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general internet news - 19 October
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Iran bans fast internet to cut west's influence
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1924636,00.html
au: Cronulla game site gets zapped
http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/cronulla-game-site-gets-zapped/2006/10/18/1160850975150.html
uk: Internet user admits 'web-rage'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6059726.stm
EU 'threat' to internet freedom
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6056942.stm
uk/eu: Amateur 'video bloggers' under threat from EU broadcast rules
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2407359,00.html
NZ still lags in uptake of faster internet
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3829584a28,00.html
Record industry uploads 8,000 lawsuits
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/17/ifpi_worldwide_filesharing_lawsuits/
Universal Music Group Sues Two Web Sites
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/10/18/1160850961721.html
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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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Iran bans fast internet to cut west's influence
The Guardian reports that “Iran's Islamic government has opened a new
front in its drive to stifle domestic political dissent and combat the
influence of western culture - by banning high-speed internet links.”
ISPs have been told to restrict online speeds to 128 kilobytes a second
for the country's estimated 5 million internet users as well as being
forbidden from offering fast broadband packages. The ban follows
another recent order that led to a purge on illegal satellite dishes,
which millions of Iranians use to clandestinely watch western
television.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1924636,00.html
Porn Industry Has Negative Impact On All (reg req'd)
Dr. Gail Dines, a sociology and women's studies professor at Wheelock
College in Boston, came to the Student Union Theater Wednesday to
protest the pornography industry against negative mental and physical
impact on both men and women.
http://www.dailycampus.com/media/storage/paper340/news/2006/10/12/Focus/Porn-Industry.Has.Negative.Impact.On.All-2347124.shtml
cn: Chongqing cracks down on Web satire (AP)
The price of internet satire in China is going up. Chongqing is
threatening to fine Web surfers as much as 5,000 yuan (HK$4,875) for
online defamation amid a surge in short satirical internet films, a
news report said on Monday.
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=55539
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/10/16/1160850871428.html
China Internet rumour-mongers face fines - report (Reuters)
Internet users in southwest China who spread malicious rumours online
face fines of up to 5,000 yuan (338 pounds) and possible detention,
state media reported on Wednesday in the latest crackdown on dissent.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13821109
cn: Cyber-dissident jailed for four years for subversion
A Chinese cyber-dissident was jailed for four years for subversion on
Tuesday after posting politically sensitive essays on the internet, his
lawyer said.
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=55533
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CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY
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Wired editor smokes out MySpace pedo
Hats off to Kevin Poulsen for one of the best articles in tech
journalism you will read this year. The one-time hacker extraordinaire,
and now senior editor at Wired, combined investigative reporting and
code-writing skills to collar a predatory pedophile reaching out to
teenage boys through MySpace.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/16/wired_myspace/
au: Cronulla game site gets zapped
Lobby groups have allegedly achieved what the Australian Federal
Government couldn't, by having a downloadable board game based on the
Cronulla riots removed from the internet.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/cronulla-game-site-gets-zapped/2006/10/18/1160850975150.html
au: Cronulla game falls between legal cracks
The racists are at it... "Australian authorities are powerless to
remove from the internet a downloadable board game based on the
Cronulla riots. The game has recently surfaced on the internet and
appears to incite racial violence."
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/10/17/1160850910458.html
uk: Internet user admits 'web-rage'
Paul Gibbons, 47, tracked down John Jones using details obtained online
after the pair exchanged insults in an internet chatroom, a court heard.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6059726.stm
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1924778,00.html
us: In shadows of Net, war on child porn rages
ISPs such as America Online are using sophisticated technology to
identify porn sites. Credit card companies are tracking purchases. More
police detectives are posing as minors online.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-10-16-child-porn_x.htm
Spain, Microsoft strike pact on fighting child porn (AFP)
Spain's leftist government signed a cooperation agreement with Microsoft Tuesday to fight child pornography on the Internet.
http://metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061018-041836-1856r
Italy adopts Microsoft anti-child-porn technology (Reuters)
Italy became the first European country to adopt a Microsoft system for
combating child pornography on the Internet, something the government
and the computer firm believe the whole continent is set to take up.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6126524.html
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20595171%5e15319%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13809968
za: Warning of Cyber Crime Surge
SA SHOULD brace itself for a rise in cyber crime in the next few years
as there are plenty of low-risk opportunities for the criminally
inclined, says Kris Budnik, security services group director at
Deloitte.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200610130744.html
MSN is latest target of Belgian copyright complaint
Looking to avoid the kind of legal tangle that Google has found itself
in, Microsoft's MSN division in Belgium is in talks with a group
newspaper publishers over the rights to publish their content on its
Web site.
http://infoworld.com/article/06/10/13/HNpursuemsn_1.html
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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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EU 'threat' to internet freedom
Internet broadcasters should not be subject to the same rules which
govern television, peers have been told. Attempts to update the 1989 TV
without Frontiers EU directive, are being considered by a Lords
committee.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6056942.stm
uk/eu: Amateur 'video bloggers' under threat from EU broadcast rules
THE Government is seeking to prevent an EU directive that could extend
broadcasting regulations to the internet, hitting popular video-sharing
websites such as YouTube.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2407359,00.html
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SPAM
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How to escape from junk mail hell
Are you sick of spam? You should be. By the end of this year, 71 per
cent of email sent worldwide will be spam, according to a researcher,
The Radicati Group. This article in The Age outlines the problem and
the steps one can take to reduce the junk you receive.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/10/10/1160246127140.html
Spam fighter faces attack on 'blocklists' (International Herald Tribune)
The International Herald Tribune runs what is effectively a profile of
Spamhaus and the dispute between them and e360. Spamhaus said last
week, "We are working with lawyers to find a way to both appeal the
ruling and stop further nonsense by this spammer." While Linhardt for
e360 has "hinted that he could challenge others, conceivably Internet
service providers that use Spamhaus's blacklists. 'We think what
Spamhaus needs to do is follow U.S. law and obey the U.S. courts and
judgments. Certainly, our position is that if companies in the U.S.
knowingly go around a court order and block our e- mails, then that's a
problem for them, and we urge them not to do it.'" The article notes
that "Most European countries require 'prior consent' from recipients
before a sender can transmit bulk e-mail messages to them. The United
States and Japan favor a 'freedom of commerce' approach that does not
require advance consent but does offer a choice to 'unsubscribe' from
mass mailings."
http://iht.com/articles/2006/10/15/business/spam16.php
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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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uk: Broadband UK needs 'more speed'
Three-quarters of UK online households will use broadband by December 2006, analysts predict.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6041446.stm
Zittrain on the Future of the Internet
Steve Ryan, Director of London School of Economist's Centre for
Learning Technology, guest blogged on Schmoller.net about Berkman Prof.
Jonathan Zittrain's presentation on the future of the Internet at LSE
on October 13, 2006. If you're interested in 'the future of the
Internet,' the long-term trend of parsing out Internet functions to
specialized devices, or the One Laptop Per Child Initiative, check out
this summary of Zittrain's talk:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=2464
Some Internet addicts cover up habit -study (Reuters)
More than one in eight U.S. adults finds it hard to stay away from the
Internet for several days at a time and about one in 11 tries to hide
his or her online habit, according to a study released on Tuesday.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13821332
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/861933
Broadband Grew 33 Percent Years' Time
The number of broadband subscribers in the 30 countries tracked by the
OECD reached 181 million in June. That's a 33 percent increase over the
previous year.
http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3623713
NZ still lags in uptake of faster internet
The number of broadband connections has jumped 44 per cent in six
months, but the country remains stuck in 22nd place out of 30 on OECD
rankings.
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3829584a28,00.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10406204
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FILE SHARING
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Free-for-all over Russian music site
A Moscow-based Web site that the U.S. has branded as the world's
highest-volume online seller of pirated music announced plans to
release hundreds of thousands of albums free.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/10/17/yourmoney/music.php
Record industry uploads 8,000 lawsuits
A recording industry lobby group has launched 8,000 new cases alleging
illegal file sharing all over the world but none of them is British
because the UK lobby group is focusing on its negotiations with
internet service providers.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/17/ifpi_worldwide_filesharing_lawsuits/
Universal Music Group Sues Two Web Sites
Universal Music Group is suing the operators of two video-sharing Web
sites, claiming they illegally let users share music videos and other
copyright material without permission.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/10/18/1160850961721.html
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13819524
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/business/media/18music.html
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Your television is ringing
“Convergence” is the telecoms industry's new mantra. Whether customers
really want it is another matter: WHAT has come over the telecoms
industry? The spectacular crash of 2001, with its associated
bankruptcies, fraud and the destruction of around $1 trillion of
investors' money, has evidently been forgotten. The gloom has given way
to a fresh sense of opportunity and a renewed frenzy of dealmaking. The
past couple of years have seen a series of huge takeovers and mergers
among network operators and makers of telecoms equipment around the
world.
http://economist.com/surveys/displayStory.cfm?story_id=7995312
55 Million Blogs, and Now a Service to Track Them
Corporations are growing increasingly conscious of the power, and
potential pitfalls, of blogging. A favorable review from an influential
blogger can help generate the kind of buzz around a new product that
traditional advertising struggles to achieve. A negative write-up can
help doom a product before it even hits the market.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/technology/16blog.html
On Advertising: Blogs give PR new job
To Steve Rubel, senior vice president at the public relations firm
Edelman, there is a "conversation gap" on the Internet between America
and the rest of the world. Like Americans, Europeans and Asians have
become fervent bloggers. But many of them contribute to U.S.-based
sites, or to local-language blogs that are fragmented and obscure.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/10/15/business/ad16.php
Mozilla sets sights on Firefox 3.0
With Firefox 2.0 waiting in the wings, Mozilla wants to hear which browser features you'd like to see in the future
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39284143,00.htm
Google CEO: Techies must educate governments
Those in the know about technology must spend more time reaching out to
governments and helping them understand the Internet's role in society,
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Tuesday.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6126938.html
us: Google to convert HQ to solar power
Google is converting its renowned headquarters to run partly on solar power, hoping to set an example for corporate America.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-10-17-google-solar_x.htm
http://iht.com/articles/2006/10/17/business/google.php
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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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au: Man jailed over child porn
A MINING consultant who imported child pornography from Indonesia was
jailed to deter the exploitation of third world children, a judge said.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,20596686-1702,00.html
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