Social Issues

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

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BusinessWeek December 27, 2004 Lorraine Woellert	Why The Grokster Case Matters The high court faces a hard choice between innovation and copyright protection.
PC World January 2005 Tom Spring	Spam Law Test A year after Congress enacted the CAN-SPAM legislation, our tests show that unsubscribing from marketing e-mail can still be hard.
PC World January 2005 Paul Roberts	The Cost of Virus Protection Rises Symantec, McAfee hope raising virus-definition fees will move users to product suites that bundle antivirus utilities with firewall, intrusion-detection, and spam-control software.
PC World January 2005 Dan Verton	Google Stumbles With New Desktop Tool The beta version of Google Desktop Search does give the same satisfying results for your PC that Google.com provides for the Web. But as it's designed now, GDS also delivers a potential security nightmare, say industry experts.
PC World January 2005 Andrew Brandt	Kill Really Stubborn Spyware With This Tool If you want to get rid of spyware permanently, who you gonna call? HijackThis.
InternetNews December 14, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	New Zafi-D Worm Spreads Christmas Fear The latest variant in the Zafi worm family has hit the Wild, disguising itself as a Christmas greeting. Discovered on Dec. 13, the worm already has earned 'medium threat alert' status.
The Motley Fool December 14, 2004 Rich Smith	Electronic Warfare Politically motivated Internet virus writers are a growing group, and it looks likely that Internet viruses will increasingly become a tool of war.
PC Magazine December 28, 2004 Sebastian Rupley	Making Movies, Taking Movies Lawsuits are coming for people trading films online.
PC Magazine December 28, 2004 Matthew Broersma	E-Mail Scam Dupes Linux Users In late October, Red Hat warned users of an e-mail scam designed to plant malicious code on users' systems.
InternetNews December 10, 2004 Roy Mark	MGM, Grokster to go Under Supreme Scope Hollywood hopes the high court will overturn the lower court's decision ruling P2P operations legal.
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