Jul 30th, 2008 | ISP, Internet Abuse, U.S.A, pornography | No Comments
United States to go hard against Child Pornography
The New York Attorney General office stated on Tuesday that Internet Service Provider (ISPs) Comcast Corp and United online Inc’s Netzero have agreed to block the access to child pornography content.
Several other ISPs including Verizon Communications Inc and Sprint Nextel Corp agreed last month to block access to the content nationwide that provide information or promote child pornography.
Other ISPs supporting the initiative includes Time Warner (AOL Unit), AT&T Inc and Time Warner Cable Inc.
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Sep 7th, 2007 | Countries, U.S.A, UK, online pornography | No Comments
Internet porn suffered a blow this week when a British judge ruled that the content of American Web sites could be subject to British jurisdiction. The landmark ruling, issued Wednesday, is a victory for British authorities, who have battled porn on the Internet for years. But the ruling could pose a threat to privacy rights, as this is a free-speech issue and a privacy issue. The message the police, courts, and government are sending is, if you are a UK citizen, you won’t be able to sell pornography because anything you sell will be considered obscene.
British law prohibits the distribution of pornography for financial gain under its Obscene Publications Act of 1959. The law was amended in 1994 to include computer-related pornography. However, the laws are out of touch with the times.
Sep 7th, 2007 | Countries, U.S.A | No Comments
In a case Joseph Pellegrino (Plaintiff) vs. Jacksonville, Florida (Defendants), the Plaintiff is awarded with $70,000 for sale of pirated sunglasses by the defendants.
The case is that  Pellegrino purchased a pair of sunglasses from the defendant’s company. While trying on the pair in a gas station, one of the glasses loosened and damaged his eye. He lodged a complaint upon which all stores in Florida were raided in order to get rid of other fake glasses which might have supplied by the defendant company. Three million fakes were found in the raid. Hence the defendant company was fined heavily and the plaintiff thus earned for the damage.
Aug 29th, 2007 | Countries, U.S.A | No Comments
A campaign against buying pirated material by students has been launched in order to gain few key insights about what young adults think of these goods. Here are five main messages which are seen in this respect:
1. College students have a strong desire for authenticity which they consider a buzz word, as students want to be true to themselves and be original.
2. Young adults make connection with artists’ creative rights and intellectual property, since working with artists has been a common strategy.
3. Students need proof since it is not enough to tell them that counterfeits attract criminal activity. It is therefore important for brands to convince students what they are seeing in the streets and in the factories that the counterfeits is a proven nefarious behaviour. For this, they have to capture cell phone pictures and videos to prove even the smallest rumor so as to remove every doubt in the students.
4. Social media is crucial since all the participating colleges have set up their blogs such as MySpace or Facebook pages or YouTube videos to fight against counterfeits which are easily accessible to students online. On online students share their experiences and decide as to how they feel about the issue of counterfeits.
5. It is more than designer labels which means that designers should not price their goods so high to warrant cheap knockoffs. However, when students come to understand fakes in luxury goods, then they think that it applies to all brands even inexpensive goods like batteries, etc. and may be a criminal activity.
In view of the above insights, students are keen to work on the issue of counterfeits, especially the students of FIT at New York.
