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23 Apr 2000
The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill is expected to become law in October. The Bill gives police the power to demand keys to encrypted data and anyone failing to comply risks jail. Critics say this means a person could be guilty until proven innocent.
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18 Apr 2000
AOL, the American ISP, has lost a court case in Munich, Germany for failing to prevent the distribution of pirated music in its service.
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18 Apr 2000
Delegates from over 150 companies who attended last week's Cyberbeat Intellectual Property seminar in London voted overwhelmingly for Nominet UK to adopt the dispute resolution policy currently used for dot.com domain names.
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17 Apr 2000
A report published today by OFTEL, the telecommunications watchdog, and the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) looks at the way e-commerce markets are likely to develop in the light of increasing internet connection speeds and the ability of devices other than...
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17 Apr 2000
An anti-racism group based in Paris has announced that it is taking Yahoo! to court in France over the sale of Nazi memorabilia on a web site which is hosted by the internet portal. The site sells Nazi, neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan memorabilia to on-line...
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11 Apr 2000
eToys.com, the US internet toy retailer sued a Swiss art group with the domain name eToy.com for trade mark infringement. But eToy.com had its domain name first. After a long battle in the courts and on the web, the case has been dropped.
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05 Apr 2000
An Auckland based start-up, Global-e Investments has exploited a loop-hole in New Zealand’s gaming laws to launch a $US1 billion issue of prize draw bonds. The company says it will use the money to build a global internet finance and e-commerce...
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