Free speech rights for computer code? Suit tests power of media concerns to control access to digital content

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A continuing lawsuit in New York, NY involves a challenge to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The Motion Picture Association of America has brought a suit against programmers who have developed a computer code that allows copying of encrypted digital video disks and those who have posted the code on Web sites. The issue revolves around access to the software code that cracks the DVD encryption and not the actual copyright protection of the DVD itself.

Computer Software, Software Publishers, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Patents & copyrights, Computer Scientists, Freedom of speech, New York, New York, Testimony, Industry legal issue, Motion Picture Association of America, Digital video

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Software that tracks e-mail is raising privacy concerns

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New software that lets senders know when their e-mails are read and whether they're forwarded is raising concerns with privacy advocates. They note that the same software can be used to snoop into the recipient's files of cookies to see what Web sites the recipient has visited.

Analysis, Product information, Electronic mail systems, E-mail, Email, Email software, Ethical aspects, Privacy, Right of, Right of privacy, Electronic surveillance

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As Digital Vandals Disrupt the Internet, A Call for Oversight

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The impact of the recent computer worms, Blaster and SoBig.F, has resulted in increased demand for government regulation of the Internet and cyberspace business security functions. The arrest of 18-year-old computer hacker Jeffrey Lee Parson has highlighted growing concerns over the need to improve the Dept. of Homeland Security's cyberspace security operations or to offer corporations greater tax incentives to improve their computer safety programs. Because the Internet is not currently subjected to federal regulation as preferred by computer innovators, it is exposed to constant abuses that result in multi billion-dollar losses in business productivity. The US's 156 million Internet users now await the possible development of the next computer worm, SoBig.G.

Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), General services, Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Government regulation, Legal/Government Regulation, Safety and security measures, Company legal issue, Laws, regulations and rules, Internet, Forecasts and trends, Internet security, Prevention, Computer viruses, Market trend/market analysis, Computer hackers, Virus, Hacker, Parson, Jeffrey Lee

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