Hi all This is the final news for 2004, so for those who are about to enjoy christmas and new year, have a merry christmas and a happy new year, and I will be back again with the news in the week commencing 3 January.
All the best David *************************************************** Sponsored by the Singapore Internet Research Centre Nanyang Technological University, Singapore http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/ Internet in Asia blog: sirc.blogspot.com *************************************************** CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ****************************************** uk: Interview on the 32 men who have committed suicide after being arrested for child pornography (Real Audio) Stuart Hyde, Assistant Chief Constable of West Midlands Police, on the 32 men who have committed suicide after being arrested for child pornography. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today2_suicides_20041222.ram uk: Suicides up amid child sex probe Thirty-two men have committed suicide following their arrests in connection with Britain's biggest probe into child pornography, a newspaper reported yesterday. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2004/12/22/world/9718542&sec=world http://iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1103612584661B216 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/21/child_porn_suicide_shame/ in: Website head bailed in porn case The Delhi high court granted bail yesterday to the head of eBay's Indian subsidiary, an American citizen who was jailed in connection with the online auction of a sex video clip involving teenagers. http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1378370,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1377922,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1377185,00.html http://www.bangladesh-web.com/news/view.php?hidDate=2004-12-23&hidType=ICT&hidRecord=0000000000000000030024 http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-12-21-india-video-scandal_x.htm?csp=34 http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=350948 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5499237.html http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=49286 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4118503.stm http://nytimes.com/2004/12/21/technology/21ebay.html ir: Freedom in Farsi blogs Iranians are using weblogs to access the forbidden and challenge the sanctioned http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/weblogs/story/0,14024,1377538,00.html cn: Fifth internet author detained Another outspoken internet writer, Chen Min - who writes under the penname Xiao Shu - was detained for several hours yesterday amid an ongoing campaign to silence dissidents. http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=18969 cn: China shuts down 1,287 pornographic and cult websites China has shut down 1,287 websites which spread "harmful information" on religious cults, superstition and pornography, a government Internet watchdog said. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041223/wl_asia_afp/chinainternetreligionpornography.041223073859 sg: Mentor Lee defends media curbs Reporters, including foreign correspondents, face strict censhorship to preserve Singapore's interests, says Lee http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=18971 vn: Authorities harass cyber-dissident Do Nam Hai Reporters Without Borders today hailed the courage of Vietnamese cyber-dissident Do Nam Hai in daring to openly criticise the authorities in articles posted on the Internet, and condemned the harassment he has received in recent months, including two days of arrest and interrogation on several occasions. http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=12136 us: Anti-Censorship Defense Committee Pledges Matching Funds to FSC The Free Speech Coalition (FSC) has scored a major victory in its fight to keep Adult product freely available to consenting adults. �The Anti-Censorship Defense Committee (AC/DC) has pledged up to $75,000 in matching funds to support the legal challenge to 18 USC 2257,� announced FSC Executive Director Michelle L. Freridge in a statement. http://avn.com/index.php?Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=210016 ******************* LEGAL AND SECURITY ******************* au: Optus gets $17m porn bill TELECOMMUNICATIONS giant Optus has been asked to pay up to $US13 million ($17 million) in alleged unpaid commissions to its former business partner in the international porn trade. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,11722628%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html Hackers soon to hit their last frontier Anyone who sends an email or bids on eBay with a niggling fear about privacy may soon be able to relax. Programmers have made a major breakthrough in their quest for a totally secure computer network by turning to Star Trek-style physics that would bamboozle the sharpest hacker. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1376898,00.html uk: Arrests in online drugs operation A total of 22 people are arrested nationwide on suspicion of buying class A drugs over the internet. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4111625.stm http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=14997944%26method=full%26siteid=50003%26headline=five%2dheld%2dover%2donline%2ddrugs%2dsales-name_page.html uk: Data watchdog probes government email bonfire The Cabinet Office has come under scrutiny from the Information Commissioner for deleting millions of emails http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39181943,00.htm us: Judges reject Raquet for public defender A local attorney accused of viewing child pornography was recommended to the post of public defender earlier this month, but Howard County judges rejected the nomination. http://www.kokomoperspective.com/new/article.asp?6923 us: California gives up newspaper vs. Web fight The state of California said its fight to preserve a key regulatory distinction between newspapers and the Web is over. A spokesman for the state's Department of Real Estate on Monday confirmed that California won't appeal last month's federal court decision that struck down a prohibition on certain kinds of real-estate information posted to the Web. He declined to comment further on the state's decision. http://news.com.com/California+gives+up+newspaper+vs.+Web+fight/2100-1030_3-5498645.html us: On the Open Internet, a Web of Dark Alleys (reg req'd) The indictment early this month of Mark Robert Walker by a federal grand jury in Texas might have seemed a coup for the government in its efforts to police terrorist communications online. Mr. Walker, a 19-year-old student, is accused, among other things, of using his roommate's computer to communicate with - and offer aid to - a federally designated terrorist group in Somalia and with helping to run a jihadist Web site. http://nytimes.com/2004/12/20/technology/20covert.html in: India plans US model cyber law After arrest of online service provider, government government creates new law based on Digital Millenium Copyright Act http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=18967 ****** POLICY ****** au: Tasmania to introduce tougher child porn penalties The Tasmanian Government will introduce tougher penalties for people found with child pornography. http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1269606.htm http://au.news.yahoo.com/041221/21/s9pd.html Europe seeks new online media rules THE Council of Europe has called on its 46 member-states to introduce legislation on the right of reply to correct false information on online media. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,11740021%5E15342%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html us: Departments of Justice, Homeland Security Announce Child Pornography File-Sharing Crackdown 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 has 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.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20040516015817750 ca: The Not-So-Great Canadian Divide The smug self-righteous attitude Canadian liberals present to the United States, looking with disdain - and in some cases veritable hatred - at President George W. Bush and his supporters has raised the ire of Bill O'Reilly and many other US citizens. However, there remains a large minority, if not a small but silent majority, of Canadians who are not so far left of California that they'd drown in the PC Ocean. ... Detective Peter Jupp a high-tech crimes police detective in our nation's capital has said, "That's the sick thing about consent laws in this country, it's considered illegal child pornography if the person in the picture is under 18, but it's legal for a 14-year-old-girl to go out and have sex with a 50-year-old man." In Canada you have to be 18 to buy cigarettes. http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/dec/041222c.html in: Experts Say India's Cyber Law is Outdated Cyber law expert Pavan Duggal feels India's Information Technology Act of 2000 is completely outdated and not fit to deal with cyber crimes. He said that the law was promulgated four years ago primarily to bolster the e-commerce business and not intended to deal with cyber crime issues. http://crime-research.org/news/23.12.2004/861/ ***** SPAM ***** NZ anti-spam bill misses the cut (reg req'd) New Zealand's Government expects to take the wraps off an anti-spam bill in January after running out of time to get a bill in front of parliament this year, as originally planned. http://smh.com.au/news/Breaking/NZ-antispam-bill-misses-the-cut/2004/12/20/1103391678448.html Buyers ignore unsolicited email risk (reg req'd) Hard as it may be to believe, much of the spam delivered through cyber space is welcome. And Brazilians, French, British and Germans cannot get enough. They top the list in a recent survey by Forrester Research showing that not only did many internet users read spam, they bought from unsolicited email. http://smh.com.au/news/Technology/Buyers-ignore-unsolicited-email-risk/2004/12/21/1103391772414.html us: Judge Rejects Guilty Plea In Spam Case A federal judge declined to accept a guilty plea yesterday from a former software engineer at America Online Inc. who had been accused of stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses of subscribers for use in an Internet marketing scheme. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18153-2004Dec21.html uk: UK's biggest spammer charged with more offences The UK's biggest spammer, Peter Francis Clifford Macrae, has been charged with more offences, including blackmail, fraud and criminal damage. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/20/more_charges_for_uk_spammer/ ************ INTERNET USE ************ Internet Archive to build alternative to Google Ten major international libraries have agreed to combine their digitised book collections into a free text-based archive hosted online by the not-for-profit Internet Archive. All content digitised and held in the text archive will be freely available to online users. http://www.vnunet.com/news/1160176 us: Broadband steams ahead in the US The number of broadband connections in the US has jumped by 38% in a year, according to official figures. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4120297.stm Korean teenagers spend $40 a month on online games SOUTH Korean teenagers spend about 40 dollars a month playing online games, a report by the Korea Consumer Protection Board said this week. http://beta.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=22053 ****************** ONLINE MUSIC & P2P ****************** au: Daily Dispatch (opinion) - KazaaGate Day 12 Whispers from the court gallery of the world�s-biggest-copyright-case for the Internet�s most downloaded program in history�and other hyperbole, nonsense and mischief http://www.apcmag.com/apc/v3.nsf/0/B52E9B3FE925C1F2CA256F7200229BE8 de: Legal setback for music industry in fight against piracy The Higher Regional Court in Munich has ruled that providers are not obliged for copyright reasons to make specific information about users suspected of operating illegal FTP servers available. In a ruling of November (file number 6 U 4696/04), which has only now become known, the court of appeal granted the appeal of an Internet provider against a decision by the Regional Court I in Munich (file number 21 O 10372/04) which had specified an obligation to this effect on the part of providers. In the latter ruling in July the label BMG as legal representative of the artists in its care had initially been granted the right in its pursuit of potentially-illegal download offers to demand information from the access provider about the specific circumstances surrounding the suspected breach of the law by a customer or customers of the access provider. http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/54509 us: File-Sharing Website Ceases Operations One of the Web's most popular file-sharing sites has shut down less than a week after Hollywood announced a flurry of lawsuits against operators of such Internet servers. http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-shutdown21dec21,1,5214271.story ********* RESEARCH ********* nz: VUW/InternetNZ Research Fellow Sought InternetNZ seeks Research Fellow in Cyber Law http://internetnz.net.nz/news/cyberlawvac.htm ************************ COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS ************************ Microsoft prepares scaled-down Windows for Europe Windows XP Reduced Media Edition will be released only in Europe after the recent EU ruling - but it is unlikely to be a bargain for purchasers http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39182091,00.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21144-2004Dec22.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4117217.stm http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=7158726 Europe Rejects Microsoft's Bid to Preserve Bundling Plan (reg req'd) A court's order is the first time since antitrust challenges to Microsoft began that the company will be forced to alter its strategy of bundling software. http://nytimes.com/2004/12/23/technology/23soft.html Analysts: Media Player Too Ingrained http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_MICROSOFT_MULTIMEDIA_DOMINANCE Will Mozilla's Lightning strike Outlook? The Mozilla stable has produced yet another rival to a Microsoft product in the shape of a project to integrate a calendar function into its Thunderbird email application http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39182092,00.htm BBC launches open source network testing platform Builder: The BBC has created a network protocol testing platform written in Python and made it available as an open source application http://uk.builder.com/architecture/oop/0,39026558,39231596,00.htm ********************************** ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN ********************************** au: Man jailed for viewing child porn at Net cafe A 50-year-old man has been sentenced to nine months' jail for viewing child pornography at a Darwin Internet cafe. http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1270748.htm http://au.news.yahoo.com/041222/21/saks.html au: Charged for importing child porn A THAI man had been charged with importation of child pornography into Australia. http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11752090%255E1702,00.html http://asia.news.yahoo.com/041221/ap/d873qdr80.html au: Man on child porn charges A LAUNCESTON man was charged today for possessing a child-abuse product as part of the ongoing Operation Auxin national crackdown on child pornography. http://theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11747973%255E1702,00.html http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1269406.htm http://au.news.yahoo.com/041220/21/s9jl.html http://smh.com.au/news/National/Tasmanian-jailed-over-child-porn/2004/12/20/1103391679562.html uk: Child porn shame of local priest FORMER Catholic priest Alexander Bede Walsh has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges. http://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=687&ArticleID=909835 uk: Child porn computer man jailed AN RAF technician who sold his computer hard-drive to a friend had a guilty secret - it had child pornography stored on it. http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge/story.asp?StoryID=66790 za: Case of child pornography suspect postponed The case of a Muldersdrift man suspected of producing large quantities of child pornography was postponed until January next year in the Krugersdorp Magistrate's Court this morning. http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,94443,00.html ie: Curtin wins right to halt computer child porn probe Judge Brian Curtin tonight won the right to halt an Oireachtais committee investigation into the discovery of child pornography on his home computer. http://www.eecho.ie/news/bstory.asp?j=147928205&p=y479z9xzx&n=147929091 http://www.eecho.ie/news/bstory.asp?j=150616780&p=y5x6y76yx&n=150617693 http://212.2.162.45/news/story.asp?j=128143942&p=yz8y44648&n=128144702 ie: Solicitor found not guilty of child porn charge A solicitor accused of possessing child pornography has been found not guilty by direction of Judge Yvonne Murphy at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. http://www.eecho.ie/news/bstory.asp?j=47853960&p=47854zz4&n=47854252 us: Teacher arrested for child pornography A 34-year-old middle school foreign-language teacher was arrested today on child pornography charges. http://www.wrgb.com/news/regional/regional.asp?selection=article_26474 us: Man, 54, faces charges of child pornography A Jamestown man faces state and federal charges in connection with his alleged production and possession of child pornography of a child under 11, the FBI reported. http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20041222/4023893.asp http://www.wivb.com/Global/story.asp?S=2726278 us: Priest charged in child-pornography case A Roman Catholic priest whose Point Loma parish office was raided by federal agents and San Diego police in May has been charged with 20 misdemeanor counts of possessing child pornography. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041222/news_2m22priest.html http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/103-12222004-421470.html http://kyw.com/Local%20News/local_story_357225425.html http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/4019184/detail.html us: Accused Child Porn Doctor Formally Charged Today After almost a week behind bars, a local pediatrician was formally charged in court today. Dr. David Evans was arraigned on 61 counts relating to child pornography and child sexual abuse. http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2726325 us: Local Pediatrician Facing More Child Pornography Charges A local pediatrician is facing more counts for child pornography. Doctor David Evans was arrested on Friday at his home in the northwest part of town on forty counts of possession of child pornography. http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2714984 us: Man gets probation for having child porn It took an arrest for possessing child pornography for Aurora resident David Naimark to truly change, his lawyer said last week. http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/sunpub/60504/news/fv1223porn.htm us: Pornography Sentence A Hays man has been sentenced to two years and six months in federal prison on a charge of possessing child pornography. http://www.wibw.com/news/headlines/1306241.html us: NB Man Arrested on Child Porn Charges It's a child pornography arrest that has folks in New Braunfels in shock. Police arrested a 56 year old man for allegedly downloading photos and videos of children having sex. http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=FAAEBA3E-9BA3-4158-A243-3A997DA6A766 http://www.herald-zeitung.com/story.lasso?wcd=11453 us: Teacher arrested after child porn investigation An international investigation lands a Camden Middle school teacher in jail. He�s charged with receiving and possessing child pornography. http://news10now.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=33718 us: Vinton man charged with distributing child porn Ralph Mann, 55, of Vinton faces federal charges of distribution of child pornography. http://www.gazetteonline.com/article.aspx?art_id=94158&cat_id=1 us: Internet child pornography investigation leads to Clinton An Internet child pornography investigation that began in Pennsylvania has led authorities to Clinton. http://www.woi-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2712056 us: Man gets 55 years for rape and child porn A Lennox man was sentenced Tuesday to 55 years in the state penitentiary for rape and possessing child pornography. http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/10470300.htm us: Photo Find Leads To Child Porn Charge A Hays man was sentenced to two years and six months in federal prison on a charge of possessing child pornography. http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/technology/4018718/detail.html us: Man charged with producing child porn A 54-year-old man who police said used a camera connected to his computer to record and transmit images of his sexual exploitation of a child faces federal child pornography charges. http://www.wrgb.com/news/regional/regional.asp?selection=article_26426 us: Florence Co. man sentenced on child pornography charges A Florence County man has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison on child pornography charges. http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2709880&nav=0RaPULdV us: Northampton men facing pornography charges State police in Bethlehem arrested two Northampton men this weekend for allegedly sending child pornography over the Internet and seized four computers. http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-childporn1220,0,5738453.story us: Porn Charges Added to Molestation Case Authorities have added child pornography charges to the child molesting case against a Jamestown man. http://www.wivb.com/Global/story.asp?S=2726278 http://www.wivb.com/Global/story.asp?S=2724435 us: East Coast Child Porn Leads To The QCA An Internet child pornography investigation that began in Pennsylvania has led authorities to Clinton, Iowa. http://www.whbf.com/Global/story.asp?S=2716718&nav=0zGoUOxi us: Grand jury indicts priest on child pornography charges A grand jury has indicted a Fall River priest on two counts of possession of child pornography and one count of disseminating obscene material to minors. http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041218/APN/412180873 us: Teacher arrested for child pornography A 34-year-old middle school foreign-language teacher was arrested today on child pornography charges. http://www.wrgb.com/news/regional/regional.asp?selection=article_26474 us: Man charged with producing child porn A man who police said used a camera connected to his computer to record and transmit images of his sexual exploitation of a child faces federal child pornography charges. http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/ny-bc-ny-brf--childporn1221dec21,0,3427595.story +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The domain name news is supported by auDA and Alfa-Redi. 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