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sources of bulk e-mail, from sending messages to its 1.64 million Internet
access customers. Verizon had filed its lawsuit against Ralsky in March
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backup copies of DVD movies. The Motion Picture Association of America
(whose chairman Jack Valenti has called DVD recorders "the newest incarnation
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making backup copies of the movies you already own. We feel it's legal."
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techreviews/products/2002-10-29-dvd-backups_x.htm
GOOGLE CENSORS SEARCH RESULTS FOR FRENCH AND GERMAN USERS
A report from Harvard Law School found that when users from France and
Germany tap Google's search engine, at least 100 sites are automatically
deleted from the search results. Most of the missing sites promote either
white supremacy or Holocaust denial. Both France and Germany have strict
laws banning hate speech, and a Google spokesman says the company must
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the French site. (AP 24 Oct 2002)
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SMALLEST COMPUTER EVER
Although their achievement is nowhere near any kind of practical
application, IBM scientists have used individual carbon monoxide particles
so develop the world's smallest logic circuit, less than one trillionth of
a square inch (and therefore about 260,000 times smaller than
state-of-the-art silicon transistors). Donald M. Eigler, head of the IBM
Times 25 Oct 2002)
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HOLLYWOOD GOES TO WORK TO STOP DIGITAL PIRACY
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RECORD COMPANIES DECIDE THE INTERNET WON'T GO AWAY
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Music record companies. Listen.com's Dave Williams says that financial
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Results from a survey by Gartner indicate that many consumers do not
see copy protections as a reasonable precaution against music piracy
because such protections would infringe on consumers' right to copy
CDs they purchased. Sixty percent of those surveyed said they should be
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suggested that music companies that opt for copy protections are likely
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IDG, 25 October 2002
http://www.idg.net/ic_959522_4394_1-1681.html
IBM RAISES THE BAR ON COMPUTER SMALLNESS
New research from IBM purports to make it possible to create computer
logic elements 260,000 times smaller than they are today. The so-called
"molecule cascade" technique relies on movements of individual
molecules to perform computation, compared to the process of
silicon-based computing, which moves electrons through materials.
Researchers have built several circuits using the technique, which one
researcher compared to putting tennis balls in an egg carton. The balls
are too large for the spaces, so they touch each other, with each
ball's motion affecting the others'. The most complex of the
experimental circuits is 12 by 17 nanometers in size, allowing 190
billion of them on a standard pencil eraser. Researchers admit that the
technology is many years away from real-world implementation but said
that it represents a fundamentally new approach to computing.
NewsFactor Network, 25 October 2002
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19781.html
REPORT FROM HARVARD EXPOSES FILTERING AT GOOGLE
A report written by a law student and a professor at Harvard University
identifies more than 100 Web sites that are included in search results
from Google.com but that have been deleted from the search engine's
French and German sites, Google.fr and Google.de. The excluded sites
include content that is anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi, or otherwise racially
or ethnically intolerant. A spokesman from Google confirmed that the
company excludes sites whose content may be in violation of local laws.
He said sites are not removed unless a specific complaint is filed, and
only then after a careful review by lawyers, management, and engineers.
Ben Edelman, one of the authors of the Harvard report, said some of the
delisted sites appear not to violate any German or French laws. He
expressed concern that Google is being unnecessarily secretive about
what sites are excluded.
CNET, 24 October 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-963132.html
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