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us: 'Pornified': Dirty Minds (book/study review; reg
req'd; free for short period)
WHEN Paris Hilton's sex video catapults her to the
A-list and the porn star Jenna Jameson's autobiography
is a best seller, it's clear we're living in a
pornified age. Sex stars appear in music videos, the
raunchy docu-series "Girls Gone Wild" has become a
staple of the culture, and preadolescent girls wear
thong underwear. In "Pornified: How Pornography Is
Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our
Families," Pamela Paul, a journalist and the author of
"The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony,"
denounces this sea change, lamenting that we've become
inured to porn's negative effects on American men,
women and children. Her biggest gripe is with the
Internet pornography boom of the past decade, which
she believes is creating sex addicts and splintering
families. Unfortunately, though it has surely affected
many people, Paul fails to prove a national trend,
turning what might have been a provocative study into
a diatribe.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/books/review/11sohn.html
uk: Divisions emerge over Government plans on violent
porn
A LEADING Christian watchdog has attacked the
government?s new plans to crackdown on obscene
pornographic and sexually violent images on the
internet, insisting that the current proposals are
worse than no law at all. They warned that it would
not prevent further porn-inspired attacks on women.
Mediawatch-uk said that the government had ?missed a
marvellous opportunity,? and the new laws represented
a ?fudged approach? to the problem.
http://churchnewspaper.com/news.php?read=on&number_key=5785&title=Divisions%20emerge%20over%20Government%20plans%20on%20violent%20porn
de: Bavarian Minister of the Interior calls for
filters for Internet bomb-building manuals
The Bavarian Minister of the Interior Günther
Beckstein (Christian Social Union; CSU) has called
upon the industry to find solutions for a security
problem which in his opinion is a very grave one:
manuals for building bombs to be found on the
Internet. "It is possible to download recipes on how
to manufacture with little effort very difficult to
detect explosives," Mr. Beckstein told the German
business daily Handelsblatt in a talk to be published
in the paper's Tuesday edition.
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/63853
http://p2pnet.net/story/6230
de: Bayrischer Filter gegen Bomben-Rezepte
http://futurezone.orf.at/futurezone.orf?read=detail&id=274656&tmp=1057
cn: Clinton warns China web censors
FORMER US president Bill Clinton sidestepped talk of
China's jailing of internet political dissidents, but
indicated web censorship could have a commercial
backlash in the future.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,16572919%5E15326%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15318,00.html
cn: Winning the web war
LIU Di, a 24-year-old Beijing translator, uses
encryption software whenever she sends off email, but
not everyone is that careful. "People aren't aware of
the risks that are involved when they receive or send
emails," she said. "But most emails are in fact
monitored."
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,16574228%5e16681%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
us: Cyberstalkers Beware: New Toolkit Nabs Online
Predators
Researchers at Florida State University are developing
a computer system designed to help law enforcement
agents thwart cyberstalking.
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/514499/
us: Bullying and Your Child
The article discusses bullying among kids and
includes: Cyber bullying - a relatively new phenomenon
- began surfacing as modern communication technologies
advanced. Through email, instant messaging, Internet
chat rooms, and electronic gadgets like camera cell
phones, cyber bullies forward and spread hurtful
images and/or messages. Bullies use this technology to
harass victims at all hours, in wide circles, at warp
speed."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/kidshealth/20050912/hl_kidshealth/bullying_and_your_child
sy: Internet-user Abdel Rahman Shaguri released from
prison
Reporters Without Borders noted the release from jail
of Internet-user Abdel Rahman Shaguri on 31 August one
week after completing his sentence for ?publishing
lies? but condemned his conviction as ?utterly
unjustified?. "This man spent more than two and a half
years in prison and was tortured just for sending news
by email,? the worldwide press freedom organisation
said.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=14964
us: Parents Guide to the Internet (the article uses
information from the US Department of Education)
A computer that is connected to the Internet allows
you to turn your home, community center, local
library, or school into a place of unlimited
information and communication. The Internet can help
your family:
http://www.wane.com/Global/story.asp?S=365213
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LEGAL AND SECURITY
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fi: Finnish ISPs must voluntarily block access
Ms Leena Luhtanen, Minister of Transport and
Communications, announced on 26 August 2005 that
Finnish ISPs will implement a censorship system to
curb access to foreign web pages containing child
pornography.
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number3.18/censorshipFinland
sg: Two bloggers charged under Sedition Act over
racist remarks
Two bloggers have been charged with sedition for
posting racist comments online.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/167812/1/.html
sg: Two charged with making racist remarks on Net
Two pro-dog activists charged with posting alleged
seditious remarks toward Muslims' no 'petting dogs
rule'
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=29745
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=29754
sg: Website hosting racy photos broke copyright law
THE company that hosts the risque but popular
www.sggirls.com website has been found liable for
copyright infringement after it was successfully sued
by a modelling agency.
http://www.asia1.com.sg/st/st_20050908_339427.html
us: No New Trial in Internet Libel Case Against 'New
York Times'
In a victory for The New York Times, the 3rd U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to grant a new
trial in a "defamation by implication" libel suit
brought by a Philadelphia pharmacy that accused the
newspaper of harming its reputation by using an image
of its Internet Web site to illustrate an article
about illicit online drug sales.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1126602311198
US court narrows fair use (reg req'd)
In a decision that has weakened the fair use defence
in US copyright cases, an appeals court has ruled
against the developers of reverse-engineered software
http://managingip.com/default.asp?page=9&PubID=198&SID=580562&ISS=20242&LS=EMS51365
uk: Demon founder in court over email interception
charges
Clifford Stanford, the founder of Demon and Redbus,
went on trial on Tuesday over charges of unlawful
email interception.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39217975,00.htm
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1775865,00.html
uk: New legal threat to Google over GMail
Google, the internet search engine, is facing a
renewed threat of legal action from a company that
claims to own the intellectual property rights to its
GMail e-mail service.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1776740,00.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-5863391.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1568223,00.html
Q&A: who owns GMail?
Benjamin Cohen, Times Online's internet enterprise
expert, looks at the varied claims on a popular
trademark
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1776999,00.html
us: Mistaken child-porn raid leads to lawsuit
Brian and Sarah Doom were shocked when police showed
up at their Wichita home accusing them of child
pornography.
http://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/news/local/crime_courts/12620843.htm
us: Officials Warn of Katrina Relief Web Scams
At least 4,000 Web sites claiming to be Hurricane
Katrina relief funds have popped up on the Internet
and top U.S. law enforcement officials warned Tuesday
that many could be fraudulent.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/K/KATRINA_WEB_SCAMS
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=9642942
uk: Web pirate jailed over fake DVDs
A man who set up an internet website to sell
counterfeit CDs, DVDs and computer games has been
jailed for 12 months.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/4230658.stm
us: Lawmakers OK control of video game sales
California lawmakers have approved a bill that would
ban the sale of violent video game to minors, but
Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has not yet
taken a position on the legislation, his office said
on Friday.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?storyID=2005-09-09T224921Z_01_EIC973969_RTRIDST_0_TECH-MEDIA-VIDEOGAMES-CALIFORNIA-DC.XML
us: Porn Common Among Child Molesters
The possession of child pornography by child molesters
is becoming a common phenomenon, according to a study
released by the New Hampshire Crimes Against Children
Research Center.
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/122005f.asp
us: Angry women sue NY doctor for online dating lies
A Manhattan fertility specialist has been sued by two
women who say he broke their hearts after meeting them
through an online dating site on which he pretended to
be single.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?storyID=2005-09-09T201116Z_01_EIC972602_RTRIDST_0_NET-DOCTOR-DATING-DC.XML
Greek cellular phone dealer arrested for selling sex
videos stored on customer phones
An Athens mobile phone dealer has been arrested for
allegedly selling thousands of amateur sex videos
downloaded from cellular phones brought to his shop
for repairs, police said Tuesday.
http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/51/09-13-2005/2d8300052a352ff6.html
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eu: Blogging on the way to something else
On Monday afternoon the first in a series of three
debates hosted by the European Parliament on the
implications of the information society highlighted a
number of issues in the use of so-called weblogs.
Major concerns were the accountability of "bloggers"
and the protection of privacy - or rather the lack of
both.
http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=98103&src=0
APEC: Talks on data security
A REGIONAL framework for the protection of personal
information in cyberspace has moved a step closer as a
result of discussions at the Asia-Pacific Economic
Co-operation meeting in Korea.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,16577992%5E15331%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html
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nz: Storm on the internet (reg req'd)
New Zealand faces its first ?blogging? election, where
online writers aim to influence the result through
their opinions. Darren Greenwood talks to bloggers and
businesses about the technology?s existing use and
looks to its potentials in both the political and
business arenas.
http://smh.com.au/news/management-focus/storm-on-the-internet/2005/09/12/1126377241364.html
http://theage.com.au/news/management-focus/storm-on-the-internet/2005/09/12/1126377241364.html
Asia tackles online game addiction
Warning: online game playing can be hazardous to
health. So far, such a warning -- usually reserved for
addictive products like cigarettes and liquor -- has
yet to appear on the growing stable of online game
titles rapidly gaining popularity in Asia.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=9646587
eBay buys Skype for £2.2bn
eBay, the online auction site, has bought Skype, the
privately-owned internet telephony company, in a deal
which could be worth $4.1 billion (£2.2bn) in cash and
shares, including a bonus of up to $1.5billion based
on performance.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1776785,00.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/12/ebay_bids_skype/
Boom returns as eBay buys Skype
The dotcom boom returned yesterday as online auction
house eBay spent $4.1bn (£2.25bn) on a loss-making
European start-up that last year reported sales of
just $7m.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1568749,00.html
Portal bid drives eBay Skype deal
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4238258.stm
Ebay's plans for Skype
Ebay has definite plans for what it is going to do
with Skype, and Meg Whitman, eBay's president and CEO,
is equally sure about what they are not going to do.
http://out-law.com/page-6115
cn: How the web is taking off in China
China's fifth internet summit attracted the country's
most successful entrepreneurs, and a record number of
international visitors.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4237122.stm
uk: Broadband to rule the TV waves
TV delivered into homes over broadband will completely
disrupt broadcasting as we know it, says a major
report.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4230662.stm
Yahoo blends Web e-mail with speed of desktop
Yahoo is upgrading Yahoo Mail to make it run more
efficiently than other Web-based systems and nearly as
fast as desktop e-mail.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=9647796
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News Corp. expands Web grasp
News Corp. said on Thursday it would buy IGN
Entertainment Inc., a Web network for video game fans,
for about $650 million as part of a rapid-fire
strategy to expand its online entertainment and media.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=9601937
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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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za: Businessman faces child porn charges
Police have arrested a 32-year-old East London
businessman for the possession of pornographic
photographs of five-year-old girls.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw112659354027B265
ca: Guilty plea to distributing child porn
A 29-year-old Edmonton man pleaded guilty yesterday to
distributing child pornography after he sent the
images to an undercover cop in an online chat room
last year.
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Edmonton/2005/09/13/1214646-sun.html
us: Child sex civil suits being settled
As San Francisco financier Thomas Frank White sits in
a solitary jail cell near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico,
awaiting trial for the alleged rape of a teenage boy,
two California lawsuits against him are being settled
for about $10 million.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/11/MNGDGELRR51.DTL
us: 41-month prison term set for child pornography
A Town of Tonawanda man has been sentenced to 41
months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J.
Arcara for possessing child pornography.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050913/6069856.asp
us: Tonawanda Man Sentenced on Child Pornography
Charges
Two upstate New York men were sentenced to prison
terms for their convictions on federal child
pornography charges.
http://www.wgrz.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=31524
http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=3840668
us: Former day care worker sentenced for possession of
child pornography
A former day care worker who was convicted of
possessing child pornography was given a nine-month
conditional sentence in territorial court Friday.
http://www.whitehorsestar.com/auth.php?r=39444
us: Coach to appear on child pornography charges
The new head basketball coach at South Salem High is
scheduled to be in a Marion County courtroom today on
child pornography charges. Rodney Howard is charged
with five counts of encouraging child sex abuse.
http://www.kptv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3837593
us: Lufurno Set To Plead Guilty On Child Pornography
A registered sex offender who moved to Chattanooga
from Florida is set to plead guilty on child
pornography charges.
http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_72368.asp
us: Pornography Suspect Arrested
Authorities began looking for 20 year old Olivia
Adelle Hughes in late July when they broke up a child
sex ring in Coffee County.
http://www.wtvynews4.com/home/headlines/1846607.html
http://www.andalusiastarnews.com/articles/2005/09/14/news/381news.txt
us: Police: Man Tried To Give Porn To Child
A 65-year-old man is facing child pornography charges,
Warren County police said.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/wlwt/20050912/lo_wlwt/2931909
us: Businessman faces child porn charges
Elkhart businessman Larry Snow was arraigned Tuesday
afternoon in Cass County District Court on three
counts each of manufacturing child pornography, a
20-year felony, and possessing child pornography, a
four-year felony.
http://www.southbendtribune.com/breakingnews/posts/4231.html
us: Welfare Worker Indicted
A former southern Indiana welfare worker now faces
federal charges of child pornography.
http://www.wthitv.com/newsdet.asp?id=9631
us: Child porn charges lodged
Five Sussex County residents have been arrested for
allegedly buying child pornography over the Internet,
authorities said Tuesday.
http://www.njherald.com/284236578385672.php
us: Man sent to prison for sharing child porn
A 56-year-old man has been sentenced to nine years in
federal prison for distribution of child pornography,
U.S. Attorney Charles Larson Sr. said.
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050913/NEWS08/509130378/
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