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Two Computer Trade Groups to Appeal Microsoft Settlement
Two computer industry trade groups said they would appeal an antitrust settlement with Microsoft that was endorsed by a federal judge last month. The Computer and Communications Industry Association and the Software and Information Industry Association said they had filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, announcing their intention to appeal. White House Plans Broad Monitoring to Fight Cyber-Attacks
The White House is proposing an Internet-wide monitoring center to detect and defend against major cyber-attacks, but the Bush administration sought to ease worries it might scrutinize individual users' e-mails along with other data traffic. Some Internet industry executives and lawyers said they would raise serious civil liberties concerns if the U.S. government, not an industry consortium, operated such a powerful monitoring center. Only Two EU Countries Adopt Copyright Law Aimed at Digital Works
A deadline for adopting a new EU law on copyright protection has passed with just two member countries signing up, dealing a blow to media and software companies beset by unauthorized duplication of their works across the Internet. With hopes dashed of having a strong copyright law in place for the start of 2003, media and software companies complain that they are largely unprotected from digital piracy, an activity they see as the biggest threat to their future. Movie Studios File Countersuit Against Seller of DVD-Copying Program
The movie industry is training its legal guns on a new target: a small start-up that lets people make copies of their DVDs. Seven major movie studios filed a countersuit in federal court in San Francisco, claiming that 321 Studios is violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by selling its DVD Copy Plus and DVD-Xcopy programs. Madster Found in Contempt of Court for Violating Injunction
Madster and the founder of the file-sharing service were found in contempt of court by a federal judge. The recording industry had filed a contempt motion claiming Albany, N.Y.-based Madster was disregarding the terms of the injunction, which barred the swapping of copyrighted songs and files on its Web site. Vietnam Sentences Man to 47 Years for Using Net to Help Dissidents
Communist Vietnam has jailed a 47-year-old man for 12 years, accusing him of helping an overseas dissident group collect complaints against the government via the Internet and branding him a spy. The sentence, the latest in Hanoi's crackdown on cyberspace dissent, triggered a protest by human rights group Amnesty International which expressed "profound shock" at the news. Silicon Graphics Charged with Violating U.S. Export Laws
Silicon Graphics Inc. was hit with criminal charges of violating U.S. export regulations when it shipped four supercomputers to a Russian nuclear laboratory in 1996, rekindling controversy over an incident that raised questions at the time about export controls on computer technology. In a two-count complaint filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, federal prosecutors accused the Mountain View company of failing to obtain the necessary Commerce Department licenses to export the computers to a high-security lab that designs Russia's nuclear weapons. Men Used Website to Sell Fake IDs, Prosecutors Charge
Eight men allegedly connected to Web sites selling fake identification to minors and convicted felons have been charged with federal conspiracy charges, prosecutors said. Two of the men operated several Web sites offering the counterfeit identification were named in a criminal complaint filed this week, Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles, said in a statement. Nine Men Arrested for Using Internet to Find, Lure Minors for Sex
Agents posing as a 14-year-old girl have arrested nine men on charges of surfing the Internet to find and lure minors for sex over the last 18 months. Some of the men arrested by agents and officers with the Louisville Innocent Images Task Force also were charged with crossing state lines for sex with a minor. Two Charged with Intercepting Planned Parenthood E-mail
The long-time executive director of Nebraska's largest anti-abortion group has been charged with a felony for allegedly intercepting e-mail and voice messages from Planned Parenthood of Lincoln, an abortion provider. A former Planned Parenthood employee was able to access Planned Parenthood e-mails because he had set up the organization's computer system and knew the passwords of individual employees, police said. City Council Members' E-mail Exchange Broke Open-Meetings Laws
In a court case that experts say sets precedent for Virginia -- and perhaps the nation -- a Fredericksburg judge has found that Mayor Bill Beck and two other City Council members violated open-meetings laws by agreeing on the council's appointee to the regional library commission via e-mail. Open-government advocates say the ruling helps clarify a gray area of the law, beginning to reconcile a new technology and an old legal principle about doing the public's business in public. Sklyarov Comments on ElcomSoft Copyright Case
Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov thinks it was unfair of prosecutors to play his videotaped deposition at the ElcomSoft trial rather than calling him to the stand. But after a legal saga that's included a surprise arrest outside his Las Vegas hotel room, three weeks in jail, and visa tangles that almost prevented him from coming back to the United States for trial, Sklyarov has decided not to worry about situations over which he has no control. British Mobile Phone Maker Sendo Sues Microsoft
British mobile phone maker Sendo said it had filed suit in U.S. federal court against U.S. software maker Microsoft, alleging Microsoft tried to remove technical expertise and proprietary information. Privately held Sendo, unexpectedly decided two months ago to cancel all cooperation with Microsoft when it was just weeks away from launching a mobile phone running on Microsoft software. FBI Mismanages Its Technology Resources, Audit Says
The FBI continues to mismanage its information technology resources despite efforts at reform, a federal audit has concluded. The U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General issued a report blasting the agency's information technology investments, blaming lax oversight and a lack of centralized planning. Lawsuit Against Kazaa Crosses Borders of Five Countries
Filing suit against Kazaa has forced the entertainment industry to negotiate the legal rules of no fewer than five countries on three continents. This case "is one in a series of skirmishes that will determine whether the information network the public enjoys five to 10 years from now is open or closed and to what extent different countries will have a role in controlling it," said Jonathan Zittrain, co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. |
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