[DNS] domain name news - 1 June

From: David Goldstein <goldstein_david§yahoo.com.au> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 01:43:12 -0700 (PDT) · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Sat Sep 09 2017 - 22:00:10 UTC

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Public Comment: IRT Final Report on Trademark Protection in New gTLDs
http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-4-29may09-en.htm

Applicant Guidebook: Public Comments Analysis and Revised Excerpts
http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-31may09-en.htm

Public Comment: Fast Track Implementation (3rd Revision)
http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-31may09-en.htm

Boucher Schedules ICANN Hearing
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2009/05/boucher-schedules-icann-hearin.php

Google Veteran Heads to White House
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/05/29/google-veteran-heads-to-white-house/

The April 2009 issue of 'The Browser' - InternetNZ's monthly newsletter
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/browser/2009

ENISA issues three recommendations in reports on technologies to improve resilience of communication networks [news release]
http://enisa.europa.eu/pages/02_01_press_2009_05_28_resilience_report.html

Obama Outlines Coordinated Cyber-Security Plan
http://nytimes.com/2009/05/30/us/politics/30cyber.html

Contractors Vie for Plum Work, Hacking for the United States
http://nytimes.com/2009/05/31/us/31cyber.html

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The Menace of Cybersquatting! by Rodney D. Ryder & Ashwin Madhavan [The Icfai University Journal of Intellectual Property Rights]
Abstract: The advent of technologies has brought many complexities. The World Wide Web and domain names are the contributions of technological development during the recent past. The new tech-inventions have resulted in various issues of the intellectual property rights and their protection. The relations between the domain name and copyrights on one hand and the trademarks on the other, are well envisaged and an opinion is cropping up whether the use of marks in the name and style of domain names are diluting the trademarks. The World Wide Web or the cyberspace is becoming a platform for squatting activities resulting in loss to the copyright and trademark owners. Though the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and ICANN are trying to resolve the related disputes, they are not able to avert the squatting and provide required protection.
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1410502

Safeguarding freedom of expression remains the challenge
The title of the ministerial conference the Council of Europe held this week in Reykjavik ? ?A new notion of media?? - raises an important question: do new media or media-like services really exist? Are they really ?new??
http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94564.php

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Obama Reaffirms Net Neutrality Pledge
President Obama reaffirmed his commitment to preventing communications giants from dominating the Internet by blocking or degrading broadband service during a major speech on Friday where he unveiled a report summarizing a 60-day assessment of how the government responds to cyber attacks. During a White House event, Obama said: "I remain firmly committed to net neutrality so we can keep the Internet as it should be -- open and free."
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2009/05/obama-reaffirms-net-neutrality.php

The Right to Internet Access by Bill Thompson
President Sarkozy of France recently managed to get his 'Cr?ation et Internet' law passed by the National Assembly, and if all goes well in the Senate then French internet users will soon find their activities being supervised by HADOPI, the grandly named 'Haute Autorit? pour la Diffusion des ?uvres et la Protection des Droits sur Internet.'
http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_right_to_internet_access/

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Public Comment: IRT Final Report on Trademark Protection in New gTLDs
The Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT) posted its Final Report on Trademark Protection in New gTLDs. The IRT (Members of the IRT are listed here [PDF, 88K]) was formed by ICANN's Intellectual Property Constituency in accordance with the 6 March, 2009 ICANN Board resolution (http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-06mar09.htm). The resolution was in response to the request by the community seeking solutions for potential issues for trademark holders in the implementation of new gTLDs. The team reflects experiential and geographic diversity and is comprised of 18 members and two alternates.
http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-4-29may09-en.htm

GAC Responds to Board on Geographic Names
On 26 May 2009, the GAC submitted a final letter [PDF, 72K] responding to the ICANN Board's concerns about the ability to implement the provisions of article 2 of the GAC Principles regarding new gTLDs, particularly paragraph 2.71. The letter recommends, as a minimum, that the names contained in three internationally recognised lists must be reserved at the second level at no cost to governments of all new gTLDs. However, other issues relating to geographic names at the top level and the potential misuse of the respective names at the second level requires further discussion.
http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-28may09-en.htm

Applicant Guidebook: Public Comments Analysis and Revised Excerpts
The second version of the Applicant Guidebook for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) generated continued public interest, as expressed by over 200 comments received.
http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-31may09-en.htm

Public Comment: Fast Track Implementation (3rd Revision)
ICANN is pleased to announce the public posting of the revised Draft Implementation Plan for the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process.
http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-31may09-en.htm

Ask a Question Direct to the Board in Sydney
An online question box where community members can ask questions directly to the ICANN Board and staff has opened today. The question box will take questions until Wednesday 17 June in preparation for the public forum at ICANN?s international public meeting in Sydney on Thursday 25 June.
http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-28may09-en.htm

Root Server System Root Scaling Study
Responding to a request from the ICANN Board, the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) and the Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) have commissioned a study of the potential impact on the operation of the root server system of adding IPv6 address records, IDN top level names, other new TLDs, and new records to support DNS security to the root zone.
http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-29may09-en.htm

New Registrar Contract Approved by Board
A wide range of amendments have been approved to the contract that defines the rules for the retail level of the Internet's domain name system. The set of 17 amendments to the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) were agreed to unanimously by the ICANN Board on 21 May 2009 and follow an extensive consultation that engaged all interested elements of the Internet community including governments, individual Internet users, and gTLD registrars.
http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-29may09-en.htm

ICANN Expense Analysis: by Stakeholder Interest Area
As one important element of transparency and accountability, ICANN strives to publish meaningful, accessible financial and operational information. Through its history, ICANN has consistently increased its financial reporting. Within the last 24 months, for example, ICANN developed monthly dashboard reporting on financial data. Earlier this year, the dashboard started to provide financial information by primary functions.
http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-3-29may09-en.htm

Boucher Schedules ICANN Hearing
House Energy and Commerce Communications Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher, D-Va., will hold a June 4 hearing to examine the future of the U.S. government's relationship with ICANN. Subcommittee staffers will be briefed on the topic a day earlier, sources told Tech Daily Dose on Thursday. A witness list has not yet been finalized. Boucher has previously expressed interest in holding an ICANN hearing, particularly since a joint project agreement that has allowed Commerce Department oversight of ICANN is slated to sunset on Sept. 30 amid accountability and transparency concerns.
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2009/05/boucher-schedules-icann-hearin.php

Trademark Group Pushes Rapid Domain Takedown Scheme
Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT), an ad hoc group put together to represent trademark interests in the launch of new top level domains, has issued its final report (pdf). The report will be discussed at ICANN?s next meeting in Sydney.
http://domainnamewire.com/2009/05/31/trademark-group-pushes-rapid-domain-takedown-scheme/

ICANN sings a different tune about accountability in .xxx appeal by Brenden Kuerbis
As we approach the deadline for filing comments on the expiration of ICANN's Joint Projects Agreement with the U.S. Commerce Department, do not forget about the .xxx Independent Review Process. In that proceeding, ICANN directly confronts issues related to its accountability.
http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2009/5/26/4200557.html

ICANN and Trademark Maximalism (Again) by Milton Mueller
When ICANN passed a policy to create many new top level domains, both free expression advocates and trademark owners squawked (but for different reasons). ICANNs Board ignored the free expression advocates and rewarded the trademark owners by passing a resolution authorizing the formation of an Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT).
http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2009/5/25/4199897.html

Google Veteran Heads to White House
Google?s head of global public policy, Andrew McLaughlin, is heading to the Obama administration to become the country?s deputy chief technology officer, people familiar with the matter say.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/05/29/google-veteran-heads-to-white-house/

Report: Former ICANN Executive Joining Obama Administration
The New York Times is reporting that former ICANN executive and current Google head of global public policy Andrew McLaughlin is joining the Obama administration as deputy chief technology officer. He will report to chief technology officer Aneesh Chopra.
http://domainnamewire.com/2009/05/29/report-former-icann-executive-joining-obama-administration/

Editorial: Why I?m Opposed to New Top Level Domains
It?s no secret that I?m generally opposed to introducing new top level domain names. And I?m not alone. Even before people started talking about a mass introduction of new TLDs, most of the domain name industry was opposed to new TLDs. I?ve asked the question on every Domain Name Wire survey for the past four years, and the no?s always beat the yes?.
http://domainnamewire.com/2009/05/28/editorial-why-im-opposed-to-new-top-level-domains/

Will ICANN Drop Its Biggest Revolutionary New Idea? Five Reasons
ICANN, the Internet Authority is up against the wall, and here are the top five reasons for which it may simply drop its greatest revolutionary idea of offering a brand new type of a designer domain name to fit the next generation of widely expanded Internet and cyber realities of tomorrow. This new proposed platform will surely revolutionize the marketing and branding for big and small businesses around the world, offering highly affordable tools for global reach than ever before but the strong opposition would like to kill this idea. Would ICANN consider dropping the idea? Here are the five reasons:
http://www.circleid.com/posts/will_icann_drop_its_biggest_revolutionary_new_idea/

Twitter Founders Say They?re In for the Long Haul
... The founders also suggested that for a fee they would embrace the challenge of trying to authenticate a company or person?s identity. ?If you are Dunkin? Donuts, you have a brand to protect and want to make sure no one else is pretending to be Dunkin? Donuts,? Mr. Williams said. (Perhaps they should talk to ICANN, which has been mediating the inevitable trademark disputes in domain names for years.)
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/the-twitter-guys-were-in-it-the-long-haul/

IRT Report Delayed as Original UDRP Drafter Weighs in Critically
The final Report of the Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT) created by ICANN to propose trademark ?solutions? for new gTLDs was due on Sunday, May 24th. We checked the IRT home page over the last three days but could find not find it, but did hear through the grapevine that it had been delayed.
http://www.internetcommerce.org/node/185

gTLDs and MALICIOUS USE OF DOMAIN NAMES
By now, interested people are aware that ICANN intends to allow an unlimited number of new top-level names, intended to rival the existing gTLDs such as .com, .net, .org, .biz, .travel, .jobs, etc. Many of these will be internationalized domain names (?IDNs?) in scripts currently unavailable at the top-level of the DNS, such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and Japanese. ICANN also intends to allow new IDN country-code TLDs, for example ?.India? in Hindi script, to supplement the current ASCII versions like .co.uk, .cn, .de, .in, etc.
http://www.namesmash.com/?p=284

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AFNIC displays anycast technology for .fr and GIP RENATER proposes replicas of the DNS root servers I, F, M on its SFINX. exchange spots [news release]
GIP RENATER, which is the broadband network for Education and Research and SFINX (IXP, exchange point between Internet Service Providers) process owner, and AFNIC - the registry for the Internet domain names .fr (France) and .re (Reunion Island) - are two entities highly involved in the Internet infrastructure in France.
http://www.afnic.fr/actu/nouvelles/219/afnic-displays-anycast-technology-for-fr-and-gip-renater-proposes-replicas-of-the-dns-root-servers-i-f-m-on-its-sfinx-exchange-spots

Translation of "JP Domain Name Registry Report 2008" Posted [news release]
JPRS posted English translation of "JP Domain Name Registry Report 2008." This is the annual report for 2008, briefing that year's activities performed by JPRS, in relation to its management and administration of .JP top-level domain.
http://jprs.co.jp/en/topics/090525.html

AT LAST dot ng doth come [news release]
After a long and difficult journey NIRA is set to deliver on a key component of its mandate. Come January 1, 2009 NIRA would commence automated and commercial service. Nigerians all over the world and others interested in the .ng open domain would be able to register .ng domains with instant results. Registrations would be possible through any of the NIRA accredited Registrars, which currently are twenty nine in number, with more to be accredited as requests come.
http://nira.org.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48

The April 2009 issue of 'The Browser' - InternetNZ's monthly newsletter
Featuring InternetNZ comments on Broadband Initiative, Acting CEO Richard Currey appointed and What is IPv6 and why the IPv6 Hui?
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/browser/2009

Course offered to Swedish municipalities with insecure Internet domains [news release]
Today, only 11 of the 290 Swedish municipalities use secure DNS. In order to remedy this, a series of cost-free courses concerning DNSSEC has been initiated, targeting municipalities, urban networks and DNS service providers. The first course will take place in Sundsvall on 4 June. Then courses will be held throughout the country. The initiative is financed by .SE (The Internet Infrastructure Foundation), the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency and the Swedish Urban Network Association.
http://www.iis.se/en/2009/05/27/kommuner-med-osakra-internetdomaner-erbjuds-utbildning/

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ENISA issues three recommendations in reports on technologies to improve resilience of communication networks [news release]
The European Network and Information Security Agency [ENISA] launches two reports with three recommendations on emerging, new technologies and their potential to improve the resilience of communication networks. Technologies have been developed with properties that improve both the resilience and security of the Internet. Experience is missing in the area of commercial operation of these features, as well as operational best practices and recommendations in applied network resilience.
http://enisa.europa.eu/pages/02_01_press_2009_05_28_resilience_report.html

EU security agency warns on European network resilience
The EU's information security agency has warned of failings in the development of key technologies that are considered vital to the resilience of government and industry networks across Europe.
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/NewsStory.aspx?story=104494

ITU calls for global cybersecurity measures
The International Telecommunication Union ITU has published its proposals for harmonising global cybersecurity legislation on the periphery of a conference on the information society in Geneva. At a discussion session, ITU General Secretary Hamadoun Tour? stated that the document, advertised as a "Cybersecurity Toolkit" is "no Bible and no Koran", instead offering a list of best practices from existing legislation.
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/138369

Obama Outlines Coordinated Cyber-Security Plan
President Obama declared Friday that the country?s disparate efforts to ?deter, prevent, detect and defend? against cyberattacks would now be run out of the White House, but he also promised that he would bar the federal government from regular monitoring of ?private-sector networks? and the Internet traffic that has become the backbone of American communications.
http://nytimes.com/2009/05/30/us/politics/30cyber.html

Contractors Vie for Plum Work, Hacking for the United States
The government?s urgent push into cyberwarfare has set off a rush among the biggest military companies for billions of dollars in new defense contracts.
http://nytimes.com/2009/05/31/us/31cyber.html

Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Cyberspace Wars
The Pentagon plans to create a new military command for cyberspace, administration officials said Thursday, stepping up preparations by the armed forces to conduct both offensive and defensive computer warfare.
http://nytimes.com/2009/05/29/us/politics/29cyber.html

Remarks by The President on securing our nation's cyber infrastructure
THE PRESIDENT: Everybody, please be seated. We meet today at a transformational moment -- a moment in history when our interconnected world presents us, at once, with great promise but also great peril.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-on-Securing-Our-Nations-Cyber-Infrastructure/

Fending Off Attacks in Cyberspace
President Barack Obama announced on Friday his plan to appoint a new cybersecurity official to coordinate federal efforts to defend vital government and private computer systems from the onslaught of cyberattacks by computer hackers.
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/a-plan-of-attack-in-cyberspace/

Obama Says He Will Name National Cybersecurity Adviser
President Obama used a White House speech yesterday to try to raise national concern about threats to computer networks, drawing praise from some industry executives and lawmakers but criticism from others who said his initiatives do not go far enough.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/29/AR2009052900350.html

Obama's Public-Private Cybersecurity Challenge
Urging Uncle Sam to work with the private sector on information security is smart in theory, but it has proved difficult in practice
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2009/tc20090529_293343.htm

Obama to appoint 'cybersecurity' chief
President Obama has unveiled sweeping new plans to guard vital US computer networks and data from online attack, announcing a new post of "cyber-tsar" and a strategy for dealing with what he called "weapons of mass disruption".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/29/obama-cybersecurity

Obama to appoint cyber-security advisor
Calling protection of government and private computer and communications networks "one of the most serious . . . security challenges we face," President Obama on Friday said he would appoint a White House advisor to oversee a national effort to improve cyber-security throughout the U.S.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-na-cybersecurity30-2009may30,0,6883780.story

Obama raises stakes for cybersecurity
America's economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on effective cybersecurity, President Obama said Friday as he announced a new comprehensive approach to the issue and promised to appoint a White House cybersecurity czar.
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090529_1893.php

Obama's open government initiative thin on collaboration, critics say
As the White House transitions into the second phase of its open government initiative, participants in the first phase said the project has yet to demonstrate a willingness to collaborate between federal officials and the public.
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090529_2525.php

Obama Moves to Curb Data-System Attacks
President Barack Obama said Friday the nation's digital infrastructure is under near constant attack and confirmed he will create a White House office for cybersecurity, but offered few details of his strategy to counter threats to U.S. data systems.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124362745408767285.html

Obama Releases Cybersecurity Report: ?Much Work to Be Done?
President Barack Obama said Friday that cybersecurity is critically important and an area that the U.S. isn?t ?as prepared as we should be,? though he added that he remains committed to net neutrality and personal privacy for Americans.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/05/29/obama-releases-cybersecurity-report-much-work-to-be-done/

Security Experts React to Obama?s Cybersecurity Report
As security experts digested the details of the White House?s cybersecurity report Friday, they applauded the president?s acknowledgement that cyber-attacks threaten national security. But some said the report lacked details, and questions swirled around the effectiveness of a ?cybersecurity coordinator.?
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/05/29/security-experts-react-to-obamas-cybersecurity-report/

Obama's cybersecurity plan gets cautious praise
President Obama's plan for securing cyberspace and his creation of a new White House cybersecurity coordinator are being greeted with cautious optimism within the security industry.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133687
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/F3E3EE19DAE1555CCC2575C5007F8259
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/052909-obamas-cybersecurity-plan-gets-cautious.html

Obama Puts Cybersecurity Front And Center As An Economic, Public Safety, And National Security Concern
President Barack Obama today officially announced his plans for a more aggressive policy for cybersecurity -- one that starts with a new White House post charged with coordinating policies and initiatives for securing the nation's digital infrastructure.
http://www.darkreading.com/security/government/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217700876

Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Wars in Cyberspace
The Pentagon plans to create a new military command for cyberspace, administration officials said Thursday, stepping up preparations by the armed forces to conduct both offensive and defensive computer warfare.
http://nytimes.com/2009/05/29/us/politics/29cyber.html

EU security agency warns on European network resilience
The EU's information security agency has warned of failings in the development of key technologies that are considered vital to the resilience of government and industry networks across Europe.
http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2243128/eu-network-guru-warns-european

Experts: Gumblar attack is alive, worse than Conficker
The Web site compromise attack known as Gumblar has added new domain names that are downloading malware onto unsuspecting computers, stealing FTP credentials to compromise more sites, and tampering with Web traffic, a security firm said on Thursday.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10251779-83.html
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/0,39044215,62054455,00.htm

Study: Operators should use DNSSEC to improve security [IDG]
Various challenges are making many operators hesitate to adopt DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) to prevent hackers from tampering with DNS information and redirecting Web traffic, according to a study from European Union's cybersecurity agency.
http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/304943/
http://computerworld.com.au/article/304943/
http://pcworld.idg.com.au/article/304943/
http://www.infoworld.com/t/phishingpharming/study-operators-should-use-dnssec-improve-security-121

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The other Susan Boyle
The global success of the Britain's Got Talent star has had an unlikely impact on one unassuming Texas artist. ... Next, she started getting calls and emails from people wanting to buy her website's domain name. "One guy, within a minute, had increased his offer from $100 to $500,000. I'm not sure how serious he was, but that sort of thing is very strange to happen to someone like me." She consulted a company called Sedo that sells domain names and, following their advice, has now put her web address up for sale for a cool $25,000. She hasn't sold it. Yet. (She has moved her artwork display, though, to sboyleart.com).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/may/29/art-britains-got-talent

Contributory Cybersquatting and the Impending Demise of Domain Name Proxy Services?
Solid Host, NL v. NameCheap, Inc., 2:08-cv-05414-MMM-E (C.D. Cal. May 19, 2009) - Facts: This case involves an alleged domain name theft. Solid Host is a web host and initial owner of the domain name solidhost.com, which it registered through eNom in 2004. Solid Host claims that in 2008, a security breach at eNom allowed an unknown interloper (Doe) to steal the domain name and move the registration to NameCheap.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090529_cybersquatting_impending_demise_domain_proxy/

National American University sues porn site over name [AP]
National American University, which has campuses in several states, is suing a pornography site, claiming trademark violations and cyber piracy for its use of Naughty American University and the acronym NAU.
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2009/05/30/news/local/doc4a1fc7363668c105565698.txt

Gibson's pregnant lover files cybersquatter suit [ANI]
Mel Gibson's Russian lover Oksana Grigorieva has filed a lawsuit against a group of Internet entrepreneurs who snapped up her domain name.
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/315044.php
http://www.topnews.in/gibsons-pregnant-lover-files-cybersquatter-suit-2172854
http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/103232

First .Tel UDRP Will Be Important
Osram GmbH has filed the first ever UDRP dispute for a .tel domain name, going after the domain Osram.tel. This should be an interesting case because of the differences between .tel and other top level domain names.
http://domainnamewire.com/2009/05/28/first-tel-udrp-will-be-important/

Sigourney Weaver Wins Domain Name Dispute
Actress Sigourney Weaver has been awarded the domain name SigourneyWeaver.com by an arbitration panel at National Arbitration Forum. She filed the claim last month.
http://domainnamewire.com/2009/05/28/sigourney-weaver-wins-domain-name-dispute/

BlackBerry Wins 101 Domain Names in Single UDRP Case
When it comes to getting bang for your buck in domain name arbitration, Research in Motion may have just set the bar. In a single UDRP case filed at World Intellectual Property Organization, the BlackBerry maker won 101 domains (and was denied 10 others).
http://domainnamewire.com/2009/05/28/blackberry-wins-101-domain-names-in-single-udrp-case/

Google wins cybersquatting case against Indian
Internet search giant Google has won a cybersquatting case at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against an Indian who had tried to block the domain name 'googblog.com', media reports said today.
http://www.ciol.com/News/News-Reports/Google-wins-cybersquatting-case-against-Indian/28509120239/0/
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Business/Google-wins-domain-name-case/articleshow/4588393.cms

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Justice Sotomayor's Potential Cyberlaw Influence? Not Much
It was pleasant to note the other day that Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's choice for Associate Supreme Court Justice, has written a few opinions relating to Internet law during her time as judge in the lower federal courts. A first, apparently, and a sign of the centrality of the Internet in our business and personal affairs. From now on, the high court nominee who doesn't have a few cyberlaw decisions on his or her resume will be the remarkable case. ... The Supreme Court has never reviewed a case involving electronic contracting, jurisdiction arising from online activities, cybersquatting or any other domain name-related dispute.
http://bnablog.bna.com/techlaw/2009/05/justice-sotomayors-potential-cyberlaw-influence-not-much-.html

Investors go for .NYC and .ECO
Noticed this snippet from the Wall Street Journal: it seems Hecta Media, a company specializing in Internet investments, has put some money in both .NYC and .ECO.
http://domainesinfo.fr/english/280/investors-go-for-nyc-and-eco.php

Netcraft May 2009 Web Server Survey
In the May 2009 survey we received responses from 235,890,526 sites, an increase of 4.3 million on last month. Apache remains firmly in the lead, having gained 3.3 million sites, and Microsoft-IIS remains second, having lost almost 0.9 million (mostly due to less activity seen at accounts on Microsoft's own Live Spaces service). QQ.com, the popular IM service in China, remains third with 29M sites. Google takes fourth place, after gaining approximately 1.5 million sites, and remains ahead of nginx which gained 200,000.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/05/27/may_2009_web_server_survey.html

Your opportunity to help clean up the Internet
The domain name structure is at the heart of the Internet - including of the fights against spam, malware, electronic impersonation et al. Nominet is to be congratulated on the scale and nature of its current consultation exercise.
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/when-it-meets-politics/2009/05/your-opportunity-to-help-clean.html

Domain Roundtable holds Auction to Benefit Internet Commerce Association
The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) today announced that Thought Convergence, Inc. the owner and operator of the popular Domain Roundtable conference, taking place June 14-17 in Washington, DC, has graciously offered time during the Aftermarket.com premium domain auction to sell domains donated to the ICA by members and those wishing to support the advocacy group. The Aftermarket.com auction will be held during the conference on June 16th at 4p.m.EDT until 7p.m. EDT.
http://www.internetcommerce.org/node/186

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Year's Highest Non .Com Global TLD Sale Paces This Week's Domain Sales Pack
Usenet.org changed hands for $100,000 to top our new weekly Top 20 Domain Sales chart. That is, by far, the largest non .com Global TLD sale of the year, easily outdistancing the previous 2009 leaders (DevonCliffs.net and RockleyPark.net at $37,538 each). RickLatona.com and John Daly worked together to broker the Usenet.org sale.
http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2009/05-26-09.htm

Jump into the Job Market with Sedo's Careers Auction
While the economy continues to fluctuate in 2009, more individuals in the workforce face unemployment and concerns about where to find their next position. In April 2009 Google AdWords showed the term "jobs" was searched over 226 million times, making it one of the most searched terms online. With this trend in mind, Sedo is holding the first Careers Auction, scheduled to begin June 3rd at 12 PM EST and ending June 10th at 12 PM EST.
http://www.sedo.com/links/showhtml.php3?Id=2404

?Catch .Me If You Can? This June
The .ME Registry announced today a new round of auctions to be held on NameJet? this June. Fifteen of the Registry?s premium names will be available. The auction starts June 5, but auction backorders are being collected right now at me.NameJet.com.
http://www.nic.me/news.php?news=174

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RESEARCH PAPERS
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Regulating Online Commercial Speech: Oh, What a Tangled Web by Robert Sprague & Mary Ellen Wells
Abstract: New forms of marketing, in which companies attempt to minimize or hide their involvement, coupled with new forms of communications media, create an environment in which commercial and noncommercial speech are intermingled, blurring their distinction. While it is clear that commercial speech is afforded only limited constitutional protection, the U.S. Supreme Court has never adequately defined what constitutes commercial speech. And courts appear to be expanding the scope of the commercial speech doctrine. Contemporaneously, the Federal Trade Commission is attempting to revise its regulations to incorporate the use of new technologies by marketers, potentially holding them liable for deceptive practices resulting from the buzz they create on the Internet. Yet, at the same time, existing federal law may provide marketers immunity for online content. After a discussion and analysis of these issues, this paper concludes that: new communications
 media are developing which blend commercial and noncommercial speech; Internet communications media present a new and complex platform for communications which current laws and regulations are having difficulty managing, and which may even be contradictory; and, most importantly, with an expansive view of what constitutes commercial speech, some noncommercial speech contained in these developing communications media will be unnecessarily restricted because of the lack of a precise judicial definition of commercial speech.
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1411692

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INTERNET USE
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How Facebook Will Upend Advertising
With social networks like Facebook transforming the way companies communicate with consumers, it's time for the ad industry to get its head out of the sand
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2009/tc20090527_635562.htm

Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology from editing
Wikipedia has banned contributions from the Church of Scientology to end a long-running dispute over the editing of Scientology-related articles on the site.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/29/wikipedia-scientology

Wikipedia referees Scientology debate
On its surface, Wikipedia would seem to be the Wild West of the Web, a site where everyone is invited to write and edit articles about almost any topic. But every once in a while, a light shines on the army of volunteers and litany of bureaucratic policies actually needed to keep Wikipedia running, and the illusion of freedom is broken.
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2009/05/wikipedia_refer.html

Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology
The Register Exclusive: In an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits, the Wikipedia supreme court has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/29/wikipedia_bans_scientology/

On the Street and On Facebook: The Homeless Stay Wired
Like most San Franciscans, Charles Pitts is wired. Mr. Pitts, who is 37 years old, has accounts on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. He runs an Internet forum on Yahoo, reads news online and keeps in touch with friends via email. The tough part is managing this digital lifestyle from his residence under a highway bridge.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124363359881267523.html

Newspaper future is digital: Rupert Murdoch [Dow Jones Newswires]
Rupert Murdoch predicts newspapers will evolve onto a mobile, electronic platform that updates every hour or two. The chairman of News Corporation, in an interview on the Fox Business Network, said a large-scale conversion to the new platform is about two to three years away and will win consumer acceptance in a 10- to 15-year time frame.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,25555007-7582,00.html

Future of newspapers is digital: Murdoch
News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch has said that the future of newspapers is digital, but it may be ten to 15 years before readers go fully electronic.
http://business.theage.com.au/business/future-of-newspapers-is-digital-murdoch-20090529-bpbl.html

Microsoft and Google face off over innovation
Microsoft and Google on Thursday took direct aim at each other?s core businesses as they showed off ambitious new services that represent some of their biggest internet development efforts. While the services ? a new search engine from Microsoft and a bid to replace traditional e-mail and instant messaging by Google ? generally attracted positive reviews from technologists and analysts, several questioned whether they would do much to change the balance of power in the showdown between the world?s biggest software and internet companies.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9acf4ff2-4bc3-11de-b827-00144feabdc0.html

Microsoft's Request: Use Bing, Don't Google It
A year from now, if you hear someone say that ? and actually understand what it means ? Bill Gates will be a happy billionaire. That is because it will be a sign that Microsoft is finally making progress in its quest to challenge Google in the Internet search business.
http://nytimes.com/2009/05/29/technology/internet/29bing.html

Bloodied by Google, Microsoft Tries Again on Search
Microsoft has been bloodied and repeatedly humbled in its battle with Google in online search. That explains why Steven A. Ballmer, the typically bullish and boisterous chief executive of Microsoft, is speaking cautiously about his company?s latest volley against Google, a new version of its search engine that Mr. Ballmer demonstrated publicly for the first time at a technology conference on Thursday.
http://nytimes.com/2009/05/29/technology/companies/29soft.html

Q & A: Microsoft?s Ballmer Discusses New Search Service
This interview of Microsoft?s chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, was conducted and condensed by Miguel Helft.
http://nytimes.com/2009/05/29/technology/companies/29ballmer.html

Microsoft gets into search ? with a Bing
Described as a "decision engine", Bing is the latest attempt by the Seattle software giant to gain popularity in the search market and wrestle some momentum back from its Californian adversary.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/28/microsoft-search-bing-google

Microsoft Bing - the successful search to challenge Google?
The software giant Microsoft has announced that it is relaunching its internet search engine with a new name and a new look, in a bid to take on Google.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6380613.ece

Search war is on: Microsoft's Bing fires salvo at Google
After weeks of speculation and pre-release ballyhoo by bloggers and online commentators, Microsoft Corp. this morning took the wraps off its new search site, Bing.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133624

Microsoft Bing: Much better than expected
Microsoft on Thursday took the wraps off Bing, the rebranded and rebuilt search engine formerly code-named Kumo, designed to replace Live Search. It's a solid improvement over the previous search product, and it beats Google in important areas. It will help Microsoft gain share in the search business. It's surprisingly competitive with Google.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10251432-2.html

Analysts: Microsoft Bing a good start, but no game changer
Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, will help the company gain some search share against Google and has features that users will find helpful, but it is in no way a quick fix for the company's poor position in the search market, analysts said.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133640

Bing it on: Microsoft overhauls search
Microsoft has unveiled a new web search engine, Bing, designed to intuitively understand what people are seeking on the internet and challenge online king Google.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/web/bing-it-on-microsoft-overhauls-search/2009/05/29/1243456718377.html

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SOCIAL NETWORKING
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Racism, hate, militancy sites proliferating via social networking
Rascism, hate, and militancy sites have tripled in number over the past year on the Web and within corners of social-networking sites like Facebook, YouTube, Google and Yahoo, according to one vendor tracking them.

Websense is now tracking about 15,000 of these hate and militancy sites, with 1,000 added in just the first five months of this year.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/052909-hate-sites.html
http://computerworld.com.au/article/305119/
http://pcworld.idg.com.au/article/305119/

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NEW TECHNOLOGIES
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Greenpeace: IT companies weak on climate change
Having issued a middling report card to consumer electronics companies earlier this year, environmental watchdog Greenpeace is now targeting big IT companies which it says are not pulling their weight when it comes to tackling climate change.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10251163-54.html

Google Showcases New Communication and Collaboration Tool
Jens and Lars Rasmussen, the two brothers who created what would become Google Maps, have spent the last couple of years holed up in Google?s offices in Sydney, Australia, dreaming up a new tool for communicating over the Web. On Thursday, at a Google conference for developers in San Francisco, they showcased the fruits of their work: Google Wave.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/google-showcases-new-communication-and-collaboration-tool/

Look out Outlook, Google's Wave is coming to swamp you
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has put his reputation behind a project launched today by a team from Google Australia which seeks to overthrow email as the dominant mode of internet communication and replace it with a new hybrid.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/05/29/1243456712775.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/05/29/1243456712775.html

Google's Wave consolidates core online features into one tool [IDG]
Google released to developers an early version of a collaboration and communication tool that consolidates features from e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, wikis, multimedia management and document sharing.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133620
http://computerworld.com.au/article/305013/
http://computerworld.com.au/article/304984/

Google Wave mashes communication, collaboration together
Google is looking to change the way we use the Internet to communicate with a new service that it calls Google Wave. Wave was previewed Thursday during the Google I/O conference as a way to combine e-mail, chat, photos, feeds from around the Web, and more in a collaborative environment. The project is not only cool-sounding, it's also quite ambitious, and Google hopes it will eventually replace some of our uses for e-mail.
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/05/google-wave-mashes-communication-collaboration-together.ars

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CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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Eastern Europe producing child porn
Organised crime syndicates are driving a proliferation of online child pornography with Eastern Europe emerging as the main source of material.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25566528-5013404,00.html

Online child porn rings hard to track
Online pedophiles are forming relationships with one another in so-called grey chatrooms, before moving offline to communicate, making it harder for police to detect them.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25566534-5013404,00.html

Australia's pedophile jail terms 'too light'
Australia's child pornography laws have been shown to be lenient, with US members of an internet pedophile ring jailed for life while its Townsville-based co-founder launches an appeal against his non-parole sentence of 32 months.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25566530-5013404,00.html

au: Child-porn offences not decreasing, says AFP [AAP]
The AFP's head of high-tech crimes and child protection operations says the child-porn message "isn't getting out there" to Australian offenders.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25568872-5005962,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25568903-5005941,00.html

German Anti-Child Pornography Law Flounders
Germany's family minister wants a law blocking Web sites that contain child pornography. But critics say the law could be used to censor just about anything -- and that it wouldn't be effective in the first place.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,627447,00.html

uk: Child porn goes uninvestigated amid cash crisis
Report warns hundreds of children will be at mercy of paedophiles if the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre continues to be mismanaged
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/child-porn-goes-uninvestigated-amid-cash-crisis-1693506.html

G8 wants tougher fight vs child porn [AFP]
Interior and justice ministers of the G8 countries called for more aggressive measures to fight the "heinous crime" of sexual exploitation of children. The ministers, wrapping up three days of talks near Rome, condemned all forms of exploitation including stopping and prosecuting "traveling sex offenders" and child pornography on the Internet.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/topstories/topstories/view/20090531-208050/G8-wants-tougher-fight-vs-child-porn

EDITORIAL: Effective control of child porn in Japan
There seems little chance that a law that protects children under 18 years old against sexual exploitation will be revised during the current Diet session. Both the ruling and opposition camps should strive to reach a compromise to improve the control of child pornography, since both camps have agreed on the need for a stronger law.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20090601a1.html

Commerce's NTIA Announces June 4 Meeting of Online Child Safety Working Group [news release]
U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today announced that the first meeting of its newly formed Online Safety and Technology Working Group will be held on June 4, 2009, in Washington, D.C. The meeting was originally scheduled for May 22, 2009. The Working Group was created to advise the federal government on industry efforts to keep children safe on the Internet.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press/2009/OSTWG_090519.html

Commerce's NTIA Announces Working Group to Advise on Industry Efforts to Promote a Safe Online Environment for Children
U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today announced the Online Safety and Technology Working Group -- a working group dedicated to keeping children safe on the Internet. More than two dozen private sector and child and family advocacy leaders will help evaluate industry efforts to protect the privacy and safety of children and families online.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press/2009/OSTWG_090428.html

Schools Out for Summer: Kids Go Online by Stephen Balkam
School is nearly out and the long summer vacation beckons. Kids will soon have loads of time to hang out with their friends at the pool, the park and each other's houses. And they'll have plenty of time to hang out online. June is Internet Safety Month and it would be good to remind ourselves of all that's great about the web and what problems and concerns parents need to be aware of in our kids' quickly expanding online world.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-balkam/schools-out-for-summer-ki_b_209279.html

au: UniSA research finds school bullying `out of control'
Bullying is spiralling out of control in schools, with one in four children from Year 4 to Year 9 claiming they are attacked regularly, a national survey has found.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25566296-2682,00.html

au: Bullying out of control in middle years of school
Bullying is out of control in schools as one in four children from Years 4 to 9 claim they are regularly attacked. The Courier-Mail can reveal that bullying peaks in the final years of primary school where 32 per cent of students are targeted.
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,20797,25565507-952,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,20797,25565507-3102,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25566186-5001021,00.html

au: Victorian school bullying is out of control, national report says
Bullying is surging out of control in Victoria's schools. Almost one in four children in years 4-9 say they are regular targets of bullies. Bullying peaks in primary school, in year 5, but continues well into high school, according to Australia's largest study of the problem.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25566087-2862,00.html

us: Seminars to Warn of 'Sexting' and Other Internet Risks [news release]
"Sexting," the controversial practice of sending sexually explicit messages or photos over cell phones, is one of the key topics that will be addressed at a Verizon-sponsored Internet safety summit here next week.
http://newscenter.verizon.com/press-releases/verizon/2009/seminars-to-warn-of-sexting.html

us: Teen sexting is on the rise
A silly slumber party photo prompted child pornography charges against two Pennsylvania teens who posed in their undies. A mildly risque image landed six Massachusetts middle schoolers in court, facing felony child pornography charges. And 20 percent of the nation's teens and tweens may face those charges next.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/localnews/ci_12472908

KidZui- Browser for Kids on the Internet
KidZui is quite a novel spin on an old concept. It is basically a browser that advises rather than restricts your kid's movements. Full-scale and much more mature products such as Net Nanny, Safe Eyes and the like give complete control over what is run in the PC, subject to parent-imposed restrictions. However, KidZui isn't aiming at that kind of child security but rather plays a supportive, guiding role as a kid-friendly browser.
http://www.techtree.com/India/Reviews/KidZui-_A_Browser_for_Kids_on_the_Internet/551-102549-597.html

ph: Race against Internet porno
Nearly two thousand people braved the rainshowers early Sunday morning in a marathon around Fort Bonifacio Global City to press the fight against Internet pornography victimizing primarily children.
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=police1_june1_2009

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ONLINE TV & MUSIC
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Cost to British economy of free downloads is revealed
At least 7 million people in Britain use illegal downloads, costing the economy billions of pounds and thousands of jobs, according to a report.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/29/british-economy-free-downloads-cost

7m in UK 'use illegal downloads'
Around seven million people in the UK are involved in illegal downloads, costing the economy tens of billions of pounds, government advisors say. Researchers found 1.3m people using one file-sharing network on one weekday and estimated that over a year they had free access to material worth ?120bn.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8073068.stm

Special IP Watch Report: The Future Of File Sharing
Digital content owners continue to emphasise enforcement and protection of intellectual property. However, the impact that litigation and legislation have had with the purpose of limiting illegal file sharing remains questionable, thus setting the stage for new economic models and approaches that could serve as a remedy.
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/05/28/the-future-of-file-sharing/

Digital music sales
Over one-fifth of the music industry?s worldwide revenues in 2008 came from sales of digital music, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, a trade body.
http://www.economist.com/markets/indicators/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13745790

BBC and Google in talks to launch international iPlayer site
Internet users may soon be able to watch full-length BBC television shows on a global version of its iPlayer catch-up TV service.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/5406851/BBC-and-Google-in-talks-to-launch-international-iPlayer-site.html

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MOBILE/WIRELESS
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Why Android Could Be Headed for the Laundry Room
After a slow start, Google says its Android operating system will appear in as many as 20 cellphones by the end of this year. It is also destined over the next few years to become a major player in all sorts of other smart devices, including digital washing machines. That has been the clear view of several top executives I?ve talked to recently who are making chips for all manner of electronics.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/why-android-could-be-headed-for-the-laundry-room/

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SPAM
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Hong Kong Gets the Most Spam
Hong Kong has become the most spammed country in the world, according to security vendor MessageLabs. The May 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report noted that spam levels in Hong Kong rose by 2.4 per cent in May to 92.3 per cent, positioning it as the most spammed country. In comparison, the global ratio of spam in e-mail traffic for May was 90.4 per cent (1 in 1.11 e-mails). For the rest of the Asia Pacific, China took second place with 91.1 per cent and Malaysia was third with 89 per cent.
http://www.mis-asia.com/news/articles/spammed-hong-kong
http://www.pcworld.com/article/165693/.html

Report: spam-wielding botnets are working 9 to 5
Botnets that send out spam seem to like workin' 9 to 5 and resting on Sundays, according to the latest report out of Symantec's MessageLabs. Spam levels are up this month, too, taking the total percentage of spam over the 90 percent mark. Hope you have a good junk filter!
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/05/report-spam-wielding-botnets-apparently-like-us-work-hours.ars

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ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL
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The Misunderstandings of Ownership - Can You Copyright a Tweet (in the US)?
I?m all for people being passionate about what they believe. That?s true even if I disagree. But, there?s a point where you have to ask yourself if you have the proper basis for your belief. Our systems of thought all flow from somewhere, but we really should step back and evaluate the basis of our passion a bit more objectively.
http://canyoucopyrightatweet.com/

Craigslist chief Jim Buckmaster: we're the victim of a witch-hunt
Classified advertising website Craigslist has been the victim of a "witch-hunt" by self-interested politicians and the hypocritical media, according to the man in charge of the company.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/28/craigslist-jim-buckmaster-adult-ads

Another Hot Issue: Intellectual Property
While politicians debate Judge Sonia Sotomayor's views on issues from affirmative action to abortion, she also would bring to the Supreme Court an expertise in intellectual-property law, an area the high court has played a growing role in shaping in recent years.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124355939097064981.html

American Idol cyber-stalker Tanya Maree Quattrocchi sent to jail in Australia
A Melbourne woman who cyber-stalked an American Idol contestant will spend the next year in jail. Tanya Maree Quattrocchi, 23, hacked into the MySpace account of 2004 runner-up Diana Degarmo and wreaked havoc on the pop singer's life for three years, intercepting her emails and texting her hundreds of times.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25555343-661,00.html

American Idol 'cyber-stalker' jailed in Australia [AFP]
An Australian woman who cyber-stalked an American Idol contestant was jailed for 26 months.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/american-idol-cyberstalker-jailed-in-australia-20090529-bpss.html
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-technology/american-idol-cyberstalker-jailed-in-australia-20090529-bpss.html

au: Banks alert customers on cyber scam
Major banks are scrambling to alert customers whose credit card details were posted on the internet in a scam that claimed several of their own employees among the victims.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25566524-5013404,00.html

Japanese ban on Internet drug sales blasted
Kazuyuki Sasada has been using the Internet for years to buy medicine because it is difficult for him to go around to different stores to get the drugs he needs.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090601a2.html

ENISA issues three recommendations in reports on technologies to improve resilience of communication networks [news release]
The European Network and Information Security Agency [ENISA] launches two reports with three recommendations on emerging, new technologies and their potential to improve the resilience of communication networks. Technologies have been developed with properties that improve both the resilience and security of the Internet. Experience is missing in the area of commercial operation of these features, as well as operational best practices and recommendations in applied network resilience.
http://enisa.europa.eu/pages/02_01_press_2009_05_28_resilience_report.html