general internet news - 23 January

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

ITU Workshop on Internet Governance
Background and Objectives: The workshop objective is to
initiate a process to prepare ITU's inputs and position
vis-à-vis the working group to be established on Internet
governance resulting from the Declaration of Principles and
Action Plan adopted on 12 December 2003 at the first phase
of the World Summit on the Information Society.
 http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/forum/intgov04

.nz: Record number of child pornography convictions in 2003
Better enforcement has led to record numbers of child
pornography convictions in the past year, the Department of
Internal Affairs says.
 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2783057a11,00.html

Chile tackles child-sex trade
A new law protecting children went into effect last week in
the wake of a major scandal.
 http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0113/p06s01-woam.html

.au: ACTU lobbies for net privacy
The sacking of Centrelink staff over pornographic emails
had raised workplace privacy issues, according to ACTU
officials.

http://www.australianit.com.au/articles/0,7204,8452259%5E15342%5E%5Enbv%5E15306%2D15318,00.html

http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=656973769&fp=2&fpid=1

.il: Rabbi offers prayer for Web porn surfers
An Israeli rabbi has composed a prayer to help devout Jews
overcome guilt after visiting porn sites while browsing the
Internet.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4168833

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/21/offbeat.porn.prayer.reut/index.html

Internet with a human face - a common responsibility
The ubiquitous presence of Internet has transformed the way
we work, play and communicate. No innovation, however,
comes without challenges and risks of its own, and Internet
is no exception. Today anyone anywhere can publish online,
however greater freedom of expression has brought an
implicit lack of accountability that is making poor quality
information, illegal and prejudicial content, hacking and
viruses the bywords of the 21st century. The new
opportunities offered by modern information and
communication technologies are counterbalanced by threats
to privacy and new forms of pollution. Almost half of all
traffic on Internet is, for example, spam - unsolicited,
and for the greater part undesirable, content - and viruses
alone cost European governments and private enterprise some
two to three billion euro last year. Statistics alarmingly
indicate that, as a direct consequence of encounters that
began on Internet, several children are abducted every
year. A number of initiatives are underway in Europe to
raise awareness to these dangers, to create technological
and legislative barriers that will protect citizens' rights
and to set up agencies to record and act on complaints from
citizens.

http://www.coe.int/T/E/Human_Rights/media/7_Links/Prog_Forum_Internet_Warsaw.asp

.us: Man charged with possessing child pornography
A Rensselaer County man has been arrested on child
pornography charges.

http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/headlines/?ArID=55814&SecID=33

.us: Mount Vernon authorities investigate child pornography
ring
Three Jefferson County men have been charged with being
part of a child pornography ring.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/011704_ap_ns_childpornring.html

.us: 15 Arrested in New Jersey in Child Pornography Inquiry
The operators of a global Internet child pornography
service that stretched from Eastern Europe to Mount Laurel,
N.J., were indicted on Thursday, and federal and state
authorities arrested 15 people in New Jersey who subscribed
to the service.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/nyregion/16porn.html

.us: Adkins found guilty of more than 100 child porn
charges
When U.S. District Court Judge Karl Forester pronounced
Terry Adkins guilty of more than 100 child pornography
charges Tuesday, the verdict seemed almost like a
formality.

http://www.amnews.com/public_html/?module=displaystory&story_id=4537&format=html

.us: Police surf Net to nab sex predators
They are already becoming familiar stories - too common. A
man is arrested by waiting police officers after he arrives
for what the suspect believes is a planned rendezvous with
a teenage girl, who actually is an undercover
cyberdetective.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10829073&BRD=982&PAG=461&dept_id=467992&rfi=6

.us: Prosecutor's staff goes after child pornography on Net
An undercover investigation by the St. Joseph County
prosecutor's office has identified 26 people around the
world suspected of possessing or distributing child
pornography on the Internet.

http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2004/01/15/local.20040115-sbt-MARS-A2-Prosecutor_s_staff_g.sto

.us: Maitland Internet sting yields arrest in Maitland
Maitland police Monday afternoon arrested a 29-year-old
Arlington, Va., man on charges involving pornography and
soliciting sex with a minor online.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/orl-loccfbriefs20012004jan20,0,3465484.story

.ru: Online child porn ring busted
Members of a Russian internet child porn ring run by a
retired school teacher in Perm in the Urals have been
sentenced to jail terms from six to 11 years.
 http://p2pnet.net/story/576

.us: NBC's Internet Safety Guide For Parent
The Internet is an area that can pose a very real threat to
children. The anonymity of the 'Net offers adults the
chance to pose as children, then try to set up a
face-to-face meeting. Young teens may also be lured into
virtual relationships with older adults that may result in
actual encounters.
 http://www.nbc5.com/family/1932126/detail.html

Looking for porn? Now you can just Booble it
Online pornography aficionados got a boost when a US
entrepreneur yesterday launched a new search engine for
raunchy internet material dubbed "Booble.com".

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/21/1074360802332.html

http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,250017-1-454,00.html

Cubans Surf Close to Home as Web Access Restricted
At a downtown Havana post office, Cubans line up for hours
for their turn in the "surfing room."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040122/lf_nm/cuba_internet_dc_4

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/20040121-0500-cuba-internet.html

http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=5979&PHPSESSID=5fbdb29e164b191dc67724ccbfd12d92

Denunciada una red de pedofilia en Brasil que operaba en
Internet
El portal denunciado ofrecía hasta 11.000 fotos y 240
vídeos con imagenes pornográficas de menores que contaban
solamente con edades comprendidas entre los dos y los diez
años.

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/107451084695628.shtml

.in: Bombay cafe Internet users decry police monitoring
plan
Relatively few Indians can afford home PCs, so millions go
online in the nation's jammed Internet cafes, enjoying
their low cost and anonymity.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-01-19-bombay-cafe_x.htm

.au: Internet safety 'should be treated like road safety'
Online fraudsters targeting bank customers were getting
smarter and could undermine consumer confidence, security
professionals warned yesterday.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/22/1074360867825.html

.uk: Telcos bar children from adult content
Mobile-phone companies have developed guidelines that block
children from accessing unsuitable sites via their mobile
phones.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/networks/0,39020345,39119180,00.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1126291,00.html
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3409081.stm

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/19/1074360681977.html

http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=adultcontentonmob1074620100

http://www.t-mobilepressoffice.co.uk/press/uk/2004/160104-contentcode.htm

.us: Debate over online child-porn law reaches federal
court
Arguing that Pennsylvania officials have forced Internet
providers to block access to more than 800,000 legal Web
sites, a civil liberties group yesterday asked a federal
judge to strike down a state law aimed at fighting Internet
child porn because it causes “massive collateral damage.”
 http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=12431

.us: Easing of Internet Regulations Challenges Surveillance
Efforts
Law enforcement officials say that efforts by the F.C.C. to
reduce regulations over Internet services threaten their
ability to monitor suspects electronically.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/22/technology/22VOIC.html

Nine out of ten Nordic children play online games
Nine out of ten children in the Nordic countries aged 9-16
play online video games, according to a new survey
conducted by the SAFT project.
 http://www.saftonline.org/latestnews/1566/

Future Kids Online - Conference Documentation
Politicians, researchers, experts, industry representatives
and kids themselves were gathered in Stockholm at the end
of October for the SAFT conference.
 http://www.saftonline.org/latestnews/1373

File-swapping booms again
Illegal music downloading could be making a comeback,
according to market researchers who note a surge in the use
of peer-to-peer services.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/networks/0,39020345,39119163,00.htm

.us: RIAA Strikes Again at Traders
The recording industry group files its largest round of
lawsuits to date, identifying 532 computer users it
believes are distributing copyright music online.
 http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,61989,00.html

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/20040121-1327-downloadingmusic.html
 http://abcnews.go.com/wire/SciTech/ap20040121_1094.html
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3418057.stm

La Asociación de Industrias Grabadores de EE.UU. demanda a
532 personas por distribución de canciones en la Red

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/107476692493689.shtml

Software Piracy Is in Resurgence, With New Safeguards
Eroded by File Sharing
Inside a nondescript office building here, investigators
for the Business Software Alliance are working to track
down software pirates around the world. To help maintain
secrecy, they often rely on several computers running on
different operating systems, with special programs allowing
them to switch Internet service providers every 60 seconds.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/19/technology/19soft.html

Music Fans Find Online Jukebox Half-Empty
The world's largest music company had been hectoring rock
singer Tom Petty since last summer. You've got a big and
popular catalogue of albums, Universal Music Group said.
We've got to put them up for sale on the Internet --
they're being traded free every day on the Web and we're
all losing money.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27954-2004Jan18.html

Coke launches music download site
Coca-Cola today launched a website offering albums for
download in what the drinks giant has described as "the
first consumer branded, legitimate downloadable music
site".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1126389,00.html

Coke music site comes out flat
The technical gremlins which have haunted so many dotcom
endeavours claimed another victim yesterday as Coca-Cola
announced a new online music service only to have its
website fail.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1126723,00.html

FBI Logo to Grace Music CDs
The music industry has won permission to include the
agency's logo in CD packaging as a warning against
unauthorized copying, sources said. Record labels want to
use the logo the way it is used by movie studios, which
include an on-screen warning on home videos and DVDs.

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-music16jan16,1,4433462.story

.uk: David Brent brought in to train Microsoft staff
David Brent, the fictional boss of BBC 'mockumentary'
sitcom The Office, has been employed by Microsoft to train
its staff in personal development.

http://www.silicon.com/hardware/storage/0,39024649,39117875,00.htm

Denmark ready to hand out record spam fine
Tracking down spammers has always been hard, but getting
them into court has proved even harder. The Danish
authorities, however, have pulled off a coup with their
latest attempt to bring junk emailers to justice.

http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/thespamreport/0,39025001,39117867,00.htm

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4176312
 http://www.fs.dk/uk/fsuk.htm

Nigeria targets spam that taints its image
Fed up with e-mail scams the country's government will soon
announce plans to trap and prosecute cybercriminals.
 http://www.iht.com/articles/126048.html

Going Upstream to Fight Spam
Filters and the Can-Spam Act may hold some unwanted e-mail
at bay, but neither approach will bring the pandemic under
control, according to a leading spam expert.

http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,61971,00.html

Spam Filters Grab Good With Bad
The growing use of antispam filters that weed out messages
containing words commonly used by junk e-mailers is forcing
legitimate e-mail senders to choose their language
carefully.

http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,61945,00.html

SCO Australia backs off from Linux lawsuits
The SCO Group is initially soft-pedalling threats of
lawsuits against Australian and New Zealand companies who
use Linux, as it starts marketing licences to secure
revenue for use of the open-source software.

http://www.silicon.com/software/os/0,39024651,39117873,00.htm

New worm draws Sobig comparisons
Computer security experts fear a new worm that began
spreading rapidly across Australian e-mail networks on
Sunday could be a rehearsal for a more concerted attack in
coming weeks.
 http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-5143115.html
 http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-7349_3-5143115.html

.us: Cell phone most hated, but needed
An annual Massachusetts Institute of Technology survey
found that among adults asked what invention they hate most
but can't live without, 30 percent said the cell phone.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/01/21/tech.survey.ap/index.html

 Niue internet restored
The owner of the only ISP serving the island of Niue said
today that both the wireless loop that provides WiFi
communications on the island and the island's main
satellite link to the internet had been restored.
 http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=8016

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