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Mafiaa demands could cost colleges $500,000 a year
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| NEW MANDATES recently added to the US Higher Education Act at the request of
| music and film industry bullies could end up costing American educational
| institutions a small fortune according to a report from Inside Higher Ed.
|
| Just a few months after lawmakers rolled over under pressure from the music
| and film industry Mafiaa, some colleges are counting the cost of complying
| with the new laws and some, particulary those privately run without public
| funding, could suffer huge financial losses.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/10/20/mafiaa-demands-cost-colleges
The Costs of Policing Campus Networks
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| Colleges have been asserting for months — in an effort to persuade Congress
| not to impose new requirements on them to fight illegal file sharing — that
| they’re spending big bucks to monitor, prevent and discipline online behavior
| that could run afoul of copyright law. But lawmakers ignored their pleas and
| added several new mandates to the Higher Education Act in August.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/20/p2p
Since when is the MAFIAA permitted to intrude people's personal packets?
Yesterday:
UK.gov says: Regulate the internet
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| As unemployment looks set to soar in the months ahead, quangocrat and soon to
| be outgoing head of Ofcom Lord David Currie appears to have discovered a
| cunning plan to find jobs for tens of thousands. The time for regulating the
| internet is nigh – and Ofcom could be the body to do it.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/20/government_internet_regulation/
Recent:
EFA expresses alarm at Government "Internet censorship"
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| Online civil liberties organisation Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has
| hit out at what it believes what it believes is a creeping censorship of the
| Internet by the Australian Government.
|
| [...]
|
| "The news for Australian Internet users just keeps getting worse," said EFA
| Board member Colin Jacobs. "We have legitimate concerns with the creeping
| scope of this unprecedented interference in our communications
| infrastructure. It's starting to look like nothing less than a comprehensive
| program of real-time Internet censorship."
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21192/1054/
No opt-out of filtered Internet
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| Australians will be unable to opt-out of the government's pending Internet
| content filtering scheme, and will instead be placed on a watered-down
| blacklist, experts say.
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http://www.infoworld.com/news/feeds/08/10/13/No-opt-out-of-filtered-Internet.html?source=gs
Conroy announces mandatory internet filters to protect children
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| "Labor makes no apologies to those that argue that any regulation of the
| internet is like going down the Chinese road," he said.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/31/2129471.htm
Related:
Australia to get net censorship
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| The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) will be able to
| force content providers to take down offensive material and issue notices for
| live content to be stopped and links to the content deleted.
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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22959799-5005961,00.html
Major Aussie ISP Telstra BigPond shafts open source OpenOffice
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| Australia’s largest Internet service provider Telstra BigPond has removed the
| free open source office suite OpenOffice from its unmetered file download
| area following the launch of its own, free, hosted, office application,
| BigPond Office.
|
| [...]
|
| Our reader was outraged by Telstra’s move, which he sees as an attack on the
| open source software movement.
|
| “The principle of the matter upsets me,” he said. “The fact that BigPond has
| removed previously allowed open source software is un-ethical. They are
| discriminating against me, even though I pay the same as other customers.
| They are attacking the Free Software movement.”
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http://tech.blorge.com/Structure
%20/2007/12/18/major-aussie-isp-telstra-bigpond-shafts-open-source-openoffice/
Australia to extend web censorship
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| Privacy advocates take a dim view of this proposal, naturally. Roger Clarke,
| chair of the Australian Privacy Foundation, said "This government's extremism
| has reached new heights today." He asked "How can a politician claim the
| right to hold office if they set out to undermine the critical democratic
| right of freedom of speech, and blatantly decline to evaluate the impact of
| measures put before the Parliament?"
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/09/26/australia-extend-web-censorship
Suit against blogger weaves legal web in Paris, Texas
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| But there is little case law in Texas or nationally to give judges a standard
| for when to expose anonymous postings on the Internet.
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http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5149745.html
Web 'censorship' bill brings police state one stop closer
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| Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has slammed moves to give the Federal
| Police powers to ban access to certain Internet content as "another step in
| Australia's descent into a police state".
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14570/1055/
Howard row over Wikipedia edits
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| Staff in the Australian prime minister's department have been accused of
| editing potentially damaging entries in online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6961575.stm
AT&T admits it censored other bands
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| It looks like Pearl Jam isn't the only band that has had its politically
| charged comments bleeped from concerts streamed from AT&T's Blue Room Web
| site.
|
| [...]
|
| AT&T quickly apologized for the incident and blamed the company that handles
| the Webcasting for performances on Blue Room.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9759184-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
AT&T slams Google over open-access wireless proposal
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| AT&T has asked Capitol Hill not to enable an open nationwide wireless
| spectrum, claiming that Google's lobbying of such a network is a bid by the
| search giant to obtain broadband airwaves at bargain-basement prices.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=B592E3C6-E5F3-4ECA-93C1-3A5A3392024A
Microsoft and MySpace join Govt's fight against online predators
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| Microsoft has joined the likes of MySpace and the child protection advocacy
| group Bravehearts to help launch an extension of the Federal Government’s
| NetAlert initiative, the Consultative Working Group.
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http://www.securecomputing.net.au/news/61208,microsoft-and-myspace-join-govts-fight-against-online-predators.aspx
Australia's porn-blocking plan unveiled
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| While individual filters will be available beginning later this month,
| ISP-level blocking may take some time to implement. The Australian
| Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is currently planning a trial of
| ISP-level filtering in Tasmania that will inform the government's decision on
| a national launch.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6202226.html
Yahoo!, Microsoft ink web pact with Chinese government
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| Microsoft and Yahoo! have signed a pact with the Chinese government
| that "encourages" the big name web players to record the identities of
| bloggers and censor content. So says Reporters Without Borders, an
| organization that fights for journalistic rights across the globe.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/yahoo_and_microsoft_ink_chinese_blogging_pact/
Chinese Internet dissident committed to mental hospital
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| "It is not acceptable that Chinese authorities use such methods to silence
| citizens who have merely peacefully voiced their opinions", expressed the
| organisation in an announcement. Apparently authorities have not abandoned
| the practice of punishing those who have exposed the abuse of power and
| defied censorship by compulsorily committing them to mental institutions.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/94864/from/rss09
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