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general internet news - 27 November
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ca: ISPs start ‘Project Cleanfeed Canada’ against child porn
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7432/52/
Google settles copyright dispute with 2 groups in Belgium (Bloomberg/AP)
http://iht.com/articles/2006/11/24/business/google.php
Belgian court: No Google verdict until 2007 (Reuters)
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6138166.html
Court to Hear Google-Newspaper Fight (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-11-23-google-belgium_x.htm
French film producer sues Google France (Reuters)
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=14043410
Italy investigating Google over bullying video (Reuters)
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6138243.html
Gangsters hijack home PCs to choke internet with spam
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2470742,00.html
The price of humans who'll spam blogs is falling to zero
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1954160,00.html
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RESEARCH PAPERS
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Podcast Downloading (Pew Internet & American Life Project)
Some 12% of internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they can listen to it or view it at a later time. However, few internet users are downloading podcasts with great frequency; just 1% report downloading a podcast on a typical day.
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/193/report_display.asp
Gifting technologies: A BitTorrent case study
Giving is not motivated by a direct, immediate, or obvious benefit. This paper examines six BitTorrent communities. BitTorrent chunk trading mechanisms are efficient in discouraging freeriding and ensuring a minimal level of participation from each peer. BitTorrent communities have significantly lower levels of freeriding compared to other communities that have similar content and user demographics.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_11/ripeanu/index.html
An empirical examination of Wikipedia's credibility by Thomas Chesney
Abstract: This short study examines Wikipedia’s credibility by asking 258 research staff with a response rate of 21 percent, to read an article and assess its credibility, the credibility of its author and the credibility of Wikipedia as a whole. Staff were either given an article in their own expert domain or a random article. No difference was found between the two group in terms of their perceived credibility of Wikipedia or of the articles’ authors, but a difference was found in the credibility of the articles — the experts found Wikipedia’s articles to be more credible than the non–experts. This suggests that the accuracy of Wikipedia is high. However, the results should not be seen as support for Wikipedia as a totally reliable resource as, according to the experts, 13 percent of the articles contain mistakes.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_11/chesney/index.html
Enforcing Law Online by ORIN S. KERR (GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper)
Abstract: This is a book review of an entertaining and engaging new book by Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World. Professors Goldsmith and Wu have written a short and accessible work that makes a straightforward and persuasive argument about the enforceability of law over the Internet. The book's brevity and anecdotal approach means that it overlooks a lot of detail; the dynamics of Internet regulation are more complicated than this short volume suggests. Whether this is a blessing or a curse depends on the reader's taste. It makes the book a fun read, but it also keeps the authors from grappling fully with the dynamics of the topics they cover. Either way, Who Controls the Internet is an important addition to the literature that deserves to be widely read.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=942859
Defamatory Internet Speech: A Defense of the Status Quo by ANTHONY MICHAEL CIOLLI (University of Pennsylvania - School of Law)
Abstract: This brief essay is a critique of Glenn Reynold's paper "Libel in the Blogosphere: Some Preliminary Thoughts." I conclude that Reynolds's proposal to treat defamatory internet and blog speech as slander, while well-intentioned, would have a devastating impact on defamation victim' ability to recover due to the interplay between Reynold's proposal and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=946852
us: Slouching Towards Mediocrity: Unintended Consequences of Net Neutrality Regulation by ROBERT E. LITAN (Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation; AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies) and HAL J. SINGER (Criterion Economics)
Abstract: This paper examines one particular aspect of the “net neutrality” proposals: “non-discrimination” requirements relating to the provision of network quality of service (QoS) to content providers. The paper concludes that such requirements, however innocuous they may seem, actually would be detrimental to the objectives that all Americans seemingly should want — namely, the accelerated construction of next-generation networks, and benefits of lower prices, broader consumer choices, and innovations these networks would bring. The paper also concludes that under the best of circumstances, even if networks are significantly upgraded in the presence of net neutrality rules (a doubtful circumstance), the proposed non-discrimination provisions would provide incentives for those who would build and operate networks to offer “blended” QoS levels that are “too high” for some applications and “too low” for others. Mediocrity in broadband service is hardly an objective that policymakers in the United States — which presumably has aspirations to remain a technology leader for the rest of the world — should be trying to achieve.
us: The Economics of Net Neutrality by ROBERT W. HAHN and SCOTT J. WALLSTEN (AEI-Brookings Joint Center Working Paper)
Abstract: This essay examines the economics of “net neutrality” and broadband Internet access. We argue that mandating net neutrality would be likely to reduce economic welfare. Instead, the government should focus on creating competition in the broadband market by liberalizing more spectrum and reducing entry barriers created by certain local regulations. In cases where a broadband provider can exercise market power the government should use its antitrust enforcement authority to police anticompetitive behavior.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=943757
The 'Unsettled Paradox': The Internet, The State, and The Consent of the Governed by DAVID G. POST (Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies)
The settlement of the new domain of cyberspace may enable us to take more seriously than ever before the possibility that individuals in the ordinary course of their affairs can create governmental entities that lack territorial status, a-territorial consensual associations with no geographical referents whatsoever onto which a portion of their 'sovereignty' devolves. This paper explores some of the implications this may have for evolving normative theories of statehood and for related questions of the extraterritorial assertion of jurisdiction by existing territorial states.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=943453
Cybersmear II: Blogging and the Corporate Rematch Against John Doe Version 2.006 by CHARLES B VINCENT (Delaware Journal of Corporate Law)
Abstract: When a company has been cybersmeared, e-defamed, or virtually abused by someone through a blog, decisions have to be made to determine the most effective way of countering the attack. Where the attack comes from an anonymous source, the company must first tackle the problem of determining who smeared them. This note explains the standards a court may apply when a cybersmeared company seeks to discover the identity of a John Doe. This note also suggests that the summary judgment standard, recently imposed by the Delaware Supreme Court in such cases, clearly, adequately, and most fairly balances the corporation's interest in obtaining relief against John Doe's First Amendment rights.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=946027
The Evolution of High-Speed Internet Access: 1995-2001 by GREGORY L. ROSSTON (Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research SIEPR Discussion Paper)
Abstract: While Internet usage blossomed during the entire 1995-2001 time period, there was a large change in the nature of the high-speed Internet access business. Cable companies initially teamed with a third party provider, @Home, to create their high-speed access offering. Telephone companies resisted working with third party providers for their high-speed access product. In the end, both cable and telephone providers moved toward a more integrated approach to the sale of high-speed access. Changes in the marketplace help to explain why the cable companies moved toward the telephone company approach. The recent announcement by AOL that intends to move away from access provision toward a content-based model is consistent with the economic forces that were at play in the earlier time periods.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=943570
Anarchy State and the Internet by DAVID G. POST (Temple University School of Law/Journal of Online Law)
Abstract: Who will make and enforce the rules of 'cyberspace'? In this paper, I look at the question by positing various 'controllers,' or points from which rules can issue, ranging from the technical protocols defining the inter-network at one end of the spectrum to Congressional statutes on the other. These controllers vary in their ability to enforce whatever rules they choose to adopt, depending on the existence of conflicting higher-level controllers, and on the possibility that those who are subject to the rules can change jurisdictions to seek a more favorable rule set. The Internet allows a relatively easy change of jurisdiction, or exit, from any given controller, leading to the unprecedented-and unpredictable-situation of a free.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=943456
OECD: Ask the economists: Grappling with the world's new IT giants
Can China and India maintain their impressive IT growth rate? What can developed economies do to meet these challenges? Click to see the questions and answers from the online debate on this issue.
http://www.oecd.org/document/1/0,2340,en_2649_37441_37668033_1_1_1_37441,00.html
OECD: UNCTAD Expert Meeting: Using ICTs to Achieve Growth and Development
Jointly organised by UNCTAD, OECD and ILO, this meeting will examine the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on economic and social development and growth with a view to encouraging action at the national, regional and global levels to implement outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The sessions will examine how ICTs can enable growth and development; the impact of ICTs on producitvity, growth and business sectors; and ICTs' impact on trade, labour markets and employment.
http://www.oecd.org/document/24/0,2340,en_2649_37441_37695576_1_1_1_37441,00.html
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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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Just how much pornography is there online?
Not so much as some people might want you to think. According to a study carried out for the US Department of Justice, about 1.1% of the sites indexed by Google and Microsoft are "sexually explicit". Though interestingly, about 6% of searches yield at least one "explicit" site, and the most popular searches yield at least one explicit site in almost 40% of cases, says the study by Philip Stark, a professor of statistics at the University of California at Berkeley.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1954148,00.html
us: Social Networking Website To Pay $1 Million Civil Penalty; Case Highlights Importance of COPPA Compliance (reg req'd)
Since the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) entered into force, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has commenced a number of enforcement actions against entities for collecting and/or using personal data from children in a manner that violates the requirements of COPPA. The FTC has settled its most recent COPPA enforcement action with Xanga.com, Inc. (Xanga), an operator of a social-networking site, for a fine of $1 million, the largest penalty under COPPA to date.
http://www.mondaq.com/news.asp?e=1&a=44336
ca: ISPs start ‘Project Cleanfeed Canada’ against child porn
Canada’s biggest Internet service providers have teamed up with Cybertip.ca, country’s National Tipline that battles against Internet child sexual exploitation, in order to block child pornography sites from intentional as well as accidental access by Canadians.
http://themoneytimes.com/articles/20061125/isps_start_project_cleanfeed_canada_against_child_porn-id-102222.html
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7432/52/
Project Cleanfeed Canada by Michael Geist
Yesterday Canada's largest ISPs, including Bell, Bell Aliant, MTS Allstream, Rogers, Shaw, SaskTel, Telus, and Videotron, announced the launch of Project Cleanfeed Canada in partnership with cybertip.ca. The project will allow the ISPs to block access to hundreds of child pornography sites. The list of sites will be generated by cybertip.ca.
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1548/125/
ae: Light a candle to support campaign against internet child pornography
Campaigners in the UAE are supporting a worldwide initiative to end the menace of internet child pornography. Locally-based employees have been spreading the word about a campaign that so far has attracted more than one million online pledges of support from people across the world.
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/06/11/25/10084939.html
sg: Blogger belonging to democratic party jailed for ten days
An activist with the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), Yap Keng Ho, was sent to prison for ten days by a court on 23 November 2006 after he refused to pay a fine of 2,000 dollars for speaking publicly and posting film on his blog (http://uncleyap-news.blogspot.com/) of an illegal rally of his party. He was taken immediately to jail after refusing to pay the fine and said he would go on hunger strike to protest at his imprisonment and to expose the regime’s corruption.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=19702
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CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY
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Google Reaches Copyright Deal With Belgians (BLOOMBERG NEWS)
Google reached a settlement with Belgian photographers and journalists yesterday in a copyright dispute over how Google’s news service links to newspaper content.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/25/technology/25google.html
Google settles copyright dispute with 2 groups in Belgium (Bloomberg/AP)
Google said Friday that it had settled with two Belgian groups representing photographers and journalists in a copyright dispute.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/11/24/business/google.php
Belgian court: No Google verdict until 2007 (Reuters)
A Belgian court said Friday that it would wait until after the new year to decide whether to cancel an injunction forbidding Google from reproducing extracts from Belgian press reports.
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6138166.html
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=14047565
Court to Hear Google-Newspaper Fight (AP)
A Belgian court on Friday will hear Google's defense against local newspaper complaints that it stole content from their Web sites without paying them or asking their permission.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-11-23-google-belgium_x.htm
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GOOGLE_VS_NEWSPAPERS
French film producer sues Google France (Reuters)
The producer of "The World According to Bush" has taken legal action against Google for distributing the film for free, becoming the latest media company to seek compensation for lost business on the Internet.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=14043410
Italy investigating Google over bullying video (Reuters)
Italian prosecutors on Friday put two Google Italy representatives under investigation as part of an inquiry into how a video of teenagers harassing an autistic classmate surfaced on its video site, a judicial source said.
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6138243.html
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=14047456
Trouble clicks: “Click fraud” could undermine the boom in online advertising
INTERNET advertising is booming. The industry has gone from $9.6 billion in revenue in 2001 to $27 billion this year, according to Piper Jaffray, an investment bank. And it is still early days. The internet accounts for only 5% of total spending on advertising, but that figure is expected to reach at least 20% in the next few years. The single largest category within this flourishing industry, accounting for nearly half of all spending, is “pay-per-click” advertising, which is used by firms both large and small to promote their wares.
http://economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8320522
The Dark Side of Second Life
Software that lets residents copy others' possessions is the latest reminder that this virtual world may need tougher law enforcement
http://businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2006/tc20061121_727243.htm
China's Online Porn King Sentenced to Life in Prison
Chen Hui, the creator of China's largest pornographic Web site, was sentenced to life imprisonment Wednesday. Chen, 28, and his accomplices started the Qingseliuyuetian (pornographic summer) Web site in 2004 and opened three more porn Web sites, attracting more than 600,000 users.
http://ecommercetimes.com/story/54387.html
us: Calif. Supreme Court Shields Web Republishers
People who republish defamatory content online cannot be held liable for defamation even if they were warned about it, the California Supreme Court ruled, 7-0, on Monday.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1164103520282
us: Groups Oppose Passage of New Surveillance Bill
A new bill that would weaken intelligence oversight should not pass in the few remaining days of the 109th Congress, a coalition of groups said Monday. CDT joined with several other public interest groups in urging Senate Judiciary Committee Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) to end his effort to pass the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Oversight and Resource Enhancement Act of 2006 (S. 4051). Instead of pushing for rushed passage of a legislation that could undercut the security and privacy of innocent Americans, the groups urged Specter to work with Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) to more fully address the issues relating to warrantless domestic spying when the new Congress convenes next year. November 22, 2006
http://www.cdt.org/security/20061121specter.pdf
ca: Post reporter wins award for series on child porn
National Post reporter Allison Hanes has won an award for her in-depth reports on the issue of online child pornography. Beyond Borders, a Winnipeg-based national child advocacy group, recognized Ms. Hanes for a series she wrote for The Gazette in Montreal in March.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=790a2a46-9f73-4674-a707-10485b05712e
uk: Security adviser: Cyberthreats keep growing
Former White House cybersecurity adviser Howard Schmidt told the House of Lords this week that businesses of all sizes face an increased threat from cybercriminals, who now have the power to attack key parts of the Internet.
http://news.com.com/2100-7350_3-6137850.html
de: Violent games blamed for German school attack (Reuters)
Leading German lawmakers demanded a crackdown on violent computer and simulated war games on Tuesday over concerns that they may have helped inspire a young man to attack his former school with guns and explosives.
http://news.com.com/2100-1043_3-6137496.html
au: Rio sacks 21 over PC porn
RIO Tinto Coal Australia has sacked almost two dozen employees as part of a big crackdown on sexually explicit emails.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20805871%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
us: Police blotter: Child porn in Web cache OK
What: Pennsylvania man appealed his conviction for knowingly possessing downloaded child pornography, saying he didn't know it was in his Web browser's cache.
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6137123.html
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6137123.html
Microsoft brings phishers to justice
Microsoft is helping law enforcers hunt down criminals who try to steal bank account details on the internet and has initiated 129 lawsuits in Europe and the Middle East, the U.S. software company said.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/11/23/1163871527068.html
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Stock fraudsters may become victims of their own success
The biggest increase in spam over the past two years has been in e-mails that offer recipients shares in obscure technology companies based in the United States.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2470746,00.html
Gangsters hijack home PCs to choke internet with spam
150,000 Britons have had their computers hijacked by spammers to send billions of e-mails peddling pornography, drugs and shares
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2470742,00.html
The price of humans who'll spam blogs is falling to zero
This article finds evidence that spammers are paying people in developinig countries to complete captcha boxes on websites, enabling spammers to bypass a security device to avoid spam - will they stop at nothing? Obviously not, as spammers think it's nothing personal. You have to understand: it's just business.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1954160,00.html
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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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Smart homes a reality in S Korea
BBC Click reports on the futuristic homes offering intelligent technology in South Korea.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/6179868.stm
Reuters opens virtual news bureau in Second Life (Reuters)
Reuters is opening a news bureau in the simulation game Second Life this week, joining a race by corporate name brands to take part in the hottest virtual world on the Internet.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=13800963
China's Communist Party gets a taste for the blogging craze
Around 20 officials from a town in eastern China have set up their own blogs after being encouraged by a local Communist Party leader, state media said.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/11/26/1164476051020.html
Google: mobile operators want to block our apps
One of Google's senior executives has criticised mobile phone operators for trying to prevent their users from accessing Internet applications.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39284850,00.htm
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FILE SHARING
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Ban on MP3 transmitters is lifted
Ofcom legalises the use of FM transmitters which allow iPods and other MP3 players to play through car radios.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6177820.stm
Podcast numbers show 'few hooked'
users who have experimented with downloading a podcast continues to grow but few remain hooked, research suggests.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6175728.stm
Fundamental socialism by Mick Hucknall (lead singer of Simply Red)
Copyright is fundamentally socialist - it is radical and redistributive, subversive even. How else would you describe a form of property that anyone can create out of nothing? Copyright's democratising effect is seen most clearly in the music business. Anyone who can speak, sing, rap or hum and operate a simple sound recorder can create a copyright song. Imagination is the only limit.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1954672,00.html
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Green IT: Do it for the money, if nothing else
While the welfare of the planet may not top their agenda, the vast majority of businesses are still shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to energy savings. Eighty percent of businesses have never conducted an energy audit and only 29 percent of businesses are investing in energy-efficient PCs, according to research from Intel.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6137822.html
Confounding the skeptics, Google shares soar
Over the years, many have felt that Google stock was overvalued and that it would inevitably suffer the fate of Yahoo. This week, Google shares closed above $500 for the first time.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/11/22/business/google.php
If Google Shopped Until It Dropped
It was a glorious Thanksgiving for the founders of Google, whose shares now trade around $500, having more than quintupled in 27 months. Yes, a market value of $155 billion is some kind of cornucopia. So with tryptophan coursing through their veins and visions of search algorithms dancing in their heads, Sergey Brin and Larry Page let their post-meal thoughts drift to what most other Americans were fixating on: shopping.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_49/b4012060.htm
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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nz: Players coy on spectrum auction
Telecom and Vodafone are refusing to be drawn on whether they will bid in a wireless spectrum auction next year.
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3876102a13,00.html
nz: InternetNZ supports Government’s wireless broadband decision (news release)
InternetNZ (The Internet Society of New Zealand) congratulates the Government on its decision to reallocate spectrum for the purposes of wireless broadband, concurring that the move will provide better, more competitive access to broadband.
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/wirelessbroadband
au: ACMA releases its first major communications industry report
The Australian Communications and Media Authority released its first major report on the communications industry. Tabled in parliament by the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, the ACMA Communications Report 2005–06 is the first whole-of-industry report published by ACMA since it was formed in July last year.
http://www.acma.gov.au/ACMAINTER.1507598:STANDARD::pc=PC_100954
au: Coonan v moguls over broadband
Australia's media moguls are pursuing their own commercial interests by complaining that the country's broadband speeds are among the slowest in the developed world, Communications Minister Helen Coonan says.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/11/24/1163871599028.html
OECD: The spectrum dividend: Spectrum management issues
After analogue TV signals are switched off with the shift to digital transmission, a significant amount of spectrum bandwidth is expected to be freed-up, potentially making it available for other applications rather than replicating the similar quality analogue TV programmes. This paper discusses spectrum management issues in relation to digitalisation of terrestrial television broadcasting.
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/46/42/37669293.pdf
Japan sets up panel to study Net neutrality (Reuters)
The Japanese government on Wednesday set up a panel to discuss Internet network neutrality -- a concept that has stirred heated debate in the United States -- and study how the surging popularity of free file-sharing services such as YouTube.com is impacting the infrastructure.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-11-15T095524Z_01_T155696_RTRIDST_0_TECH-JAPAN-WEB.XML
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VOICE OVER IP COMES OF AGE
There is a growing body of evidence that voice over IP is starting to gain wider acceptance as a viable enterprise technology, as some of the problems that beset the technology in its early days are overcome.
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/07/07/216874/VOICE+OVER+IP+COMES+OF+AGE.htm
Dutch VoIP market reaches 1.4 mln subscribers end Q3
The Dutch VoIP market is continuing its stong growth of the past quarters, reaching 1.4 million VoIP subscribers at 30 September 2006, according to the latest research by Telecompaper.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?id=149636&nr=&type=&yr=
eu: IT directors still concerned about VoIP
A survey of 300 large enterprises across Europe, published today, has found that 73% of IT directors are still worried about basic quality and reliability of Voice over IP (VoIP), despite a strong industry trend towards converging voice and data traffic onto a single data network.
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/11/20/220008/IT+directors+still+concerned+about+VoIP.htm
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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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au: Man jailed over child pornography offences
A Brisbane man who sexually abused his neighbour's grandchildren after showing them child pornography will spend the next nine months in jail.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200611/s1797055.htm
ca: Canadian man tries to lure minor online
Online pedophiles are nasty, crafty people trying to lure your children into a sexual nightmare. The police are doing all they can to catch them, but ultimately it's parents who hold the key to keeping their children safe online.
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7459/53/
ca: Thief tips off police after finding child porn during break-in
A Red Deer man has been jailed after an outraged burglar spotted massive amounts of child pornography on his computer and called police.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/543111.html
uk: Eight face charge of grooming children under new net laws
EIGHT suspected paedophiles in Scotland are being prosecuted for grooming children, under new powers introduced to crack down on internet predators.
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1740442006
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