general internet news - 17 May

au: Govt cracks down on offensive tele content
Risque adult material will no longer be accessible to
children using hi-tech mobile phones with internet access,
under a crackdown by the federal government.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/14/1084289857211.html

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9558219%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/0,2000061791,39147576,00.htm

au: Jilted lover jailed for emailing explicit shots
A spurned Australian lover who sent sexually explicit
photos of his ex-girlfriend to her American friends,
family, university and workplace, was today jailed for
three months.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/14/1084289873723.html
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/14/stalker_email/

au: 7 years for doubtful photo business on the Net
E-library of 100 000 child porn photos was seized from the
55-year-old man, including images where he had sex with
sleeping 10-year-old daughter. 55-year-old Australian is
condemned to 7 years of jail in the NSW District Court in
Wollongong. His name is not announced to protect the
identity of his victim.
 http://www.crime-research.org/news/14.05.2004/266

Vietnam Adopts New Internet User Policies
Web surfers in Vietnam must abide by a number of new
policies and restrictions, which come following a crackdown
on cyber dissidents who used the Internet to speak out
against the communist government, state-controlled media
reported.

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/V/VIETNAM_INTERNET_RESTRICTIONS?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
 http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=7166

China Jails Journalist for Two Years Without Trial
A freelance Chinese journalist, who posted Internet essays
commemorating the ill-fated 1989 pro-democracy protests,
has been jailed for two years without trial, a U.S. rights
group said on Wednesday.
 http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=7150
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3706727.stm

cn: Two cyberdissidents sentenced
US-resident Yang Jianli (picture) was sentenced on 13 May
to five years in prison for "espionage" and "illegally
entering Chinese territory", after more than two years of
imprisonment awaiting sentence. Journalist Liu Shui was on
2 May sentenced without trial to two years in a
re-education camp.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10388 (English)
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10390 (Espanol)
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10387
(Francais)

cn: Nanny knows best
Beijing is cracking down on access to the internet in the
name of public health and safety.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1216810,00.html

my: Malaysia slams terror websites
MALAYSIA'S leader vowed he would not let terrorists hijack
the country's emerging internet industry, after a local
company was revealed as the host of the web site that
posted the gruesome beheading of an American by Islamic
militants in Iraq.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9558649%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=5145293

Online Co. Shuts Down Site With Beheading
The al-Qaida-linked Web site that first posted a video of
American civilian Nicholas Berg's beheading was shut down
Thursday by the Malaysian company that hosted it - because
it was drawing too much traffic.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23151-2004May13.html

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/05/13/malaysia.berg.ap/index.html
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/14/berg_website/

Virtual camp for killers
The internet is becoming a crucial propaganda and training
tool for extremist Islamic organisations. Just before
Christmas, Norwegian scientists surfing the internet
stumbled across a 42-page document that made chilling
reading.

http://theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9544574%255E28737,00.html

uk: Do surfers really love to hate?
The internet has always provided a platform for airing
extreme views both for and against everything from art and
celebrity to race and religion. While this may always have
been the case internet filtering firm SurfControl has
recognised a growth in the number of hate sites aimed at
specific races, religions and minorities within society.
 http://comment.silicon.com/0,39024711,39120633,00.htm

ca: MPs' plan could end free music downloading
MPs studying Canada's copyright laws are urging Ottawa to
beef up regulations that could end the practice of
downloading songs for free from the Internet.
 http://shorl.com/dibrageselena

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1084399812009&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467

http://www.parl.gc.ca/InfocomDoc/Documents/37/3/parlbus/commbus/house/reports/herirp01/herirp01-e.pdf

uk: Government 'No' to Privacy Law
A statutory privacy law was rejected by a Government
minister today, who said it was for courts “to strike the
right balance between freedom of expression and the right
to privacy”.
 http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2915598

Global Forum on Internet Governance: Not everyone agrees on
what is broken nor on what fixing might involve
A global forum on internet governance organised under the
auspices of the United Nations Information and
Communication Technologies Task Force (UNICTTF) was held at
the UN Headquarters in New York, March 25-27, to bring
together leading actors and all relevant stakeholders,
including Member States, civil society and the private
sector, interested in internet governance issues. APC was
involved in planning the forum in its capacity as
coordinator of the UNICTTF working group on ICT policy.
 http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=18720

us: Street fight sparked by chat room brawl
Over 30 people were arrested this week after a war of words
in an internet chat room spilled onto the streets of
Dallas, Texas. As rival gangs left cyberspace, they
resorted to their traditional weapons of choice.

http://out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=streetfightsparked1084528843

US House Judiciary Committee supports locker-room
camera-phone ban
The bill, which will only be applicable on US federal
property, would make the use of camera phones or digital
cameras in locker rooms or to take invasive and unwanted
pictures and the posting of the images on the internet a
federal crime punishable by fines and up to a year in
prison.
 http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=1801

Disappointed children - Government and Media are
law-breakers!
When children themselves take charge and try to protect
their on-line privacy, key businesses and official
organizations fail to help them. 10th-graders from Brunla
School in Larvik, Norway, have used the Internet to claim
disclosure of the use of their personal information.
Neither TV Companies, Governmental oversight bodies, nor
any of the cabinet parties responded.
 http://www.saftonline.org/latestnews/1763/

us: Team Investigates Child Pornography
Two years ago, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Detective Phil
Dubord was contacted by a resident upset that when she
tried to download adult materials from the Internet, she
also found a lot of child pornography.
 http://news.tbo.com/news/MGAPHB569UD.html

us: Feds announce 65 arrests, 1,000 cases in child porn
file-sharing probe
A nationwide inquiry into child pornography trafficking
using Internet file-sharing networks has resulted in 1,000
investigations and at least 65 arrests, federal officials
announced Friday.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-05-14-childporn_x.htm

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=5151839
 http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5213273.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-internet-child-porn,1,1195021.story

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27265-2004May14.html

us: Feds target P2P child porn
A coalition of federal law enforcement agencies announced a
new push against child pornography on file-swapping
networks, citing undercover operations ongoing since the
fall of 2003.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5213273.html

us: Net Child Porn Probe Leads to 65 Arrests
Sharman Networks, provider of the Kazaa P2P network, said
in a statement that it helped federal investigators
identify people who used Kazaa to distribute illicit
materials. "Our No. 1 priority is to help stop the spread
of this scourge on Kazaa and to provide our users with
technological solutions like our family filter to protect
their families," the statements said.
 http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0504/146841.html

us: Agent creates antiporn software
A Wyoming law enforcement agent was credited Friday with
developing software that weeds out child pornography in
file-sharing networks, resulting in at least 1,000
investigations and 65 arrests nationwide.

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/05/15/build/wyoming/40-porn-spyware.inc

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-05-14-cp-program_x.htm

us: Departments of Justice, Homeland Security announce
child pornography file-sharing crackdown (news release)
The Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Internet
Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces today announced
a national law enforcement initiative aimed at combating
the growing volume of illegal child pornography distributed
through peer-to-peer (P2P) file trafficking computer
networks.
 http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2004/May/04_crm_331.htm

http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsrel/articles/porncrackdown.htm

es: Police arrest 24 in child porn crackdown
Police in Spain and Latin America have arrested 24 people
suspected of distributing child pornography via the
Internet, Spain's Interior Ministry says.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=5150997

us: Child porn case highlights browser hijack risks
Browser hijacking programs can redirect users to
pornographic websites. But could these malicious programs
also lead to false accusations of possession of child
pornography?
 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8576

us: Child porn penalties increased
Penalties for possession of child pornography and other sex
offenses involving minors would be sharply increased under
legislation passed yesterday and sent to Gov. Bob Holden.
 http://www.showmenews.com/2004/May/20040514News027.asp

us: DCIA Supports Crackdown on Child Pornography (news
release)
The Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) and
its Members unanimously praise the enforcement actions of
the Cyber Division of the FBI with whom we have been
working cooperatively since October 2003, and the
coordinated law enforcement efforts of the Department of
Justice and Homeland Security.
 http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040514/laf080_1.html

us: Feds on the move against purveyors of child porn online
Pictures, movies and audio files of children being sexually
abused are zapped around the world on the same Internet
software that music fans use to trade songs. They are
posted on Web sites that users pay to access. They are
traded via e-mail, instant messages and chat rooms.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20040515-9999-1n15kidporn.html

us: Police: Man Accidentally E-Mails Child Pornography To
Irving Police
Police in Manitou Springs, Colo., have arrested two
brothers accused of accidentally e-mailing child
pornography to authorities.
 http://www.nbc5i.com/news/3296613/detail.html

us: Tactics of sex abuse change
The arrest of a Cary computer programmer on charges of
manufacturing child pornography and publishing it on the
Internet reveals that society still wrestles with the
complexities that arise from the sexual abuse of children.
 http://newsobserver.com/news/story/3591126p-3192789c.html

us: Dangers of Child Pornography
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children says
almost 20 percent of the pornographic activity on the
internet involves children.

http://www.rnews.com/Story.cfm?ID=18266&rnews_story_type=18

us: Local police have mixed views on bill
Given that privacy in locations where citizens should be
able to expect it, such as restrooms and locker rooms, can
be harder to come by with the increasing use of wireless
cameras and cell phones with photo-taking and transmitting
capabilities, local police agree "peeping tom" laws need to
be enhanced.

http://www.pioneerlocal.com/cgi-bin/ppo-story/localnews/current/gr/05-13-04-295116.html

us: Predators watch Web for targets
Eric Szatkowski’s computer chirped and beeped at 7:22 a.m.
on a weekday morning, signaling the arrival of messages
from middle-aged men believing the state Department of
Justice agent was a 13-year-old girl.

http://www.gmtoday.com/news/local_stories/2004/May_04/05152004_01.asp

us: Man admits to pimping child in plea bargain
An Oakland man has pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking,
admitting in federal court that he knowingly recruited a
13-year-old girl for prostitution and then became her pimp.

http://www.theargusonline.com/Stories/0,1413,83~1971~2150557,00.html

us: Graduate student admits to possessing child porn on
computer
A graduate student at the College of William and Mary has
pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his
computer at school.

http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--childporn-student0514may14,0,2507911.story?coll=dp-headlines-virginia

http://www.wvec.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D82ICMQ00.html

us: Former Cascade school chief pleads guilty to child porn
The former superintendent of the Cascade School District in
Leavenworth has pleaded guilty to possession of child
pornography.

http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D82INLE81.html

us: Nationwide FBI child porn investigation lands Houston
man in jail
A Houston man is in federal custody after he's busted on
child pornography charges. A special team of Houston-based
FBI agents were in charge of the investigation.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/technology/051404_local_predator.html

us: Priest Charged with Child Pornography
A Roman Catholic priest in Schuylkill County was arrested
Wednesday for having child pornography. Investigators found
some on a church computer, but found a lot more at a
storage facility near Hazleton.

http://www.wnep.com/Global/story.asp?S=1862473&nav=5ka4N4F1

us: Church officials talk to parents about priest in
child-porn probe
In what was described as a supportive, orderly meeting,
concerned parents gathered at St. Charles Borromeo Roman
Catholic Academy in Loma Portal last night to talk with
school and church officials about their parish priest, who
has been caught up in an Internet child pornography
investigation.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040514-9999-1n14priest.html
 http://www.nbc4.tv/news/3299980/detail.html

us: Judge imposes 30 to 50 years for child porn
A man who downloaded more than 12,000 images of child
pornography will serve at least 30 years in prison.

http://www.magicvalley.com/news/localstate/index.asp?StoryID=9823

us: City worker charged with child porn
A director of printing services for the Department of
Citywide Administrative Services was arrested yesterday
after a two-month investigation into his alleged possession
of child pornography on his office computer, Department of
Investigation officials said.

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/nyc-porn0514,0,2469815.story

us: More details in pornography case
A federal prosecutor said yesterday that a "monstrous
collection" of child pornography kept by a former state
Superior Court judge had been lawfully seized from his
Shore home.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/krphiladelphia/20040513/lo_krphiladelphia/moredetailsinpornographycase

us: Officer in child-porn probe resigns
A 15-year veteran of the Aurora Police Department who is
being investigated over possession of child pornography
resigned from the force Thursday.

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/beaconnews/city/a14copquits.htm

us: Novi Teen's Bond Set at $1 Million
A 17-year-old boy is behind bars after he was drawn into
the dark side of the internet. From Nazi websites to child
pornography, this young man’s actions raised the alarm for
the police officers at Novi High School.

http://www.detnow.com/wxyz/nw_local_news/article/0,2132,WXYZ_15924_2886671,00.html

us: Krim seeks release
A former college instructor facing child pornography
charges recently waived his arraignment and will soon ask
to be released from the county jail. Joseph Krim of
Farmington pleaded not guilty when he signed a waiver of
arraignment to seven counts of sexual exploitation of
children.

http://www.daily-times.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=388&num=11143

us: Pediatric Chief Charged With Possessing Child Porn 
Dr. Julius Goepp, chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at
Strong Memorial Hospital, appeared in federal court
Wednesday to respond to charges that he possessed child
pornography.

http://www.wokr13.tv/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=7C14685D-9F3E-4006-9F99-9DD5603DD02A

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/0512GU47RCH_news.shtml

us: Child porn arrest has links to N.E. Georgia
A recent investigation by the Georgia Bureau of
Investigation has led to six arrests for child pornography,
three of which are in our area.

http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/hall/newfullstory.asp?ID=81389

us: Man to face trial on child porn charges
A Douglass (Mont.) man has pleaded not guilty to charges he
possessed child pornography in his apartment last year.

http://www.pottstownmercury.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11650249&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=18041&rfi=6

us:  Task force hunts online sex predators
The Internet chat rooms have titles like "I love older
men," and the conversations that take place in them are no
less unsettling.

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=248015&category=REGIONOTHER&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=5/14/2004

uk: British Police Arrest 13 Suspected of Child Porn
British police arrested 13 people on Tuesday suspected of
downloading and distributing child pornography over the
Internet, in raids across London involving 100 officers.
 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=5107141

uk: Police launch team to hunt down paedophiles
SEX offenders are being warned they are on borrowed time as
Surrey Police launches a paedophile investigation team.

http://icsurreyonline.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0800redhillandreigate/tm_objectid=14235148&method=full&siteid=50101&headline=police-launch-team-to-hunt-down-paedophiles-name_page.html

ca: Man Jailed for Porn After Cellphone Pictures
A man who used a cellphone to take nude pictures of his
girlfriend and then posted them on the Internet has been
jailed for distributing child pornography in what officials
say is Canada's first criminal conviction involving camera
phones.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040514/od_nm/odd_canada_porn_dc_1

ca: Child porn maker jailed
Michael Brophey is an emotionally disturbed 27-year-old man
who obsessively collected thousands of computer images of
child pornography and then lured seven young girls for sex
photos, a judge was told Wednesday.

http://www.canada.com/windsor/story.asp?id=721544C0-738C-428F-840D-EF3843D32EF3

ca: OPP Charge Renfrew Man with Child Pornography (news
release)
Members of the Ontario Provincial Police, Child Pornography
Section (Project "P"), in conjunction with the Renfrew
Crime Unit and members of Ontario Provincial Police
Electronic Crime Unit, have charged a 61 year old Renfrew
man following a child pornography investigation.

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2004/13/c2925.html

ca: Field Man Charged With Child Pornography (news release)
Members of the Ontario Provincial Police Child Pornography
Section (Project "P"), the Ontario Provincial Police
Electronic Crime Section in conjunction with the West
Nipissing Police Service, have arrested and charged a Field
man following a child pornography investigation.

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2004/13/c2720.html

ie: Curtin letter 'not comprehensive'
The Government has received correspondence from Judge Brian
Curtin who was acquitted of child pornography charges, it
emerged.

http://212.2.162.45/news/story.asp?j=104270552&p=yx4z7yz58&n=104271312
 http://breaking.examiner.ie/2004/05/15/story147692.html

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2004/0515/2408214896HM1CURTIN.html

Schlag gegen Kinderpornografie in Tauschbörsen
Ein Zusammenschluss aus verschiedenen Ermittlungsbehörden
unter der Leitung des FBI verkündete vergangenen Freitag
den erfolgreichen Schlag gegen Anbieter
kinderpornografischer Inhalte in P2P-Netzen. Ermittlungen
in etwa 1000 Fällen führten zur Durchsuchung von 340
Computern und bisher zur Festnahme von 65 Personen. Die
Aktion, federführend vom FBI durchgeführt, lief bereits
seit Herbst 2003 unter dem Decknamen "Peer Pressure".
Seither haben Mitarbeiter der Ermittlungsbehörden gezielt
Tauschbörsen infiltriert, um Anbieter kinderpornografischer
Inhalte ausfindig zu machen. Erst Ende April waren im Zuge
einer anderen Aktion mehr als 160 Kunden einer
einschlägigen Website verhaftet worden.
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/47403

Keine fristlose Kündigung bei Aufruf von Pornoseiten im
Internet
Wer am Arbeitsplatz Internetseiten mit pornografischen
Inhalten aufruft, darf nicht ohne weiteres fristlos
entlassen werden. Das entschied das Landesarbeitsgericht
(LAG) Rheinland-Pfalz in Mainz in einem am Donnerstag
veröffentlichten Urteil. Der Mitarbeiter müsse zunächst
abgemahnt werden. Erst wenn die Abmahnung keinen Erfolg
habe, stehe fest, dass sich der Vertrauensbruch nicht mehr
beheben lasse.
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/47317

Convention on Cybercrime wins support in Ukraine
Science and Education Committee of Ukraine considered a
people's deputies' legislative initiative on an amendment
to the Criminal and the Criminal Procedural Codes of
Ukraine on responsibility for crimes in the sphere of
computer information.
 http://www.crime-research.org/news/12.05.2004/262

us: Websites give terrorists little critical data 
2004-05-10 09:49:49
The overwhelming majority of United States government
websites that reveal information about airports and other
terrorist targets need not be censored because similar or
better information is easily available elsewhere, a study
has found.

http://itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=115&art_id=qw1084172401940B221&set_id=1

cn: Court Pulls Plug on SMS Lottery Scammers
Two Chinese men have been jailed for using cell phone text
messages to swindle money from subscribers by telling them
they had won lottery prizes, Xinhua news agency said in a
report available on Tuesday.
 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=5106216

ACLU Was Forced to Revise Release on Patriot Act Suit
When a federal judge ruled two weeks ago that the American
Civil Liberties Union could finally reveal the existence of
a lawsuit challenging the USA Patriot Act, the group issued
a news release.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22404-2004May12.html

How Complying with 18 USC 2257 Protects Your Adult Business
What is 18 USC 2257?: 18 USC 2257 and CFR 75 are the
federal law requirements of record keeping of the proof of
age of models and required notices on products including
content.

http://www.internet-law-library.com/internet_law_library/articles/law_library_18usc2257_article.php

us: Man fined for downloading music
A US federal judge has ordered a Bristol man to pay more
than $US4,000 ($5,817) for downloading five songs from the
internet.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9558216%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

nz: Opt in, opt out - Government weighs options in war
against spam
It's the bane of our online lives, but New Zealand is
inching towards the creation of legislation against the
sending of "spam" email with the issue of a Government
discussion paper looking at the matter. The question is,
can legislation in any form stop the deluge of junk
messages?
 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3566610

Spam: An Examination of Private and Legislative Responses
to Unsolicited Electronic Mail in Australia and the United
States by Shirley Quo BComm, Associate Lecturer, Deakin
University School of Law 
Abstract: The paper proposes a definition of spam and
discuss the problems caused by spam. Both private and
legislative approaches, which have been used to address the
spam problem are reviewed, that is, technical measures,
regulatory and self-regulatory strategies, litigation under
existing legislation, common law theories, and US anti-spam
legislation specifically targeting spam. The Australian
Spam Act 2003 (Cth) and the current legislative regime
relevant to spam control are also discussed, followed by a
summary of relevant Australian case law. Lastly, problems
of enforcement and jurisdiction are discussed. The author
concludes that current measures to counter the spam problem
are inadequate and an international approach is necessary
because spam is generally impervious to national
boundaries.
 http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v11n1/quo111.html
 ftp://law.murdoch.edu.au/pub/elaw-issues/v11n1/quo111.txt

us: Court stops anti-spam firm from blocking junk email
A Northern California District Court judge has issued a
temporary restraining order to prevent SpamCop, an
anti-spam operation, from interfering with messages sent by
alleged junk emailer OptInRealBig.com.

http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/thespamreport/0,39025001,39120619,00.htm

http://out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=antispamfirmorder1084369365

Canada eyes world treaty to deal with spammers
Countries may need international treaties to deal with
large-scale computer spam, because individual governments
cannot deal with the problem by themselves, Canada said on
Tuesday.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-05-12-global-spam-effort_x.htm
 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=5108721

6 de cada 10 emails de spam provienen de Estados Unidos
Un informe llevado a cabo por Sybari Software revela que
spam proviene en su mayor parte desde Estados Unidos, ya
que 6 de cada 10 correos electrónicos comerciales no
solicitados vienen de allí.

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/108452742825458.shtml

El uso personal del ordenador en el trabajo causa el
despido de una empleada
La Sala de lo Social del Tribunal Superior de Justicia de
Cataluña ha confirmado la sentencia del Juzgado de lo
Social número 4 de Barcelona. En dicha sentencia se daba
por procedente el despido de Soni B.M., auxiliar
administrativa, por el uso de Internet para fines
personales durante sus horas de trabajo.

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/108443734554131.shtml

Detenido por mostrar fotos de una mujer desnuda en Internet
sin su consentimiento
Durante el día de ayer, 10 de mayo de 2004, la Policía
Judicial de Navalmoral de la Mata, población situada en la
provincia de Cacerés, procedió a la detención de R.G.V., de
23 años de edad, acusado de haber publicado en Internet
fotos de una mujer desnuda que previamente había amenazado
y coaccionado para que tuviera relaciones sexuales con él.

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/108426811571418.shtml

Pirates and Hackers Roam in the Internet's Wild West
Two weeks ago, law enforcement agencies in 11 countries
announced an operation called Fastlink, aimed at shutting
down the activities of almost 100 people suspected of
helping to operate illegal software vaults on the Internet.
 http://www.technewsworld.com/story/33748.html

Controversial Web Patent Defended
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted to the
university in 1998 patent number 5,838,906, which covers
technology for the broad practice of embedding interactive
elements in Web pages.
 http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116107,00.asp

IETF Mulling Changes to Secure TCP
A plan by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to
upgrade security in the widely used Transmission Control
Protocol (TCP) could prove costly because of Cisco's
patents.
 http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3352941

Copyright and Peer-To-Peer Music File Sharing: The Napster
Case and the Argument Against Legislative Reform by Guy
Douglas
Abstract: This paper examines legal issues surrounding
copyright and peer-to-peer sharing of music files via the
Internet networks, such as Napster and its successors. The
author first describes how the US courts have responded to
litigation by the music industry which attempts to prevent
the large scale infringement of copyright by P2P network
users. Australian law as it applies to this issue is also
discussed. The author then considers this mass copyright
infringement as a problem for law reform. The author argues
that copyright is primarily intended to ensure that
sufficient incentive is provided to maintain an adequate
supply of quality artistic works and information. P2P
sharing does not necessarily threaten the supply of quality
music, and consequently copyright law should not be
expanded in an attempt to shut down P2P networks.

http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v11n1/douglas111.html

ftp://law.murdoch.edu.au/pub/elaw-issues/v11n1/douglas111.txt

Learning in Cyberspace: Succession Law Online by Lillian
Corbin BBus, Griffith University Law School 
Abstract: The article discusses the use of on-line
facilities to teach a Succession Law class across multiple
university campuses. The author explains that a sound
teaching program can be offered if on-line tools are used
to complement and enhance the course. The starting point
for this course was constructivist learning theory, which
recognises that students are responsible for their own
learning and that teaching design should be
student-centred. On-line and traditional design features
were used, such as lectures, on-line forums and on-line and
real world assessment tasks. The author presents course
evaluations data to show students' positive and negative
comments about the course design, and reports that the
experience has been largely positive for both students and
teacher.
 http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v11n1/corbin111.html

ftp://law.murdoch.edu.au/pub/elaw-issues/v11n1/corbin111.txt


OECD says rural broadband can be better than urban
Rural broadband is not lagging behind its urban equivalent,
says the OECD. In fact in some instances rural customers
get better service at less cost.

http://www.computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/04ACF490B8974181CC256E93001A2489

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/0,2000061791,39147579,00.htm

http://www.oecd.org/document/43/0,2340,en_2649_34225_31718315_1_1_1_1,00.html

EU users lead fast net take-up
European consumers are taking to fast, always-on - or
broadband - internet access more quickly than their
American counterparts, according to EU research.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1214783,00.html

Search engines take the stand
Fifteen years after his trial, a convicted drug dealer in
New York state belatedly got a chance to clear his
name--thanks in part to an Internet search.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5211658.html

Yahoo boosts free e-mail storage to 100MB
The Web portal also will begin offering "virtually
unlimited storage" for its paid e-mail customers.

http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/personaltech/0,39001147,39179342,00.htm
 http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=1794
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/47349 (Deutsch)

Google Mail: Virtue Lies in the In-Box
Google's new e-mail service offers huge in-boxes to those
who do not mind ads on their messages. Those who don't use
it, however, could be missing a wonderful thing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/technology/circuits/13stat.html

What Big Brother? Gmail from Google wins a fan, despite its
ads
How did a couple of dropouts build an outrageously
profitable billion-dollar-a-year company in only five
years?
 http://iht.com/articles/520073.html

Critical 802.11 wireless flaw identified
A serious wireless network technology flaw that could lead
to the breakdown of some critical infrastructures in just
five seconds has been identified by Queensland University
of Technology's (QUT) Information Security Research Centre,
a finding that is likely to have worldwide ramifications.
 http://infoworld.com/article/04/05/13/HNwifi_1.html
 http://internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/3353721


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