Coupures de Presse [ le 31 octobre 2000 ]

Articles à la "Une" : www.netsurf.ch

Noms de Domaine Altavista obtient gain de cause contre un cybersquatteur L'OMPI a ordonné la restitution de 43 noms de domaines, parmi lesquels de nombreuses variations autour du nom du moteur de recherche Altavista, détenus par un cybersquatteur (www.actavista.com, www.autavista ou encore www.antavista.com) avec une mauvaise intention. (Yahoo Actualité) Une surveillance douteuse des noms de domaine Le cybersquattage a atteint une telle notoriété que des entreprises peu scrupuleuses en exploitent la crainte pour empocher des dollars facilement auprès de commerçants naïfs. Une organisation baptisée Electronic Domain Name Monitoring a ainsi envoyé des centaines de télécopies diffusant des avertissements à la pertinence douteuse. (Multimédium)

Press clippings [ October 31 2000 ]

Featured Articles : www.netsurf.ch Copyright Issue Copyright Office Backs Ban on Code-Breaking Software The United States Copyright Office endorsed a new federal law making it illegal to break the technological safeguards for books, movies and music that are distributed in digital form. The statute goes into effect immediately. (NY Times)

Yahoo! Yahoo to sell searchers' data Yahoo Inc. said Monday it will sell daily reports about the interests and inquiries of visitors to its portal site. The company says the Yahoo Buzz Index can be useful to advertisers. (Tipworld Newsletter)

Media Magazines Mining Web for Readers Robert W. Pittman, the president of America Online, caused a frisson at a conference when he announced that in the last five months, AOL had sold 500,000 subscriptions to Time Inc. magazines. (NY Times)

On the Campaign Trail Vote Swapping for Gore Green Party supporters are trading their votes over the Net with Democrats to help the vice president win the election. (The Industry Standard)

Advertising F***edAdvertiser.com Attempts to list online advertisers who are delinquent or just plain difficult to work with. As a trip to the site points out, it hasn't quite caught on to this point, which is just as well. (Internet News)

Parody Microsoft Spoof Site Raises Linux Issues Microsoft and Bill Gates have been parodied in cyberspace quite a bit. But a recent parody of Microsoft's Linux strategy stands out: It's funny, and raises some good questions, to. (WSJ) Paid subscription required