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********************************************************** Don't forget to check out http://www.auda.org.au/domain-news/ for today's edition of the complete domain news, already online! And see my website - http://GoldsteinReport.com/ - for daily updates in between postings. *************************************************** The domain name news is supported by auDA *************************************************** Google's Cerf urges wider Internet access http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090813_8044.php Click tricks? Google's 'ad inflation' http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/16/2657212.htm Asia-Pac broadband subs to hit 182 million this year, says Frost & Sullivan [news release] http://frost.com/prod/servlet/press-release.pag?docid=176931717 Facebook flirts, ex-girlfriends - danger, danger [AP] http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10590776 Teen 'sexting' fad on rise in NZ http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10591012 Sex offenders in Illinois prohibited from using social networking sites http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/13/illinois-sex-offender-social-networking The Net closes in on internet piracy http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/the-net-closes-in-on-internet-piracy-1772820.html Cutting the cord: America loses its landlines http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14214847 Will Users Donate a Penny Per Email to Fight Spam, Yahoo Wonders http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/yahoo_penny_email/ Internet security: Fear in the fast lane http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/17/2657529.htm Fear in the Fast Lane: Broadcast: 17/08/2009 - ABC TV's Four Corners, available online shortly afterwards http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2009/s2655088.htm The U.S. Needs a Cybersecurity Czar Now http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2009/tc20090813_393090.htm Weighing the issue of internet freedom http://www.v3.co.uk/computing/comment/2247772/weighing-issue-internet-freedom-4778979 us: Blogger's Case Could Test the Limits of Political Speech http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/15/AR2009081500869.html US tests system to beat web censorship in China and Iran http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/6026538/US-tests-system-to-beat-web-censorship-in-China-and-Iran.html China backs down over Green Dam internet monitoring software http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/6020565/China-backs-down-over-Green-Dam-internet-monitoring-software.html Australian broadband won't come cheap http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,25939757-15306,00.html ********************** RESEARCH PAPERS ********************** New Technologies and the Need of a Uniform Legal System by Joanna Kulesza Abstract: The paper presents the grounds for a creation of a legitimate international regime to govern the World Wide Web. It derives from the propositions and experiences of the WSIS and the WGIG. The controversies surrounding ICANN are thoroughly discussed and the most urging problems of international law, emanating from its mandate, are presented. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1446768 New Technologies and the Need of a Uniform Legal System by Joanna Kulesza Abstract: The paper presents the grounds for a creation of a legitimate international regime to govern the World Wide Web. It derives from the propositions and experiences of the WSIS and the WGIG. The controversies surrounding ICANN are thoroughly discussed and the most urging problems of international law, emanating from its mandate, are presented. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1446768 ********************** INTERNET USE ********************** Google's Cerf urges wider Internet access In the world according to Vint Cerf, Google's "chief evangelist" and one of the Internet's pioneers, broadband will be treated like a utility, with new infrastructure providing maximum benefit to the public and entrepreneurs seeking to harness it. http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090813_8044.php Google monster The search giant has the power to make or break the media, Julian Lee writes, but the industry seems powerless to kill off the beast it helped create. http://business.smh.com.au/business/google-monster-20090814-el49.html http://business.theage.com.au/business/google-monster-20090814-el49.html Click tricks? Google's 'ad inflation' The world's most powerful internet company, Google, has been accused of overcharging its advertising clients and inflating the number of hits to their websites. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/16/2657212.htm Those secret herbs and spices Google turned the advertising model on its head. Rather than interrupt people with ads it came up with the novel idea of serving up an ad in response to a specific inquiry. Instead of giving the top spot to the advertiser prepared to pay the most, it came up with a blind auction model. http://business.smh.com.au/business/those-secret-herbs-and-spices-20090814-el4h.html Battle lines are drawn for the war of web search dominance "The dust of exploded beliefs," said the wit Geoffrey Madan in one of his more celebrated aphorisms, "may make a fine sunset." He made the observation in a pre-internet age, but he might just as well have been commenting on the blogosphere's reaction last week to Facebook's sudden acquisition of FriendFeed, a web 2.0 service in which many geeks had invested fond hopes. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2009/aug/16/media-business-social-networking-facebook Google and Microsoft: The Battle Over College E-Mail College students used to complain about dining-hall mystery meat. Their new gripe? Puny e-mail inboxes. http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1915112,00.html The Paper That Doesn’t Want to Be Free Not long ago, when other media executives were convinced that the only way to succeed on the Web was to give away their content, The Financial Times played the eccentric. “We were regarded as slightly freakish,” says John Ridding, the newspaper’s chief executive. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/business/media/17ft.html Australian newspapers hold up amid slump The Australian newspaper market has defied international trends and the economic downturn with only a slight circulation fall in the June quarter. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,25925958-7582,00.html Microsoft: Firefox's billion claim is 'interesting math' A senior Microsoft executive has called into question the claim by rival web browser Firefox that it has been downloaded a billion times. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/13/microsoft-internet Microsoft: Breaking up with IE 6 hard to do It's been roughly eight years since Microsoft released Internet Explorer 6, but in many ways the company is still very much tied to the aging product. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10309072-56.html Asia broadband subs to hit 182m in 2009: Frost Asia-Pacific fixed broadband subscribers are projected to grow 17.3% to 182 million by the end of the year, according to research from Frost & Sullivan. http://www.telecomasia.net/content/asia-broadband-subs-hit-182m-2009-frost Asia-Pac broadband subs to hit 182 million this year, says Frost & Sullivan [news release] Asia-Pacific's fixed broadband subscribers are expected to grow 17.3 percent to reach 182 million users by the end of 2009, clocking estimated billings of US$44.9 billion, a rise of 13.3 percent over 2008. http://frost.com/prod/servlet/press-release.pag?docid=176931717 ********************** SOCIAL NETWORKING ********************** ANALYSIS - Facebook to face off with new Web rivals Facebook's vision of becoming a "utility" that offers activities to keep people online for hours could set it on a collision course with the Web's giants. http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-41770620090814 http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE57E1CB20090815 2 Million More Australians Go Social in 2009 [news release] comScore released a study on social networking usage in Australia, which found that more than 70 percent of Internet users in Australia visited a social networking site in June, up 29 percent from the previous year. Facebook continued to show significant growth, while Twitter came onto the social networking scene with a bang in 2009, quickly amassing a significant following. The study also found that social networking users are ubiquitous across the Web, comprising nearly 90 percent of the audience base of the top Internet properties in Australia in June. http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2009/8/2_Million_More_Australians_Go_Social_in_2009 Facebook: A new battleground for cyber-crime Social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace will soon become the most insidious places on the Internet, where users are most likely to face cyber attacks and digital annoyances, according to Web security firm Sophos. http://euractiv.com/en/infosociety/facebook-new-battleground-cyber-crime/article-184380 Facebook Cornering Market on E-Friends : Fight to Own Social Media Heats Up Facebook just bought the rights to nearly everything you do online. And it cost them only $47.5 million. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/15/AR2009081500040.html ********************** NEW TECHNOLOGIES ********************** Netscape Founder Backs New Browser ... Mr. Andreessen appears to want a rematch. Now a prominent Silicon Valley financier, Mr. Andreessen is backing a start-up called RockMelt, staffed with some of his close associates, that is building a new Internet browser, according to people with knowledge of his investment. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/technology/internet/14browser.html http://news.cnet.com/Netscape-founder-backs-new-browser/2100-1032_3-6249974.html RockMelt: Netscape's Andreesen Backing Stealth Facebook Browser Netscape founder Marc Andreesen is backing a new browser dedicated to browsing Facebook, called RockMelt, according to rumors we've heard from reputable sources. A semi-independent desktop client for Facebook? Doesn't seem far fetched at all. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rockmelt_netscapes_andreesen_backing_stealth_facebook_browser.php http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/08/13/13readwriteweb-rockmelt-netscapes-andreesen-backing-stealt-74542.html Microsoft announces new Zune to take on iPod Microsoft has announced that the latest version of its answer to the Apple iPod, the Zune portable media player, will go on sale in the United States on September 15. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6796061.ece ************************************************ CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ************************************************ Facebook flirts, ex-girlfriends - danger, danger [AP] Alice Connors-Kellgren was surprised by her boyfriend's new Facebook profile picture a few weeks ago: He was kissing another girl on the cheek. The picture was up only briefly. And she figures it was just a friend. But she plans to discuss it with him when they're back together this fall at Cornell University. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10590776 Teen 'sexting' fad on rise in NZ Parents are being warned that explicit photos of their teens could end up online as a disturbing new trend hits our shores. The "sexting" phenomenon - the taking and sending of intimate photos of oneself on a cellphone - has made headlines overseas and now tech-savvy Kiwi teens are getting in on the act. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10591012 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10591012 NSW DET: School Internet filter not fail-proof The NSW Department of Education has refuted allegations that its Internet filter slipped up last month but has admitted that the system is not fail-proof. http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/314988/ New Worries About Children With Cellphones Three years ago, when my older son, Ben, was entering middle school, I wrote a column recounting a debate with my husband about getting him a cellphone. Was he too young? Were we being overly indulgent? How would we hold out against his younger brother, Gabriel, who immediately began badgering for his own phone? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/15/your-money/15shortcuts.html Sex offenders in Illinois prohibited from using social networking sites American sex offenders face new crackdowns on their online activity after officials in Illinois made it illegal for those convicted of sex crimes to use social networking sites. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/13/illinois-sex-offender-social-networking Should Illinois sex offenders be kicked off the Net? If you believe its sponsors, a new Illinois law will keep sex offenders from recruiting children on the Internet. "If the predator is supposed to be a registered sex offender, they should keep their Internet distance as well as their physical distance," said sponsor Bill Brady, a Republican state senator, according to the Chicago Tribune. "The object is to protect innocent individuals on the Internet from sex offenders." http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10309431-38.html New law keeps sex offenders off MySpace, Facebook The governor of Illinois signed into law yesterday a bill that banishes sex offenders from social networking sites. The law, designed to protect children from predators who use sites such as Facebook and MySpace to lure potential victims, is the first of its kind. While some are lauding the legislation as a positive step in stopping sex offenders, others are saying it undermines the criminal justice system and sits on the border between justified and inhumane. http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/314861/ http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/315017/ Keep Kids Safe Online: ZuiTube Videos for Kids If you're a parent, you might be familiar with KidZui, a child-safe Web browser. ZuiTube is its YouTube-oriented offspring, offering more than 60,000 parent/teacher-approved videos for kids. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/081409-keep-kids-safe-online-zuitube.html ********************** ONLINE TV & MUSIC ********************** The Net closes in on internet piracy Seven million people could be criminalised under government plans to crack down on internet piracy, to be included in this autumn's Queen's Speech. The illicit downloading of music and films on the internet, a practice engaged in by one in 12 of the population, could lead to severe restrictions on internet access and a fine of up to £50,000. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/the-net-closes-in-on-internet-piracy-1772820.html Tom Watson: Heavy-handed regulation will not help to nurture creative talent in the digital age In tough times there's nothing strange in businesses coming to the Government for help. But there's one type of industry that was established in the lobby chamber long before the credit crunch: publishers and distributors of information goods and, in particular, the music industry. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/tom-watson-heavyhanded-regulation-will-not-help-to-nurture-creative-talent-in-the-digital-age-1772821.html Millions at risk of prosecution in internet piracy purge Millions of parents whose teenage children illegally download films and pop songs face having their internet connection cut off and fines of up to £50,000. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6038870/Millions-at-risk-of-prosecution-in-internet-piracy-purge.html Mandelson targets web pirates after dinner with mogul Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, ordered officials to draw up draconian regulations on internet piracy just days after he had a private dinner with a Hollywood mogul who is a critic of illegal file-sharing. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6797844.ece 61% of young adults illegally download music Nearly two thirds of 14- to 24-year-olds illegally download music over peer-to-peer (p2p) networks, says UK Music. According to research, which was carried out by the University of Hertfordshire on behalf of the music body, 75 percent of teens also admitted to sending digital music files by e-mail, Bluetooth, Skype, or MSN to friends and family, while 86 percent revealed that had copied CDs for friends. http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=120846 http://www.pcworld.com/article/170274/.html ********************** MOBILE/WIRELESS ********************** Mobile-phone group seals deal to be bank for millions in Africa Mobile-phone banking group Monitise has signed a deal that will bring financial services to millions of people in Africa for the first time. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/aug/13/african-mobile-banking-launch Europeans Moving to Cut Fees for Calls to Mobile Phones The next frontier for lower mobile calling rates in Europe is cracking a 20-year-old system of connection fees that has rewarded bigger operators and has artificially raised rates to consumers. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/business/global/17terminate.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/technology/17iht-terminate.html Cutting the cord: America loses its landlines Much has been made of the precipitous decline of America’s newspapers. According to one much-cited calculation, the country’s last printed newspaper will land on a doorstep sometime in the first quarter of 2043. That is a positively healthy outlook, however, compared with another staple of American life: the home telephone. Telecoms operators are seeing customers abandon landlines at a rate of 700,000 per month. Some analysts now estimate that 25% of households in America rely entirely on mobile phones (or cellphones, as Americans call them)—a share that could double within the next three years. If the decline of the landline continues at its current rate, the last cord will be cut sometime in 2025. http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14214847 ********************** SPAM ********************** Will Users Donate a Penny Per Email to Fight Spam, Yahoo Wonders Yahoo’s researchers want you to voluntarily slap a one-cent stamp on your outgoing e-mails, with proceeds going to charity, in a bid to cut down on spam. Can doing good really do away with spam, which consumes 33 terawatts of electricity every year, not to mention way too much of our time? http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/yahoo_penny_email/ Yahoo pitches paid mail to slow spam Yahoo is proposing a new paid mail service as a way to sidestep spam. The company is trying out a new service known as CentMail. The site allows users to purchase packs of 500 virtual stamps at a cost of $5, or one cent per stamp. http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2247893/yahoo-pitches-paid-mail-slow ************************** ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL ************************** Internet security: Fear in the fast lane One of Australia's leading figures in online law enforcement says the internet offers so many opportunities for crime that he expects "at some stage there will be real debate on the benefit of the internet". http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/17/2657529.htm Fear in the Fast Lane: Broadcast: 17/08/2009 - ABC TV's Four Corners, available online shortly afterwards Australia may be one of the most internet-connected countries on earth, with a super-fast broadband network on the way. But now the experts are warning there's danger with cyber crooks roaming the super highway. http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2009/s2655088.htm Australian Charged With Infecting 3,000 Computers [AP] A 20-year-old Australian man has been charged with infecting more than 3,000 computers around the world with a virus designed to capture banking and credit card data, police said Thursday. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/08/13/world/AP-AS-Australia-Cyber-Crime.html http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/2751998/ http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/australian-charged-with-infecting-3000-computers-20090813-ejno.html http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-technology/australian-charged-with-infecting-3000-computers-20090813-ejno.html Adelaide youth arrested for virus attack [AAP] A 20-year-old Adelaide man has been charged with infecting 3,000 computers worldwide with viruses designed to capture banking details. http://www.cnet.com.au/adelaide-youth-arrested-for-virus-attack-339297920.htm Computer Hacking Made Easy Botnet attacks like the one that took down Twitter are becoming so easy and cheap, almost anyone can do it http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_34/b4144036807250.htm The U.S. Needs a Cybersecurity Czar Now The White House must appoint someone who can not only guard against cyberattack and protect critical infrastructure but also prevent intellectual-property theft http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2009/tc20090813_393090.htm Why nobody wants to be the cybersecurity czar Articles abound about how the Obama administration can't fill the cybersecurity czar position. Industry "experts" love to hypothesize as to why people don't want to accept the position. Quite often, they conclude that the problem is that the position has been neutered, that the cybersecurity czar will wield no real power. But the reality is much simpler than that: It comes down to money. http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/08/13/why-nobody-wants-be-cybersecurity-czar ************************** PRIVACY ************************** Online, your private life is searchable When Maya Rupert wrote an article frowning at several Southern states for officially celebrating Confederate History Month, Internet critics lined up to fire back. But this time, they arrived with more than harsh words. The 28-year-old Los Angeles attorney's detractors dug up a photo of her and posted it, along with details of political contributions she'd made, in an online discussion of the article she wrote for the L.A. Watts Times. They called their finds evidence of her bias on the emotionally charged subject. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cover-privacy16-2009aug16,0,5663794.story ********************** CENSORSHIP ********************** Weighing the issue of internet freedom The freedom of the internet is largely taken for granted in Western democracies. When such issues are discussed, it is usually in the context of condemning censorship in countries such as China, Burma and Iran. http://www.v3.co.uk/computing/comment/2247772/weighing-issue-internet-freedom-4778979 Blogger's Case Could Test the Limits of Political Speech Internet radio host Hal Turner disliked how three federal judges rejected the National Rifle Association's attempt to overturn a pair of handgun bans. "Let me be the first to say this plainly: These Judges deserve to be killed," Turner wrote on his blog on June 2, according to the FBI. "Their blood will replenish the tree of liberty. A small price to pay to assure freedom for millions." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/15/AR2009081500869.html US tests system to beat web censorship in China and Iran The US government is covertly testing technology in China and Iran that will allow citizens to by-pass internet censorship set up by their governments. The "feed over email" (FOE) system will deliver news using a technology that evades web-screening technologies employed by restrictive regimes. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/6026538/US-tests-system-to-beat-web-censorship-in-China-and-Iran.html China backs down over Green Dam internet monitoring software China has dropped plans to force all its computer users to install controversial Green Dam internet monitoring software following a storm of protest at home and abroad. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/6020565/China-backs-down-over-Green-Dam-internet-monitoring-software.html China scales back screening plan China has scaled back its plans to install controversial net filtering software on its citizens' computers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8198931.stm China drops Green Dam web filtering system Chinese officials appear to have retreated from their controversial plan to install an internet filtering system on computers in the country. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/13/china-drops-web-censorship China Scales Back Software Filter Plan Chinese officials retreated on Thursday from a plan to install so-called anti-pornography software on every computer sold here, saying instead that Internet cafes, schools and other public places must use the program, but that individual consumers will be spared. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/world/asia/14censor.html Q+A - China's backdown over Internet filter plans China has confirmed its backdown from a plan to preinstall controversial "Green Dam" filtering software on all personal computers sold in the country, though it will still be rolled out in schools and Internet bars. http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-41755120090814 China backtracks on PC software filters Beijing has stepped back from attempts to force the installation of a filtering software on all personal computers produced or sold in China, finally defusing a controversy that caused uproar in the industry and threatened to spark friction over trade with the country. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8836165c-8839-11de-82e4-00144feabdc0.html China ditches compulsory Green Dam plans China has ditched plans to force foreign and domestic computer manufacturers to install internet filtering technology in computers sold inside its borders. http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2247816/china-ditches-compulsory-green China Will Not Enforce Green Dam Porn Filter Plan [IDG] China said Thursday it will not force PC makers to bundle an Internet filtering program with computers sold in the country, backing down from a plan that stirred global controversy. http://www.pcworld.com/article/170129/.html ********************** TELECOMMUNICATIONS ********************** Asia web connections set to resume by end of Thursday Up to 90 percent of all voice call and Internet services from parts of East Asia that were disrupted after Typhoon Morakot damaged undersea cables will resume by the end of Thursday, a senior Chunghwa Telecom official said. http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-41731620090813 http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE57C0U220090813 Australian broadband won't come cheap The first national broadband network rollout, in Tasmania, will cost an estimated $20,000 for each premises that takes up the superfast internet connection -- and business leaders say its impact may be minimal. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,25938987-5018020,00.html http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,25939757-15306,00.html Southern Cross Cable says prices fall and capacity rises [NZPA] Southern Cross Cable Network today hit out at suggestions that it exploits its position as the only submarine cable provider to New Zealand. http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/southern-cross-cable-says-prices-fall-and-capacity-rises-107489 nz: Orcon acquires two ISPs, making it our fourth largest State-owned ISP's acquisition slurge continues as it snaffles up another 9000 customers. http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/orcon-acquires-two-isps-making-it-our-fourth-largest-isp-107486 nz: Editorial: It's time to call bluff on mobile phone charges It has been three years since we have heard the sort of fighting talk now coming from the telecommunications industry. In 2006, it was Telecom warning of dire consequences if the previous Government opened its network to competitors. Its bluff was called, much to the benefit of consumers and the economy. Now, it is Telecom and Vodafone, the big two in the mobile phone market, which are predicting costly repercussions for consumers if the termination charge that rivals pay to gain access to their networks is regulated. Their bluff, too, should be called, and soon. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10590876 Adelaide to get $3m WiMax network Metropolitan Adelaide will get a WiMax wireless broadband network to cover the city's blackspot areas that cannot get ADSL2+ in a joint state and federal government project with ISP Adam Internet. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/314973/ http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/081409-adelaide-to-get-3m-wimax.html ********************************** ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN ********************************** au: Cyber seduction sting snares priest The senior priest at one of Sydney's largest Catholic parishes has been charged after a police sting in which he allegedly groomed a 13-year-old girl for sex over the internet, only to discover the girl was an undercover detective. http://www.smh.com.au/national/cyber-seduction-sting-snares-priest-20090814-el7a.html au: Priest arrested over internet grooming A 54-year-old Sydney Catholic priest has been arrested and charged after allegedly attempting to groom detectives who were masquerading as a 13-year-old girl, sending them a series of sexually explicit chat-room messages. http://www.smh.com.au/national/sydney-priest-groomer-caught-on-webcam-court-told-20090814-ek4t.html http://www.theage.com.au/national/priest-arrested-over-internet-grooming-20090814-eklx.html Priest facing online sex grooming charge [AAP] The Catholic Church has suspended a Sydney priest facing serious criminal charges of grooming a child for sex. http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5813867/priest-facing-online-sex-grooming-charge/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For information on subscriptions to the domain name and/or general internet news please contact me. 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