EDUPAGE> Edupage, October 27, 2003
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TOP STORIES FOR MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2003
Grant Funds Security Lab at Iowa State
California Fines Spammers $2 Million
Analog Music at MIT: The Legal Music Network?
EMI Songs Online in Europe
GRANT FUNDS SECURITY LAB AT IOWA STATE
Iowa State University will begin work on a Internet-security lab with a
$500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, though further
funding will be required to complete and sustain the lab. Researchers
developing the lab, called the Internet-Scale Event and Attack
Generation Environment (ISEAGE), plan to build a replica of the
Internet, including simulated Internet traffic. Researchers can then
launch large-scale attacks against the Internet replica to test various
security technologies. Doug Jacobson, director of the ISEAGE
(pronounced ICE AGE) laboratory, said other labs are able to conduct
similar tests but not of the size that the ISEAGE will allow. Jacobson
said graduate and undergraduate students will be involved in the
operations of the lab. The initial grant will allow early development,
and officials are already seeking further funding to complete the lab,
according to Jacobson.
Des Moines Register, 25 October 2003
http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4780927/22591497.html
CALIFORNIA FINES SPAMMERS $2 MILLION
Two individuals have been fined $2 million and given other penalties
under California's anti-spam legislation. Paul Willis and Claudia
Griffin were found guilty of sending unsolicited e-mail to people who
had asked not to receive such messages and of failing to include in the
e-mails a method for recipients to unsubscribe from the list. On top of
the fine, the company that Willis and Griffin ran, PW Marketing, is
permanently prohibited from sending unsolicited e-mail, and the two
defendants are not allowed to own or manage any Internet marketing
company for 10 years. Many analysts said that despite the precedent
that the case sets, legislative attempts to rein in spammers will have
minimal effects. Enforceability, they said, remains difficult because
e-mail can come from or be routed through computers all over the world,
in any number of jurisdictions.
NewsFactor Network, 27 October 2003
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/22563.html
ANALOG MUSIC AT MIT: THE LEGAL MUSIC NETWORK?
Two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have
developed a novel approach to accessing music online with a system that
sidesteps digital copyright laws. The system, which is supported by the
university, transmits music files in analog format over the campus
cable television network, similar to the way radio stations work. Users
can access the available songs and create 80-minute play lists through
a Web interface. Transmitting songs this way incurs relatively modest
costs for acquiring the music and apparently avoids the restrictions of
copyright law that apply to digital transmissions. Hardware for the MIT
system cost about $10,000, and the 3,500 CDs purchased were $25,000.
Quality of the transmissions is said to be better than that of FM
radio, though not as good as digital recordings. Several observers
commented that the system highlights the need to reform copyright law,
which they said is unduly restrictive of digital technology.
New York Times, 27 October 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/27/technology/27mit.html
EMI SONGS ONLINE IN EUROPE
EMI Music has signed an agreement with British file-sharing service
Wippit Ltd. to put much of EMI's music online, but only in Europe.
Under the deal, Wippit will have access to around 100,000 songs to
which EMI holds the rights, though the Beatles will not be included in
the selection. Wippit users, who pay $49 a year or $6.50 per month, are
able to download unlimited numbers of songs, copy them to CDs or to MP3
players, and keep the songs after their subscriptions end. Record
companies have generally avoided such arrangements, fearing users will
simply download the songs they want and then cancel their
subscriptions. Wippit will use subscribers' credit card information to
determine where they live and restrict the EMI songs to European users
only. The EMI offerings are expected to be available on Wippit by the
end of the year.
Washington Post, 24 October 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10890-2003Oct24.html
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