Computer crimes.
I. INTRODUCTION A. Defining Computer Crime B. Types of Computer-Related Offenses 1. Object of Crime 2. Subject of Crime a. Spare b. Viruses c. Worms d. Trojan Horses e. Logic Bombs f. Sniffers g. Denial of Service Attacks h. Web Bots & Spiders 3. Instrument of Crime II. GENERAL...

Governors of cyberspace: who will decide what we can read on our computer screens?
THE words 'democracy' and 'human rights' cannot be used to search the web in China. The big internet companies--Google and Yahoo--install filters that comply with Chinese censorship efforts. On 30 December last year, Microsoft even shut down a Chinese-language blog on its MSN Pages when the blogger aggressively criticized...

Computer crimes.
I. INTRODUCTION A. Defining Computer Crime B. Types of Computer-Related Offenses II. FEDERAL APPROACHES A. Federal Criminal Code 1. Computer Abuse Amendments Act of 1994 a. Offenses Under the Statute b. Defenses 2. Other Statutes ...

Will the Tauzin-Dingell bill make it into law this year?
Tom Koutsky Vice president, law and public policy, Z-Tel Communications When this Congress started last January, a lot of people were predicting that this bill would be passed by Memorial Day, and the CLEC industry would not be able to avoid it. The fact that...

The regulation of Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol in the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom.
ABSTRACT The objectives of this study are to: (1) define Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol ("VoIP"), its typology, and switching characteristics; (2) present, in some detail, U.S. VoIP law and policy and the major issues surrounding it; (3) briefly cover the highpoints of E.U. and U.K. VoIP regulation and compare it...

NextWave's mixed victory: licenses intact, it now must find a buyer. (Wireless).
After seven years, the NextWave saga finally may have come to a conclusion in the courts, but the future of the disputed spectrum is nowhere near settled. The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 late last month that the Federal Communications Commission acted illegally when it revoked a bankrupt...

The paradise of the commons or privileged private property: what direction should the FCC take on spectrum regulation?
Modern technology has fundamentally changed the nature and extent of spectrum use. So the real question is, how do we fundamentally alter our spectrum policy to adapt to this reality? The good news is that while the proliferation of technology strains the old paradigm, it is also technology that...

Zeran v. AOL and the effect of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act upon liability for defamation on the internet.
I. Introduction Many interactive computer services,(1) such as America Online (AOL), CompuServe, and Prodigy operate bulletin boards, or forums, which allow subscribers to post messages that may be read and replied to by other subscribers. On the Internet,(2) USENET newsgroups and mailing lists, or listservs, provide bulletin...

Doyle, Gillian. Media Ownership. The Economics and Politics of Convergence and Concentration in the UK and European Media.
Doyle, Gillian. Media Ownership. The Economics and Politics of Convergence and Concentration in the UK and European Media. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage, 2002. Pp. 192. ISBN 0-7619-6680-3 (hb.) 65.00 [pounds sterling]; 0-7619-6681-1 (pb.) 19.99 [pounds sterling]. Gillian Doyle examines recent British regulatory initiatives in the...

Treasury: U.S. phone carriers paid Cuba $102m in 2006.
U.S. telecommunications companies paid the Castro government nearly $102 million last year to complete long-distance phone calls from the United States to Cuba, according to data obtained by CubaNews. The Treasury Department has reported to Congress that Cuba received $57.8 million from U.S. carriers in the second...