Social Issues

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

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InternetNews November 4, 2004 Roy Mark	MPAA Targets Movie Downloaders The Motion Picture Association of America plans to begin filing copyright theft lawsuits Nov. 16 against users of peer-to-peer networks who illegally trade movies over the file-swapping networks.
InternetNews November 4, 2004 Roy Mark	Spammer Gets Slammer A Virginia jury hands out nine-year prison term in first U.S. felony spam conviction.
InternetNews November 4, 2004 Jim Wagner	Microsoft Addresses Security Officials at Microsoft rolled out its next crop of security improvements at the RSA Security conference.
InternetNews November 3, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	More IE Vulnerabilities A trio of vulnerabilities have been reported in recent days, further exposing Microsoft Internet Explorer users to the risk of potential attack from malicious users. The same bug has been reported in Apple's Safari Web browser running on OS X.
InternetNews November 3, 2004 Michael Singer	Data Dumps Recommended for ISPs Limiting the amount of customer information reduces the risk and cost of dealing with The Digital Millennium Copyright Act 'take down' requests.
InternetNews November 2, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Year of The Political Blogger From the early days of Howard Dean's online fund-raising success in his Democratic presidential run to the rise of influential political Webloggers, 2004 ranks as a standout year for the Internet's impact on politics -- so far at least.
InternetNews November 2, 2004 Roy Mark	Net Politics '04: Proving Pundits Wrong Americans go to the polls today as the Internet flexes its greatest influence yet over the public debate.
InternetNews November 1, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Chinese Internet Crackdown The Chinese government shut down 1,600 Internet cafes between February and August of this year
The Motley Fool November 1, 2004 Bill Mann	If It's From Nigeria, Hit Delete An interview with Dean Cameron, who has benefited from his interactions with Nigerian Internet scammers by writing "Dean Cameron's Nigerian Spam Scam Scam," a two-person play.
Reason November 2004 Jeff A. Taylor	Spamming Voters Political spam has steadily increased during the election year, suggesting that it could make up 5 percent of all spam going into 2005. Such spam is exempt from the requirements of the CAN-SPAM Act, which regulates only "commercial" messages.
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