Coupures de Presse [ le 3 mars 2003 ]

Articles à la "Une" : www.netsurf.ch

P2P AOL France sous la pression du syndicat américain des maisons de disque Le fournisseur d'accès américain a reçu de nombreuses réclamations de la part d'ayants droit, qui dénoncent des abonnés adeptes des réseaux peer-to-peer. En France, une vingtaine d'abonnés sont concernés. La RIAA semble en être à l'origine. (ZDNet) Alarmant Les adolescents australiens confrontés aux sites porno sur l'internet L'auteur de l'étude, Michael Flood, de la Australian National University, reconnait que la vision de sites pornographiques et parfois violents sur l'internet peut troubler des adolescents et les convaincre qu'il est permis de forcer des femmes à des rapports sexuels ou avoir une approche violente de la sexualité. (Yahoo Actualités) Monster.com Monster.com met en garde contre le vol d'identité sur son site Monster.com, le plus populaire des sites américains de recherche d'emploi en ligne, a averti ses utilisateurs que des personnes mal intentionnées pouvaient voler leur identité en publiant de fausses annonces. (Libération)

Press clippings [ march 3, 2003 ]

Featured Articles : www.netsurf.ch Red Herring Red Herring Magazine Closes Red Herring, the magazine that was considered a must-read among the technology elite, has closed, the latest victim of tough economic times. (NY Times) Google Google asks to be removed from dictionary Paul McFedries: Google trademark concerns . Google's trademark lawyer writes: "We ask that you help us to protect our brand by deleting the definition of "google" found at wordspy.com or revising it to take into account the trademark status of Google." The Wordspy definition: "To search for information on the Web, particularly by using the Google search engine"(Google Blogspace) E-Mail (Big) Red Faces At Cornell Over E-Mail Error When Cornell University sent welcoming e-mail letters to 1,700 early decision applicants, it included nearly 550 who had already been rejected in December. Virtually everyone who has used e-mail knows the feeling: You press the send button and realize that you just sent something embarrassing to someone by mistake. That happened to Cornell University on Wednesday. (NY Times) Florida : Spam Haven Mail out of order Golden beaches, palm tree-lined streets, manicured golf courses and giant motor yachts moored at the marinas: Boca Raton in Florida is a millionaire's paradise. It's also the spam capital of the world. "The amount of spammers resident in Boca Raton is incredible," says Steve Linford, a London-based catcher of the unwanted emails that deluge almost every inbox in the world. "There are really only 150 spammers doing 90% of all the spam we get in the US and Europe... at least 40 of them are in Boca Raton." (The Guardian) Hoax Alert The Great Year 2003 Bug A chain letter being distributed via email today bizarrely predicts that the Internet will stop working on Monday. The email claims that the so-called "Year 2003 Bug" was discovered on 23 February, and that essential Internet equipment will be triggered to stop working on the 030303 date. Of course the claims are complete nonsense. There is no Internet time bomb, and we confidently predict Internet traffic will continue to flow as normal come Monday. (The Register)