general internet news - 11 March

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

au: Canberra buries censorship detail
The Federal Government has stopped issuing reports on the
number of websites it has censored, as it considers a
review of censorship laws begun almost two years ago.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8906862%5E15342%5E%5Enbv%5E15306%2D15319,00.html

US and UK crack down on porn
Britain and the United States are to work together to shut
down violent sex websites, it emerged today.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1165704,00.html

Online porn often leads high-tech way
Gail Harris is an unlikely high-tech pioneer. The former
model and queen of B-movie gems Cellblock Sisters and
Galaxy Girls fished nude photos out of a trash can years
ago and went on to create a multimillion-dollar Internet
company with the world's largest collection of erotic
images.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-03-09-onlineporn_x.htm

au: Court fines man for child porn possession
A 69-year-old Northern Territory man has been fined in the
Adelaide Magistrates Court for possessing child
pornography.
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1061543.htm

us: Study: Alcohol Web Sites Attracting Kids
Alcohol company Web sites are offering a "cyber playground"
for underage youths despite promises from the companies to
limit their access, according to a study released Tuesday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42549-2004Mar9.html

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2004-03-09-booze-sites_x.htm
 http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=6405

au: NOIE gives way to AGIMO
The federal Government has finally sounded the long
expected death knell for NOIE, pushing it aside to make way
for a new Australian Government Information Management
Office (AGIMO), headed a new government chief information
officer.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8926138%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.asp?ID=6&Art_ID=18691

au: Net users warned about eBay fraud
The NSW government and police today warned internet buyers
about serial fraudsters preying on customers using the
Australian site of the world's most popular online auction
service.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/10/1078594419736.html

au: Online gamblers sweat on review
Betting exchanges and TABs sweating on the results of a
year-long government review of controversial online
gambling legislation are urging Canberra to finalise the
report quickly.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8905853%5E15319%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html

Online betting sites fight cyberextortion
Online gambling sites are betting on tighter security after
a recent wave of computer attacks from cyberextortionists
plunged several into darkness.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/techcorporatenews/2004-03-09-cyberextort_x.htm

uk: Shadow cast over boom in online betting
Jockey allegedly said horse would lose hours before he lost
a huge lead in race.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1164552,00.html

Postings on net insult New Zealanders
A message board on an internet site for South African
immigrants that likened New Zealanders to "retarded chimps"
and "black children" has been shut down, news reports said
today.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/09/1078594344763.html

Bypassing China's net firewall
Numerous efforts are under way to help Chinese web surfers
get around China's censorship of the internet.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3548035.stm

China mutes online news
Some Web services designed to stretch the boundaries of
news content and opinion have been shut down.
 http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0310/p07s01-woap.html

cn: Computer game addict dies after 20-hour session
A computer game addict in western China collapsed and died
at his screen after playing the popular online game Saga
non-stop for 20 hours, a news report said today.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/09/1078594345062.html

au: Qld body issues warning about cybercrime
With a greater reliance on computers, the government and
private sectors should become more vigilant against
cybercrime, Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission
(CMC) chairman Brendan Butler said today.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/08/1078594277426.html

eu: Tough laws target song swappers
Internet song-swappers and peddlers of knock-off Prada
handbags could have their property seized and bank accounts
frozen under a proposed EU law set for a vote before the
European Parliament.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4520569

http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,75525,00.html

eu: Internet users who download music illegally face home
raids
Internet users who illegally download music face having
their homes raided and properties seized under a crackdown
on piracy backed yesterday by the European Parliament.

http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=499655

Napster, IBM Unveil New Music Delivery System
Online music service Napster on Wednesday unveiled an
application using IBM technology to help universities and
other customers save computing bandwidth and money.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=4535158

http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=499571

Virgin to launch music jukebox, Net music store
 http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5171229.html

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4514745

Phishing scams get more sophisticated
The usefulness of the Secure Sockets Layer protocol to
serve as an indicator of secure transmission of data is
coming into question as more and more phishing scams use
SSL certificates, both real and bogus, in a bid to trick
users into divulging private login details for financial
institutions.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/10/1078594397979.html

eu: La UE apuesta por la lucha contra el spam
La apuesta que pondrá en marcha hoy el Consejo de Ministros
de Telecomunicaciones de la UE tendrá como base la
aplicación de la legislación europea sobre el spam o correo
no deseado.

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/107875861025612.shtml

CONFERENCE: United Nations Information and Communication
Technologies Task Force - Sixth Meeting of the UN ICT Task
Force; 25-27 March 2004, UN Headquarters
The Sixth Meeting of the UN ICT Task Force will address the
outcomes of the Geneva phase of WSIS. The agenda, once
finalized, will be posted on the UN ICT Task Force website.
 http://www.unicttaskforce.org/sixthmeeting

CONFERENCE: CyberCrime and Digital Law Enforcement
Conference
Yale Law School's Information Society Project (ISP) to
invite you to attend the CyberCrime and Digital Law
Enforcement conference, taking place on March 26-28, 2004
at Yale Law School (registration and further information
are available at:
 http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/digital_cops.htm

Content Regulation in Malaysia Unleashing Missiles on
Dangerous Web Sites
When Malaysia embarked into its gigantic multimedia
super-corridor project in 1995, the equivalent to the US
Silicon Valley, one of her promises to her foreign
counterparts is that there will be no censorship on the
Internet. This assurance was embodied in section 3 (3) of
the Communication and Multimedia Act 1998 that states
"nothing in this Act shall be construed as permitting the
censorship of the Internet". However, the open and
democratic nature of the internet facilitates all kinds of
abuses. Obscenity, hatred speech, defamatory messages,
indecent content and other type of harmful contents
flourish in the Internet. For this reason, many countries
are now regulating speech on the Internet, just like what
they have traditionally done on all other types of mass
media. To claim that the Internet must be left free from
the shackles of law and regulation would not just create a
lawless wild-wild-west but also channels all forms of
illegal conduct and speech to migrate to the 'unregulated'
Internet. Reflecting these concerns, many countries and
regions are now re-examining their stand on Internet. The
European Parliament Council has set an important precedent
by publishing a report on 'illegal and harmful content on
the Internet'. One of the most important suggestion with
regards to illegal content is to maintain consistency: What
is illegal offline remains illegal online. As the report
clearly advocates, the presence of illegal and harmful
content on the Internet has direct repercussions on the
workings of the Internal Market. The report has further
identified types of harmful content according to its
effect; such as those that affects national security,
safety of minors, protection of human dignity, economic
security, information security, protection of reputation
and intellectual property.
 http://www.bileta.ac.uk/03papers/azmi.html

Drafting E-legislation: Amendments to Existing Legislative
Instruments or a New Information Society Act
This paper examines possible legislative techniques in the
area of electronic commerce with particular regard to the
means of implementing legal order of the European Union. A
particular example studied in this paper is the legislative
approach adopted in the Republic of Slovenia. The paper
identifies the main problems with this approach and tries
to put them into the context of the possible drafting
techniques.
 http://www.bileta.ac.uk/03papers/makarovic.html

Privacy, freedom of expression and CyberSLAPPs: Fostering
anonymity on the Internet?
The Council of Europe in its explanatory note to the Draft
Declaration on Freedom of Communication on the Internet
makes the comment that ‘over the past few years there has
been a marked tendency by some governments to restrict and
control access to the Internet in a manner which is
incompatible with international norms on freedom of
expression and information.’ Many influential legal
commentators have advocated the necessity both for
protecting the individual in their private life and at the
same time fostering democratic participation and robust
public debate by ensuring that those who do participate are
protected from stigmatisation, victimisation and
embarrassment. However the practical difficulties in
determining the scope of a particular right in the face of
legitimate and compelling public, societal or governmental
interests can be immense. This is even more so when the
respective demands of individual rights themselves conflict
as can be the case in relation to freedom of expression and
privacy.
 http://www.bileta.ac.uk/03papers/rowland.html

Freedom of Expression –v- The Multiple Publication Rule
Freedom of expression has long been held to be the
cornerstone of a democratic society. Historically it was
one of the first human rights to be demanded and indeed to
be guaranteed in law whether constitutionally, as in the
US[1] or by judicial enactment, as in the UK.[2] The press
in particular have received special constitutional
guarantees throughout the World, in particular against
censorship.
 http://www.bileta.ac.uk/03papers/Russel.html

For further papers from 18th BILETA Conference: Controlling
Information in the Online Environment (April 03) see:
 http://www.bileta.ac.uk/03papers/papers03.html

The DMCA and the Regulation of Scientific Research
This Article analyzes the impact of the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (DMCA) on academic encryption research. In
this Article, I argue that for both legal and practical
reasons academic encryption researchers should be able to
conduct and publish certain types of research without
significant fear of liability under the DMCA. However, the
DMCA will have a non-trivial impact on the conditions under
which such research takes place, and this impact can be
expected to have several undesirable effects. More broadly,
this impact highlights the problematic way in which the
DMCA regulates scientific research in furtherance of
intellectual property rights. The Article concludes with a
number of suggestions for mitigating some of these negative
effects.

http://www.cbeji.com.br/br/downloads/secao/Liu.stripped.pdf

The Growth of Asian E-Commerce: Sociopolitical, Economic,
and Intellectual Property Trends
The Internet has been pervading all aspects of Asia's
culture and economy at an astonishing pace. A multitude of
Asian nations have realized the huge potential for
financial, social, and technical gain possible through web
commerce, and have begun clamoring for the coveted status
of being the preeminent leader in Asian e-commerce. This
paper examines four of the largest competitors: Japan,
China, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and analyzes the
advantages and hurdles each nation or region faces in
constructing a successful e-commerce market. It is found
that, while each country possess a unique advantage in this
tight race, each also faces a variety of socio-political,
economic, technical, and legislative hurdles. A particular
emphasis is placed on the evaluation of current
intellectual property, copyright and domain name registry
laws in each country or region. In the end, no single
country stood out as a definite, foreseeable victor.
Indeed, only time will tell us which will become the next
"Asian Internet Superpower".
 http://www.cbeji.com.br/br/downloads/secao/res-asi.pdf

Is SCO finally walking the walk?
Not content with gate-crashing the Linux love-in with a
loaded gun and blaring incoherently about stealing
property, the legal firm -- sorry, software company -- has
escalated the situation by finally pulling a couple of
unfortunates out of the crowd and putting the gun to their
heads.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39116490,00.htm

Minnesota plaintiffs near court date with Microsoft on
overcharge claims
In what would be the first such case to reach trial,
opening statements were scheduled this week in a class
action lawsuit that accuses Microsoft Corp. of overcharging
Minnesotans for software.
 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8137203.htm

Europe Moves to Strengthen Piracy Laws
The European Parliament approved an antipiracy law intended
to bring lax national laws in new entrants to the union
into line with countries with stricter standards.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/10/business/worldbusiness/10piracy.html

itu: Shaping the Future Mobile Information Society
All the workshop presentations for the ITU Shaping the
Future Mobile Information Society workshop (Seoul, 4-5
March 2004) have been posted on the ITU website.
 http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/2004/03/10.html#a512

http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/ni/futuremobile/presentations/index.html
 http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/ni/futuremobile

EU backs deal on copyright piracy
The law, originally intended to stop peddlers in goods,
widened its reach to all forms of intellectual property.
 http://www.iht.com/articles/509521.html


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