Social Issues

Magazine articles on the internet's impact on society, privacy, spam, hacking, scams, regulation.

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PC World October 2004 Steve Bass	Enough Already! Had it with Windows glitches, hardware headaches, and Internet irritations? Here's how to get rid of them for good.
PC World October 2004 Michael Desmond	Sneaky Sharing Despite well-publicized wins by piracy foes, illegal digital music and movie trading continues to flourish in underground havens.
PC World October 2004 Andrew Brandt	Privacy Watch: New Services That Peep Into Your Inbox Two companies track recipients' handling of any message that carries a snippet of HTML code.
InternetNews September 8, 2004 Jim Wagner	MARID Floats Sender ID Compromise With a seemingly impassible fissure between the open source community and Microsoft delaying authenticated e-mails, a workaround might be the answer.
InternetNews September 8, 2004 Roy Mark	Time Running Out on Fed's Tech Agenda CAN-SPAM and nanotech funding aside, the tech industry has seen little legislative success in a Congress consumed with matters of war and national security.
D-Lib September 2004 Shigeo Sugimoto	Report from the International Symposium on Digital Libraries and Knowledge Communities in Networked Information Society (DLKC'04) Our information and knowledge environment has been and continues to be changed by the development of the Internet and ubiquitous communication technologies.
PC Magazine September 21, 2004 Sebastian Rupley	Say Again? In a controversial move, Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) have introduced a bill, called the Inducing Infringements of Copyrights Act of 2004. The bill is aimed at P2P file sharers.
BusinessWeek September 13, 2004 Bruce Einhorn	Now Spam Is Being Outsourced Spammers are flocking to Korea and China. Will governments take action?
InternetNews September 7, 2004 Roy Mark	Copyright Office Jumps Into P2P Fray Negotiations continuing over Sen. Orrin Hatch's controversial proposal to allow copyright owners to sue P2P networks.
InternetNews September 3, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	FTC Alert on InternetALERT Federal Trade Commission officials say Bonzi Software's protection against phishing and virus falls short on its promises.
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