general internet news - 11 August

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

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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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au: Blocking net pics canvassed
Technology and the law may make it impossible to take
legal action against pedophiles and voyeurs who take
innocuous photographs of young people and post them on
the internet.

http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/blocking-net-pics-canvassed/2005/08/09/1123353308323.html

au: Net images spur security review of sensitive sites
CABINET'S National Security Committee is expected to
review publicly available photographs of sensitive
buildings in the wake of concerns over satellite
images of Australia's only nuclear reactor.

http://theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16198096%255E2702,00.html

au: Google Earth poses no risk: Government
The federal government said the increasingly popular
Google Earth application posed no security risk and
added nothing to information already publicly
available.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Google_Earth_poses_no_risk_Government/0,2000061744,39206128,00.htm

http://smh.com.au/news/technology/google-earth-poses-no-risk-government-says/2005/08/08/1123353256404.html

au: Google urged to drop nuclear site images
THE head of Australia's nuclear energy agency has
called on the owners of an internet satellite program
to censor images of the country's only nuclear
reactor.

http://theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16185945%255E2702,00.html

http://smh.com.au/news/technology/lucas-heights-nervous-about-google-gander/2005/08/08/1123353245458.html

au: Porn 'fuels prostitution'
THE growth of internet pornography has seen the demand
for prostitution in Australia soar. Sex abuse expert
and christian do-gooder Mary Anne Layden.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,16210224%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

au: Internet porn nearly cost me my marriage, man
tells forum
[Another christian do-gooder!] Sean Thackray's
addiction to internet pornography began when he was 11
or 12. Ten years later, he was still hooked. "The more
I did it, the more I wanted to do it. I tried to stop
several times but always failed," he said.

http://smh.com.au/news/national/internet-porn-nearly-cost-me-my-marriage-man-tells-forum/2005/08/07/1123353212143.html

my: TIMENet launches cyberthreats site
Internet service provider TIME dotCom Bhd has launched
an awareness website at its TIMENet central portal
aimed at increasing public awareness on the threat of
online pornography and "cybercrimes."

http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2005/8/10/technology/20050810111457&sec=technology

us: NetSmartz ? How Can it Keep your Daughter Safe?
NetSmartz is more than a webpage; it is a workshop
designed by the National Center for Missing &
Exploited Children and the Boys & Girls Clubs of
America to help raise online safety awareness to kids,
preteens and teens. The internet, though a wonderful
tool for learning and communicating, can be dangerous
for children. Parents need to teach their children
about the possible dangers that the internet can
present; NetSmartz makes it easier for parents to get
the message across.
 http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art34353.asp

us: Is Pornography The Same As Prostitution? A New
York Judge Says "No," But the Answer Is Less Clear
Jenny Paulino stands accused of running a prostitution
ring on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Among other
defense arguments, Paulino moved to dismiss the case
on Equal Protection grounds. She claimed that the
Manhattan District Attorney's office selectively
targets "escort services" for prosecution, while
ignoring distributors of adult films, who are engaged
in what is essentially the same activity.
 http://writ.news.findlaw.com/colb/20050810.html

us: Internet safety group petitions Cox Communications
An Oklahoma City-based anti-pornography group today is
petitioning Cox Communications to halt its
distribution of Usenet newsgroups through its High
Speed Internet service

http://www.pbn.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/116182

us: Hillary faces a little local difficulty
HILLARY CLINTON?S hopes of a smooth progression back
to the White House in 2008 could yet be dashed on the
jagged rock of Jeanine Pirro ... Ms Pirro is widely
seen as the Republicans? next best bet. As a
high-profile public prosecutor Ms Pirro has already
earned the admiration of state Republicans, cable
television viewers and, it is said, senior figures in
the Bush Administration for her crackdowns on internet
child pornography...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1728701,00.html

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LEGAL AND SECURITY
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au: States slow on pedophile laws
SEVERAL state governments have left police without
laws to snare internet predators who groom children
for abuse, despite vowing last year to introduce tough
anti-pedophile legislation following Operation Auxin.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,16196917%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

ph: Villar sounds alarm on Internet child pornography
SENATOR Manuel Villar has filed a resolution for
Senate to look into the ?alarming? level of
Internet-based child pornography in the Philippines.

http://news.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=46256

au: ISP threat to Whirlpool over posting
ADSL provider aaNet is threatening legal action
against a broadband forum over a post it says was
deliberately damaging.

http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/isp-threat-to-whirlpool-over-posting/2005/08/09/1123353303794.html

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POLICY
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au: Australian government forces ISPs to join child
porn crackdown
Internet service providers (ISPs) will face fines of
up to A$55,000 ($60,500) if they can be used to access
child pornography and do not refer the information to
the police.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?mode=headlines&c_id=5&ObjectID=10112277

au: WA to crack down on web voyeurs
THE West Australian government is planning a crackdown
on people who post voyeuristic photographs of children
on the internet.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,16213082%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

nz: New Zealand ISPs band together to press demands
A group of 22 New Zealand ISPs have banded together,
under the name Internet Service Providers Association
of New Zealand (ISPANZ), in order to press demands
ranging from local-loop unbundling to lower pricing
and faster wholesale broadband speeds.

http://www.telecomasia.net/telecomasia/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=174440

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/B7DBA1BFE0A98D29CC257056006AEBB8

us: Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin Tax 
When a group of Democrats in Congress floated the idea
of a whopping 25 percent tax on online porn last week,
industry critics predictably pounced, calling the
proposal unconstitutional. Legal issues aside, there's
another possible roadblock: the religious right.

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,68433,00.html

us: Stabenow bill seeks greater control over Internet
The Internet Safety and Child Protection Act of 2005,
co-sponsored by U.S. Sens. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.,
and Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., would tighten age
controls on access to Internet pornography sites and
would aid law enforcement in combating Internet and
pornography-related crimes against children.

http://www.gaylordheraldtimes.com/articles/2005/08/04/news/top_stories/top_stories05.txt

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SPAM
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au: Bid to unmask spam
POLITICAL spam group GetUp! has become the target of
an investigation to force the internet operation,
which is bombarding Coalition senators with email, to
prove it is not a front for the Labor Party.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,16167165%5E15331%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html

us: Microsoft in Spam Settlement (reg req'd, free for
limited time)
Scott Richter, who was once accused of being one of
the world's top three spammers, has agreed to pay $7
million in a settlement with Microsoft.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/10/technology/10spam.html

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39212651,00.htm

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,16212000%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

MICROSOFT LLEGA A UN ACUERDO CON UN SPAMMER

http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/112366644292057.shtml

us: University spam blocking constitutional, says
court
The University of Texas was within its rights to block
spam sent by an internet dating agency, even though
the unsolicited emails complied with the requirements
of federal anti-spam laws, an Appeals Court has ruled.
 http://out-law.com/page-5986

us: Sender ID's fading message
At the start of last year, Bill Gates told the world's
elite at an annual conference in Davos, Switzerland,
that the problem of spam would be solved in two years.
 http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-5824234.html

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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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Worldwide wonder [Guardian editorial on the 10th
birthday of the internet. Another editorial notes the
70th birthday of the tin can! - see
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,1544558,00.html]
The 10th birthday of the internet as a mass phenomenon
is rightly being celebrated this week to mark a decade
since the explosive stock market debut of Netscape,
which triggered the dot.com boom and unleashed a
friendly browser to navigate the web.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,1544560,00.html

Berners-Lee on the read/write web
In August 1991, Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the first
website. Fourteen years on, he tells BBC Newsnight's
Mark Lawson how blogging is closer to his original
idea about a read/write web.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4132752.stm

Is TV violence all that bad for kids? (reg req'd)
It's how kids live and relate that's important, not
what they watch, writes Hugh Mackay. "Violent games
provoke children" thundered a recent headline,
calculated, no doubt, to send a chill up the spine of
any parent. Quoting an article in the latest issue of
the British medical journal The Lancet, The Weekend
Australian reported that "there is consistent evidence
of an association between younger children watching
media violence and showing more aggressive play and
behaviour".

http://theage.com.au/news/hugh-mackay/is-tv-violence-all-that-bad-for-kids/2005/03/04/1109700674787.html

eu: Breaking Barriers to e-Government: Overcoming
obstacles to improving European public services
Funded by the European Commission Led by the Oxford
Internet Institute, Oxford University: The European
Commission is funding a three year project to
investigate the legal, organisational, technological
and other barriers to expanding effective e-Government
services using the Internet. The study will identify
and explore key issues that can constrain e-Government
growth, drawing on real-life case studies. This rich
data source will be analysed to define possible
initiatives at a European level to overcome such
obstacles, including best practice recommendations.
 http://egovbarriers.org/

S Korean dies after games session
A South Korean man dies after reportedly playing an
online computer game for 50 hours with few breaks.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4137782.stm

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=9321126

Südkoreaner stirbt nach Gaming-Marathon

http://futurezone.orf.at/futurezone.orf?read=detail&id=272296&tmp=81096

ca: Youthful surfers make waves among Canada's
advertisers
Internet use among young Canadians has for the first
time surpassed television as a primary source for
media

http://globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050809.winternet208091/BNStory/Technology/

uk: Games to be tested in classrooms
The use of computer games in education is going to be
tested out in three secondary schools in the UK.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4134530.stm

us: Wasting Away on the Web
Opinion: More employers are taking workers' Web use
seriously.
 http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1843242,00.asp

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ONLINE MUSIC & P2P
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au: Oz legit downloads fail to deliver
Analysis part II Australian lawyer, academic
researcher and music industry commentator Alex Malik
presents the second of a two-part look at the
Australian market for digital downloads. His research
has found that while IFPI are spinning the success of
authorised downloads, the reality shows that at least
in Australia, there are substantial gaps in available
repertoire and a heavily protected market controlled
by the majors.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/08/oz_legit_downloads_fail/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/09/oz_legit_downloads_fail_two/

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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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au: Chef jailed over child porn
A 35-year-old Air Force chef will spend the next two
months in jail after pleading guilty to possessing
child pornography.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1433750.htm

au: Web pedophile caught flying to Australia (reg
req'd)
An American has been arrested in a police internet
sting before flying to Australia to allegedly sexually
abuse children. In an explicit internet chat, Harold
Lynn Winslow, 55, apparently believed he was talking
to an Australian man who had been arrested for having
sex with his grandchildren. Instead, he was talking to
an undercover officer.

http://smh.com.au/news/national/web-pedophile-caught-flying-to-australia/2005/08/09/1123353318894.html

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/12336853.htm

uk: School library child porn viewer jailed
A FATHER-of-three who used a school library computer
to download more than 1,000 images of child
pornography was yesterday jailed for two years.
 http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1755182005

us: Howell man among 3 charged with child pornography
A monthlong State Police investigation of online child
pornography has led to charges against three people,
including a 28-year-old Howell man, authorities said
today.

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050809/NEWS/50809008

us: Minot man sentenced on child pornography charge
A Minot man has been sentenced to 6 1/2 years in
prison for possessing child pornography.

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/12341987.htm

us: Woman admits to receiving child porn
A 54-year old Fort Wayne woman pleaded guilty in
federal court to receiving child pornography, just
days before her trial was set to begin.

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/local/12347296.htm

us: Schuylkill priest gets 23 months in child porn
case
A Schuylkill County Catholic priest who admitted
owning hundreds of child pornography photos,
magazines, videotapes and DVDs, and embezzling more
than $23,000 in church money will serve up to 23
months in jail on the theft charge and pay $23,629 in
restitution.

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-priest0809,0,4289641.story

us: Men charged in child porn investigation
State police in Hawthorne have arrested four men
accused of having child pornography in their computers
after an investigation that began several months ago
on a tip from the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children.

http://thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050806/NEWS02/508060309/

us: Second arrest made of LaPlace man on child porn
A second arrest in two months has been made of another
LaPlace man, this time charged with 10 counts of
possession of child pornography.

http://www.lobservateur.com/articles/2005/08/08/news/news07.txt

us: Assault Suspect Now Faces Child Pornography Charge
Omaha police said Tuesday that a man arrested Monday
for sexually assaulting children also had child
pornography.

http://www.theomahachannel.com/news/4830303/detail.html

us: Judge refuses to reduce Neenah man?s sentence for
possession of porn
A Neenah man convicted on 15 felony counts of
possessing child pornography was denied on his motion
to reduce his jail sentence Monday.

http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/local_22121036.shtml

us: Man gets probation in kiddy porn case
A Hamilton County judge sentenced the former
valedictorian of a local high school to five years'
probation Monday after he pleaded guilty to collecting
and distributing child pornography on his computer.

http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050809/NEWS01/508090354

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