various Internet stories

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

CSC Picked for Pentagon's Cybercrime Efforts
Computer Sciences Corp., El Segundo, Calif., has been tapped by the
Defense Department to provide computer investigation training for
federal law enforcement officials.
 http://www.washtech.com/news/govtit/13974-1.html

Pacific Internet denies spying allegation
A state-linked telecommunications company, Pacific Internet, has
denied 
allegations that it spied on the Internet account of a man who was
arrested 
for posting articles online.

Pacific Internet denies spying allegation  
A state-linked telecommunications company, Pacific Internet, has
denied allegations that it spied on the Internet account of a man who
was arrested for posting articles online.  
 http://technology.scmp.com/internet/ZZZXN4WCQUC.html

UK Net firms cry foul over anti-terror laws
Plans to ensure net firms in the UK help with anti-terrorism
investigations are flawed and need clarifying, it is claimed. 
The more heavy-handed legislation we have, the less attractive the UK
becomes for international e-commerce
The industry body representing British internet service providers
claims swiftly drafted anti-terror legislation could impose a heavy
burden on firms. 
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1689000/1689575.stm

FBI builds cybercrime division 
The FBI announced Monday that, as part of its latest reorganization,
the agency is forming a Cybercrime Division to handle
intellectual-property, high-tech and computer crimes.
 http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8055680.html

From BNA Internet Law News...
U.S. COURTS DEAL SETBACK FOR ONLINE SPEECH
As many ILN readers will have no doubt have heard, US Courts
last week released two important decisions dealing with free
speech and the DMCA.  First, a panel of the 2nd Circuit
Court of Appeals upheld the Reimerdes decision, a District
Court ruling in a Hollywood-launched lawsuit that prohibits
hacker magazine 2600 from posting links to DVD-decryption
software known as DeCSS. Second, a federal judge threw out a
lawsuit by civil liberties groups who claimed that the RIAA
was planning to use the DMCA to keep Princeton University
professor Edward Felten from publishing research on security
flaws in music industry anti-piracy software.
Reimerdes decision at
http://www.eff.org/sc/20011128_ny_appeal_decision.html
Felten case archive at
http://www.eff.org/Cases/Felten_v_RIAA/
Coverage at
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8026297.html
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172560.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8011238.html
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172552.html
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172505.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8010671.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/29/technology/29DVD.html

SPANISH EU PRESIDENCY TO PUSH 'DEFINITIVE' INTERNET LAWS
Definitive EU laws governing the Internet will be on the
agenda when the EU presidency passes to Spain next month.
According to the agenda for that presidency four of the five
directives making up the electronic telecommunications
package are to be finished. These are the so-called
"framework" directive, and those on universal service,
access and interconnection, and authorization.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172548.html

From Newsweek...
Next Frontiers: Family Life 
The long-promised revolution in wireless is finally underway, and it
will transform daily life for you and your family at home, at work
and wherever you go. The boom in mobile phones is only the beginning,
as access to the Internet will be achievable easily, wirelessly and
cheaply. Hundreds of new devices will work without wires—you’ll no
longer have to fiddle with cables or synchronize one device with
another. The advent of wireless is part of a general revolution in
connectedness, with machines reaching out to other machines and
people staying in constant touch. These dramatic changes will largely
be for the good, bringing us higher security, easier-to-use
technology, better help in organizing our complicated lifestyles. But
the revolution also raises some troubling issues, especially about
the loss of privacy. 
 http://www.msnbc.com/news/666199.asp
which includes this interview with Lawrence Lessig...
The End of the Net     
In his new book, cyberlaw pioneer Lawrence Lessig argues huge
corporations are ruining the Internet    
Is the internet’s great run of innovation over? Lawrence Lessig,
Stanford University Law School professor and a cyberlaw pioneer,
thinks so. In “The Future of Ideas” (352 pages. Random House. $30) he
warns that the Net is in danger of being controlled by special
interests who will not only take our dollars but limit our speech and
our ability to produce creative works. He shared these fears with
NEWSWEEK’s Steven Levy in New York last week. 
 http://www.msnbc.com/news/655756.asp

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