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general internet news - December 24
Hi all
This is the final news for 2004, so for those who are
about to enjoy christmas and new year, have a merry
christmas and a happy new year, and I will be back
again with the news in the week commencing 3 January.
All the best
David
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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: Interview on the 32 men who have committed suicide
after being arrested for child pornography (Real
Audio)
Stuart Hyde, Assistant Chief Constable of West
Midlands Police, on the 32 men who have committed
suicide after being arrested for child pornography.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today2_suicides_20041222.ram
uk: Suicides up amid child sex probe
Thirty-two men have committed suicide following their
arrests in connection with Britain's biggest probe
into child pornography, a newspaper reported
yesterday.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2004/12/22/world/9718542&sec=world
http://iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1103612584661B216
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/21/child_porn_suicide_shame/
in: Website head bailed in porn case
The Delhi high court granted bail yesterday to the
head of eBay's Indian subsidiary, an American citizen
who was jailed in connection with the online auction
of a sex video clip involving teenagers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1378370,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1377922,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1377185,00.html
http://www.bangladesh-web.com/news/view.php?hidDate=2004-12-23&hidType=ICT&hidRecord=0000000000000000030024
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-12-21-india-video-scandal_x.htm?csp=34
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=350948
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5499237.html
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=49286
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4118503.stm
http://nytimes.com/2004/12/21/technology/21ebay.html
ir: Freedom in Farsi blogs
Iranians are using weblogs to access the forbidden and
challenge the sanctioned
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/weblogs/story/0,14024,1377538,00.html
cn: Fifth internet author detained
Another outspoken internet writer, Chen Min - who
writes under the penname Xiao Shu - was detained for
several hours yesterday amid an ongoing campaign to
silence dissidents.
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=18969
cn: China shuts down 1,287 pornographic and cult
websites
China has shut down 1,287 websites which spread
"harmful information" on religious cults, superstition
and pornography, a government Internet watchdog said.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041223/wl_asia_afp/chinainternetreligionpornography.041223073859
sg: Mentor Lee defends media curbs
Reporters, including foreign correspondents, face
strict censhorship to preserve Singapore's interests,
says Lee
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=18971
vn: Authorities harass cyber-dissident Do Nam Hai
Reporters Without Borders today hailed the courage of
Vietnamese cyber-dissident Do Nam Hai in daring to
openly criticise the authorities in articles posted on
the Internet, and condemned the harassment he has
received in recent months, including two days of
arrest and interrogation on several occasions.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=12136
us: Anti-Censorship Defense Committee Pledges Matching
Funds to FSC
The Free Speech Coalition (FSC) has scored a major
victory in its fight to keep Adult product freely
available to consenting adults. “The Anti-Censorship
Defense Committee (AC/DC) has pledged up to $75,000 in
matching funds to support the legal challenge to 18
USC 2257,” announced FSC Executive Director Michelle
L. Freridge in a statement.
http://avn.com/index.php?Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=210016
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LEGAL AND SECURITY
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au: Optus gets $17m porn bill
TELECOMMUNICATIONS giant Optus has been asked to pay
up to $US13 million ($17 million) in alleged unpaid
commissions to its former business partner in the
international porn trade.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,11722628%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
Hackers soon to hit their last frontier
Anyone who sends an email or bids on eBay with a
niggling fear about privacy may soon be able to relax.
Programmers have made a major breakthrough in their
quest for a totally secure computer network by turning
to Star Trek-style physics that would bamboozle the
sharpest hacker.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1376898,00.html
uk: Arrests in online drugs operation
A total of 22 people are arrested nationwide on
suspicion of buying class A drugs over the internet.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4111625.stm
http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=14997944%26method=full%26siteid=50003%26headline=five%2dheld%2dover%2donline%2ddrugs%2dsales-name_page.html
uk: Data watchdog probes government email bonfire
The Cabinet Office has come under scrutiny from the
Information Commissioner for deleting millions of
emails
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39181943,00.htm
us: Judges reject Raquet for public defender
A local attorney accused of viewing child pornography
was recommended to the post of public defender earlier
this month, but Howard County judges rejected the
nomination.
http://www.kokomoperspective.com/new/article.asp?6923
us: California gives up newspaper vs. Web fight
The state of California said its fight to preserve a
key regulatory distinction between newspapers and the
Web is over. A spokesman for the state's Department of
Real Estate on Monday confirmed that California won't
appeal last month's federal court decision that struck
down a prohibition on certain kinds of real-estate
information posted to the Web. He declined to comment
further on the state's decision.
http://news.com.com/California+gives+up+newspaper+vs.+Web+fight/2100-1030_3-5498645.html
us: On the Open Internet, a Web of Dark Alleys (reg
req'd)
The indictment early this month of Mark Robert Walker
by a federal grand jury in Texas might have seemed a
coup for the government in its efforts to police
terrorist communications online. Mr. Walker, a
19-year-old student, is accused, among other things,
of using his roommate's computer to communicate with -
and offer aid to - a federally designated terrorist
group in Somalia and with helping to run a jihadist
Web site.
http://nytimes.com/2004/12/20/technology/20covert.html
in: India plans US model cyber law
After arrest of online service provider, government
government creates new law based on Digital Millenium
Copyright Act
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=18967
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POLICY
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au: Tasmania to introduce tougher child porn penalties
The Tasmanian Government will introduce tougher
penalties for people found with child pornography.
http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1269606.htm
http://au.news.yahoo.com/041221/21/s9pd.html
Europe seeks new online media rules
THE Council of Europe has called on its 46
member-states to introduce legislation on the right of
reply to correct false information on online media.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,11740021%5E15342%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html
us: Departments of Justice, Homeland Security Announce
Child Pornography File-Sharing Crackdown
The Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security’s
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the
Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces
has announced a national law enforcement initiative
aimed at combating the growing volume of illegal child
pornography distributed through peer-to-peer (P2P)
file trafficking computer networks.
http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20040516015817750
ca: The Not-So-Great Canadian Divide
The smug self-righteous attitude Canadian liberals
present to the United States, looking with disdain -
and in some cases veritable hatred - at President
George W. Bush and his supporters has raised the ire
of Bill O'Reilly and many other US citizens. However,
there remains a large minority, if not a small but
silent majority, of Canadians who are not so far left
of California that they'd drown in the PC Ocean.
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Detective Peter Jupp a high-tech crimes police
detective in our nation's capital has said, "That's
the sick thing about consent laws in this country,
it's considered illegal child pornography if the
person in the picture is under 18, but it's legal for
a 14-year-old-girl to go out and have sex with a
50-year-old man." In Canada you have to be 18 to buy
cigarettes.
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/dec/041222c.html
in: Experts Say India's Cyber Law is Outdated
Cyber law expert Pavan Duggal feels India's
Information Technology Act of 2000 is completely
outdated and not fit to deal with cyber crimes. He
said that the law was promulgated four years ago
primarily to bolster the e-commerce business and not
intended to deal with cyber crime issues.
http://crime-research.org/news/23.12.2004/861/
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SPAM
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NZ anti-spam bill misses the cut (reg req'd)
New Zealand's Government expects to take the wraps off
an anti-spam bill in January after running out of time
to get a bill in front of parliament this year, as
originally planned.
http://smh.com.au/news/Breaking/NZ-antispam-bill-misses-the-cut/2004/12/20/1103391678448.html
Buyers ignore unsolicited email risk (reg req'd)
Hard as it may be to believe, much of the spam
delivered through cyber space is welcome. And
Brazilians, French, British and Germans cannot get
enough. They top the list in a recent survey by
Forrester Research showing that not only did many
internet users read spam, they bought from unsolicited
email.
http://smh.com.au/news/Technology/Buyers-ignore-unsolicited-email-risk/2004/12/21/1103391772414.html
us: Judge Rejects Guilty Plea In Spam Case
A federal judge declined to accept a guilty plea
yesterday from a former software engineer at America
Online Inc. who had been accused of stealing 92
million screen names and e-mail addresses of
subscribers for use in an Internet marketing scheme.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18153-2004Dec21.html
uk: UK's biggest spammer charged with more offences
The UK's biggest spammer, Peter Francis Clifford
Macrae, has been charged with more offences, including
blackmail, fraud and criminal damage.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/20/more_charges_for_uk_spammer/
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INTERNET USE
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Internet Archive to build alternative to Google
Ten major international libraries have agreed to
combine their digitised book collections into a free
text-based archive hosted online by the not-for-profit
Internet Archive. All content digitised and held in
the text archive will be freely available to online
users.
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1160176
us: Broadband steams ahead in the US
The number of broadband connections in the US has
jumped by 38% in a year, according to official
figures.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4120297.stm
Korean teenagers spend $40 a month on online games
SOUTH Korean teenagers spend about 40 dollars a month
playing online games, a report by the Korea Consumer
Protection Board said this week.
http://beta.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=22053
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ONLINE MUSIC & P2P
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au: Daily Dispatch (opinion) - KazaaGate Day 12
Whispers from the court gallery of the
world’s-biggest-copyright-case for the Internet’s most
downloaded program in history…and other hyperbole,
nonsense and mischief
http://www.apcmag.com/apc/v3.nsf/0/B52E9B3FE925C1F2CA256F7200229BE8
de: Legal setback for music industry in fight against
piracy
The Higher Regional Court in Munich has ruled that
providers are not obliged for copyright reasons to
make specific information about users suspected of
operating illegal FTP servers available. In a ruling
of November (file number 6 U 4696/04), which has only
now become known, the court of appeal granted the
appeal of an Internet provider against a decision by
the Regional Court I in Munich (file number 21 O
10372/04) which had specified an obligation to this
effect on the part of providers. In the latter ruling
in July the label BMG as legal representative of the
artists in its care had initially been granted the
right in its pursuit of potentially-illegal download
offers to demand information from the access provider
about the specific circumstances surrounding the
suspected breach of the law by a customer or customers
of the access provider.
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/54509
us: File-Sharing Website Ceases Operations
One of the Web's most popular file-sharing sites has
shut down less than a week after Hollywood announced a
flurry of lawsuits against operators of such Internet
servers.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-shutdown21dec21,1,5214271.story
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RESEARCH
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nz: VUW/InternetNZ Research Fellow Sought
InternetNZ seeks Research Fellow in Cyber Law
http://internetnz.net.nz/news/cyberlawvac.htm
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Microsoft prepares scaled-down Windows for Europe
Windows XP Reduced Media Edition will be released only
in Europe after the recent EU ruling - but it is
unlikely to be a bargain for purchasers
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39182091,00.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21144-2004Dec22.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4117217.stm
http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=7158726
Europe Rejects Microsoft's Bid to Preserve Bundling
Plan (reg req'd)
A court's order is the first time since antitrust
challenges to Microsoft began that the company will be
forced to alter its strategy of bundling software.
http://nytimes.com/2004/12/23/technology/23soft.html
Analysts: Media Player Too Ingrained
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_MICROSOFT_MULTIMEDIA_DOMINANCE
Will Mozilla's Lightning strike Outlook?
The Mozilla stable has produced yet another rival to a
Microsoft product in the shape of a project to
integrate a calendar function into its Thunderbird
email application
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39182092,00.htm
BBC launches open source network testing platform
Builder: The BBC has created a network protocol
testing platform written in Python and made it
available as an open source application
http://uk.builder.com/architecture/oop/0,39026558,39231596,00.htm
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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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au: Man jailed for viewing child porn at Net cafe
A 50-year-old man has been sentenced to nine months'
jail for viewing child pornography at a Darwin
Internet cafe.
http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1270748.htm
http://au.news.yahoo.com/041222/21/saks.html
au: Charged for importing child porn
A THAI man had been charged with importation of child
pornography into Australia.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11752090%255E1702,00.html
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/041221/ap/d873qdr80.html
au: Man on child porn charges
A LAUNCESTON man was charged today for possessing a
child-abuse product as part of the ongoing Operation
Auxin national crackdown on child pornography.
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11747973%255E1702,00.html
http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1269406.htm
http://au.news.yahoo.com/041220/21/s9jl.html
http://smh.com.au/news/National/Tasmanian-jailed-over-child-porn/2004/12/20/1103391679562.html
uk: Child porn shame of local priest
FORMER Catholic priest Alexander Bede Walsh has
pleaded guilty to child pornography charges.
http://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=687&ArticleID=909835
uk: Child porn computer man jailed
AN RAF technician who sold his computer hard-drive to
a friend had a guilty secret - it had child
pornography stored on it.
http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge/story.asp?StoryID=66790
za: Case of child pornography suspect postponed
The case of a Muldersdrift man suspected of producing
large quantities of child pornography was postponed
until January next year in the Krugersdorp
Magistrate's Court this morning.
http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,94443,00.html
ie: Curtin wins right to halt computer child porn
probe
Judge Brian Curtin tonight won the right to halt an
Oireachtais committee investigation into the discovery
of child pornography on his home computer.
http://www.eecho.ie/news/bstory.asp?j=147928205&p=y479z9xzx&n=147929091
http://www.eecho.ie/news/bstory.asp?j=150616780&p=y5x6y76yx&n=150617693
http://212.2.162.45/news/story.asp?j=128143942&p=yz8y44648&n=128144702
ie: Solicitor found not guilty of child porn charge
A solicitor accused of possessing child pornography
has been found not guilty by direction of Judge Yvonne
Murphy at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
http://www.eecho.ie/news/bstory.asp?j=47853960&p=47854zz4&n=47854252
us: Teacher arrested for child pornography
A 34-year-old middle school foreign-language teacher
was arrested today on child pornography charges.
http://www.wrgb.com/news/regional/regional.asp?selection=article_26474
us: Man, 54, faces charges of child pornography
A Jamestown man faces state and federal charges in
connection with his alleged production and possession
of child pornography of a child under 11, the FBI
reported.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20041222/4023893.asp
http://www.wivb.com/Global/story.asp?S=2726278
us: Priest charged in child-pornography case
A Roman Catholic priest whose Point Loma parish office
was raided by federal agents and San Diego police in
May has been charged with 20 misdemeanor counts of
possessing child pornography.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041222/news_2m22priest.html
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/103-12222004-421470.html
http://kyw.com/Local%20News/local_story_357225425.html
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/4019184/detail.html
us: Accused Child Porn Doctor Formally Charged Today
After almost a week behind bars, a local pediatrician
was formally charged in court today. Dr. David Evans
was arraigned on 61 counts relating to child
pornography and child sexual abuse.
http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2726325
us: Local Pediatrician Facing More Child Pornography
Charges
A local pediatrician is facing more counts for child
pornography. Doctor David Evans was arrested on Friday
at his home in the northwest part of town on forty
counts of possession of child pornography.
http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2714984
us: Man gets probation for having child porn
It took an arrest for possessing child pornography for
Aurora resident David Naimark to truly change, his
lawyer said last week.
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/sunpub/60504/news/fv1223porn.htm
us: Pornography Sentence
A Hays man has been sentenced to two years and six
months in federal prison on a charge of possessing
child pornography.
http://www.wibw.com/news/headlines/1306241.html
us: NB Man Arrested on Child Porn Charges
It's a child pornography arrest that has folks in New
Braunfels in shock. Police arrested a 56 year old man
for allegedly downloading photos and videos of
children having sex.
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=FAAEBA3E-9BA3-4158-A243-3A997DA6A766
http://www.herald-zeitung.com/story.lasso?wcd=11453
us: Teacher arrested after child porn investigation
An international investigation lands a Camden Middle
school teacher in jail. He’s charged with receiving
and possessing child pornography.
http://news10now.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=33718
us: Vinton man charged with distributing child porn
Ralph Mann, 55, of Vinton faces federal charges of
distribution of child pornography.
http://www.gazetteonline.com/article.aspx?art_id=94158&cat_id=1
us: Internet child pornography investigation leads to
Clinton
An Internet child pornography investigation that began
in Pennsylvania has led authorities to Clinton.
http://www.woi-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2712056
us: Man gets 55 years for rape and child porn
A Lennox man was sentenced Tuesday to 55 years in the
state penitentiary for rape and possessing child
pornography.
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/10470300.htm
us: Photo Find Leads To Child Porn Charge
A Hays man was sentenced to two years and six months
in federal prison on a charge of possessing child
pornography.
http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/technology/4018718/detail.html
us: Man charged with producing child porn
A 54-year-old man who police said used a camera
connected to his computer to record and transmit
images of his sexual exploitation of a child faces
federal child pornography charges.
http://www.wrgb.com/news/regional/regional.asp?selection=article_26426
us: Florence Co. man sentenced on child pornography
charges
A Florence County man has been sentenced to more than
20 years in prison on child pornography charges.
http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2709880&nav=0RaPULdV
us: Northampton men facing pornography charges
State police in Bethlehem arrested two Northampton men
this weekend for allegedly sending child pornography
over the Internet and seized four computers.
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-childporn1220,0,5738453.story
us: Porn Charges Added to Molestation Case
Authorities have added child pornography charges to
the child molesting case against a Jamestown man.
http://www.wivb.com/Global/story.asp?S=2726278
http://www.wivb.com/Global/story.asp?S=2724435
us: East Coast Child Porn Leads To The QCA
An Internet child pornography investigation that began
in Pennsylvania has led authorities to Clinton, Iowa.
http://www.whbf.com/Global/story.asp?S=2716718&nav=0zGoUOxi
us: Grand jury indicts priest on child pornography
charges
A grand jury has indicted a Fall River priest on two
counts of possession of child pornography and one
count of disseminating obscene material to minors.
http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041218/APN/412180873
us: Teacher arrested for child pornography
A 34-year-old middle school foreign-language teacher
was arrested today on child pornography charges.
http://www.wrgb.com/news/regional/regional.asp?selection=article_26474
us: Man charged with producing child porn
A man who police said used a camera connected to his
computer to record and transmit images of his sexual
exploitation of a child faces federal child
pornography charges.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/ny-bc-ny-brf--childporn1221dec21,0,3427595.story
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