************************************************************** Educational CyberPlayGround http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ ************************************************************** Net Happenings Mailing List Net Happenings Service <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/Subguidelines.html> Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Change Email Preferences - <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/NetHappenings.html> ************************************************************** National Children's Folksong Repository www.edu-cyberpg.com Integrate Literacy, Music, and Technology into the classroom. ************************************************************** Cyber-Crime Laws Hurt More Than They Help http://www.eweek.com/ An eWeek editorial on the Council of Europe's Convention on Cybercrime. Cyberlaws such as the federal DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and stronger state versions often hamper innovation, resulting in such cases as lawsuits for making interoperable products, or security software being pulled from the Internet because it may violate a state law. The Convention on Cybercrime could extend such laws outside the United States to the world as a whole. Requirements for international cooperation could lead a country to investigate a citizen on behalf of another country for actions that are not crimes in the citizen's country. Such action could be used against political dissidents. Material acceptable in one country, such as a swimsuit catalog, may violate decency laws in another. Nations could conduct industrial espionage by requesting Internet records from a service provider under the guise of an investigation. <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> EDUCATIONAL CYBERPLAYGROUND http://www.edu-cyberpg.com Net Happenings, K12 Newsletters, Network Newsletters http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/index.html FREE EDUCATION VENDOR DIRECTORY LISTING http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Directory/default.asp HOT LIST OF SCHOOLS ONLINE http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Schools/default.asp Educational CyberPlayGround Services http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/PS/Home_Products.html <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>