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Campus Porn Targeted
Members of the Arizona legislature are trying to pass a bill keeping college computers from being used to view pornography online. (1/26/2000 at Wired News)
China Keeps Firm Hand on Net Use
Internet companies operating in China and Hong Kong have to be careful to avoid being shut down by the Communist Party government. (9/19/2000 at Mercury Center)
Chinese Police Unveil Software to 'Purify' Internet
"The software, Internet Police 110, was released yesterday. It will prevent users from getting unhealthy information from foreign and domestic Web sites," [a Chinese police official] told Reuters. (2/27/2001 at Excite News)
Copyright Decision Threatens Freedom to Link
A federal judge in Utah has issued a preliminary injunction barring two critics of the Mormon Church from posting the URLs of sites that contain illegal copies of books copyrighted by the Church. Lawyers say the impact of the ruling could be huge... (12/10/1999 at The New York Times)
Copyright Office Issues Unusual Rule
The US Copyright Office has issued two exceptions to the DMCA's limit on citizen's rights to circumvent technological barriers to piracy: (1) hacking filtering technology and (2) hacking technological barriers that are a result of malfunctions. (11/3/2000 at The New York Times)
Corporatists Fire Back at Net Freedom
With the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, corporations convinced Congress to pass a bill that is resulting in greatly decreased freedom and information exchange on the Internet. (3/8/2000 at The Freedom Forum Online)
CPHack Programmers Throw in the Towel
The writers of CPHack have settled with Mattel, makers of Cyber Patrol, and assigned the company all rights to the software that breaks the software's encryption. Sites that mirrored the software were not included in the settlement. (3/28/2000 at The Industry Standard)
Fear of a Web Planet
A critique of Caleb Carr's proposal that the Net be regulated along the same lines that radio and TV (as opposed to books and newspapers) are; and a look at how the Net resists all attempts at control. (1/11/2001 at Salon.com)
Free Speech and the Internet; a Fish Story
The case of Robert Novak vs. APD List Members, in which the owner of Pets Warehouse sued mailing list members for giving bad reviews of his business. (4/4/2002 at Salon.com)
Freedom of Speech in the Computer Age
As "public spaces" disappear from the Internet, the U.S. First Amendment - which keeps the government, but generally not corporations, from restricting speech - becomes less relevant online. (2/11/2000 at Feed)
German Official Says Hate Web Sites Doubled Last Year
An official for Germany's Office for the Protection of the Constitution says the number of German-language far-right websites grew from 330 in 1999 to 800 in 2000; most are housed in the U.S., and so can't be shut down by German authorities. (1/14/2001 at The Nando Times)
Google Restores Church Links
Google, which removed links to the xenu.net websites after receiving a letter from the Church of Scientology alleging xenu.net violated the DMCA, has reinstated the links. (3/22/2002 at Wired News)
Group Says It Beat Music Security but Can't Reveal How
A member of the group of computer scientists who defeated the Secure Digital Music Initiative's in response to SDMI's challenge to do so says he can't publish the full results of their efforts, for fear of being sued under the DMCA. (1/15/2001 at The New York Times)
Intellectual Property Laws in Flux
A panel of law professors at CFP 2000 outlined recent laws and legal cases that are helping corporations by restricting individuals' ability to use and copy information. (4/6/2000 at ZDNet)
Link Ban 'Threatens Free Speech'
A federal judge ordered hacker magazine to remove links to sites that distribute DeCSS, but legal experts say the order is a "gross prior restraint of speech." (5/4/2000 at Wired News)
Microsoft Pushes Slashdot's Buttons
Media reaction to Microsoft's request that Slashdot, the "news for nerds"/open-source software site, remove messages that it says violate the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. (5/12/2000 at The Industry Standard)
Naughty by Nature
A look at several Net companies that provide edgy, perhaps objectionable, short films, and the pressure they're facing to distribute more mainstream fare. (9/18/2000 at Variety.com)
Protest Over Web Filtering Business
The U.S. Congress is requiring schools and libraries that want federal funds to install content filtering software; aside from the censorship aspect, opponents don't like that the software companies will be showing ads to and collecting information on kid (12/21/2000 at The New York Times)
'Rape' Site a Free Speech Test?
The creators of DateRape.org, a sight that purportedly encourages date rape and provides instructions for performing date rapes, claim that the site, which was taken down by their ISP, was meant as a test of free speech on the Internet. (3/14/2000 at Wired News)
Site No Longer Bugs Terminix
Terminix has failed to shut down a website on which a dissatisfied customer has criticized the company for the past 2 years. (3/11/2000 at Wired News)
Sizing Up "Suck" Sites
A look at how libel, trademark law, and domain names intersect on the web. Refers to two court cases in which corporations sued "So-and-So Sucks" sites. (11/30/1999 at Upside)
Software Filter Firm Sues Hackers
Microsystems Software Inc, publisher of Cyber Patrol web filtering software, is suing 2 hackers who published a program that bypasses the software and reveals the 100,000+ sites blocked by Cyber Patrol. (3/16/2000 at Mercury Center)
Tuning Up Digital Copyright Law
Through a series of court cases, the legal system is determining how the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 will be enforced, and in what circumstances. (5/16/2000 at Wired News)
Usenet Ban a Slippery Slope?
After flames and death threats occurred, a Seattle judge barred a man from posting further messages on a Usenet newsgroup. (11/16/1999 at Wired News)
Web Filtering Law Goes Into Effect
The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which forces schools and libraries that receive federal e-rate funding to install web filtering software, went into effect on April 20, 2001. (4/20/2001 at NewsBytes)
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