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USA Un opérateur internet contraint de dévoiler l'identité d'un de ses abonnés Le syndicat américain des maisons de disque, la RIAA, exigeait de connaître le nom d'un des clients de Verizon, soupçonné d'avoir échangé des fichiers protégés. Un tribunal lui a donné raison, malgré les protestations du fournisseur d'accès. (ZDnet) WiFi Wi-Fi: le Royaume-Uni ouvre la bande des 5 GHz Le Wi-Fi va pouvoir prendre un nouvel élan en Grande-Bretagne, puisque la fréquence des 5 GHz va être soustraite à la règlementation. Une initiative politique destinée à inciter les opérateurs à développer de nouvelles offres pour stimuler le secteur. (ZDNet) Asie En Asie, les jeux en ligne attirent plus que le shopping Jouer en ligne séduit plus les internautes asiatiques que faire ses courses sur le net en Asie, notamment en Chine et en Malaisie où l'on compte deux fois plus de joueurs que d'acheteurs en ligne, selon une étude du cabinet spécialisé IDC. (Yahoo Actualités)

Press clippings [ January 23, 2003 ]

Featured Articles : www.netsurf.ch Anti War Movement Online Internet Stokes Anti-War Movement The peace rallies staged across the United States over the weekend are a testimony to the Internet's power as an organizing tool, observers say. It's the first time a large anti-war movement has sprung up before the actual war. (Wired) Cities or Peace By Peter Rothberg, associate publisher of The Nation and editor of the ActNow weblog. Voices For Peace A listing of groups working against an invasion of Iraq. PeaceProtest.net A collection of progressive event listings. Music Verizon ordered to name piracy suspect A federal judge in Washington ruled Thursday that Verizon Internet Services must turn over to the record industry the name of a subscriber who allegedly downloaded 600 songs from the Internet in a single day. The ruling is a big victory for the industry and opens a new, more personal front in the recording industry's war on piracy. (The Mercury News) Judge: ISPs must surrender names of file-swappers Internet service providers must surrender the names of customers who use file-swapping services to download songs and other copyrighted works, according to a ruling that opens a new, more personal front in the recording industry's ongoing war against piracy. (The Mercury News) Piracy 'threatens 600,000 jobs' The UK culture minister attacks Robbie Williams over his comments on music piracy, which is said to threaten 600,000 jobs. (BBC) AOL Reversal of fortune for Net giants Former highflier AOL Time Warner derails, while Yahoo gathers speed. (News.com) AOL Time Warner's culture clash' From the moment, three years ago, that America Online and Time Warner announced that they were merging, pundits and analysts warned that the biggest difficulty facing the new company was an inevitable "clash of cultures": unfettered New Economy pioneers versus buttoned-up old-media statesmen. No one will claim that the two sides of AOL Time Warner didn't clash early and often. The posturing of AOL executives, with their rhetoric about injecting "Internet DNA" into the company, played badly with their new colleagues. "These people were beyond arrogant," one Time Warner executive said last week. "They had this intolerable holier-than-thou attitude, running around with these Superman complexes, talking about AOL, AOL, AOL everywhere, and promising to save us, when we knew our businesses didn't need saving."(The New Yorker) Virus Matters Computer virus author jailed A man who admitted infecting thousands of computers across the world with fast-spreading viruses has been jailed for two years. Simon Vallor, 22, created the viruses at his home in Llandudno, north Wales, and released them on to the internet. (BBC) Virus sentence sends out shockwaves The two-year prison sentence handed down to programmer Simon Vallor is expected to hit hard in the bedrooms and studies of computer users around the world. (BBC) Data security organisation admits sending virus to subscribers A Scandinavian data security organisation has admitted unwittingly sending the FunLove virus to subscribers. Norway's Data Inspectorate says the virus was sent under the guise of an advisory on computer security. (Ananova) Piracy Personal Data Is Pirated From Russian Phone Files The personal information of hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of customers of a Russian mobile phone company were stolen and placed on pirated CD's. (NY Times) Linux Life looks good for Linux The open source operating system is quietly going from strength to strength, with many firms and governments adopting Linux. (BBC) Cybercafés The Future of Internet Cafes The global grassroots phenomenon suddenly facing new challenges. Internet cafe operators may soon wish they were organized, for the business is increasingly under attack. In Europe, Greece and Germany have led the way in efforts to require “gaming licenses” for Internet cafes, since it’s possible to use computers for amusement and gambling. While the outcome remains uncertain, the cost of gaming licenses would almost certainly make cyber cafes a losing proposition-yet without a license, the proprietors could be arrested for tax evasion anytime a patron was discovered playing a game. (MSNBC) Into Thin Air Because It's There: Putting Everest Online This year, just in time for the 50th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's first ascent of Everest, climbers on the mountain will have the chance to connect with the world below by e-mail. That is because Tsering Gyaltsen, the grandson of the only surviving Sherpa to have accompanied Hillary on that famed climb, is planning to build the world's highest Internet cafe at base camp. (NYTimes)