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And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for regular updates with RSS feeds. ********************************************************** Sponsored by the Singapore Internet Research Centre Nanyang Technological University, Singapore http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/ ********************************************************** sg: Singapore man jailed over Internet nude picture threat http://technology.inquirer.net/infotech/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=43544 Hollywood Asks YouTube: Friend or Foe? http://iht.com/articles/2007/01/15/business/utube.php Attack of the Zombie Computers Is Growing Threat http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/technology/07net.html us: FBI warns of twist in extortion phishing scam http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6150094.html Google's Top-10 Search Terms Dominated By Trademarks http://www.circleid.com/posts/google_top_10_search_terms_trademarks/ *************** RESEARCH PAPERS *************** Social Networking Websites and Teens: An Overview (Pew news release) A social networking site is an online place where a user can create a profile and build a personal network that connects him or her to other users. In the past five years, such sites have rocketed from a niche activity into a phenomenon that engages tens of millions of internet users. More than half (55%) of all online American youths ages 12-17 use online social networking sites, according to a new national survey of teenagers conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The survey also finds that older teens, particularly girls, are more likely to use these sites. For girls, social networking sites are primarily places to reinforce pre-existing friendships; for boys, the networks also provide opportunities for flirting and making new friends. http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/198/report_display.asp The Action Bias in American Law: Internet Jurisdiction and the Triumph of Zippo Dot Com by RICHARD K. GREENSTEIN (Temple Law Review) Abstract: American law reflects the stories we tell ourselves about who we are as a nation. To illustrate the effect of America's stories on the law, I identify and describe in this essay a particular characteristic of American law: an "actionbias" - a propensity to bestow disproportionately greater legal significance upon affirmative acts than on failures to act - and I argue that this bias reflects, in turn, a powerful myth at the core of the self-image of the United States, a myth I call the "Immigrant's Tale". To illustrate this thesis, I give a number of instances of the action bias, but focus primarily on the career of an important federal district court decision: Zippo Manufacturing Company v. Zippo Dot Com, the case that formulated the framework now used almost universally in the determination of personal jurisdiction in Internet cases. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=939075 Censorship by Proxy: The First Amendment, Internet Intermediaries, and the Problem of the Weakest Link by SETH F. KREIMER (University of Pennsylvania Law Review) Abstract: The rise of the Internet has changed the First Amendment drama, for governments confront technical and political obstacles to sanctioning either speakers or listeners in cyberspace. Faced with these challenges, regulators have fallen back on alternatives, predicated on the fact that, in contrast to the usual free expression scenario, the Internet is not dyadic. The Internet's resistance to direct regulation of speakers and listeners rests on a complex chain of connections, and emerging regulatory mechanisms have begun to focus on the weak links in that chain. Rather than attacking speakers or listeners directly, governments have sought to enlist private actors within the chain as proxy censors to control the flow of information. Some commentators have celebrated such indirect methods of governmental control as salutary responses to threatening cyberanarchy. This Article takes a more jaundiced view of these developments: I begin by mapping the ubiquity of efforts to! enlist Internet intermediaries as proxy censors. I emphasize the dangers to free expression that are likely to arise from attempts to target weak links in the chain of Internet communications and cast doubt on the claim that market mechanisms can be relied upon to dispel them. I then proceed to explore the doctrinal resources that can meet those dangers. The gambit of enlisting the private sector to establish a system to control expression is not new in the United States. I argue that the First Amendment doctrines developed in response to the last such focused effort, during the McCarthy era, provide a series of useful starting points for a First Amendment doctrine to protect the weak links of the Internet. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=948226 Governing Cyberspace by DAVID G. POST (Wayne Law Review) Abstract: What is the source of those law(s) that will govern our interactions in cyberspace? What body of rules will participants in cyberspace transactions consult to determine their substantive obligations and who is to make those rules? This paper sketches out two alternative models for the way in which order can emerge in this environment, models I refer to as Hamilton and Jefferson. Hamilton involves an increasing degree of centralization of control, achieved by means of increasing international coordination among existing sovereigns, through multi-lateral treaties and/or the creation of new international governing bodies along the lines of the World Trade Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the like. Jefferson invokes a radical decentralization of law-making, the development of processes that do not impose order on the electronic world but through which order can emerge, in which individual network access providers, rather than territoriall! y-based states, become the essential units of governance. The normative choice is a significant one, and I argue that mobility users' ability to move unhindered into and out of individual networks with their distinct rule-sets is a powerful guarantee that the resulting distribution of rules is a just one; indeed, that our very conception of what constitutes justice may change as we observe the kind of law that emerges from uncoerced individual choice. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=951745 Law And Borders--The Rise of Law in Cyberspace by DAVID R. JOHNSON & DAVID G. POST (Stanford Law Review) Abstract: Global computer-based communications cut across territorial borders, creating a new realm of human activity and undermining the feasibility--and legitimacy--of applying laws based on geographic boundaries. While these electronic communications play havoc with geographic boundaries, a new boundary, made up of the screens and passwords that separate the virtual world from the real world of atoms, emerges. This new boundary defines a distinct Cyberspace that needs and can create new law and legal institutions of its own. Territorially-based law-making and law-enforcing authorities find this new environment deeply threatening. But established territorial authorities may yet learn to defer to the self-regulatory efforts of Cyberspace participants who care most deeply about this new digital trade in ideas, information, and services. Separated from doctrine tied to territorial jurisdictions, new rules will emerge, in a variety of on-line spaces, to govern a wide range of ! new phenomena that have no clear parallel in the nonvirtual world. These new rules will play the role of law by defining legal personhood and property, resolving disputes, and crystallizing a collective conversation about core values. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=535 ****************************************** CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ****************************************** us: Documents Borne by Winds of Free Speech Eli Lilly is trying to stop Web sites from publishing internal documents on its antipsychotic drug Zyprexa: A showdown is scheduled for a federal courtroom in Brooklyn tomorrow afternoon, where words like “First Amendment” and “freedom of speech” and “prior restraint” are likely to mix seamlessly with references to “BitTorrent” and “Wiki.” http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/technology/15link.html **************** CHILD PROTECTION **************** nz: Warning over online predators Netsafe is advising parents and children using Internet chat rooms to look out for telltale signs of predators. http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.aspx?id=69489 nz: Parents: watch kids online Netsafe advises parents to keep an eye on their childrens' Internet relationships due to predators http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.aspx?id=69500 us: Blunt Takes Action to Protect Children from Online Threats Gov. Matt Blunt announced he will recommend a half million dollar increase to support the multi-jurisdictional Internet Cyber Crimes Task Forces to protect children from cyber predators, child pornography and child exploitation. http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php/103284 Childnet to help tackle cyberbullying in UK schools (news release) Childnet announced today that it has been awarded the contract by the Department for Education and Skills to research and provide guidance for schools on preventing and responding to cyberbullying. This first phase of this work will be carried out between January and April 2007. http://www.childnet-int.org/news/articles/201206.html *************************************** CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY *************************************** sg: Singapore man jailed over Internet nude picture threat A student in Singapore was jailed for two years and three months Monday for threatening to distribute a doctored picture of an apparently naked woman over the Internet, and other computer crimes. http://technology.inquirer.net/infotech/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=43544 ca: Teen's arrest sends message to cyber bullies: police The arrest of a 17-year-old eastern Ontario boy this week after two teenaged girls received online threats proves police are taking cyber bullying seriously, says a spokesman for the Ontario Provincial Police. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2007/01/12/im-threats.html Attack of the Zombie Computers Is Growing Threat In their persistent quest to breach the Internet’s defenses, the bad guys are honing their weapons and increasing their firepower. With growing sophistication, they are taking advantage of programs that secretly install themselves on thousands or even millions of personal computers, band these computers together into an unwitting army of zombies, and use the collective power of the dragooned network to commit Internet crimes. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/technology/07net.html us: FBI warns of twist in extortion phishing scam FBI officials are warning users of a new phishing scam that plays off a recent round of bogus extortion threats. http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6150094.html us: Life Under a Million Digital Eyes An explosion in data collection has been embraced by many Americans as a trade-off for convenience and discounts. But it also has raised questions about personal privacy. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/15/AR2007011501304.html Privacy in Digital Age Washington Post staff writer Ellen Nakashima and privacy expert Jim Dempsey from the Center for Democracy and Technology will be online Tuesday, Jan. 16 at 1 p.m. ET to discuss how our private lives can be tracked and exploited by everyday technology. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/01/15/DI2007011500963.html ************************** GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY ************************** us: Google contributes thousands to conservatives Under pressure in Washington, Google has given thousands in political contributions to some of the most conservative members of Congress, tempering its image as a bastion of liberal campaign money. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-01-14-google-usat_x.htm ***************************** INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE ***************************** China: Falling Hard for Web 2.0 Youngsters in the Middle Kingdom are flocking to homegrown versions of MySpace and YouTube http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jan2007/gb20070104_650257.htm Google's Top-10 Search Terms Dominated By Trademarks According to Google's 2006 Year-End Review, dubbed Zeitgeist, or the cultural climate of an era, a majority of the top-ten search terms for 2006 were trademarks. Topping the list is the registered BEBO mark which is held by Bebo.com LLC, a California company that runs a social networking website. Second on the list was MYSPACE, the registered mark associated with Newscorp's $580 million social-networking giant. Next, as a result of a majority of the world catching soccer fever over the summer, "world cup" ranked as the third most searched term. http://www.circleid.com/posts/google_top_10_search_terms_trademarks/ *************** DIGITAL DIVIDE *************** Internet Extends Reach Of Bangladeshi Villagers The village doctor's diagnosis was dire: Marium needed immediate surgery to replace two heart valves. The 28-year-old mother of three said she was confused and terrified. She could barely imagine open-heart surgery. She had no idea how her family of farm laborers could pay for an operation that would cost $4,000. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/21/AR2006112101725.html ************ FILE SHARING ************ Hollywood Asks YouTube: Friend or Foe? YouTube can help studios build tremendous buzz for films and TV shows, driving Hollywood to try to work with it instead of against it. http://iht.com/articles/2007/01/15/business/utube.php http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/technology/15youtube.html ********************************* COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS ********************************* Convergence is at present a key factor in developments underlying electronic communications Almost any type of content can be converted into a digital form and then exchanged over the Internet, via fixed or mobile connections and using multiple platforms and terminal devices. This has had, and is expected to continue to have, a major effect on electronic communication markets. Telecommunication operators, in effect, have become content providers, broadcasters offer Internet services and network providers provide multiple-play services. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/21/41/37868139.pdf Drop the Computer: With new products and a shorter name, Apple hopes to change the world again “WE'RE going to make some history here today,” said Steve Jobs this week at the beginning of his annual speech at Macworld, his company's cult-like trade show in San Francisco. He was as good as his word. First, he launched a product that promises at last to bring digital entertainment from people's computers to their television screens without fuss. Then he unveiled an even more impressive device that transcends the description “mobile phone”. Mr Jobs, who was so excited that he had lain awake all night, made it clear that he considered this day a watershed in the three-decade history of Apple Computer, a point that he emphasised by announcing that his firm would henceforth drop “Computer” from its name. http://economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8521960 ********************************** ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN ********************************** nz: Man arrested after girl groomed for sex over internet A Wellington man who allegedly groomed a 14-year-old Taupo girl for sex using the internet was arrested when he travelled to Taupo to meet with her. http://stuff.co.nz/3930378a10.html us: Fighting Porn Vs. Ruining Innocent Lives After news of the conviction of a substitute teacher for endangering minors — because porn popups, possibly initiated by adware, had appeared on her computer during class — comes the even sadder story of 16-year-old Matt Bandy http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/15/2355233 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/ for the most recent edition of the domain news, including an RSS feed - already online! The domain name news is supported by auDA. See http://lists.technewsreview.com.au/mailman/listinfo/technewsreview for an archive of recent newsletters and to subscribe to the domain name and general internet news. Also see http://technewsreview.com.au/ for recent news updates. 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