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AnchorDesk Staff ZDNet AnchorDesk Tuesday, January 23, 2001 |
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IBM's latest effort to curb online music piracy tries to make everybody happy. Music fans, for instance, can still download tunes using the services of Napster or Gnutella, and make copies to share with friends. And music companies can place controls on those copies. The big change is that subsequent copies -- copies after the first copy -- can now carry built-in restrictions. For instance, IBM's technology could limit second copies to a one-time listen, or maybe a 30-second snippet. While not hacker-proof, IBM believes it could provide the kind of copy control music publishers are hunting for, and the most secure copy protection scheme on the market. CYBER VANDALS STRIKE
It doesn't take a can of spray paint anymore to deface public property. A cyber gang proved that over the weekend by breaking into 26 government Web sites and trashing pages. The sites were located in three countries, and included the Alaska office of the U.S. Department of the Interior and the British government's mad cow disease Web site. Calling themselves Pentaguard, the vandals replaced Web sites with diatribes criticizing government computer security. They also posted greetings to their cyber underground cohorts. Pentaguard has struck 48 other sites in the past, according to security group Attrition.org. CRACKDOWN ON PORN SITES?
The new Bush administration could bring a crackdown on pornographic Web sites. "We are concerned," say the vice president and counsel at adult-site operator Flying Crocodile. "But there's not much we can do about it." Unlike the Clinton administration, the Bush-Cheney administration, along with Attorney General nominee John Ashcroft, is expected to challenge online smut with more vigorous enforcement of state and federal obscenity laws. The attorney general's agenda often sets the tone for pornography prosecution, and Ashcroft has been a pornography foe throughout his political career. A spokesperson for online safety group Cyberangels contends that half the adult sites on the Web are illegal.
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