern Territory will serve six months in jail.
 http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1256483.htm
 http://au.news.yahoo.com/041202/21/rzuy.html

au: Police drop child porn case against NT man
A Northern Territory man arrested during a nationwide
police investigation into child pornography, Ronald
Bibby, has had the case against him dropped.
 http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1256606.htm
 http://au.news.yahoo.com/041202/21/rzx5.html

nz: Man pleads guilty to child porn charges
A Featherston beneficiary, Stephen John Grigg, 55,
pleaded guilty in Masterton District Court yesterday
to several charges of possessing child pornography.

http://times-age.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3615124

uk: Man pleads guilty in cybersex case
A man has pleaded guilty to having "cybersex" with a
13-year-old girl in what is believed to be the first
case of its kind in Scotland.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1362380,00.html

ca: Fight child porn
The family of slain six-year-old Corinne "Punky"
Gustavson wonders why the province refuses to commit
to putting some of its projected $4.1-billion budget
surplus into stopping child porn predators. The
grandma of the little girl - whose body was found in
1992 after she had been sexually assaulted and
smothered - wants the Alberta government to spend just
a little of the extra cash on a provincewide police
unit to combat the problem.

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/EdmontonSun/News/2004/12/04/765020.html

ca: Child-porn bust at library
A 34-year-old man has been charged after allegedly
downloading child pornography at the Cambridge Public
Library. The man's arrest on Tuesday was part of a
police investigation into "suspicious activities
allegedly linked to this individual," Waterloo
regional police Staff Sgt. Bryan Larkin said
yesterday.

http://canoe.ca/NewsStand/EdmontonSun/News/2004/12/02/755556.html

ca: Toronto helps in porn case
A city man has been busted for child porn thanks to
Toronto cops and the work of Edmonton's Internet Child
Exploitation team. The investigation began after city
cops got help in early September from Toronto police
operating undercover in an online chat room.

http://canoe.ca/NewsStand/EdmontonSun/News/2004/12/03/763561.html

us: West Orange police net child porn arrest
Police cooperation across state lines led West Orange
police to arrest a man accused of sending pornography
to a 12-year-old in Colorado.

http://www.orangeleader.com/articles/2004/12/04/news/news2.txt

us: Gloucester mother charged with sex abuse of
daughter, 8
A Gloucester mother of two was held without bail
yesterday on charges she sexually assaulted her
8-year-old daughter and took explicit photos of the
child she later posted on the Internet so her
boyfriend, a long-distance truck driver, could access
them via a password-restricted Web site.

http://www.ecnnews.com/cgi-bin/04/s/sstory.pl?fn-glporn04

us: Volunteer firefighter busted for child pornography
A Saratoga County volunteer firefighter is facing
child pornography charges.

http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/your_news/saratoga/default.asp?ArID=106999

us: Fresno deputy arrested on child porn charges
Federal authorities say a Fresno County sheriff's
deputy confessed to possessing child pornography.
 http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=2649064

http://www.fresnobee.com/home/story/9536393p-10426475c.html

us: Fired state employee charged with downloading
child pornography
A computer programmer for the state Department of
Health faces pornography charges.
 http://www.abc6.com/article.php?ID=6573

us: Doc In Child Porn Case Can Still Practice
A family doctor from Passaic has pleaded guilty to
possession of child pornography and admitted there
were up to 600 pictures and videos of youngsters
engaged in sex acts stored on his computer.

http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_story_339173156.html

us: Former Soldier Faces Child Pornography Charges
A federal judge in Baltimore on Wednesday sentenced a
former soldier to nearly five years in prison for
sending child pornography over state lines by
computer.

http://wjz.com/localstories/local_story_336171332.html

us: Former teacher convicted on child pornography
charges
A former high school math teacher has been convicted
on federal charges of distributing child pornography
on the Internet.

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/10314346.htm
 http://www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?S=2643291

us: Apple Valley high school teacher facing child porn
charges
San Bernardino County sheriff's officials say a high
school teacher in Apple Valley has been arrested for
investigation of possession of child pornography.
 http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=2643536
 http://www.vvdailypress.com/2004/110208249887746.html
 http://www.nbc4.tv/education/3969207/detail.html

us: Ex-teacher gets 30 years for child porn
A U.S. District Court judge sentenced former Boyle
County teacher Mark Starr to 30 years in prison on
federal child pornography charges Thursday, following
tearful pleas from the parents of the young victims
that he be shown no mercy.

http://www.amnews.com/public_html/?module=displaystory&story_id=10545&format=html

http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=2644451&nav=EQlpTnGL

us: Child pornography possession case continued
The Red Bluff man accused of possessing more than 300
images of child pornography has had his pretrial
conference continued until the beginning of next year.

http://www.redbluffdailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,134~26762~2569799,00.html

us: Orthodontist pleads guilty to child pornography
charges
Marc R. Joondeph, a once successful orthodontist who
provided braces for scores of teenagers and children
in the Covington and Auburn areas, pleaded guilty
Tuesday to multiple criminal charges that included
possession of child pornography and communicating with
a minor for immoral purposes.

http://www.kingcountyjournal.com/sited/story/html/179715

us: Child-porn case nets 75-year term
An Arizona man arrested earlier this year on charges
that he had child pornography on his computer has been
sentenced to 75 years in state prison.

http://sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/orl-locsentence03120304dec03,0,5942058.story
 http://www.local6.com/news/3967926/detail.html
 http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=2644352

us: Man sentenced in child porn case
A 33-year-old New Britain man has been sentenced to
seven years in prison in a child pornography case.

http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=2644218&nav=1VGmTn85

us: Manchester man pleads guilty to making child porn
A Manchester man who once worked as a Head Start
program bus driver has pleaded guilty in federal court
to producing and possessing child pornography.

http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showfast.html?article=47831

us: Neenah man convicted in child porn case
A Neenah man on Thursday pleaded no contest to 15
felony counts of possessing child pornography.

http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/local_18880177.shtml

us: Strike two: Statutory rapist jailed for child porn
found on computer
A Norwood man, on probation for having sex with a
15-year-old Wisconsin girl he met on the Internet, was
sentenced yesterday to two to 23 months in jail for
having child pornography on his home computer.

http://www.delcotimes.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1675&dept_id=18171&newsid=13484783&PAG=461&rfi=9

us: Boy Scout Leader Faces Pornography Charges
Last night, 54 year old Charles Edwin Helland was
arrested at his home on a Grand Jury Indictment
charging him with 20 counts of Possession of Child
Pornography. He was lodged in the Minnehaha County
Jail, and is being held on a $10,000 cash bond.
 http://www.ksfy.com/Stories/Story.cfm?SID=1891

us: Man Pleads Guilty In Child Exploitation Case
A Manchester, N.H., man who pleaded guilty to child
exploitation and pornography charges could face up to
25 years in federal prison.

http://www.thewmurchannel.com/news/3967067/detail.html

us: Man pleads to child porn charge
A Wakefield man has pleaded guilty to possessing child
pornography, according to U.S. Attorney Margaret M.
Chiara.
 http://www.ironwooddailyglobe.com/1202porn.htm

us: SF Scout Master Faces Child Porn Charges
Fifty-four-year-old Charles Helland is accused of
possessing at least 20 pieces of illegal kiddie porn.
These charges developed very quickly because the
investigation began November 23, just a week ago, when
Helland got his work computer repaired.

http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail4514.cfm?ID=22,36373

us: Former church organist charged with sex assault,
child porn
A former church organist from Naugatuck has pleaded
not guilty to sexual assault and child pornography
charges involving girls he met at a Derby church.

http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=2639243&nav=1VGmTkQy

us: Glendive man gets 5 years for using child porn
A Glendive man who used his computer and the Postal
Service to receive child pornography will spend five
years in federal prison.

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/12/02/build/state/60-child-porn-sentence.inc

us: Former Berks County administrator convicted of
having 163 child-porn photos
A former high-ranking local government administrator
has been convicted of having 163 child-porn photos on
his computer, but was acquitted of possessing 51 other
photos of child pornography.

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/103-12022004-409903.html

us: Ex-official guilty of possessing child porn
Gary F. Henderson kept a highly organized collection
of child pornography on his personal computer, stashed
within a network of folders and subfolders, each
labeled with a descriptive title so he knew exactly
what lurked inside.
 http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13475726

http://www.dailylocal.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13475726

us: Man guilty on child pornography charges
A North Adams man who pleaded guilty Oct. 22 was
sentenced Wednesday afternoon in Berkshire Superior
Court. Gregory I. Goff, 32, last known address of 222
Eagle St., appeared before Judge Daniel Ford.

http://www.thetranscript.com/Stories/0,1413,103~9054~2572021,00.html

us: Man sentenced to almost six years in prison
A 43-year-old man has been sentenced to almost six
years in prison for possession of child pornography.

http://www.dailysentinel.com/news/content/gen/ap/TX_Porn_Conviction.html

us: Man suspected of child rape caught in Michigan
A man wanted for allegedly raping his girlfriend's
eight-year-old daughter -- then posting pictures of
the act on the Internet -- has been apprehended in
Michigan.
 http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2649959

us: New Albany Man Sentenced On Child Porn Charges
A New Albany man was sentenced Wednesday to seven
years in prison on a child pornography charge, the
U.S. attorney's office said.

http://wpmi.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=E891816A-9B97-49D4-8E7B-FC6D67D3CFF9

us: New York man linked to serial rapist gets 15 years
for child porn
Fifteen years may seem a lenient sentence for an
upstate New York man who admitted videotaping himself
and another man sexually assaulting two young girls.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/ny-bc-ny--mallrapist-redeke1202dec02,0,2474492.story

us: TPD officer arrested in porn case
A Tallahassee Police Department officer faces a
possession of child pornography charge after an
investigation by the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement.

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/10317169.htm

us: Gardena man accused of offenses with children
A Gardena man has been charged with committing lewd
acts with a 4-year-old girl, possessing child
pornography and growing marijuana plants in a closet
in his home, police said Wednesday.
 http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/1264096.html

us: SOUTH DAKOTA PREDATOR SENTENCED TO 80 YEARS (news
release)
As a result of an investigation initiated by U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Charles
Aaron Kellogg, 39, of Sioux Falls, S.D., was sentenced
Monday in Minnehaha County Court to 80 years in prison
for raping a little girl hundreds of times over two
and one-half years.

http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/sdpredator120104.htm

us: Friendswood man gets 51 months for kiddie porn
A Friendswood man who said child pornography kept him
from molesting his daughters has been sentenced to 51
months in prison for possession and receipt of child
porn.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1574&dept_id=532240&newsid=13468817&PAG=461&rfi=9

us: Orthodontist pleads guilty to child porn
A Kent orthodontist arrested after a patient told her
parents he'd been instant-messaging her with
inappropriate messages pleaded guilty yesterday to one
count of dealing in child pornography, two counts of
possessing child pornography and one count of
communicating with a child for immoral purposes. From:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002105443_dige01m.html
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