domain name news - 19 May

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CHILD PROTECTION
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us: Interest group presses city for library computer
filters
The special-interest organization Communities for Decency
wants the City Council to force the city's library system
to install pornography filters on its public computers.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-05-17-slc-library-filters_x.htm

us: On Library Filters
After several years of public debate, the controversy over
whether to filter taxpayer-funded computers in our public
libraries rumbles on. While some local libraries in our
communities have installed filtering safeguards [mostly on
children's computers] many library Boards refuse to even
consider filters, claiming that doing so violates the First
Amendment free access to all information or that filtering
software has not yet reached perfection.
 http://www.americandaily.com/item/5676


au: Former teacher convicted over child porn pics
A former school teacher has pleaded guilty in the Brisbane
Magistrates Court to charges involving thousands of child
pornography images copied from the Internet.
 http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1111476.htm

ca: West-end teacher charged with child porn offences
Toronto police are to hold a meeting with parents this
evening after a high-school teacher at West Toronto
Collegiate Institute was arrested on Friday and charged
with offences related to child pornography.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1084788728599&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968705899037

ca: Man jailed in child porn case
A tip from a German computer crime squad has led to a
25-year-old man being sent to prison for possessing and
distributing massive amounts of child pornography on the
Internet.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040518.gtchild0518/BNStory/Technology

ie: Bid to impeach Brian Curtin
The Government is to begin impeachment proceedings against
the judge at the centre of a child pornography scandal.
 http://breaking.examiner.ie/2004/05/18/story148205.html

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2004/0519/1249549425HM1CURTIN.html

za: Over 80 child abuse cases in Pretoria a month
More than 80 cases of child abuse are reported in South
Africa's capital, Pretoria, each month, said a member of
the family violence, child protection and sexual offences
unit, Captain Shiluvane Malunyane said.

http://www.businessday.co.za/bday/content/direct/1,3523,1619054-6078-0,00.html

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1528781,00.html
 http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=66528

us: Former Union City teacher sentenced on child
pornography charges
A former teacher who pled guilty to child pornography
charges will spend more than two years behind bars and pay
a $10,000 fine.

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1877372&nav=0RceNDvn

us: Federal P2P child pornography crackdown nets arrests
The US government's Operation Peer Pressure looked to
peer-to-peer (P2P) networks for its latest move against
child pornography. Culminating since August, the
multi-agency move has resulted in some 65 arrests, hundreds
of searches, and even the liberation of a handful of
children who were being exploited. Seeing it as an
unmitigated success, the Department of Justice announced
the existence of the program on Friday, vowing to carry the
fight forward. 
 http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1084814586.html

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9582839%255E15306,00.html

us: Former deputy facing new child porn charges
A former Chittenden County deputy sheriff is facing new
charges that he collected child pornography on his
computer.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2004/05/18/former_deputy_facing_new_child_porn_charges

http://www.wrgb.com/news/regional/regional.asp?selection=article_11232

us: Sentencing set for July
A Salina man pleaded guilty in court Tuesday to two charges
of sexually exploiting a child and a single count of
conspiracy to commit child sexual exploitation.

http://www.saljournal.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/2063/format/html/displaystory.html

US: Porn Ring Suspects To Be Tried Separately
Three men charged in connection with a child pornography
ring in Southern Illinois will be tried separately instead
of together, Williamson County Judge William Wilson
determined Monday.

http://www.southernillinoisan.com/rednews/2004/05/18/build/top/TOP003.html

us: Man pleads guilty in child porn case
A trucker from Arlington has pleaded guilty to federal
child pornography charges involving videos of young boys.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2578445

us: Sioux Falls man gets 100 years for child porn
A 25-year-old Sioux Falls man was sentenced to 100 years in
prison Tuesday for possessing child pornography.

http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/8697012.htm

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: Officials want longer prison time for Brown
Federal prosecutors want a longer prison sentence for a
former Iowa State assistant basketball coach who was
convicted of child pornography.
 http://www.messengernews.net/sports_full.asp?1848

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/basketball/ncaa/05/18/iowast.pornography.ap/index.html

us: Man, 63, charged in child porn case
A Gonzales businessman who volunteered to supervise a
school play, rented space to a children's program and
advertised an acting camp for teens is accused of producing
and selling pictures of men engaged in sex acts with girls
as young as 7.

http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/051904/new_haist001.shtml

us: Belfast man indicted on gun, porn charges
A Belfast man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on
charges of possession of child pornography and possession
of a firearm by a felon. Brian C. Steele, 49, is scheduled
to be arraigned Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Bangor.
He is free on $10,000 unsecured bond.

http://www.bangornews.com/editorialnews/article.cfm?ID=422747

us: FBI's Operation Candyman
Little League coaches, a teacher's aide, a guidance
counselor, school bus driver, foster care parent and
professionals in the medical, educational, military and law
enforcement fields, were among those charged in Phase One
of Operation Candyman, a nationwide effort against online
child pornography, says the FBI.
 http://p2pnet.net/story/1473

us: California man charged in Florida child porn
investigation
A California man is accused of sending pornographic photos
to an undercover Broward County sheriff's deputy posing a
14-year-old girl in an Internet chat room.
 http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/8696548.htm?1c

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CENSORSHIP & REGULATION
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WSIS: West urged to share Internet governance
Last December, thousands of politicians and technology
experts converged on Geneva for the first of two World
Summits on the Information Society (WSIS). Several years in
the making, the WSIS was envisioned as a new forum for the
digital age.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1084745406955&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851
 http://shorl.com/hyvoprynastoty

au: Union claims support emails for Vicnet blocked
Emails of support for Vicnet, sent to the State Library
from a mailto link on a site set up by the Central Pubic
Sector Union, have been blocked by the State Library, the
union claims.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/18/1084783492904.html

au: New Measures To Make Internet And Mobile Use Safer
(ministerial news release)
Today, I have directed the Australian Communications
Authority (ACA) to put in place new measures to protect
mobile phone users from offensive content and to restrict
access to adult services available on premium mobile
services.

http://www.dcita.gov.au/Article/0,,0_1-2_1-4_118876,00.html

Rechtsextremisten suchen sich neue Wege im Internet
Die Gesamtzahl der von Deutschen betriebenen
rechtsextremistischen Homepages ist im vergangenen Jahr von
1000 aus dem Jahr 2002 auf etwa 950 zurückgegangen. Das
geht aus dem Verfassungsschutzbericht (PDF) für 2003
hervor, den Bundesinnenminister Otto Schily heute vorgelegt
hat. Etwa 10 bis 15 Prozent weisen nach deutschem Recht
strafbare Inhalte auf. Die Mehrzahl dieser Internet-Seiten
werde anonym über das Ausland, vornehmlich über die USA,
ins Netz gestellt.
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/47434

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ONLINE CRIME & ILLEGAL CONTENT
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uk: Survey: Web users ignore illegal content
Internet users aren't up to much when it comes to reporting
dodgy content on the Web, research has revealed -- surfers
are failing to let the authorities know when they come
across content that breaks the law.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39155002,00.htm

http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39120749,00.htm

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/?http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=57535
Los usuarios pasan por alto los sitios web ilegales

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/108497293128838.shtml

uk: Who do you think is responsible for web content?
Less than one third of UK internet users recognise that
responsibility for unlawful on-line content lies with the
person who put it there, according to a survey conducted on
behalf of ISPA, the UK’s trade association for ISPs.

http://out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=whodoyouthinkis1084792632

uk: Internet Users Must Understand Their Online
Responsibilities (ISPA news release)

http://www.ispa.org.uk/html/media/usersresponsibilities.html

Work porn risk for businesses
Prison sentences could await business bosses who do not do
enough to stop the most serious abuse of computer networks
by employees.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3701907.stm

us: E-Mail Scammer Gets Four Years
An Internet scammer who used e-mail and a fraudulent Web
site to steal hundreds of credit card numbers was sentenced
to almost four years in jail Tuesday, one of the
stiffest-ever penalties handed down for online fraud.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37406-2004May18.html

my: New cyber law to strengthen protection of personal data
MALAYSIA may soon introduce another cyber law to further
improve the security of confidential information stored and
transmitted electronically.

http://www.btimes.com.my/Current_News/BTimes/Friday/Nation/20040514010519/Article

uk: Police lack skills to tackle cyber-crime
Police and business do not have the skills to successfully
prosecute cases involving computer crime, according to
parliamentary lobby group Eurim.
 http://www.vnunet.com/News/1155264

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/18/police_e-skills_crisis/
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3725305.stm

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,39020381,39155138,00.htm

ru: Moscow Mayor Backs Legislative Limitations for Internet
Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov stated Monday that a special law
on the Internet was needed to raise the “responsibility of
network journalists and operators for the objectivity of
information”. In his article in the Izvestia newspaper, he
wrote that the “vital goal of society” was to bring the
Internet “back into the framework of civilized
legislation”.
 http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/05/17/luzhkov.shtml

ru: Citibank Russia Hit by Phishing Scam
Citibank has become the first bank in Russia to be hit by
phishing — a dangerous e-mail scam that asks bank clients
to provide details of their bank cards and PIN numbers on
bogus website.
 http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/05/19/phish.shtml

New considerable IE flaw allows dangerous URL spoofing
Clint, one of the Masters of the Agora, gave heads up of a
new and very dangerous exploit for Internet Explorer. If
you've been around the block long enough, you've seen the
URL trick that involves spoofing legitimate domain names by
using user authentication to make a URL look valid at its
root. For example, you might see a URL like this:
http://microsoft.com:windows-sDlnE/[email protected]/files/report.
 http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1071194883.html

Lawsuits filed against 'parasitic' pop-ups
L.L. Bean filed lawsuits on Monday against four companies
it alleges used pop-up ads that appeared when some
customers visited the clothier and outdoor gear retailer's
website.
 http://afr.com/articles/2004/05/18/1084783492271.html

AOL: One billion viruses blocked
According to the company, AOL has prevented each subscriber
from up to 30 virus attacks.
 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040517/152/etqmy.html

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SPAM
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nz: Public can have say on spam
Associate Information Technology Minister David Cunliffe
aims to get an anti-spam law in front of Parliament by the
end of the year.
 http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2909046a28,00.html

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_technology_story_skin/426221?format=html

NZ looks at new Aussie spam law
The Government is planning a workshop with the nation's
internet industry to canvass how they can combat the
soaring international problems with "spam", or unsolicited
email traffic.
 http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2910178a28,00.html

nz: Spam Legislation Discussion Paper Released
The Government has signalled that legislation may be an
appropriate measure for assisting in dealing with the
growing problem of spam. The discussion paper, released on
17 May 2004, seeks to discuss and obtain feedback on the
various policy issues which are raised when considering
anti-spam legislation. Submissions may be made to the
Ministry up to 30 June 2004. There will also be a workshop
held in Wellington on 24 June 2004.
 http://www.med.govt.nz/pbt/infotech/spam/index.html

http://www.med.govt.nz/pbt/infotech/spam/discussion/discussion.pdf
Programme for Spam Legislation Workshop
 http://www.stopspam.net.nz/programme.html
Register for Spam Legislation Workshop

https://secure.internetnz.net.nz/membership/anti-spam040519.html

A New Chinese Specialty: Spam
Despite Beijing's Net censorship, the country appears to be
playing host to thousands of the sites spammers want you to
visit.

http://businessweek.com/technology/content/may2004/tc20040517_1934_tc058.htm

Yahoo sets up standard to combat spam
The Web giant releases DomainKeys, a proposed Internet
standard to prevent spammers from hiding behind legitimate
addresses.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5215381.html

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2004-05-18-yahoo-antispam_x.htm

http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/5/19/technology/8021096&sec=technology

http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=5183715
Yahoo veröffentlicht Anti-Spam-System
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/47508

Short Commentaries on the Can-Spam Act by Demócrito
Reinaldo Filho
President Bush signed (on December 16th, 2003) a bill that
will prohibit unsolicited commercial e-mails. Called
CAN-SPAM Act (an abbreviation for Controlling the Assault
of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act), the
statute was passed in both houses of American Congress by a
large number of votes in its favor.

http://www.cbeji.com.br/br/novidades/artigos/index.asp?id=2830

nl: Telecoms watchdog moves against spam
Dutch telecoms and postal supervisory authority Opta is
placing high priority this year on the battle against spam
email and will meet with other European telecoms
authorities to discuss possible solutions.

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=19&story_id=7580

Technology shocks and financial bubbles by Haim Kedar-Levy,
Abstract: Bubbles are defined in this paper as a temporary
period of asset mispricing during which prices diverge from
Rational Expectations Equilibrium (REE) for a period that
is too long to be justified by random mispricing about a
fixed mean rate of return. We solve for the market price of
the risky asset based on marginal supply and demand
functions for quantities of shares, where the total issue
is fixed. The marginal supply/demand functions are derived
from the optimal asset allocation problem of rational
agents who have HARA type utility functions with different
risk aversion coefficients. It is sufficient to assume
incomplete information in this model in order to obtain
bubbles in a dynamic asset pricing setting; we maintain
agents' rationality and homogeneous information. It appears
that shares of new-technology companies are prone to
exhibit bubbles more than old technology shares since
investors lack an observable fundamental benchmark. As long
as that benchmark is unavailable, bubbles might emergeif
less risk-averse agents dominate the market.
 http://www.cbeji.com.br/br/downloads/secao/CAPCO.pdf

Can Technology Can Spam?
It seems to be impossible to implement a law against spam -
unsolicited bulk email - without making a hash of it. At
best, anti-spam laws are ineffective; at worst, they cause
more problems than spam itself. Can technology fare any
better? ...But despite this flurry of initiatives, we are
yet to see a definitive answer to the spam problem. An
Anti-Spam Technical Alliance has been formed by Microsoft,
America Online, Yahoo! and EarthLink, but these companies
continue to proffer competing solutions. Meanwhile, the
technology being deployed in the spam wars is causing
collateral damage, in the form of 'false positives' - email
that is incorrectly categorised as spam, and so never
reaches its intended recipient.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/589_0_1_0_C/

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INTERNET USE
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uk: Virtual devils curse Internet church
The world's first Internet church has fallen victim to a
plague of virtual demons, some of whom have been logging on
as Satan and unleashing strings of expletives during
sermons.

http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=5190241

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ONLINE MUSIC
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au: Sharman pleas 100-year-old defence
Sharman License Holdings may be resting its defence on a
precedent set over one hundred years ago, according to
statements made by its lawyers in court last Friday, as the
company prepares to face alleged music copyright
infringement charges relating to its file sharing software
Kazaa.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39148079,00.htm

us: Report: Kids Pirate Music Freely
More than half of young Americans with Internet access
continue to download free music even though they know that
they are breaking the law.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37231-2004May18.html

us: New Spin on the Music Business 
Rather than modify the current, failing copyright system to
save the entertainment industry, one legal scholar is
proposing radical plans for a system that he claims will
pay artists fairly and bring more digital media to the
people who crave it.
 http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,63474,00.html

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MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Google ups the email storage ante - again
The battle of the gigabytes continues - for some email
users, Gmail is now offering a terabyte of storage.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/ecommerce/0,39020372,39155158,00.htm

http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/5/19/technology/8021133&sec=technology
Gmail: Legt Google 999 GByte drauf?
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/47504

Google Moves Toward a Direct Confrontation With Microsoft
Edging closer to a direct clash with Microsoft, Google is
preparing to introduce powerful search software directly on
PC's.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/19/technology/19google.html
 http://iht.com/articles/520552.html
Google plant Tool für die Suche nach lokalen Dateien
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/47505

itu: 'Global' Support for Information Society Targets (news
release)
Targets set for improving access and connectivity to
information and communication technologies (ICT) by 2015 at
the first phase of the World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS) have received strong support in a global ITU
survey.
 http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2004/12.html


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