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general internet news - 23 October
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us: FBI director wants ISPs to track users
http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6126877.html
cu: Media watchdog criticises Cuba for controlling Web (Reuters)
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13831462
How Google could become Big Brother
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1559412006
YouTube erases 29,549 clips on Japan media demand (Reuters)
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13833589
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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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uk: Pornography and censorship
The government intends to make viewing and possessing so-called
“violent pornography” (much of it distributed over the internet) a
criminal offence. Sofie Buckland discusses some of the current debate
over pornography and issues of censorship.
http://www.workersliberty.org/node/7115
us: FBI director wants ISPs to track users
FBI Director Robert Mueller on Tuesday called on Internet service
providers to record their customers' online activities, a move that
anticipates a fierce debate over privacy and law enforcement in
Washington next year.
http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6126877.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/cnet/2006-10-18-isp-tracking_x.htm
http://www.zone-h.org/content/view/14257/30/
au: Clean up the internet, urges Labor (AAP)
More than 20,000 people have signed a petition tabled in the Senate,
demanding internet pornography be blocked in all households, schools
and public libraries.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/10/19/1160851061602.html
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,20608226-1702,00.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/10/19/1160851061602.html
cu: Media watchdog criticises Cuba for controlling Web (Reuters)
A press freedom watchdog accused Cuba on Thursday of trying to prevent
people from reading independent media, saying less than 2 percent of
Cubans connect to the Web at closely monitored Internet access points.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13831462
How Google could become Big Brother
IT HAS swallowed Amazon by 2008 and destroyed The New York Times by
2014. By 2020 its personal profiles of the shopping habits, interests
and dark passions of every computer user on the planet has far
surpassed the antique files of the CIA and the NSA.
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1559412006
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CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY
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'Jane Doe' Status Is Not Compromised by MySpace Postings
Lawyers for Gregory A. Firn, superintendent of the Milford, Conn.,
school system, took to the Internet to challenge the "Jane Doe"
anonymity of a 2005 high school graduate who is suing him for failing
to protect her from the sexual depredations of volunteer basketball
coach Robert Dulin. It backfired.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1161002121956
Online Gambling Goes Underground
A U.S. law aimed at cracking down on Internet gambling may drive the
practice more into the shadows and do little to deter bettors
http://businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2006/tc20061019_454543.htm
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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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au: World-first internet code a highlight of ACMA’s first year (news release)
Registering the world’s first legislative code of practice for internet
and email service providers was one of the highlights of the Australian
Communications and Media Authority’s first year of operation, as
detailed in its annual report for 2005-06
http://www.acma.gov.au/ACMAINTER.852114:STANDARD::pc=PC_100875
de: German states agree phone Internet licence fee (Reuters)
Germany's 16 states agreed on Thursday to introduce from January 1 a
licence fee of 5.52 euros (3.70 pounds) a month on computers and mobile
phones that can access television and radio programmes via the Internet.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/19102006/80-91/german-states-agree-phone-internet-licence-fee.html
Euro telco super-regulator plan savaged
Industry figures and government ministers have panned the European
Commission's plan, at an event where Net neutrality and roaming charges
were also debated
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/broadband/0,39020342,39284244,00.htm
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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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Making the web accessible for all
Despite many efforts to move away from those most traditional
interfaces - the ubiquitous computer keyboard and mouse - they remain
the bedrock on which nearly all computer interfaces rest.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/6069106.stm
US shows signs of net addiction
More than one in eight adults in the US show signs of being addicted to the internet, a study has shown.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6062980.stm
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10322
When sex was harder to find
The web has changed the way teens find out about sex. India Knight says books that fell open to a certain page were more fun
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2403938,00.html
How to spot an internet addict
Internet addiction is a serious problem with symptoms similar to
alcoholism, says a new US study. The study, carried out on 2513 adults
by researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine, found that
"more than one out of eight Americans exhibited at least one possible
sign of problematic internet use".
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/10/20/1160851111550.html
mz: Internet Access On the Increase
The number of ISPs in Mozambique has grown dramatically, implying an
enormous increase in the past few years in the number of companies,
institutions and individuals with internet access.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200610200625.html
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FILE SHARING
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Visa halts its service for allofmp3.com
Credit card company Visa said it has suspended service to music
download site allofmp3.com, the latest setback for the Russian company
accused in the U.S. of pirating music.
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-6127168.html
YouTube cuts 30,000 illegal clips
Video-sharing service YouTube has wiped nearly 30,000 files from its
website after Japanese media companies said their copyright was being
infringed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6069692.stm
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6128252.html
YouTube erases 29,549 clips on Japan media demand (Reuters)
Google Inc.'s YouTube.com removed 29,549 video files from its popular
Web site after receiving a demand from a group of Japanese media
companies over copyright infringement, an industry group said on Friday.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13833589
YouTube Purges 30,000 Copyright Files (AP)
The popular video-sharing site YouTube deleted nearly 30,000 files
after a Japanese entertainment group complained of copyright
infringement.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/J/JAPAN_YOUTUBE_COPYRIGHTS
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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au: Independence must not be the first casualty of media shake-up
Following the passing of new media ownership laws in Australia, The Age
newspaper in an editorial writes: 'And we shall all be changed. In a
moment, in the twinkling of an eye." The Biblical text has nothing on
the changes that seem likely to Australia's media landscape, and which
have, in effect, come to pass before the laws that will allow them to
happen were themselves passed yesterday. The stage is being set for
whenever the performance is due to start.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/10/18/1160850996585.html
Is Russia's Press Freedom Dead?
Journalism is a dangerous profession in Russia: No less than 261
journalists have been murdered there since the fall of the Soviet
Union. The killers are hardly ever found. The recent murder of Russian
investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya may now become a major
political issue.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,443543,00.html
Google almost doubles profit
The world's favourite search engine, Google, almost doubled its profit
in the third quarter as advertisers flocked in ever greater numbers to
its rapidly growing network of websites.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1927051,00.html
Firefox 2.0 coming your way on Tuesday
The world's second most used Web browser is set to unleash the final build of its new version on Tuesday.
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/6514/53/
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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Convergence benefits operators more
Convergence may be helping telecoms operators lower their operating
cost, but it remains to be seen if consumers are just as taken to the
benefits of converged services.
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/communications/0,39044192,61961212,00.htm
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VoIP
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VoIP revolution leaves US behind
Symbian Show Born and hyped in the USA, mobile VoIP over Wi-Fi looks
set to create waves everywhere … except the USA. That's one, unexpected
conclusion you can draw from the Symbian Smartphone show this year,
which drew 4,000 attendees to London's Docklands, and finished today.
At CTIA last month, US delegates were wondering aloud whether the
nation had made the wrong decision by ignoring the rest of the world,
Symbian's CEO Nigel Clifford suggested.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/18/symbian_voip/
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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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us: 125 arrested in child porn roundup (CNN)
Federal officials arrested more than 125 people Wednesday on charges of
subscribing to a Web site that depicted children as young as infants
engaged in sexual activities with adults.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/18/child.porn/index.html
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